Eugene Parker
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican astronomer (1927-2022)
Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist, often called the "father" and "founder" of heliophysics.
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Edward WittenAlso won APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
Raymond Davis Jr.Also won George Ellery Hale Prize
Lyman SpitzerAlso won James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
James A. Van AllenAlso won John Adam Fleming Medal
Piers SellersAlso won Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Harald SverdrupAlso won William Bowie MedalAbout this person
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 in 1962. Multiple phenomena in solar and plasma physics bear his name, including the Parker instability, Parker equation, Sweet-Parker model of magnetic reconnection, Parker limit on magnetic monopoles, and Parker theorem. In 1988, he proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a leading candidate.
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