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Eugene Parker

1927 - 2022

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Eugene Newman Parker (June 10, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements. In 1987, Parker proposed the existence of nanoflares, a leading candidate to explain the coronal heating problem. Parker obtained his PhD from Caltech and spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Parker is the 295th most popular astronomer (up from 349th in 2019), the 4,284th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,141st in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Eugene Parker ranks 295 out of 644. Before him are Giorgio Abetti, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Sylvain Arend, Richard Christopher Carrington, Hervé Faye, and Grigory Neujmin. After him are Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, Thomas Romney Robinson, David Gill, Maarten Schmidt, and Iosif Shklovsky.

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Among people born in 1927, Eugene Parker ranks 187. Before him are Ahmad Jannati, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Ales Adamovich, Joe Turkel, Paula Hawkins, and Gisèle Halimi. After him are Patti Page, Per Oscarsson, Florencio Campomanes, Éva Székely, Vladimir Kuts, and Gary Bertini. Among people deceased in 2022, Eugene Parker ranks 195. Before him are John Aniston, Zofia Posmysz, Joe Turkel, Rupiah Banda, Herman Van Springel, and Fred Brooks. After him are Kitten Natividad, Dominique Lapierre, Maarten Schmidt, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Elza Soares, and Barbara Walters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 4,284 out of 20,380. Before him are Carla Gugino (1971), Susanne Langer (1895), David Starr Jordan (1851), Pink (1979), Bruce Cabot (1904), and Vinnie Vincent (1952). After him are Irene Dunne (1898), Hill Harper (1966), Jason Miller (1939), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Christopher Meloni (1961), and Mancur Olson (1932).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 54. Before him are Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Antonia Maury (1866), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and James W. Christy (1938). After him are Frank Muller (1862), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Michael H. Hart (1932), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), and Milton L. Humason (1891).

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