Charles Kennel

Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA.[1][2] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[3] and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997.[4] In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.[5]

Charles F. Kennel
Born	August 20, 1939 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	United States
Education	Harvard College (A.B.) Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Plasma physics
Institutions	NASA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA
Thesis	Low-frequency stability of spatially non-uniform plasmas (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Edward A. Frieman

Early life and career

Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. His doctoral thesis was advised by Edward A. Frieman.[1][6]

Charles Kennel was a former Associate Administrator of NASA. He was the director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program during the Clinton Administration to perform a comprehensive survey and observation of our home planet. He was a member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee which he quit in 2006.[7]

• Ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography[8]
• Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998 to 2006.
• Member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (1998–2006)
• Chair of the National Academy of Science's Space Studies Board[9]
• In May 2009, Kennel was named a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee an independent review requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.
• In January 2014, Kennel was elected the inaugural Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.[10]

Honors and Awards

Kennel was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987[11] and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.[3] In 1997, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society.[4]

Works

• Unstable growth of unducted whistlers propagating at an angle to the geomagnetic field - 1966 - Trieste : International Atomic Energy Agency, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• What we have learned from the magnetosphere - 1974 - Los Angeles, Calif. : Plasma Physics Group, University of California, Los Angeles
• Matter in motion : the spirit and evolution of physics - 1977 - Charles F. Kennel and Ernest S. Abers - Boston : Allyn and Bacon
• Convection And Substorms: Paradigms Of Magnetospheric Phenomenology - 1996 - Oxford University Press, Usa - ISBN 0-19-508529-9
• The Climate Threat We Can Beat, in May/June 2012 Foreign Affairs with David G. Victor, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, and Kennel (website is paid while article is current)

References

1. "Kennel, Charles F., 1939-". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
2. CCST Fellow Charles F. Kennel
3. "Charles Kennel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
4. "1997 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
5. The Force Is Strong With This One NASA Watch January 9, 2009
6. Biobytes: Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography The San Diego Union-Tribune
7. More names mentioned for NASA post NBC News By Brian Berger and Becky Iannotta
8. Q&A with Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
9. Obama wants scientist at NASA, sources say SmartBrief
10. CSaP welcomes inaugural Visiting Research Fellow
11. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Charles F. Kennel". Retrieved 2020-02-17.

External links

• Biography from APS
• Biography from NASA