Charles Kennel
Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) is an American physicist who specializes in plasma physics , especially space plasmas, and environmental sciences.
Kennel studied astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard University (Bachelor 1959) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1964 . From 1964 to 1967 he was a scientist in the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, interrupted by a research stay at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste in 1965/66 as a National Science Foundation Fellow. In 1967 he became associate professor and in 1971 professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where from 1983 to 1986 he was head of the physics faculty. From 1994 to 1996 he was director of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program (on whose advisory body he was from 1998 to 2006, 2001 to 2005 as its director and again from 2008) and turned to earth exploration with satellites. From 1996 to 1998 he was Executive Vice Chancelor at UCLA. From 1998 to 2006 he was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , where he is today Distinguished Professor Emeritus (for Atmospheric Sciences). He was also Vice Chancellor of Marine Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he founded a program and institute for Environment and Sustainability (Sustainability Solutions).
He was chairman of the California Council on Science and Technology and the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences (1977 to 1980) and of the Pew Oceans Commission. He was a member of the Pew Oceans Commission from 2000 to 2003.
In 1968 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). In 1978 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society and the International Academy of Astronautics since 1991 . In 1987 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
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| SURNAME | Kennel, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kennel, Charles F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge, Massachusetts |