Charles Kennel

Charles F. Kennel
Born (1939-08-20) August 20, 1939 (age 85)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard College (A.B.)
Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
InstitutionsNASA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA
Thesis Low-frequency stability of spatially non-uniform plasmas  (1964)
Doctoral advisorEdward A. Frieman
Doctoral studentsMary Hudson

Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA.[1][2] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[3] and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997.[4] In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.[5]

Early life and career

Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. His doctoral thesis was advised by Edward A. Frieman.[1][6]

Charles Kennel was a former Associate Administrator of NASA. He was the director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program during the Clinton Administration to perform a comprehensive survey and observation of our home planet. He was a member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee which he quit in 2006.[7]

Honors and awards

Kennel was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987[11] and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.[3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.[12] In 1997, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society.[4]

Works

  • Unstable growth of unducted whistlers propagating at an angle to the geomagnetic field – 1966 – Trieste : International Atomic Energy Agency, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • What we have learned from the magnetosphere – 1974 – Los Angeles, Calif. : Plasma Physics Group, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Matter in motion : the spirit and evolution of physics – 1977 – Charles F. Kennel and Ernest S. Abers – Boston : Allyn and Bacon
  • Convection And Substorms: Paradigms Of Magnetospheric Phenomenology – 1996 – Oxford University Press, Usa – ISBN 0-19-508529-9
  • The Climate Threat We Can Beat, in May/June 2012 Foreign Affairs with David G. Victor, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, and Kennel (website is paid while article is current)

References

  1. ^ a b "Kennel, Charles F., 1939–". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  2. ^ CCST Fellow Charles F. Kennel
  3. ^ a b "Charles Kennel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  4. ^ a b "1997 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  5. ^ The Force Is Strong With This One[permanent dead link] NASA Watch January 9, 2009
  6. ^ Biobytes: Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography The San Diego Union-Tribune
  7. ^ More names mentioned for NASA post NBC News By Brian Berger and Becky Iannotta
  8. ^ Q&A with Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Obama wants scientist at NASA, sources say SmartBrief
  10. ^ CSaP welcomes inaugural Visiting Research Fellow
  11. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Charles F. Kennel". Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  12. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
Preceded by Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1998–2006 		Succeeded by