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Michael L. Norman publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael L. Norman sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 757 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Michael L. Norman D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael L. Norman sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 121 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering numerical hydrodynamic simulations in astrophysics and cosmology which elucidated the structure of extragalactic radio jets, the Lyman alpha forest, and the formation of primordial stars

Overview

Michael L. Norman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research work spans primarily the field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as related subfields such as Instrumentation, Computer Networks and Communications, Sensory Systems, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics of their scientific work include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astrophysics and star formation studies; galaxies covering formation, evolution, and phenomena; astronomy and astrophysical research; hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics; and particle physics, including theoretical and experimental studies and particle accelerators and free-electron lasers.

Michael L. Norman has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • The emergence of the first star-free atomic cooling haloes in the Universe, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Some First Stars Were Red: Detecting Signatures of Massive Population III Formation through Long-term Stochastic Color Variations, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The role of radiation and halo mergers in Pop III star formation, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Connecting Primordial Star-forming Regions and Second-generation Star Formation in the Phoenix Simulations, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Is Methotrexate Ototoxic? Investigating the Ototoxic Late Effects of Pediatric Cancer Treatment, 2023, American Journal of Audiology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Computing in Science & Engineering, and The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including John Wise, Brian W. O'Shea, John A. Regan, Britton Smith, and Pinki Prasad.

Michael L. Norman has received recognition in the form of fellowship awards, notably being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001. The APS fellowship citation highlights their pioneering numerical hydrodynamic simulations in astrophysics and cosmology, addressing topics such as the structure of extragalactic radio jets, the Lyman alpha forest, and the formation of primordial stars.

Best Publications

  • ZEUS-2D: A radiation magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysical flows in two space dimensions. I - The hydrodynamic algorithms and tests. II - The magnetohydrodynamic algorithms and tests

    James M. Stone;Michael L. Norman

  • Statistical Properties of X-Ray Clusters: Analytic and Numerical Comparisons

    Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman;Michael L. Norman

  • The formation of the first star in the Universe.

    Tom Abel;Tom Abel;Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman

  • A Multi-Code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data

    Matthew J. Turk;Britton D. Smith;Jeffrey S. Oishi;Stephen Skory

  • yt: A Multi-code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data

    Matthew J. Turk;Britton D. Smith;Jeffrey S. Oishi;Stephen Skory

  • Enzo: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics

    Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman;Brian W. O'Shea

  • Baryons in the warm-hot intergalactic medium

    Romeel Davé;Renyue Cen;Jeremiah P. Ostriker;Greg L. Bryan

  • ENZO: AN ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE FOR ASTROPHYSICS

    Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman;Brian W. O'Shea;Tom Abel

  • Observation of Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production

    T. Aaltonen;J. Adelman;T. Akimoto;B. Álvarez González

  • ZEUS-2D : a radiation magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysical flows in two space dimensions. II : The magnetohydrodynamic algorithms and tests

    James McLellan Stone;Michael L. Norman

  • Modeling primordial gas in numerical cosmology

    Tom Abel;Peter Anninos;Yu Zhang;Michael L. Norman

  • The Formation and Fragmentation of Primordial Molecular Clouds

    Tom Abel;Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman

  • Modelling Primordial Gas in Numerical Cosmology

    T. Abel;P. Anninos;Y. Zhang;M. L. Norman

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • The Santa Barbara cluster comparison project: A comparison of cosmological hydrodynamics solutions

    C. S. Frenk;S. D. M. White;P. Bode;J. R. Bond

  • The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence

    Alexei G. Kritsuk;Alexei G. Kritsuk;Michael L. Norman;Paolo Padoan;Rick Wagner

  • Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode

    T. Aaltonen;V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins

  • The Birth of a Galaxy: Primordial Metal Enrichment and Stellar Populations

    John H. Wise;Matthew J. Turk;Michael L. Norman;Tom Abel;Tom Abel

  • Simulating Radiating and Magnetized Flows in Multi-Dimensions with ZEUS-MP

    J. C. Hayes;M. L. Norman;R. A. Fiedler;J. O. Bordner

  • Enzo: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics

    Greg L. Bryan;Michael L. Norman;Brian W. O'Shea;Tom Abel

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
D. Toback
D. Toback Texas A&M University
S. Klimenko
S. Klimenko University of Florida
Joe Incandela
Joe Incandela University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrey Korytov
Andrey Korytov University of Florida
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
Guenakh Mitselmakher
Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis

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