DATE | FIRST | LAST | INSTITUTE | TITLE -
Through end of Spring 2019 series * - Lindsay Lecturer, & Nordberg Lecturer, # Bahcall Lecturer |
1/29/88 | Michael F. | A'Hearn | U. Maryland | Scientific Results from Halley's Comet |
4/7/06 | Michael | A'Hearn | U. Maryland | Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1 |
4/11/03 | Mark | Abbott | Oregon State Univ. | Re-envisioning the Ocean: the View from Space |
3/19/71 | George O. | Abell | UC-Los Angeles | Critical Discussion of the Extra-Galactic Distance Scale |
2/18/66 | Philip H. | Abelson | Carnegie-GL | Origin of Life in the Solar System |
11/12/76 | Philip H. | Abelson | Carnegie-GL | World Energy During the Next Two Decades |
10/28/94 | Marc | Abrahams | MIT | The Best From the Journal of Irreproducible Results |
5/1/92 | Helmut | Abt | Kitt Peak Nat. Obs. | Contemporary & Future Scientific Publication & Data Distribution |
9/30/15 | James | Acker | GSFC | Rise of the Machines: Computational Power and the History of NASA's Ocean Color Missions |
1/21/05 | Steve | Ackerman | U. Wisconsin | Assessing from Space the Effects of Clouds on Weather and Climate |
6/5/19 | Thomas | Ackermann | University of Washington | Is There a Path Forward for Solar Climate Engineering? |
3/19/93 | Loren | Acton | Lockheed Palo Alto | X Ray Movies of the Sun |
1/16/09 | Loren | Acton | Montana State U. | The Day the Earth Caught Fire |
11/19/82 | Mario | Acuna | GSFC | Saturn's Magnetosphere: Interaction with Saturn's Moons |
5/15/98 | Mario | Acuna | GSFC | Magnetic Mars |
2/18/00 | Mario | Acuna | GSFC | Update on Mars Magnetism |
9/16/66 | Robert | Adair | Yale | Quarks |
11/5/93 | Robert | Adair | Yale | The Physics of Baseball |
5/9/08 | John | Adam | Old Dominion U. | Patterns in Nature |
11/15/02 | Eric | Adelberger& | Univ of Washington | Using Laser-Ranging to the Moon to Test Fundamental Questions about Gravity |
1/27/67 | Isidore | Adler | GSFC | Scientific Lunar Exploration--Wherefore and Where To? |
2/6/70 | Isidore | Adler | GSFC | Summary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Analyses |
4/25/08 | Robert | Adler | GSFC | Satellite-based Variations in Global Precipitation: Climate Scale to Floods |
1/31/18 | Amir | AghaKouchak | U. of California Irvine | Compound and Concurrent Climate Extremes: Detection, Modeling and Risk Analysis |
3/28/08 | Anthony | Aguirre | U. Calif. Santa Cruz | The Inflationary Multiverse |
5/5/67 | Yakir | Aharonov | Yeshiva, NY | Superselection Rules |
1/11/17 | Vladimir | Airapetian | GSFC | The Young Restless Sun and the Origin of Life on Earth |
2/14/03 | Joanna | Aizenberg | Bell Laboratories | Arms with Eyes: the Visual System of a Starfish |
4/24/19 | Marco | Ajello | Clemson University | The Star-Formation History of the Universe |
2/7/92 | Daniel | Albritton | NOAA Aeronomy Lab | Greenhouse Effect: What We Know & Don't Know, How We'll Learn More |
10/7/94 | Charles | Alcock | Lawrence Livermore | Microlensing and MACHOS |
5/9/75 | Joseph K. | Alexander | GSFC | New Vistas in Planetary Radio Astronomy |
3/4/77 | Shelton S. | Alexander | Penn State | Crustal Structure of Eastern U.S. and Location of Nuclear Reactors |
9/21/73 | Hannes | Alfven | UC-San Diego | Space Research and the Origin of the Solar System |
1/7/77 | Hannes | Alfven | UC-San Diego | The Evolution of the Solar System |
12/8/78 | Clarence R. | Allen | Caltech | Advances in Earthquake Hazard Evaluation |
1/11/02 | Timothy | Allen | U. Wisconsin | Complexity of Organization and the Cycles of Human History |
4/10/70 | Lawrence H. | Aller | UC-Los Angeles | Planetary Nebulae |
2/18/94 | Richard | Alley | Penn State | Abrupt Climate Changes in Greenland |
1/8/82 | Walter | Alvarez | UC-Berkeley | Death of the Dinosaurs |
3/15/68 | Edward | Anders | Chicago | Ages, Orbits, and Origin of Meteorites |
3/29/85 | James | Anderson | Harvard | Stratospheric Research: From Description to Prediction |
3/5/93 | Philip | Anderson | Princeton | High Temperature Superconductivity |
6/5/92 | Don L. | Anderson* | Caltech | Plumes, Plates, and Deep Earth Structure |
6/11/10 | M. O. | Andreae | Max Planck Inst. Chem. | Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in the Climate System |
1/10/14 | Steven | Anlage | U. Maryland | Play It Again Sam, This Time Backwards! |
9/14/79 | Robert | Annan | Dept. of Energy | Toward a Solar Future |
10/2/81 | John O. | Annexstad | Johnson Space Ctr. | The Antarctic Meteorites: Search and Discovery |
4/15/94 | Stuart | Anstis | UCal/San Diego | To Understand Visualization, It Helps to Understand Vision |
9/28/12 | Spiro | Antiochos * | GSFC | The Structure and Dynamics of Stellar Magnetospheres |
9/27/74 | John R. | Apel | NOAA-Miami | Ocean Science from Space: Air, Earth, Fire, and Now Water |
2/16/90 | John R. | Apel | APL | Mapping the Ocean Surface with Imaging Radars |
9/29/00 | Nima | Arkani-Hamed | Lawrence Berkeley Lab | How to Make Gravity Join the Other Forces of Nature at a Reasonable Energy: Localizing Gravitons in an Extra Dimension |
12/12/75 | James R. | Arnold | UC-San Diego | Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System |
4/30/71 | Halton C. | Arp | Hale Obs. | Quasars, Galaxies and Redshifts |
12/14/84 | Richard | Ascione | NIH | Genetics of Cancer |
1/10/03 | Neil | Ashby | Univ. of Colorado | Large and Small Relativistic Effects in the Global Positioning System |
9/24/71 | R. Grant | Athay | Boulder-HAO | Recent Developments in Solar Atmospheric Physics |
2/17/78 | David | Atlas | GSFC | From Angels to CAT |
5/14/93 | David | Atlas | GSFC | Footprints of Storms in Sea: View from Spaceborne Syn.Aper.Radar |
4/23/99 | Robert | Atlas (Joint) | GSFC | Use of Satellite Observations in Support of Weather and Short-Term Climate Prediction |
11/4/05 | Brian | Atwater | U.S. Geological Survey | The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 |
11/3/92 | Norman | Augustine | Martin Marietta | SPACEFLIGHT: Lessons of Past & Opportunities of Next Millennium |
12/12/69 | W. Ian | Axford | UC-San Diego | The Polar Wind |
5/19/86 | W. Ian | Axford | ESA | First Results from the Giotto Encounter with Comet Halley |
4/6/90 | George | Backus | UC-San Diego | The Magnetic Jerk of 1970: Geophysical Evidence and Implications |
10/8/93 | Frances | Bagenal | Univ. Colorado | The Peculiar Role of Io in the Magnetosphere of Jupiter |
12/6/96 | Jonathan | Bagger | Johns Hopkins | The Problem of Mass |
4/27/79 | John N. | Bahcall | Princeton-IAS | Solar Neutrinos |
11/16/84 | Neta A. | Bahcall | STScI | Superclusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe |
5/8/92 | John N. | Bahcall | Princeton-IAS | How Does the Sun Shine? |
3/14/97 | John | Bahcall | Inst. Adv. Study | Solar Neutrinos |
5/2/08 | Kevin | Baines | Jet Propulsion Lab | Saturn in a New Light: Novel Views of Meteorology and Dynamics at Depth by Cassini/VIMS |
5/28/93 | Per | Bak | Brookhaven | Self Organized Criticality |
10/13/89 | Daniel F. | Baker | GSFC | Magnetospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Research |
3/4/94 | Victor | Baker | Univ. Arizona | Oceans on Mars |
2/15/13 | Dan | Baker | U. Colorado | Space Physics Exploration: Basic Research with a High Public Purpose |
3/19/04 | Dennis | Baldocchi | U. California, Berkeley | Modeling Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems |
4/11/75 | Ralph B. | Baldwin | Oliver Mach. | The Moon--Before and After Apollo |
3/23/07 | Bruce | Balick | Univ. Washington | Collimating Stellar Ejecta |
12/1/95 | Sallie | Baliunas | Harvard-Smithsonian | Solar Variability and Global Climate Change |
1/25/80 | Robert | Ballard | Woods Hole | Viewing the Ocean Bottom |
3/4/83 | Thomas F. | Banchoff | Brown | The Fourth Dimension and Computer Animated Geometry |
4/16/82 | William R. | Bandeen | GSFC | Early Meteorological Observations from Space |
