Jim Dungey | |
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 Dungey outside his home in Walberswick, holding aloft a weather vane given to him by colleagues at Imperial College London on his retirement in 1985. The vane is in the form of the schematic in his 1961 paper which introduced the concepts of magnetic reconnection and the open magnetosphere | |
| Born | James Wynne Dungey 1923 |
| Died | 2015 (aged 91–92) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Sydney Imperial College London Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Some researches in cosmic magnetism (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fred Hoyle |
| Doctoral students | Stan Cowley[1] |
James Wynne Dungey (1923–2015)[2] was a British space scientist who was pivotal in establishing the field of space weather and made significant contributions to the fundamental understanding of plasma physics.
- ^ Cowley, Stanley William Herbert (1972). Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/16302. OCLC 930651468.
- ^ Southwood, D. J. (October 2015). "James Wynne Dungey 1923–2015". Astronomy and Geophysics. 56 (5): 5.8. doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atv162. hdl:10044/1/29102.