Julius Bartels Medal 2006

The British scientist Stanley W.H. Cowley has won the prestigious EGU Julius Bartels Medal for his outstanding contributions to solar system plasma physics, particularly the physics of magnetic reconnection and its significance to planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres.

The Julius Bartels Medal has been established by the Division on Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) in recognition of the scientific achievement of Julius Bartels. It is reserved for outstanding research in solar-terrestrial sciences

Stanley W.H. Cowley is a Professor of Solar-Planetary Physics and Head of Radio & Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester.

Resumé

Professor Stanley W.H. Cowley is one of the outstanding scientists of his generation. His work in the field of space plasma physics encompasses a breadth and depth that is incomparable. His work stretches from developing a time dependent model of the driving of ionospheric convection, to particle dynamics in the tail and at the dayside magnetopause, to solar wind-comet interactions and to planetary magnetospheric science. In all these areas his work has proven to be seminal in our understanding of the physical processes involved.

Medal Lecture

Professor Cowley will accept his medal and give his Medal lecture during the EGU General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 2 – 7 April 2006. The lecture ‘Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling at Earth and the planets’ starts Wednesday 5 April at 14:15 h in Lecture Room 15.

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/julius_bartels_overview.html