Roger Chevalier
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	Princeton University
Awards	Allan D. Emil Memorial Award (1982) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1996)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical astrophysics
Institutions	Kitt Peak National Observatory (1973) University of Virginia (1979)

Roger Chevalier is an American astronomer currently on faculty at University of Virginia.^[1] A cited expert in theoretical astrophysics, his interests include astronomical supernovae environment and gases.^[2]

Education

He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1973 and joined the Kitt Peak National Observatory until he started teaching at University of Virginia in 1979.^[3]

Honors and awards

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.^[4]
Awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 1996.
Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 ^[5]

Publications

The transition region and coronal explorer, Solar Physics, 1999
Self-similar solutions for the interaction of stellar ejecta with an external medium, The Astrophysical Journal, 1982
Wind from a starburst galaxy nucleus, RA Chevalier, Andrew W Clegg, Nature, 1985
The evolution of supernova remnants. Spherically symmetric models, The Astrophysical Journal, 1974
The radio and X-ray emission from type II supernovae, The Astrophysical Journal, 1982

References

^ "Roger Chevalier". virginia.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
^ "Roger Chevalier". Retrieved November 27, 2017.
^ "Bio". stsci.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
^ "Roger A. Chevalier". nasonline.org. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.