Robert C. Duncan (Jr.) (born September 2, 1955) is an American astrophysicist now retired from the University of Texas at Austin.
He grew up in Houston and Boston, where his father played a key role in NASA's Apollo Project.
[5] From 1986 to 1988, Duncan worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.
With Christopher Thompson, he proposed and developed the theory of magnetars,[6][7] and was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize for this work in 2003.
[8] Duncan has written scientific research papers about neutron stars, supernovae, intergalactic gas clouds, neutrino emissions of very dense matter, MHD dynamos and related topics.