Stan Cowley

Stanley William Herbert Cowley FRS [2] (born 1947) is a British physicist, emeritus Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the University of Leicester.[3][4][5]

Stan Cowley

FRS
Stan Cowley (left) and Emma Bunce in 2016
Born
Stanley William Herbert Cowley

1947
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsChapman Medal (1991)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsEmma Bunce[1]
Websitewww2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/stancowley

Career

He was educated at Caludon Castle School, Coventry, and Imperial College, London, graduating with first class honours in physics in 1968. He was awarded a Ph.D by Imperial in 1972. He had a visiting Scholarship at the University of Colorado in 1972–73 before returning to Imperial, where he became a Lecturer in 1982, Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1988. He was appointed Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial in 1990 before moving in 1996 to the University of Leicester as Head of the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group. [6]

His primary research interest is the physical processes that shape the outer plasma environments of Earth and the magnetised planets.[6]

Honours and awards

References
  1. Bunce, Emma J. (2001). Large-scale current systems in the Jovian magnetosphere. Le.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Leicester. hdl:2381/30647. OCLC 505259820. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.696997.
  2. "Stanley Cowley - Royal Society". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  3. swhc1. "Professor Stan Cowley — University of Leicester". 2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  4. mjs76. "Congratulations to Professor Stan Cowley FRS — University of Leicester". 2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  5. Anon (2007). "Cowley, Prof. Stanley William Herbert". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12102. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  6. "Professor Stan Cowley". University of Leicester. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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