Saul Rappaport


Saul Rappaport is a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rappaport became Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Physics in 1969 and became a full Professor in 1981. From 1993 to 1995, he was Head of the Astrophysics Division.
He received his A.B. from Temple University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1968.
His main research interest is in binary systems containing collapsed stars—white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.

Selected publications

Some of his publications in the Astrophysical Journal, one of the major astrophysics journals, are: