Joan Feynman
Joan Feynman · Science & Medicine
Astrophysicist of the solar wind and the aurora; established the mechanism linking coronal mass ejections to magnetic storms and built the model of high-energy particle risk used to design spacecraft
31 March 1927, New York City, United States — 21 July 2020, Ventura, California, United States
United States
Joan Feynman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Astrophysicist of the solar wind and the aurora; established the mechanism linking coronal mass ejections to magnetic storms and built the model of high-energy particle risk used to design spacecraft
Joan Feynman's parents were Ashkenazi Jews from Minsk and Poland; at Oberlin she helped found the college's first Jewish student congregation. Told as a child that women's brains could not do science, she took a doctorate in solid-state physics and spent a career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explaining how coronal mass ejections cause auroras and magnetic storms and producing the statistical model of high-energy particle exposure still used to design spacecraft.
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Astrophysicist of the solar wind and the aurora; established the mechanism linking coronal mass ejections to magnetic storms and built the model of high-energy particle risk used to design spacecraft
Source: Wikipedia — Joan Feynman
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