5/31/96 | Bradley | Barber | AT&T Lucent Labs | Sonoluminescence: Light from Sound |
9/20/17 | Tom | Barclay | GSFC | Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC) and the Search for Alien Worlds |
5/12/06 | Amy | Barger | U. Wisconsin | The Midlife Crisis of the Cosmos |
5/4/90 | Tim | Barnett | Scripps | Can We Detect the Greenhouse Gas Signal in the World's Oceans? |
11/21/97 | John | Baross | U. Washington | Life at the Bottom of the Ocean |
3/1/68 | Alan H. | Barrett | MIT | Masers & Mysterium--Observations of Interstellar Hydroxyl Radicals |
9/16/77 | Eric C. | Barrett | UK-Bristol | Improved Rainfall Assessment w/ Conventional Sources & Satellites |
10/5/84 | Eric | Barron | Boulder-NCAR | Climate Change over the Million Year Time Scale |
11/8/96 | Eric | Barron | Penn State | Predicting Changes in River Basin Hydrology... |
3/2/73 | Charles A. | Barth | Boulder-UC | Mariner 9 UV Measurements of Mars |
5/24/96 | Gibor | Basri | U.Cal. Berkeley | Brown Dwarfs for Real |
1/23/04 | Bonnie | Bassler | Princeton University | Small Talk: Cell-to-cell Communication in Bacteria |
5/6/88 | Maria | Bastillo | Genetics/IVF Inst. | New Frontiers in Assisted Human Reproduction |
2/19/19 | Natalie | Batalha# | University of California, Santa Cruz | Lava Worlds to Living Worlds: A Retrospective of NASA's Kepler Mission |
10/20/67 | Louis J. | Battan | Arizona | Weather Modification: Past and Present |
3/29/74 | Siegfried J. | Bauer | GSFC | The Ionospheres of the Planets |
12/15/78 | Siegfried J. | Bauer | GSFC | First Results from the Pioneer Venus Missions |
4/29/05 | John | Beacom | Ohio State U. | Towards First Glimpses of the Universe in Neutrinos |
3/14/18 | James | Beasley | Savannah River Ecology Lab | Radioactive Wildlife: The Secret Life of Animals in Chernobyl and Fukushima |
11/18/66 | Donald | Beattie | NASA HQ | Post-Apollo Lunar Exploration |
2/8/02 | Luann | Becker | U. Cal, Santa Barbara | Evidence for Impact-Generated Extinctions |
10/8/04 | Steven | Beckwith | SpaceTelescope Science Inst. | The Hubble Ultra Deep Field |
5/8/19 | Michael | Behrenfeld | Oregon State University | The Wonderful World of the Plankton - A Tour from Biochemistry to Space |
1/25/85 | Charles | Beichman | JPL | Extragalactic Sources in the IRAS Survey |
1/17/69 | P. R. | Bell | Manned Spacecraft C | Evidence for Water on the Moon |
4/11/80 | Peter M. | Bell | Carnegie-GL | Ultra High Pressure Experiments--Application to Earth and Planets |
10/1/04 | Gordon | Bell | Bay Area Research Center | MyLifeBits: The Memex Vision and Some Implications of Storing Everything Personal |
2/9/68 | Michael J. S. | Belton | KPNO | Clouds on Venus |
3/23/16 | G. Fritz | Benedict | McDonald Observatory | Hipparcos, Hubble Space Telescope, and Gaia: A Golden Age of Astrometry |
2/4/11 | Michael | Benefield | Bur. Land Management | The Politics of Smoke and the Practical Issues Associated with the Management of Wild and Prescribed Fires in the West |
5/6/11 | Dominic | Benford | GSFC | How to Build and Search for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons |
2/21/03 | Charles | Bennett | GSFC | Taking the Measure of the Universe |
4/23/71 | Carl S. | Benson | Alaska | Polar Glaciology and Ice Fog |
3/21/14 | Robert | Benson | GSFC | The First Year of Human Habitation, and Science, at the Geographic South Pole |
5/21/82 | Edward R. | Benton | Boulder-UC | Earth's Core: Clues to the Origin of its Magnetic Field |
11/1/68 | Peter G. | Bergmann | Syracuse | Theories of Gravitation |
12/8/89 | Richard B. | Bernstein | UCLA | Arranging Collisions Between Molecules and Surfaces |
10/25/17 | Robert | Berwick | MIT | Why Only Us: The Origin of Human Language |
10/13/06 | Pawan | Bhartia | GSFC | Ultraviolet Observations of our Changing Planet |
9/15/78 | Giovanni F. | Bignami | Italy-Milan | Gamma Ray Astronomy Revisited: from Our Galaxy to Other Galaxies |
3/10/99 | Giovanni | Bignami | Italian Space Agency | Comets, Planets, and the Sky: Italy's Roots in Space |
1/9/76 | John | Billingham | Ames Research Ctr. | Interstellar Communication and Project Cyclops |
11/16/90 | Robert | Bindschadler | GSFC | Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
2/2/07 | Robert | Bindschadler | GSFC | Ice Sheets on the Edge |
3/18/88 | Richard P. | Binzel | PSI-Tucson | A New Look at Pluto |
10/31/75 | Thomas J. | Birmingham | GSFC | Jupiter's Magnetosphere in Light of Pioneers 10 and 11 |
5/20/66 | Amasa S. | Bishop | AEC | Roadblocks in the Path of Controlled Fusion |
4/23/93 | David | Black | Lunar & Plan.Inst. | Planets of Other Stars |
4/8/66 | Jacques E. | Blamont | France-NCSR | Dynamics of the Lower Ionosphere |
2/2/90 | Roger D. | Blandford | Caltech | Gamma-Ray Burst Models |
2/24/11 | Roger | Blandford # | Stanford U./KIPAC | Higher Energy Astrophysics |
3/23/12 | Michael | Blanpied | US Geol. Survey | The Virginia Earthquakes of August, 2011 |
4/4/14 | Jacob | Bleacher | GSFC | How Explosive Was Ancient Mars? |
2/16/68 | Robert C. | Bless | Wisconsin | Ultraviolet Stellar Astronomy |
3/2/90 | Leo | Blitz | U. Maryland | The Bar in the Center of the Galaxy |
5/29/98 | John | Blondin | North Carolina State | Supercomputer Simulations of Gas Flows in Binary Star Systems |
3/6/92 | Howard B. | Bluestein | U. Oklahoma | Tornadoes in the Southern Plains: Visual Obs. & Meteorolog. Meas. |
2/3/67 | Harry | Blum | AFCRL | Processes in Perception |
9/17/99 | Baruch | Blumberg | Astrobiology Institute | The Discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus and the Invention of a Vaccine to Prevent Cancer |
1/7/00 | Martin | Blume | Amer. Phys. Soc. | The Physical Review and Scientific Publishing: Past and Future |
9/8/78 | Albert | Boggess | GSFC | Observing with IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) |
5/11/90 | Craig | Bohren | Penn State | All That's Best of Dark and Bright (Atmospheric Optics) |
3/3/00 | Craig | Bohren | Penn State U. | Green Thunderstorms |
5/12/67 | Bart J. | Bok | Arizona | The Spiral Structure of Our Galaxy |
4/27/73 | Bart J. | Bok | Arizona | The Birth of Stars |
3/31/78 | Elihu A. | Boldt | GSFC | The New Era in X-Ray Astronomy |
5/29/19 | Scott | Bolton | Southwest Res. Inst. | The New Jupiter Revealed by Juno |
12/11/98 | Howard | Bond | Space Telescope Sci. Inst. | Planetary Nebulae with Hubble Space Telescope |
4/15/88 | Roger | Bonnet | ESA-Paris | Fundamental Science & Space Science within the Horizon 2000 Progrm |
10/22/93 | Dan | Boone | Wilderness Society | Old Growth Forests |
2/7/75 | Jan | Borgman | Netherl.-Groningen | First Results from the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite |
3/17/78 | Jay P. | Boris | NRL | Uses of High-Speed Computers for Simulating Physical Systems |
4/15/11 | William | Borucki | Ames Research Ctr. | Kepler Mission: An Overview of Science Results |
2/10/06 | Penelope | Boston | New Mexico Inst. Mining Tech. | The Planet Within: Cave Habitats from Earth to Mars and Beyond |
4/13/07 | William | Bottke | Southwest Res. Inst. | New Views on the Lunar Late Heavy Bombardment |
10/31/86 | Thomas J. | Bouchard | U. Minnesota | Identical Twins Reared Apart: How Similar are They? |
2/11/66 | Robert | Bourdeau | GSFC | The Earth's Ionosphere |
10/24/69 | Sidney | Bowhill | Illinois | The Chemistry of the Lower Ionosphere |
3/17/95 | Mark | Bowick | Syracuse | Cosmic Cracks in Liquid Crystals--the Universe in a Drop |
12/12/86 | Stuart | Bowyer | UC-Berkeley | The Cosmic Far Ultraviolet Background |
12/14/79 | Larry H. | Brace | GSFC | Solar Wind Interactions w/ Venus Ionosphere--Pioneer Venus Orbiter |
1/19/79 | Hale V. D. | Bradt | MIT | Black Holes, Neutron Stars, Quasars: SAS-3 & HEAO-1 X-Ray Astronm. |
5/1/19 | Kathleen | Bragdon | College of William and Mary | Native Americans and Anthropologists: A New Relationship |
