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William Paxton was a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was one of the founders of Adobe Systems and became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language. He is also the creator of the most widely-used open-source software to simulate stars for computational stellar astrophysics research, MESA.
In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for developing the MESA software.
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