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==Los Alamos National Laboratory==

From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources.  In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists.  This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.

About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program.  The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>.  Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks &#8212; see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article].  But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's worldwide prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.