2/2/73 | John C. | Brandt | GSFC | Rock Art Astronomy |
2/15/80 | John C. | Brandt | GSFC | The Plasma Tails of Comets: How They Come and Go |
9/27/85 | John C. | Brandt | GSFC | The ICE Encounter with Comet Giacobini-Zinner |
4/4/86 | John C. | Brandt | GSFC | First Spacecraft Results from Halley's Comet |
4/13/12 | Niel | Brandt | Penn State U. | A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth |
12/4/70 | Lewis M. | Branscomb | NBS | A National Policy for Applied Science |
3/9/84 | Kenneth | Brecher | GSFC & Boston Coll. | Which Came First---the Universe or the Laws of Physics? |
3/11/05 | Sean | Brennan | U.S. Geological Survey | Seawater Chemistry and the Advent of Biocalcification, or the Chemical Origins of Seashells |
11/4/83 | Francis P. | Bretherton | Boulder-NCAR | Oceanography from Space |
1/15/93 | Francis P. | Bretherton | Wisconsin | Sources of Uncertainty in Predictions of Global Warming |
5/27/88 | Robin | Brett | USGS-Reston | Field Trip to a Mid-Ocean Ridge |
1/12/68 | Neil M. | Brice | Cornell | Magnetospheric Substorms, Van Allen Radiation, & the Polar Aurora |
2/12/82 | Alan H. | Bridle | NRAO-NM | Jets in Radio Galaxies |
6/3/19 | David | Brin | Opportunities, Danger, and Destiny in the Solar System ... and Beyond | |
2/19/71 | Stanley J. | Brodsky | Stanford | The Present and Future State of Quantum Electrodynamics |
10/4/68 | Wallace S. | Broecker | Columbia-Lamont | Glacial Cycles and Their Causes |
1/12/79 | Wallace S. | Broecker | Columbia | Carbon Dioxide, the Oceans and Climate |
11/19/93 | Wally | Broecker | Lamont-Doherty Geo. | What Do Paleoclimatic Data Tell Us About Expected Future Climate |
10/26/01 | Wallace | Broecker | Columbia | Circulation Pattern in the Glacial Ocean |
4/1/05 | Volker | Bromm | U. Texas | The First Sources of Light |
3/13/98 | Clint | Brooks | NSA | Cryptography |
1/13/12 | Harold | Brooks | NOAA/Severe Storms | The Record Breaking 2011 Spring Tornado Season: Historic Perspectives and Challenges for the Future |
10/20/00 | Lincoln | Brower | Sweet Briar | Biological Studies of the Migration of the Monarch Butterfly |
3/8/02 | Emma | Brown | U.S. Forest Service | What Burns Me About the Way We Fight Wildfires |
2/3/06 | Tom | Brown | Space Telescope Sci.Inst. | The Age of Andromeda |
5/16/14 | Lester | Brown | Earth Policy Inst. | The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Wind and Solar Energy |
4/5/17 | Adrian | Brown | GSFC | Volatiles and Ices in the Polar Regions of Mars - the future is LIDAR |
4/26/19 | Peter | Brown | University of Western Ontario | The Impact Hazard from Small Near-Earth Objects: Lessons from Chelyabinsk |
11/8/13 | Kelly | Brunt | GSFC | Antarctic Rifts as an Analog for Studying Tidal Motions along Cracks on Icy Satellites |
2/4/72 | Stephen G. | Brush | Maryland | Relations Between Planetary Science & "Pure" Science in 19th Cent. |
5/15/70 | Reid A. | Bryson | Wisconsin | Our Changing Climate |
2/5/93 | Philip | Bucksbaum | Michigan | Atoms in Really Intense Light |
3/25/77 | Edward | Bullard | UC-San Diego | Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field |
2/13/04 | Alan | Bunner | NASA HQ (retired) | Reflections on the Anthropic Principle |
4/5/68 | E. Margaret | Burbidge | UC-San Diego | The Spectra of Quasi-Stellar Objects |
5/10/74 | E. Margaret | Burbidge | UC-San Diego | The Redshift Controversy |
10/22/76 | Geoffrey | Burbidge | UC-San Diego | Confrontation of Cosmological Theories with Observational Data |
6/14/85 | E. Margaret | Burbidge* | UC-San Diego | Radio Galaxies, Quasars and Jets |
2/23/01 | James | Burch | Southwest Research Inst. | "First Light" from the IMAGE Spacecraft |
3/12/71 | Bernard F. | Burke | MIT | Long-Baseline Interferometry |
9/30/77 | Kevin C. | Burke | SUNY-Albany | Continents in Collision: Tibet and the Himalayas |
9/19/86 | Bernard F. | Burke | MIT | Gravitational Lenses |
12/1/89 | Kevin C. | Burke | Nat.Acad.Sciences | The Origin of Mountains |
5/9/97 | Kevin | Burke | Univ. Houston | The African Plate and Small Scale Convection... |
5/1/98 | Joann | Burkholder | North Carolina State | Pfiesteria Piscicida, Killer of Fish |
2/11/77 | Leonard F. | Burlaga | GSFC | Magnetic Fields and Winds in Interplanetary Space |
3/23/84 | Leonard F. | Burlaga | GSFC | A Voyage through the Heliosphere |
5/7/04 | Len | Burlaga | GSFC | Voyager at the Edge of the Solar System? |
5/28/99 | Jocelynn Bell | Burnell | Open U./Princeton | In Pursuit of Pulsars |
5/18/12 | David | Burrows | Penn State U. | Swift J164449.3+573451: Death Throes of an Unlucky Star |
9/24/93 | David | Burstein | Arizona St. Univ. | Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Universe |
4/2/76 | W. Butler | Burton | NRAO-Greenbank | Is There a Basic Spiral Pattern in Our Galaxy? |
10/7/05 | Antionio | Busalacchi | U. Maryland | Climate Variability and Marine Ecosystems: The Role of Forcings and Feedback |
4/23/99 | Antonio | Busalacchi (Joint) | GSFC | Use of Satellite Observations in Support of Weather and Short-Term Climate Prediction |
5/13/05 | Nathalie | Cabrol | NASA Ames | Beyond the Mars Exploration Rove Mission: from Habitability to Life |
3/24/06 | Robert | Cahalan | GSFC | Three-Dimensional Cloud Properties and Climate |
11/21/08 | Gregory | Cajete | U. New Mexico | Native Science: An Indigenous Philosophy of Human Relationship to the Natural World |
2/27/76 | John | Caldwell | Princeton | The Atmosphere of Titan |
9/24/65 | A. G. W. | Cameron | GISS | X-Ray Astronomy |
4/7/78 | A. G. W. | Cameron | Harvard | Early History of the Solar System |
4/18/97 | A.G.W. | Cameron | Harvard | Formation of the Solar System |
2/26/16 | Jordan | Camp | GSFC | LIGO Detection of Gravitational Waves |
2/22/74 | William J. | Campbell | USGS-Tacoma | Ice Dynamics |
11/20/98 | Mark | Cane | Lamont-Doherty Earth Ob. | Prospects for Improving Forecasts of ENSO (El Nino and the Southern Oscillation) and its Global Consequences |
5/30/08 | Claude | Canizares * | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | The Rise of Cosmic X-Ray Spectroscopy |
5/23/80 | Russell D. | Cannon | Canada-DAO | Exploring the Southern Sky--New Clues to Evolution of Galaxies |
2/28/18 | Robin | Canup | Southwest Res. Inst. | Origin of the Moon |
4/26/85 | John B. | Carlson | Maryland | Aztec Calendar: Man, State and Cosmos in Aztec Society |
3/19/99 | Jean | Carlson | U.Calif. Santa Barbara | Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Faults |
4/8/05 | Sean | Carroll | U. Chicago | Why is the Universe Accelerating? |
11/15/17 | Sean | Carroll | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Nature Works, and Why It Matters |
5/18/73 | George R. | Carruthers | NRL | UV Photography from the Moon |
3/26/99 | Daniel | Carter | New Century Pharmaceuticals | Growing Crystals in Microgravity |
6/15/16 | Rafael | Casellas | National Inst. Of Health | CRISPR: Enabling the 21st Century Biological Revolution |
3/1/13 | Paul | Cassak | West Virginia U. | Magnetic Reconnection - What is NASA's MMS for Anyway? |
4/4/18 | Tane | Casserley | Monitor National Marine Sanctuary | Heavy Metal on the High Seas: USS Monitor and the Wartime Shipwrecks off the Coast of North Carolina |
3/7/97 | Luigi Luca | Cavalli-Sforza | Stanford | Genes, People, and Languages |
12/13/68 | John | Ceraso | Rutgers | The Interference Theory of Forgetting |
9/17/82 | Catherine J. | Cesarsky | France-Saclay | Galactic Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Supernova Shocks |
4/5/85 | Robert D. | Cess | SUNY-Stony Brook | Climatic Feedback Mechanisms |
3/16/90 | Robert D. | Cess | SUNY-Stony Brook | The Greenhouse Effect in Climate Models |
5/10/17 | Bill | Chadwick | NOAA/PMEL Oregon State U. | Fire in the Deep Sea: The 2015 Eruption of Axial Seamount |
