The Bruce Medalists: Eugene Parker

<header1><a href="../index.html" style="color: #8c23c0;">The Bruce Medalists</a></header1> <p>  </p> <table> <tr> <td width = "33%"> </td> <td width = "34%" align="center"><a href="parker.jpg"><img src="parkerSml.jpg" alt="portrait" height="120" width="91"></a></td> <td width="33%" height="middle"><small>Photo courtesy Prof. Parker</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center"><header2>Eugene Newman Parker</header2></td> </tr> <tr> <td width = 33%><b>10 June 1927</b></td> <td width = "34%" align=center width=34%><b>1997 Bruce Medalist</b></td> <td width = "33%" align="right"><b></b></td> </tr> </table> <p>Gene Parker was educated at <b><a href="http://www.pa.msu.edu/academics/about-msu">Michigan State University</a></b> and the <b><a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/about/history">California Institute of Technology</a></b>. He spent four years at the <b><a href="http://www.physics.utah.edu/">University of Utah</a></b> and since 1955 has been at the <b><a href="http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/century.html">University of Chicago</a></b>, where he has held positions in the physics department, the astronomy and astrophysics department, and the Enrico Fermi Institute. He is probably the leading authority on the <b><a href="http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wsolwind.html">solar wind</a></b> and the effects of magnetic fields in the <b><a href="http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/">heliosphere</a></b>. His work has greatly increased understanding of the solar corona, the solar wind, the magnetic fields of both earth and sun, and their complex electromagnetic interactions. He has seen spacecraft go out into the heliosphere and confirm theoretical models he developed before the space age, when observations of comet tails provided nearly all the data available. His books, especially <i>Cosmical Magnetic Fields</i>, have educated generations of investigators. <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8454.html">His most recent book</a> includes the effects of magnetic fields of planets, stars, and galaxies on X-ray emissions. </p> <p><header3>Presentation of Bruce medal</header3><br> <i>Mercury</i> <b>26</b>, 3, 6 (1997). </p> <p><header3>Personal Web Page</header3><br> <a href="http://physics.uchicago.edu/research/areas/astro_cosmo_t.html#Parker">At University of Chicago</a> </p> <p><header3>Other awards</header3><br> American Astronomical Society, <a href="http://aas.org/prizes/henry_norris_russell_lectureship">Henry Norris Russell Lectureship</a>, 1969.<br> American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division, <a href="http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/aas_spd/#HALE">George Ellery Hale Prize</a>, 1978.<br> American Geophysical Union, John Adam Fleming Medal, 1968; <a href="http://www.agu.org/about/honors/union/bowie/">William Bowie Medal</a>, 1990.<br> American Physical Society , <a href="http://www.aps.org/praw/maxwell/03winner.html">James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics</a>, 2003.<br> Astronomische Gesellschaft, <a href="http://www.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en/auszeichnungen/schwarzschild">Karl Schwarzschild Medal</a>, 1990.<br> Inamori Foundation, <a href="http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/laureates/k19_b_eugene/prf_e.html">Kyoto Prize for Basic Science</a>, 2003.<br> National Science Board, <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=269">National Medal of Science</a>, 1989.<br> Royal Astronomical Society, <a href="https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2264-chapman-medal">Chapman Medal</a>, 1979, presented by M.J. Seaton, <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980QJRAS..21...73S"><i>QJRAS</i> <b>21</b>, 73 (1980)</a>; <a href="https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/268">Gold medal</a>, 1992.<br> lObservatoire de la Côte dAzur, <a href="http://www.obs-nice.fr/adion/medaille.html">ADION medal</a>, 1999, <a href="http://www.obs-nice.fr/adion/parker.html">presented by Annick Pouquet-Davis</a><br> </p> <p><header3>Biographical materials</header3><br> <a href="http://www.agu.org/about/honors/bowie_lectures/parker.shtml">American Geophysical Union</a><br> <a href="http://www.iiap.res.in/parker">Indian Institute of Astrophysics</a> </p> <p><header3>Portraits</header3><br> <a href="http://photos.aip.org/index.jsp">AIP Center for History of Physics</a><br> <a href="http://lasr.happyones.com/alumni-list.htm#P">LASR Alumni</a><br> <a href="http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/nms/#parker">University of Chicago</a><br> <a href="http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030717/parker.shtml"><i>University of Chicago Chronicle,</i> <b>22</b>, 19 (2003).</a> </p> <p><header3>Named after him</header3><br> <a href="http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html">Minor Planet #11756 Geneparker</a><br> </p> <p><header3><a href="ParkerRefs.html" target="_self">More references</a></header3></p> <p> <center> <b><a href="../index.html" target="_parent">The Bruce Medalists</a></b> </center> </p> <table> <tr> <td valign="TOP"><font size="-1">Please send comments, additions, corrections, and questions to<br> <a href="MAILTO:joe.tenn@sonoma.edu"> joe.tenn@sonoma.edu</a></td><br> <td align="RIGHT" valign="TOP"><font size="-1"><i> <a href="http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/">JST</a> </i><br> <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">2013-09-08</a></td> </tr> </table>