Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who went on to pioneer the solar research field of heliophysics, has died at age 94
Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who pioneered the solar research field of heliophysics, has died at age 94.
Parker died Tuesday, according to the University of Chicago, where he joined the faculty in 1955 and eventually became the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.Parker's work revolutionized human understanding of the sun and interplanetary space. In 1958, he proposed the concept of solar wind after realizing the sun had a magnetic field that created a structure in our solar system, populated by plasma and hot particles. He realized that this stream was a flow of gas.
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