2/6/04 | Moustafa | Chahine | Jet Propulsion Lab | AQUA, AIRS, and the Earth's Water Cycle |
2/1/02 | Gregory | Chaitin | IBM Research | Paradoxes of Randomness |
11/13/92 | William | Chameides | Georgia Tech | SMOG: The "Bad" Ozone That Wouldn't Go Away |
4/1/83 | Julius S. | Chang | Lawrence Livermore | Nuclear Explosions and Atmospheric Ozone |
6/3/88 | Julius S. | Chang | SUNY-Albany | Modelling Deposition & Transport of Acidic Material in East U.S. |
10/28/05 | Ben | Chao | GSFC | Earth's Changing Rotation and Gravity Field |
5/13/66 | Sydney | Chapman | Boulder-HAO | Auroral Morphology and Magnetic Storms |
6/1/84 | Robert D. | Chapman | GSFC | The Mystery of the Eclipsing Binaries Epsilon and Zeta Aurigae |
2/6/98 | Clark | Chapman | Southwest Res. Inst. | Asteroids |
9/11/98 | Rick | Chappell | Vanderbilt U. | Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future |
5/24/02 | David | Charbonneau | Cal Tech | Extrasolar Planets and the Power of the Dark Side |
12/10/10 | David | Charbonneau | Harvard U. | The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet |
4/19/17 | Eric | Charles | SLAC National Accelorator Lab | Not So Dark After All? Does Dark Matter Shine Brightly in Gamma Rays? |
10/21/15 | Geoff | Chester | U.S. Naval Obersvatory | The U.S. Naval Observatory: Time Standards and Daylight Time |
3/13/92 | Roger A. | Chevalier | U. Virginia | Supernova 1987A after 5 Years |
6/1/01 | Raymond | Chiao | U. Cal, Berkeley | Faster-than-c Propagation Effects and their Possible Applications |
3/20/19 | Eric | Christian | Goddard Space Flight Center | The Edge of the Solar System and Beyond |
10/28/11 | Steve | Chu | Secretary of Energy | How Innovation has Changed the World and Can Help Change it Again |
1/17/18 | Maria | Chudnovsky | Princeton University | Some Problems in Graph Theory: Donuts, Parties, and Coloring |
2/10/84 | Ralph J. | Cicerone | Boulder-NCAR | Biospheric Boundary Conditions for Atmospheric Chemistry |
4/3/09 | John | Claarke | Boston U. | HST (and other) Observations of the Aurora on Jupiter and Saturn |
3/5/10 | Mark | Clampin | GSFC | Direct Imaging of Exoplanets |
9/9/66 | John F. | Clark | GSFC | Scientific Research at Goddard: Views and Discussions |
9/20/68 | George W. | Clark | MIT | Observations of Galactic Gamma Rays on OSO-III |
1/23/76 | George W. | Clark | MIT | X-Rays from Gravitationally Collapsed Bodies |
11/11/77 | Thomas A. | Clark | GSFC | Sounds of Space: Sounds of Earth |
3/23/90 | Garry | Clarke | U. British Columbia | Surging Glaciers |
12/2/88 | Donald D. | Clayton | Rice | The Solar Nebula and Before |
10/4/17 | Carol | Cleland | University of Colorado | Life Without Definitions |
10/1/65 | Thomas L. | Cline | GSFC | Cosmic Ray Electrons |
5/21/76 | Thomas L. | Cline | GSFC | The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
10/18/17 | Eric | Cline | George Washington U. | 1177 B.C.: the Year Civilization Collapsed |
4/11/69 | Preston E. | Cloud,Jr. | UC-Santa Barbara | The Primitive Earth |
9/16/88 | Paul | Cloutier | Rice U. | Venus |
5/9/69 | Arthur D. | Code | Wisconsin | Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) |
6/1/90 | C. Edward | Coffey | Duke U. | Electroconvulsive Therapy and Update |
11/13/70 | Sidney | Cohen | NIH | Drug Abuse: Recent Developments |
2/28/97 | Steven C. | Cohen | GSFC | Pacific Plates Subduction: Regional Tectonics... |
4/23/10 | Anthony | Colaprete | Ames Research Ctr. | Results from the LCROSS Experiment |
1/31/75 | Keith D. | Cole | Australia-Melbourne | Magnetic Storms |
12/11/70 | Sidney R. | Coleman | Harvard | Recent Developments in Particle Physics |
12/10/14 | Gabriella | Coleman | McGill U. | Geeks, Hacker Culture, and Anonymous |
1/15/71 | Stirling A. | Colgate | New Mexico-IM&T | Cosmic Rays and Supernovae |
12/7/90 | Stirling A. | Colgate | Los Alamos | Radio Jets and High Energy Cosmic Rays |
1/10/97 | Francis | Collins | Nat. Ctr. Human Gen | The Human Genome Project and the Future of Medicine |
11/20/70 | Robert N. | Colwell | UC-Berkeley | The Scientific Basis for Remotely Sensing Earth Resources |
1/13/78 | Robert N. | Colwell | UC-Berkeley | Remote Sensing of Natural Resources |
2/21/97 | Rita | Colwell | Univ. Maryland | Tracking the Origins of Cholera |
11/30/07 | Joey | Comiso | GSFC | Decadal Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Cover |
10/17/69 | Barry | Commoner | Wash.U.-St.Louis | Pollution of the Environment |
4/10/19 | Nancy | Connell | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | Global Catastrophic Biological Risk (GCBR) |
2/26/93 | Richard | Conner | Harvard | Dolphin Sex and Politics |
1/20/95 | Jack | Connerney | GSFC | Imaging the Electrodynamic Behavior of Jupiter and Saturn |
2/18/00 | Jack | Connerney | GSFC | Update on Mars Magnetism |
5/8/81 | Peter S. | Conti | Boulder-JILA | Nature and Evolution of the Most Massive Stars |
2/20/76 | Robert S. | Cooper | GSFC | High Energy Laser Technology: a Review |
2/2/01 | Bruno | Coppi | MIT | Theoretical and Experimental Results in Fusion Research: Related Issues in Astrophysics |
3/30/79 | Ferdinand V. | Coroniti | UC-Los Angeles | Geomagnetic Substorms and Aurora |
9/15/67 | Stanley | Corrsin | Johns Hopkins | The Nature of Turbulent Flow |
10/12/12 | Athena | Coustenis | Paris-Meudon Observatory | JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE): The First Large ESA Cosmic Vision Mission |
10/21/83 | Anne P. | Cowley | Arizona State | Black Holes in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
3/6/81 | R. | Cowsik | Maryland | Elementary Particles and the Cosmos--A Complementary Relationship |
1/10/69 | Allan V. | Cox | Stanford | Sea Floor Spreading and the Magnetic History of the Earth |
10/24/80 | Allan V. | Cox | Stanford | How North America is Growing: Microplate Tectonics |
9/24/99 | Bradley | Cox | U. Virginia | Time Reversal Violation |
12/3/04 | Robert | Crease | Stony Brook U. | The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science |
3/28/03 | Hugh | Crenshaw | GlaxoSmithKline | Microorganisms Use Helical Motion to Orient to External Signals |
4/21/89 | L. Eugene | Cronin | Coastal Consultant | The Geology and Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay |
5/16/97 | James | Cronin | Univ. Chicago | The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
1/14/00 | David | Crossley | St. Louis U. | The Superconducting Gravimeter as a Geophysical Tool |
11/20/81 | John | Crowell | UC-Santa Barbara | The San Andreas Fault |
10/17/97 | Tom | Crowley | Texas A&M | Ice Ages in Earth History |
2/21/75 | Dale P. | Cruikshank | Hawaii | Recent and Current Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes |
1/13/84 | Dale P. | Cruikshank | Hawaii | Pluto and the Satellites of the Outer Planets |
5/1/03 | Paul | Crutzen | Max Planck, Chemistry | The Importance of the Tropics in Atmospheric Chemistry |
6/12/87 | Paul | Crutzen* | Max-Planck Inst. | Ozone: Essential Gas in Atmosphere, Perturbed by Human Activities |
12/12/97 | Robert | Curl | Rice | The Fullerenes: Discovery and Beyond |
3/27/87 | Gordon | Cutler | NIH | Premature Puberty: New Insights |
4/5/02 | Richard | Cytowic | Physician/author | Synesthesia: Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes |
5/15/19 | Gillen | D'Arcy Wood | Inst. Sustainability, Energy, and Environment | Tambora and the Year Without a Summer, 1816 |
10/26/73 | Alexander | Dalgarno | Harvard | Molecular Processes in the Interstellar Medium |
11/9/73 | Paul E. | Damon | Arizona | Carbon-14 Dating: Geophysical and Astrophysical Implications |
4/22/83 | Edward | Danielson | Caltech | How We Found Halley's Comet and Other Faint Objects |
3/30/90 | Arnon | Dar | GSFC & Israel | Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology |
