Siscoe, George L.
Oral history interview with George L. Siscoe, 2017 September 11.
In this interview George Siscoe discusses topics such as: his childhood in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (BS, Physics, 1960; PhD, Atmospheric Physics, 1964); worked under Bruno Rossi and later Stanislaw Olbert as graduate student; influenced by Cold War outer space interests; California Institute of Technology as postdoc (1964-68), at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) under Leverett Davis, lived with Gerhard Haerendel; return to MIT as professor (1966-68), work on solar wind structure, solar dynamics, magnetosphere, space weather; move to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as full professor (1968-1993) in atmospheric sciences; moves to Phillips Lab (1990-91, 1993-94), then to Boston University as research professor (1993-present); work in magnetosphere; collaboration with Karel Schrijver on a summer school in Boulder; current work in space weather. Discussion on formation of field of space weather studies; major players and major shifts in interest; how change is driven in these fields; community formation.
PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Research Professor Emeritus of Astronomy (Boston University Center for Space Physics); research interests include space plasma physics, geospace environment modeling, and space weather.
Davis, Leverett
Haerendel, Gerhard
Olbert, Stanislaw
Rossi, Bruno Benedetto, 1905-
Schrijver, Carolus J.
Siscoe, George L.
Boston University.
California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Astronomy
USAF Phillips Laboratory
Atmospheric physics
Cold War
Helioseismology.
Magnetosphere.
Solar wind.
Space environment.
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Neal, Stephen A., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA