Joseph Kaplan
Joseph Kaplan · Science & Medicine
Physicist of the upper atmosphere and airglow, a leader in geophysics research
1902, Tapolca, Hungary — 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hungary · United States
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Joseph Kaplan was a Hungarian-born American physicist at UCLA specializing in the physics of the upper atmosphere and airglow, and a leader in geophysics. He chaired the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year (1957–58), a landmark of global Earth-science cooperation. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family that emigrated to the United States.
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Physicist of the upper atmosphere and airglow, a leader in geophysics research
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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