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Eugene Parker
Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist, often called the "father" and "founder" of heliophysics. In 1958, he proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral—predictions initially rejected by reviewers and scientific community, but quickly confirmed by the Mariner 2 spacecraft…
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science · American solar physicist (1927–2022) · astronomer · astrophysicist · university teacher · physicist · also Eugene Parker, Eugene N. Parker, Parker
Born 10 June 1927 · Died 15 March 2022 · Q503360
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Parker Solar Probe's View of Solar Wind in Nov. 2018
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2026· 2 entries
Americana Highways: Music Reviews: ‘American Cosmic Revival,’ by Christian Parker & Friends, plus the Kennedys and Ned Hill Band
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2024· 1 entry
Its speed relative to the Sun was 690,000 km/h (430,000 mph) or 191 km/s (118
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2022· 2 entries
Died 2022-03-15.
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Parker died in Chicago on March 15, 2022, at the age of 94.
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2020).
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2018· 2 entries
Won APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research (2018).
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Parker and his family traveled to Cape Canaveral to watch the PSP's launch
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2017· 2 entries
NASA renamed its Solar Probe Plus mission to Parker Solar Probe in his honor, the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person
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NASA renamed the Solar Probe Plus to Parker Solar Probe in Parker's honor, the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,763 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,889 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Hannes Alfvén Prize (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
NASA approved the Solar Probe Plus mission; Parker was invited as an advisor
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2003).
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Awarded James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2003).
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1997· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
But continued to work and publish papers
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1992· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1992).
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1990· 2 entries
Won William Bowie Medal (1990).
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Won Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1989).
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1988· 2 entries
Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny "nanoflares", miniature brightenings resembling solar flares that would occur all over the surface of the Sun
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Proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a leading candidate
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1979· 1 entry
Won Chapman Medal (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded George Ellery Hale Prize (1978).
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1969).
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Won Arctowski Medal (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Won John Adam Fleming Medal (1968).
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1962).
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And served as a head of the physics department in 1970–1972, and of the department of astronomy and astrophysics in 1972–1978
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Four years after the original publication, Mariner 2 mission carried out observations with a specifically designed instrument
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1960· 2 entries
Showing that the plasma flow velocity equation also admitted a solution with an exponential decay in flow velocity away from the sun
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A Space Science Board report recommended a solar spacecraft mission to study the origins of solar wind, and another mission to the outer Solar System "to study the interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar med
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1959· 1 entry
The flow of particles from the Sun was detected by the Soviet's Luna 2
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1958· 1 entry
Proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral—predictions initially rejected by reviewers and scientific community, b
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1956· 1 entry
Came to the University of Chicago, where he discussed his results with Parker
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1955· 1 entry
John Simpson invited Parker to the University of Chicago as a theoretician to study cosmic rays; Parker spent the rest of his career there, at the Enrico Fermi Institute
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1951· 2 entries
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1951).
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And spent four years at the University of Utah before joining the University of Chicago in 1955, where he spent the rest of his career at the Enrico Fermi Institute
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1948· 2 entries
And a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Caltech in 1951
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“s year-long course in electricity and magnetism was the most demanding course in his first year at Caltech, but noted that after several weeks the problems became easier and he”
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-06-10.
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