1/31/92 | Raymond | Dattwyler | SUNY-Stony Brook | Lyme Disease |
10/29/10 | Ashley | Davies | Jet Propulsion Lab | Lava Lakes on Io and Earth – The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Jovian System? |
10/21/66 | Leverett | Davis | Caltech | The Interplanetary Medium |
5/9/69 | Robert J. | Davis | Harvard-SAO | Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) |
10/6/72 | Raymond | Davis | Brookhaven | Solar Neutrinos |
4/19/74 | Leverett | Davis | Caltech | Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Radiation Belts |
1/18/80 | Douglas | Davis | Georgia Tech | Trace Gases: What They tell Us about the Earth's Atmosphere |
11/6/81 | T. Neil | Davis | Alaska | Auroras |
4/24/87 | Raymond | Davis | Pennsylvania | Solar Neutrinos |
3/14/14 | Charles | Day | Physics Today | Science News in the 21st Century |
5/14/99 | Craig | DeForest | Stanford/GSFC | Polar Plumes of the Sun |
2/8/08 | Ruth | DeFries | U. Maryland | Carbon Emissions from Tropical Deforestation: Science Meets Policy |
10/29/14 | John | Degnan | Sigma Space | A Celebration of Fifty Years of Satellite Laser Ranging |
3/6/19 | Dagomar | Degroot | Georgetown University | Civilization and the Solar System: Cosmic Upheavals and Human History |
3/17/06 | Anthony | Del Genio | Goddard Institute | Moist Convection: Its Role in Terrestrial Climate Change and in the Atmospheres of Other Planets |
9/13/17 | Anthony | Del Genio & | GISS | Cloud Feedback on Climate Change: Are We There Yet? |
5/6/05 | Drake | Deming | GSFC | First Light from Extrasolar Planets |
2/20/09 | Drake | Deming | GSFC | The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets |
10/27/89 | David H. | DeVorkin | Air & Space Museum | Response of American Astronomers to Poss. Space Research 1945-50 |
1/12/73 | John F. | Dewey | SUNY-Albany | Plate Tectonics |
5/5/78 | Bryce S. | Dewitt | Texas | New Developments in Black Hole Theory |
6/7/03 | Ron | Dick | Royal Air Force | The Schneider Trophy: Advances in Aviation 1913-1931 |
1/30/04 | Steven | Dick | NASA HQ | Transits of Venus |
4/1/66 | Robert H. | Dicke | Princeton | Gravitation and Space Science |
11/3/72 | Robert H. | Dicke | Princeton | General Relativity and the Solar Oblateness |
2/23/96 | Mark | Dickinson | Space Telescope | The Evolution of Ancient Galaxies |
5/31/12 | James | Dickson | U. Glasgow | Why Ancient Glacier Mummies Are so Important: the Intestinal Contents are Encoded Maps and Diaries |
10/4/74 | Robert S. | Dietz | NOAA-Miami | Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading |
2/11/15 | Jocelyne | DiRuggiero | Johns Hopkins U. | Desert Worlds: the Dry Limit for Life |
5/22/98 | William | Ditto | Georgia Tech | Experimental Chaos Control |
4/24/92 | S. George | Djorgovski | Caltech | Searches for Primeval Galaxies |
4/15/77 | Joseph F. | Dolan | GSFC | Between X-Rays and Gamma Rays: a Key to X-Ray Sources |
4/21/95 | Joseph | Dolan | GSFC | Searching for a Pulsar in the Remnant of Supernova 1987A |
10/8/14 | Shawn | Domagal-Goldman | GSFC | See the Ball, Be the Ball: How to Find and Characterize Planets Beyond our Solar System |
4/12/85 | Thomas M. | Donahue | Michigan | Water on Venus |
11/8/68 | Bertram | Donn | GSFC | Interstellar Organic Molecules and Their Evolutionary Implications |
10/3/69 | William L. | Donn | Columbia-Lamont | Theory of Ice Ages |
3/14/69 | Russell J. | Donnelly | Oregon | Liquid Helium II |
5/28/76 | George A. | Doschek | NRL | X-Ray and XUV Spectroscopy of Solar Flares and Laboratory Plasmas |
4/3/92 | Bruce | Douglas | NOAA-Nat.Geod.Surv. | Sea Level Rise of the Past 100 Years |
4/7/95 | Anne | Douglass | GSFC | Insights Into Stratospheric Photochemistry... |
6/7/13 | Anne | Douglass & | GSFC | An Information Avalanche: How UARS And Aura Observations Enlighten Chemistry Climate Models |
3/13/70 | Daniel B. | Drachman | Johns Hopkins | The Role of the Nerve in Muscle Atrophy |
11/2/84 | Bruce T. | Draine | Princeton | Shock Waves, Dust and Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds |
9/27/68 | Frank D. | Drake | Cornell | Pulsars |
1/27/78 | Frank D. | Drake | Cornell | Recent Developments in Radio Astronomy |
5/22/92 | Frank D. | Drake | UC-Santa Cruz | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: NASA Microwave Obs. |
10/9/87 | Alan | Dressler | Mt.Wilson-Las Camp. | Astronomers Hunt for the Great Attractor |
10/14/11 | Michael | Duncan | NASA HQ | The Chilean Miner Rescue: NASA's Experience |
5/3/02 | William | Dunham | Muhlenberg College | Newton's (Original) Method - or - Though This be Method, yet There's Madness in't |
3/16/79 | Andrea K. | Dupree | Harvard | Hot Blue Cores of Globular Clusters and Other Discoveries of IUE |
9/18/87 | Eli | Dwek | GSFC | Catch A Fallen Star: The Story of Supernova 1987a |
12/3/99 | Freeman | Dyson | Inst. Advanced Study | Life in the Universe: Is Life Digital or Analog? |
12/7/84 | Robert H. | Eather | Boston Coll. | Aurora in Science, History and the Arts |
2/27/70 | John A. | Eddy | Boulder-HAO | Total Solar Eclipses |
5/16/75 | John A. | Eddy | Boulder-HAO | The Case of the Missing Sunspots |
2/24/78 | John A. | Eddy | Boulder-NCAR | American Indian Astronomy |
11/20/87 | John A. | Eddy | U. Colorado | The Sun-Climate Connection |
5/12/72 | N. Terence | Edgar | Scripps | Scientific Results and Technology of Drilling in the Deep Oceans |
4/3/19 | Joan | Edwards | Williams College | Botanical Explosions: The Evolutionary Impact of Ultra-Fast Plants |
5/7/82 | Alf | Egeland | GSFC & Norway-Oslo | The Beginning of Modern Auroral Research |
5/10/96 | Jim | Ehleringer | Univ. Utah | Monsoons, Climate Change and Plant Distribution |
12/9/11 | Vernon | Ehlers | U.S. House Rep. | Science in Congress |
5/27/94 | Paul | Ehrlich | Stanford Univ. | Biodiversity and Global Change |
4/10/81 | Farouk | El-Baz | Smithsonian | Comparing the Deserts of Earth and Mars |
10/14/88 | Farouk | El-Baz | Boston U. | In Search of Pharoah's Boat |
5/11/12 | Lindy | Elkins-Tanton | Carnegie Inst. of Washington | Processing Volatiles in Terrestrial Planets during Accretion: Setting the Stage for Plate Tectonics |
11/4/77 | James L. | Elliot | Cornell | Discovery and Investigation of the Rings of Uranus |
12/11/06 | Richard | Ellis# | Calif. Inst. Tech. | Cosmic Dawn: The Quest to Find the Earliest Galaxies |
3/14/08 | Don | Ellison | North Carolina State | Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Shocks |
10/20/06 | Debra | Elmegreen | Vassar College | A Glimpse of Galaxies at the Dawn of the Universe |
3/4/66 | Walter M. | Elsasser | Princeton | Convective Mechanisms in the Earth's Mantle |
4/23/04 | Kerry | Emanuel | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | Hurricanes and Climate |
1/15/88 | Kerry | Emmanuel | MIT | A General Theory for Hurricanes |
1/21/11 | Sarah | Eno | U. Maryland | The Large Hadron Collider: Results from the Energy Frontier |
5/8/09 | Dara | Entekhabi | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | Land-Atmosphere Interactions |
5/2/86 | Harland | Epps | UC-Los Angeles | Giant Telescopes of the Future |
12/7/07 | Wayne | Esais | GSFC | Honey Bees, Satellites, and Climate Change |
1/18/17 | Fred | Espenak | GSFC | The Great American Total Eclipse of 2017 |
4/3/70 | John V. | Evans | MIT | Radar Studies of Mars and Venus |
4/28/78 | David S. | Evans | NOAA-Boulder | Aurora |
10/8/99 | Diane | Evans | JPL | Recent Developments in SAR Remote Sensing |
3/22/68 | Gifford C. | Ewing | Woods Hole | The Upper Thirty Meters of the Ocean |
2/26/09 | Sandra | Faber # | Lick Observatory | The Galaxy-Forming Main Sequence |
6/9/00 | Andrew | Fabian* | Cambridge | Chandra X-ray Observations of the Cores of Clusters of Galaxies |
3/1/91 | Richard P. | Fahey | GSFC & Montgomery C | Is Schrodinger's Cat a Cheshire?Quantum Theory vs.ObjectiveReality |
