Peter Alan Sweet
Peter Alan Sweet (born May 15, 1921 in Beckenham , London , † January 16, 2005 in Poole ) was a British astrophysicist.
Sweet graduated from Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) and was Wrangler in the Tripos exams in 1942 . During the Second World War he was a scientist in aircraft production. In 1947 he became a lecturer in astronomy at the University of Glasgow , 1952 Assistant Director of the Observatory at the University of London and from 1959 until his retirement in 1982 he was Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. From 1973 to 1975 he was Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
He is known, among other things, for a theory of reconnection put forward by himself and Eugene Parker . The Eddington-Sweet circulation in rotating stars is named after him and Arthur Eddington .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sweet, The Neutral Point Theory of Solar Flares, in: B. Lehnert (ed.), IAU Symposium 6, Electromagnetic Phenomena in Cosmical Physics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1958, p. 123
- ↑ Parker, Sweet's mechanism for merging magnetic fields in conducting fluids, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 62, 1957, pp. 509-520
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| SURNAME | Sweet, Peter Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British plasma physicist and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beckenham , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2005 |
| Place of death | Poole |