Eugene Parker
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 2 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 10,1927 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Houghton |
| Michigan | |
| United States | |
| Field | Astrophysics |
| Doctoral student | Arnab Rai Choudhuri |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Education | California Institute of Technology |
| Michigan State University | |
| Books | Conversations on Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos |
| Cosmical Magnetic Fields: Their Origin and Their Activity | |
| Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields: With Applications to Stellar X-rays | |
| Interplanetary Dynamical Processes | |
| Awards | Bruce Medal |
| National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
| Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | |
| Karl Schwarzschild Medal | |
| William Bowie Medal | |
| Arctowski Medal | |
| Chapman Medal | |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Died | Chicago |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 15,2022 |
| Notable student | Arnab Rai Choudhuri |
| Known for | Sweet–Parker model; Solar wind; Parker spiral |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 566833 |
Eugene Parker Life story
Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements.
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