Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA.[1][2] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[3] and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997.[4] In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.[5]
Charles F. Kennel | |
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| Born | August 20, 1939 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard College (A.B.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | NASA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA |
| Thesis | Low-frequency stability of spatially non-uniform plasmas (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward A. Frieman |
| Doctoral students | Mary Hudson |
Early life and career
editKennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. His doctoral thesis was advised by Edward A. Frieman.[1][6]
Charles Kennel was a former Associate Administrator of NASA. He was the director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program during the Clinton Administration to perform a comprehensive survey and observation of our home planet. He was a member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee which he quit in 2006.[7]
- Ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography[8]
- Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998 to 2006.
- Member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (1998–2006)
- Chair of the National Academy of Science's Space Studies Board[9]
- In May 2009, Kennel was named a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee an independent review requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.
- In January 2014, Kennel was elected the inaugural visiting research fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.[10]
Honors and awards
editKennel was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987[11] and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.[3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.[12] In 1997, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society.[4]
Works
edit- Unstable growth of unducted whistlers propagating at an angle to the geomagnetic field – 1966 – Trieste : International Atomic Energy Agency, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- What we have learned from the magnetosphere – 1974 – Los Angeles, Calif. : Plasma Physics Group, University of California, Los Angeles
- Matter in motion : the spirit and evolution of physics – 1977 – Charles F. Kennel and Ernest S. Abers – Boston : Allyn and Bacon
- Convection And Substorms: Paradigms Of Magnetospheric Phenomenology – 1996 – Oxford University Press, Usa – ISBN 0-19-508529-9
- The Climate Threat We Can Beat, in May/June 2012 Foreign Affairs with David G. Victor, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, and Kennel (website is paid while article is current)
References
edit- ^ a b "Kennel, Charles F., 1939–". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ^ CCST Fellow Charles F. Kennel
- ^ a b "Charles Kennel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ^ a b "1997 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ^ The Force Is Strong With This One[permanent dead link] NASA Watch January 9, 2009
- ^ Biobytes: Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography The San Diego Union-Tribune
- ^ More names mentioned for NASA post NBC News By Brian Berger and Becky Iannotta
- ^ Q&A with Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Obama wants scientist at NASA, sources say SmartBrief
- ^ CSaP welcomes inaugural Visiting Research Fellow
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Charles F. Kennel". Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-08-31.