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Stuart D. Bale
Stuart D. Bale is an American space physicist, professor at UC Berkeley and head of its Space Sciences Laboratory, known for research on solar-wind turbulence and magnetic reconnection.
Thomas George Cowling
Thomas George Cowling (1906–1990) was a British astronomer, a founder of magnetohydrodynamics known for Cowling's theorem and the Cowling model of stellar structure, and professor of applied mathematics at Leeds.
Thomas Reeve Kaiser
Thomas Reeve Kaiser (1924–1998) was an Australian-born space physicist who spent his career in England as Professor of Space Physics at Sheffield, known for meteor-trail radar theory and Antarctic VLF research.
Tuija Pulkkinen
Tuija Pulkkinen is a Finnish space physicist who studies how solar wind energy flows into Earth's magnetosphere and builds space-weather simulation models; she has chaired the University of Michigan's Climate and Space department since 2018.
Walter Grotrian
Walter Grotrian (1890–1954) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist at the Potsdam Observatory who introduced Grotrian diagrams and solved the coronium puzzle by matching coronal lines to iron.
Wilmot N. Hess
Wilmot N. Hess (1926–2004) was an American physicist who led radiation-belt research at NASA Goddard, Apollo science in Houston, Project Plowshare, and NCAR from 1980 to 1986.
Yuri Y. Shprits
Yuri Y. Shprits is a space physicist who heads the Space Physics and Space Weather section at GFZ in Potsdam and is a professor at the University of Potsdam.
Yvonne Elsworth
Yvonne Elsworth is a physicist and Professor of Helioseismology at the University of Birmingham, leading the BiSON network that probes the Sun's interior with sound waves.