George Field (astrophysicist)
George Brooks Field (born October 25, 1929 in Providence ) is an American astrophysicist .
Life
Field grew up in New England , Rhode Island , Massachusetts and New Hampshire , Edgewood , Rhode Island. He studied chemistry and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1951 and astronomy at Princeton University until 1955 .
He worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1951 to 1952 , from 1952 to 1954 at Princeton University, from 1955 to 1957 at the Harvard Society of Fellows , from 1957 to 1965 again at Princeton University, from 1965 to 1972 at the California Institute of Technology , from 1972 to 1982 at Harvard University and since 1982 at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory .
From 1973 to 1982 he was director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .
Field works in the field of theoretical astrophysics and deals with magnetic turbulence.
Field married Sylvia Farrior Smith in 1956. The marriage has two children. In 1981 he married Susan Alice Gebhardt.
Honors
- 1972: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1977: NASA Public Service Medal
- 1978: Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomical Society
- 1982: Joseph Henry Medal of the Smithsonian Institution
- 1982: Namesake for the asteroid (2314) Field
- 1986: NASA Group Achievement Award
- 1989: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2014: Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Web links
- Literature by and about George Field in the catalog of the German National Library
- George Field website ( March 11, 2007 memento on Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 6648, quoted from Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1 in Google Book Search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Field, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Field, George B .; Field, George Brooks |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Providence , USA |