2/4/77 | William M. | Fairbank | Stanford | Near Zero--A Frontier of Physics |
3/13/19 | Tyler | Faith | University of Utah | What Drove Africa's Megaherbivores to Extinction? |
6/2/00 | Paul | Falkowski | Rutgers U. | Remote Sensing of Global Biogeochemical Cycles |
10/19/16 | Paul | Falkowski | Rutgers University | Light to Life |
10/21/05 | Xiaohui | Fan | Steward Observatory | Probing the End of Cosmic Dark Ages with the Most Distant Quasars |
3/15/91 | Doyne | Farmer | Los Alamos | Spontaneous Order and the Origin of Life |
1/17/97 | Anthony | Fauci | NIAID | HIV and AIDS: Considerations for the 21st Century |
11/7/75 | Giovanni G. | Fazio | Harvard | Far-Infrared Astronomy |
2/13/87 | Joel | Fedder | NRL | Big Comets and Little Comets: Why are They Different? |
3/17/89 | Ned | Feder | NIH | Misconduct in Science: How to Keep the Politicians Out |
10/30/70 | Gerald | Feinberg | Columbia | The Prometheus Project |
1/28/11 | Andy | Feinberg | Johns Hopkins Sch. Med. | Epigenetics: What you Might Not Want to Know, but Might Need to Know if You Want to Go to Mars |
5/25/16 | Graham | Feingold | NOAA | Quantifying Aerosol Influences on the Cloud Radiative Effect |
2/19/99 | William | Feldman | Los Alamos | Water Ice on the Moon and Other Discoveries from Lunar Prospector |
10/6/78 | James E. | Felten | GSFC | Cosmology Made Easy: Primer on Structure/Evolution of our Universe |
4/4/03 | Claire | Ferguson | Mathematics in Stone and Bronze | |
4/4/03 | Helaman | Ferguson | Mathematics in Stone and Bronze | |
10/7/88 | James P. | Ferris | Ren.Polytech. Inst. | Laboratory Simulation of Jovian Atmospheric Chemistry |
5/31/13 | Jesse | Feyen | NOAA | Predicting Sandy's Impacts: the Science behind Modeling and Communicating Storm Surge |
6/2/67 | Carl E. | Fichtel | GSFC | Gamma Ray Astronomy |
6/1/73 | Carl E. | Fichtel | GSFC | Gamma-Ray Astronomy with the Goddard SAS-B Satellite |
3/12/93 | Carl E. | Fichtel | GSFC | Gamma Ray Observatory EGRET Results |
3/29/68 | George B. | Field | UC-Berkeley | Molecular Astronomy |
11/30/73 | George B. | Field | Harvard | Intergalactic Matter |
1/29/82 | George B. | Field | Harvard | Astronomy in the 80's |
10/3/08 | Brian | Fields | U. Illinois | When Stars Attack! Live Radioactivities as Signatures of Near-Earth Supernova Explosions |
2/6/19 | Brian | Fields | University of Illinois | When Stars Attack! Near-Earth Supernova Explosions Revealed by Deep-Ocean and Lunar Radioactivity |
5/13/94 | Alexei | Filippenko | UCal, Berkeley | The Bright Supernova 1993J in M81 |
12/8/67 | John W. | Findlay | NRAO-Greenbank | Scientific Objectives of Post-Apollo Lunar and Planetary Programs |
11/15/12 | Douglas | Finkbeiner | Harvard U. | The Galactic Center 130 GeV Line: WIMP or Artifact? |
5/20/88 | Ephraim | Fischbach | Purdue | The Fifth Force |
2/18/11 | Daniel | Fisher | U. Michigan | Lyuba: A Spectacular Baby Woolly Mammoth from Northwest Siberia |
11/1/17 | Donald | Fisher | Penn State U. | Slow Earthquakes: A Paradigm Shift for the Slip Behavior of Tectonic Plate Boundaries |
12/4/92 | Gerald | Fishman | Marshall SF Ctr. | The Gamma Ray Burst Enigma |
3/26/10 | Gerald | Fishman | Marshall Sp.Flt. Ctr. | Space-borne Observations of Intense Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) above Thunderstorms |
4/1/77 | Lennard A. | Fisk | GSFC | Exploring the Solar System in Three Dimensions |
10/2/87 | Lennard A. | Fisk | NASA HQ | Space Science and Applications into the 1990's |
9/28/90 | Lennard A. | Fisk | NASA HQ | Challenges and Prospects for Space Science |
10/2/92 | Lennard A. | Fisk | NASA HQ | NASA Program in Space Sciences and Applications |
2/9/96 | Len | Fisk | U. Michigan | Changing Perspectives of the Heliosphere |
12/5/69 | Richard S. | Fiske | USGS | Anatomy of an Active Volcano |
2/29/80 | Richard S. | Fiske | Smithsonian | Recent Explosive Volcanism in the Eastern Caribbean |
4/20/84 | Richard S. | Fiske | Smithsonian | The Krakatoa Volcano |
3/16/07 | John | Fitzpatrick | Cornell U. | How Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (and Other Birds) Will Help Save the World |
2/11/05 | Michael | Flasar | GSFC | CIRS/Cassini First Results from Saturn |
9/30/11 | Michael | Flasar * | GSFC | Titan's Dynamic Atmosphere |
4/6/73 | Aaron | Fleisher | MIT | Urban Redevelopment |
10/19/01 | James | Fleming | Colby College | Carbon Dioxide and Climate: the First 100 Years |
3/26/76 | Kenneth W. | Ford | New Mexico-IM&T | Magnetic Monopoles |
5/15/81 | Holland C. | Ford | UC-Los Angeles | Superclusters of Galaxies |
10/26/84 | Joseph | Ford | Georgia Tech | Chaos: Solving the Unsolvable - Predicting the Unpredictable! |
9/23/94 | Holland | Ford | Johns Hopkins | The Search for Giant Black Holes |
5/2/03 | Holland | Ford | Space Telescope Sci. Inst. | The HST Advanced Camera for Surveys: Performance and New Results |
10/20/89 | William J. | Forrest | U. Rochester | The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs |
2/14/69 | William A. | Fowler | Caltech | New Light on an Old Subject: the Origin of the Elements |
4/17/70 | John W. | Fowler | Maryland | Teaching Science to Nonscience College Students |
5/8/70 | Peter H. | Fowler | UK-Bristol | Heavy Elements in Cosmic Rays |
3/16/73 | William A. | Fowler | Caltech | The Age of the Elements and the Galaxy |
11/18/77 | William A. | Fowler | Caltech | Solar Neutrinos |
10/31/69 | Sidney W. | Fox | U.Miami-CoralGables | Experimental Explanation of the First Cells on Earth |
6/4/82 | Louis A. | Frank | Iowa | Imaging of Aurora from the Dynamics Explorer Satellite |
12/16/88 | Louis A. | Frank | U. Iowa | Influx of Small Comets |
11/6/92 | Richard | Frankel | Cal.Poly.State U. | Biomimetics |
2/24/12 | Anna | Frebel | Harvard U. | Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars |
5/20/94 | Wendy | Freedman | Carnegie Obs. | What is the Hubble Constant? |
3/9/16 | Wendy | Freedman | University of Chicago | Measurement of Cosmological Parameters - TALK POSTPONED |
3/8/17 | Wendy | Freedman | Univesity of Chicago | Increasing Accuracy and Increasing Tension in Measuring the Hubble Constants |
5/1/18 | Katherine | Freese | University of Michigan | The Dark Matter in the Universe |
1/20/78 | Bevan M. | French | NASA HQ | What's New on the Moon? |
11/2/01 | Herbert | Frey | GSFC | Buried Ancient Lowlands on Mars: Laser Altimetry, Hidden Craters, and Primordial Crustal Dichotomy |
4/7/72 | Herbert | Friedman | NRL | The Cosmic X-Ray Background Radiation |
12/3/76 | Herbert | Friedman | NRL | Reminiscences--Thirty Years of Space Research |
1/26/07 | Susan | Friedman | Utah State U. | Behavior Works: The Functional Analysis of Behavior |
6/6/80 | Kenneth J. | Frost | GSFC | Early Results from the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) |
10/13/72 | Tetsuya T. | Fujita | Chicago | Tornadoes |
9/24/76 | R.Buckminster | Fuller | Philadelphia | Humans in the Universe |
1/17/92 | Inez Y. | Fung | NASA-GISS | Where in the World is the Methane Coming From? |
5/18/90 | Robert | Gallo | NIH | Human Retroviruses: A Decade of Discovery |
3/7/18 | Rolando | Garcia | National Center for Atmospheric Research | The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and the K-Pg Extinction |
5/13/83 | Eugene | Garfield | Current Contents | Can We Use Citation Anal. to Evaluate Individuals for Promotion? |
3/14/75 | Owen K. | Garriott | Johnson Space Ctr. | Skylab Results and Implications for Shuttle |
9/3/81 | Owen K. | Garriott | Johnson Space Ctr. | The Promise of Shuttle: Science in Space |
10/25/91 | Michael | Garstang | U. Virginia | Is the Amazon Eating Saharan Dust? |
12/9/88 | James B. | Garvin | GSFC | The Role of Impact Cratering on the Geologic History of the Earth |
10/17/86 | C. Martin | Gaskill | SUNY-Stonybrook | Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes |
