Eugene Parker - Honors

Honors

  • Arctowski Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1969)
  • Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1969)
  • George Ellery Hale Prize, American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division (1978)
  • National Medal of Science (1989)
  • Bruce Medal (1997)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1992)
  • Kyoto Prize (2003)
  • James Clerk Maxwell Prize (2003) of the American Physical Society. Citation: "For seminal contributions in plasma astrophysics, including predicting the solar wind, explaining the solar dynamo, formulating the theory of magnetic reconnection, and the instability which predicts the escape of the magnetic fields from the galaxy."
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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