Thomas A. Moore

{{short description|American theoretical astrophysicist}}

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Thomas A. Moore is an American theoretical astrophysicist.{{cite web |title=Thomas A. Moore |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/thomas-moore |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=20 June 2024 |date= |language=en}} He is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of Mathematics and Natural Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he has taught since 1987.{{cite news |last1=Thomsen |first1=Marilyn |date=22 May 2024 |title=Faculty in Biology, History and Physics Named to Endowed Professorships |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/05/24-faculty-biology-history-and-physics-named-endowed-professorships |access-date=20 June 2024 |publisher=Pomona College |language=en}} He is the author of the textbooks Six Ideas that Shaped Physics (2002){{cite journal | journal = Physics Today | title = The Introductory Calculus-Based Physics Textbook |author = Joseph Amato | volume = 49 | number = 12 | pages=46–51 | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1063/1.881581 }}{{Cite journal |last=李广平 |first=张立彬 |date=2012-03-20 |title=决定物理学发展的六大思想 |trans-title=Six Ideas That Shaped Physics |url=http://dxwl.bnu.edu.cn/CN/abstract/abstract3681.shtml |journal=大学物理 |trans-journal=College Physics |language=zh |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=55 |issn=1000-0712}}{{Cite journal |last=Bernatowicz |first=Thomas J. |date=2006-03-01 |title=Post-Use Review. Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (second edition, six volumes).. |url=https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.2149873 |journal=American Journal of Physics |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=243–245 |doi=10.1119/1.2149873 |issn=0002-9505}}{{cite journal|first1=Barbara L. |last1=Whitten|author1-link=Barbara Whitten |first2=Juan R. |last2=Burciaga |title=Feminist and Multicultural Pedagogy in Physics: A Status Report |journal=Women's Studies Quarterly |volume=28 |number=1/2 |year=2000 |pages=213–235 |jstor=40004456}} and A General Relativity Workbook (2009).{{cite journal|doi=10.1119/1.4789548 |title=Review of A General Relativity Workbook |last=Baumgarte |first=Thomas W. |journal=American Journal of Physics |year=2013 |volume=81 |pages=317–318}}{{cite journal|first=Olivier |last=Sarbach |title=Review of A General Relativity Workbook |journal=Physics Today |volume=67 |number=5 |pages=54–55 |year=2014 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.2387}}