4/10/98 | James | Gates | Maryland | Superstrings: Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics |
10/23/09 | Evalyn | Gates | U. Chicago | Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
3/20/81 | George D. | Gatewood | Pittsburgh | The Search for Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
5/26/67 | Donald E. | Gault | Ames Research Ctr. | Evolution of the Cratered Lunar Surface |
10/25/74 | Tom | Gehrels | Arizona | Structures of Jovian Clouds |
1/26/90 | Neil A. | Gehrels | GSFC | Black Holes and Positron Mysteries at the Galactic Center |
2/21/92 | Neil | Gehrels | GSFC | Galaxies, Black Holes, and Bursts: First Results from GRO |
5/20/05 | Neil | Gehrels | GSFC | The Explosive Gamma Ray Bursts: First Results from Swift |
2/25/11 | Robert | Gehrz | U. Minnesota | The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) |
4/12/17 | Linda | Geiser | U.S. Forest Service | Lichens and Mosses as Global Indicators of Ecosystem Health |
6/4/93 | Johannes | Geiss* | U.Bern, Switzerland | Chemical Evolution of the Solar System |
1/23/09 | Ron | Gelaro | GSFC | Atmospheric Data Assimilation and Observing System Science |
10/16/92 | James | Gelb | Fermi Nat.Accel.Fac | Supercomputing and Cosmology |
9/25/81 | Marvin A. | Geller | GSFC | The Stratosphere: Ozone, Dynamics and Other Good Stuff |
10/1/93 | Margaret | Geller | Harvard | Mapping the Universe |
4/29/11 | Johannes | Gemmrich | U. Victoria | Rogue Waves in the Ocean |
2/21/14 | Keith | Gendreau | GSFC | The NICER Mission: a Partnership in Science and Technology on the ISS |
3/24/72 | Cecil | Gentry | NOAA | Hurricanes |
3/29/17 | Chris | German | Woods Hole Research Center | Oases for Life in Distant Oceans: On Earth and Beyond? |
10/19/79 | Robert P. | Geroch | Chicago | Quantum Physics of Black Holes |
3/8/13 | Suvi | Gezari | U. Maryland | Supermassive Black Hole Caught Red Handed in Stellar Homicide |
3/2/07 | Steven | Ghan | Pacific NW Nat. Lab | Aerosols and Climate |
4/11/13 | Andrea | Ghez # | UCLA | The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy |
10/22/71 | Riccardo | Giacconi | AS&E | Recent Developments in X-Ray Astronomy |
5/18/79 | Riccardo | Giacconi | Harvard | Preliminary Results from Imaging Experiments on the HEAO-2 |
2/8/13 | Sarah | Gibson | Nat. Center Atm. Research | Magnetism and the Invisible Man: The Mysteries of Coronal Cavities |
12/12/80 | Peter J. | Gierasch | Cornell | Comparative Meteorology of the Planets |
2/24/16 | Holly | Gilbert | GSFC | Fifty Shades of Magnetism - The Secret Life of Solar Prominences |
3/4/05 | Ann-Lee | Gilder | Kepler on Trial: The Dark Side of a Brilliant Mind | |
3/4/05 | Joshua | Gilder | Kepler on Trial: The Dark Side of a Brilliant Mind | |
9/25/87 | David | Gillette | New Mex.Mus.Nat.His | Seismosaurus, World's Longest Dinosaur & New Tech. in Paleontology |
12/10/93 | David | Gillette | State of Utah | Seismosaurus, Wooly Mammoths, and Other Extinct Beasts |
12/9/83 | Donald L. | Gilman | NOAA-NWS | The NOAA Long-Range Prediction for Winter 1983-84 |
11/15/74 | Owen J. | Gingerich | Harvard-SAO | The Astronomy and Cosmology of Copernicus |
10/22/65 | V. L. | Ginzburg | USSR-Lebedev | The Origin of Cosmic Rays |
1/9/04 | James | Glanz | New York Times | The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center |
9/22/78 | Peter E. | Glaser | Arthur D. Little | Solar Energy Conversion in Space for Use on Earth |
4/12/96 | Gary | Glatzmaier | Los Alamos Nat. Lab | 3-D Numerical Simulations of a Geomagnetic Field Reversal |
3/27/92 | Roy | Glauber | Harvard U. | Quantum Mechanical Behaviours of Trapped Ions |
11/8/17 | Lori | Glaze | GSFC | Venus - the Forgotten, Mysterious Planet |
11/1/02 | Erast | Gliner | A. Ioffe Institute | Significant Problems with the Current Theory of Inflationary Cosmology |
5/11/07 | Michael | Goddard | Robert H. Goddard - A Beginning Without End | |
3/10/89 | Christoph K. | Goertz | U. Iowa | Electrodynamics of Saturn's Rings |
11/16/73 | Thomas | Gold | Cornell | Star Collision Model for Quasar Phenomena |
6/6/97 | Thomas | Gold* | Cornell | Life in Extreme Environments |
12/17/65 | Leo | Goldberg | Harvard | The Accomplishments and Future Prospects of Space Solar Physics |
4/14/78 | Richard A. | Goldberg | GSFC | Solar Activity--A Factor in Weather and Climate? |
6/4/71 | Leo | Goldberg* | Harvard | Space Astronomy |
3/9/90 | Joseph | Golden | NOAA | Hurricane Hugo's Meteorology and Impact in the Caribbean |
1/5/68 | Peter | Goldreich | Caltech | Spin-Orbit Coupling in the Solar System |
5/13/77 | Peter | Goldreich | Caltech | Saturn's Rings |
10/9/81 | Peter | Goldreich | Caltech | Planetary Rings |
2/5/82 | Richard | Goldstein | JPL | Radar Exploration of the Planets |
6/8/07 | Jerry | Goldstein | Southwest Res. Inst. | New View of the Plasmasphere: Results From IMAGE EUV |
4/26/68 | Solomon W. | Golomb | USC | Geometric Concepts in Coding Theory |
10/30/98 | Matthew | Golombek | Jet Propulsion Lab | Mars Pathfinder Update |
9/30/66 | Richard M. | Goody | Harvard | Dynamical Novelties on the Atmospheres of Mars and Venus |
5/28/71 | Richard M. | Goody | Harvard | The Lower Atmosphere of Venus |
5/19/78 | Richard M. | Goody* | Harvard | Climate and the Planets |
4/1/15 | Nat | Gopalswamy | GSFC | Coronal Mass Ejections: From a Novelty to a Natural Hazard |
9/27/17 | Nat | Gopalswamy * | GSFC | The Solar Energetic Particles: Origin and Consequences |
4/29/94 | Arnold | Gordon | Lamont-Doherty | Climate and Inter-Ocean Links |
10/23/98 | Andrea | Gore | Mt. Sinai Sch. of Medicine | The Role of Estrogen Over a Lifetime of Changes - Puberty, Fertility, Menopause |
1/14/83 | J. Richard | Gott,III | Princeton | Before the Big Bang--New Theory for the Origin of the Universe |
3/11/15 | Michael | Gottesman | National Cancer Inst. | The Future of Cancer Research |
12/13/85 | Kurt | Gottfried | Cornell | "Star Wars": Physics and Philosophy |
9/22/72 | Samuel A. | Goudsmit | Brookhaven-APS | How Electron Spin Was Discovered |
9/23/83 | Douglas | Gough | UK-Cambridge | What Controls the Solar Cycle? |
11/5/99 | Samuel | Goward | U. Maryland | The Landsat 7 Mission -- Early Results and Future Plans |
10/15/93 | Lisa | Graumlich | Univ. Arizona | Long-Term Climatic Variation & Ecosystem Response in the Sierra |
4/28/95 | Charles | Gray | UCal Davis | Binding Memories in the Brain |
3/5/82 | Ronald | Greeley | Arizona State | Aeolian Processes on the Planets: Here's Dust in Your Eye! |
4/3/68 | Jack | Green | Douglas Aircraft | Lunar Volcanology |
4/27/01 | Eric | Green | Nat. Inst. of Health | The Human Genome Porject |
5/11/16 | James | Green | NASA HQ | The Martian: Science Fiction and Science Fact |
1/21/77 | Daniel | Greenberg | Sci.& Gov.Reports | Science Policy in the New Administration |
2/23/79 | Wallace | Greenberg | Maryland | Quarks |
6/3/83 | J. Mayo | Greenberg | Netherl.-Leiden | Interstellar Dust from the Cradle to the Grave |
2/28/14 | Brian | Greene # | Columbia Univ. | Where Do We Stand with String Theory? |
1/27/84 | Robert G. | Greenler | Wisconsin | Sunlight, Ice Crystals and Sky Archeology |
12/6/68 | Jesse L. | Greenstein | Princeton-IAS | Spectra of Supernova |
6/13/80 | Jesse L. | Greenstein* | Caltech | The Difference Space Science Has Made |
5/14/82 | Stephen A. | Gregory | Bowling Green | Superclusters and Voids in the Distribution of Galaxies |
1/23/70 | Kenneth I. | Greisen | Cornell | Origin of the Background Cosmic Gamma Radiation |
6/4/76 | Kenneth I. | Greisen | Cornell | Gamma Rays and the Structure of Our Galaxy |
4/25/86 | Richard A.F. | Grieve | Ottawa | Meteorite Impact and Infall Rates |
9/30/83 | John C. | Griffiths | Penn State | Philosophy of Exploration for Mineral Resources |
10/25/13 | David | Grinspoon | Library of Congress | Astrobiology and the Anthropocene Epoch |
