Margaret Kivelson | |
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 Kivelson in 2007 | |
| Born | Margaret Galland Kivelson October 21, 1928 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College (A.B.), Radcliffe College (A.M.), Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | UCLA (1967-present) University of Michigan (2010-present) |
| Thesis | Bremsstrahlung of High Energy Electrons (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Schwinger[1][2] |
Margaret Galland Kivelson (born October 21, 1928) is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and distinguished professor emerita of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] From 2010 to the present, concurrent with her appointment at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist and scholar at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Recent research has also focused on Jupiter's Galilean moons. She was the principal investigator for the magnetometer on the Galileo Orbiter that acquired data in Jupiter's magnetosphere for eight years and a co-investigator on the FGM (magnetometer) of the earth-orbiting NASA-ESA Cluster mission. She is actively involved as a co-investigator on NASA's Themis mission, the magnetometer team leader for NASA's Europa Clipper Mission, as a member of the Cassini magnetometer team, and as a participant in the magnetometer team for the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. Kivelson has published over 350 research papers and is co-editor of a widely used textbook on space physics (Introduction to Space Physics).[3]