Featured Memoir
Donald A. Gurnett by Stephen A. Fuselier
“Donald A. Gurnett was a space plasma physicist who pioneered the study of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in space plasmas. He participated in more than thirty space missions, starting in the early 1960s. His instrumentation has orbited the Earth for decades, flown to the outer planets, and flown throughout the heliosphere (the magnetic bubble that surrounds the solar system) from very close to the Sun to beyond its boundaries and into interstellar space.”
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Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject’s work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America.
The Online Collection includes approximately 1,900 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey.
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