Edward C. Stone

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Edward C. Stone in front of a model of the Voyager probe (1992).

Edward Carroll Stone (born January 23, 1936 in Knoxville , Iowa ) is an American physicist , planetologist and space researcher .

Stone studied physics at the University of Chicago with a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1964. He then went to Caltech , where he became an assistant professor in 1967 and a professor of physics in 1976. From 1983 to 1988 he headed the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. He was director of the Space Radiation Laboratory and director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1991 to 2001 . There he was involved in the Voyager mission as a project scientist from 1972 and later its spokesman, which brought him public fame during the flyby of the Voyager probes on the large planets.

As early as 1961, Stone was active in space research with experiments on cosmic rays in Discoverer satellites. In 1992 he received the Magellanic Premium , in 1999 the Carl Sagan Memorial Award and in 2019 the Shaw Prize in Astronomy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984) and the American Philosophical Society (1993) and has received numerous awards from the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the National Medal of Science . From 1971 to 1973 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and a 1975 Fellow of the American Physical Society . The asteroid (5841) Stone was named after him.

He served intermittently on the council of the California Association for Research in Astronomy , which operates the Keck Observatories , and director of the W. M. Keck Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Shaw Prize 2019
  4. ^ Member History: Edward C. Stone. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Edward C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone, Edward Carroll (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist, planetologist and space researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Knoxville , Iowa