Charles F. Kennel | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Harvard College (A.B.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plasma physics |
Institutions | NASA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA |
Thesis | Low-frequency stability of spatially non-uniform plasmas (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward A. Frieman |
Doctoral students | Mary 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]
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]
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]