1/30/98 | Paul | Gross | Harvard | The Rebellion against Science |
4/15/15 | Theodore | Gull | GSFC | Eta Carinae: Astrophysical Laboratory for the Study of the Most Massive Stars |
6/15/07 | James | Gunn | Princeton University | Surveys: Picture Windows Into the Universe |
1/19/90 | Donald | Gurnett | U. Iowa | Planetary Magnetospheres |
1/19/01 | Donald | Gurnett | U. Iowa | Magnetospheric Radio and Plasma Waves Throughout the Solar System |
11/14/03 | Robert | Gurney& | U. of Reading | Water, Water Everywhere? |
10/24/75 | Herbert | Gursky | Harvard | An X-Ray View of the Universe |
10/11/85 | Alan | Guth | MIT | The New Inflationary Universe |
5/21/93 | Alan | Guth | MIT | Birth of the Cosmos |
5/2/18 | Scott | Guzewich | GSFC | Swimming in Martian Lakes |
12/2/77 | Gerhard | Haerendel | Germany-Max Planck | Barium Releases |
12/16/94 | Brad | Hager | MIT | Just How Great Was "The Great LA Earthquake of 1994"? |
2/22/13 | Francis | Halzen | U. Wisconsin | Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos |
11/15/13 | Christopher | Hamilton | U. Maryland/GSFC | Volcanism on Io: Implications for a Subsurface Magma Ocean |
3/5/99 | Heidi | Hammel | MIT | Exploring the Giant Planets with Hubble Space Telescope |
10/11/17 | Moly | Hammell | Cold Spring Harbor Lab | Dark Matter in the Genome: Transposable Elements and Human Disease |
3/17/67 | Richard W. | Hamming | Bell Labs | The Computer as an Experimental Tool |
2/10/67 | Rudolf A. | Hanel | GSFC | Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres |
3/17/72 | Rudolf A. | Hanel | GSFC | Results from Infrared Spectroscopy Experiment on Mars Mariner 9 |
2/8/80 | Rudolf A. | Hanel | GSFC | Infrared Measurements of Jupiter and its Satellites |
4/19/96 | Jim | Hansen | GSFC | Sensitivity and Predictability of Earth's Climate |
11/18/05 | James | Hansen& | GISS | Is There Still Time to Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Interference with Climate? |
3/11/66 | Norwood R. | Hanson | Yale | Aerodynamics as a Scientific Theory |
3/15/96 | Joseph | Hardin | Nat.Ctr.Supercomput | Science Via the World Wide Web |
1/21/00 | Alice | Harding | GSFC | Magnetars: Nature's Strongest Magnetic Fields |
11/13/09 | Alice | Harding | GSFC | Gamma-ray Pulsars |
9/28/12 | Alice | Harding * | GSFC | The Structure and Dynamics of Stellar Magnetospheres |
1/15/73 | Kenneth | Hardy | AFCRL | Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) |
11/15/85 | F. K. | Hare | Toronto | Climate, the Biosphere and Human Disturbance |
3/22/17 | Sonia | Harmond | Stony Brook U. | The World's Oldest Stone Tools |
2/16/79 | Robert S. | Harrington | USNO | Discovery and Implications of the Moon of Pluto |
12/11/81 | Sid | Harris | American Scientist | What's So Funny about Science? |
4/29/77 | Edward R. | Harrison | Massachusetts | Physics and Philosophy of the Big Bang |
1/20/89 | Robert C. | Harriss | U. New Hampshire | The Role of Tropical Force and Global Tropospheric Chemistry |
5/19/89 | Robert C. | Harriss | U. New Hampshire | Amazon Boundary Layer Expedition: Trop. Forests, Atmos.Chem.,Clim. |
1/6/78 | Michael H. | Hart | SASC | History of the Earth's Atmosphere |
3/12/82 | Peter H. | Hartline | Eye Res. Inst. | Infrared Remote Sensing---Rattlesnake Style |
3/8/74 | William K. | Hartmann | Tucson-PSI | The Current Picture of Mars |
11/14/80 | William K. | Hartmann | Tucson-PSI | Trojan Asteroids and the Outer Satellites of Jupiter |
4/17/87 | William K. | Hartmann | PSI-Tucson | Origin of the Moon |
4/20/01 | William | Hartmann | Plan. Sci. Institute | Recent Geological Activity on Mars |
6/30/06 | Dennis | Hartmann | U. Washington | Tropical Anvil Clouds and Climate Change: The Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis |
9/11/98 | Jim | Hartz | Vanderbilt U. | Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future |
4/25/75 | Martin | Harwit | Cornell | The Number of Phenomena Characterizing Our Universe |
12/11/87 | Martin | Harwit | Air & Space Museum | Astronomical Discovery vs. Astrophysical Understanding |
10/31/97 | Martin | Harwit | ISO Science Team | Scientific Results from the Infrared Space Observatory |
5/16/80 | Arthur D. | Hasler | Wisconsin | Underwater Guideposts--Homing of Salmon |
12/16/83 | Michael G. | Hauser | GSFC | The Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) Sky Survey |
4/29/92 | Michael | Hauser | GSFC | COBE Looks at the Primeval Background Radiations |
3/20/98 | Mike | Hauser | Space Telescope Sci.Inst. | COBE and the Diffuse Infrared Background |
1/20/67 | Satio | Hayakawa | Japan-Nagoya | Infrared Observations of the Moon |
3/7/14 | Melissa | Hayes-Gehrke | U. Maryland | Collisions in Space: The Threat of Asteroid Impacts |
2/3/89 | Paul B. | Hays | U. Michigan | MELTER (Mesophere & Lower Thermosphere Explorer) |
1/18/85 | James W. | Head | Brown | Geology of Venus |
2/14/92 | James | Head | Brown U. | Venus Volcanism: The View from Magellan |
12/13/91 | Sally | Heap | GSFC | First Results from Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph on HST |
2/4/94 | Sally | Heap | GSFC | Star Formation in Other Galaxies: Results from Hubble |
10/29/82 | Timothy M. | Heckman | Maryland | Clues to the Origin of Nuclear Activity in Galaxies |
11/22/13 | Jennifer | Heldmann | Ames Research Ctr. | Mars: Periglacial Morphology and Ice Stability |
12/5/80 | David J. | Helfand | Columbia | Einstein Results on Supernova Remnants and Cooling Neutron Stars |
11/2/90 | David J. | Helfand | Columbia | The Mystery of the X-Ray Background: Solved at Last? |
6/13/18 | David J. | Helfand | Columbia Univ. | Surviving the Misinformation Age |
5/30/03 | David | Helfand* | Columbia Univ. | The Universal Timekeeper: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom |
4/10/92 | Michael | Helfert | JSC & GSFC | Tropical Environmental Changes Documented from Space since 1965 |
5/25/84 | Ronald W. | Hellings | JPL | Testing Relativity with Solar System Dynamics |
3/25/66 | Robert A. | Helliwell | Stanford | Whistlers and Very Low Frequency Emissions in the Magnetosphere |
10/16/70 | Robert A. | Helliwell | Stanford | Whistlers and the Plasmasphere |
5/5/06 | David | Henderson | National Inst. Of Health | Avian Influenza: Preparing for the Pandemic |
12/9/66 | George | Herbig | Lick | T Tauri Stars: Whence They Come, Whither They Go |
5/3/68 | Sidney | Hersh | Navy | The Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project |
1/14/15 | Matthew | Hertenstein | DePauw U. | Foibles of the Predictive Mind |
4/11/14 | Brigette | Hesman | GSFC/U. Maryland | Saturn's Great Northern Storm of 2010-2011: from storm clouds to hot vortices |
5/6/66 | Wilmot N. | Hess | GSFC | Origin of the Radiation Belts |
5/21/71 | Wilmot N. | Hess | NOAA-Boulder | Weather Modification |
12/1/06 | Michael | Hesse | GSFC | Space Weather Modeling: Successes and Challenges |
3/8/96 | Jeff | Hester | Arizona State U. | Nebular `Microbiology' with the Hubble Space Telescope |
3/18/83 | Antony | Hewish | UK-Cambridge | A New Look at Interplanetary Disturbances |
6/9/72 | Antony | Hewish* | UK-Cambridge | The Nature of Pulsars |
10/22/82 | Leo J. | Hickey | Yale | Plants and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs |
4/21/67 | Raymond | Hide | MIT | The Planet Jupiter |
6/10/88 | Raymond | Hide* | UK Meteorolog.Off. | Rotating Fluids in Geophysics and Planetary Physics |
2/18/83 | Henry A. | Hill | Arizona | The Shape, Rotation and Vibration of the Sun |
2/17/12 | Frank | Hill | Nat. Solar Observ. | Global Flows in the Sun and their Relationship to the Activity Cycle |
5/30/14 | Matthew | Hill | Johns Hopkins APL | Latest Results from Voyager 1 Observation in the Very Local Interstellar Medium |
3/28/18 | Sharon | Hill | Lithospherica, LLC | Earthquake Lights: Are They Real? |
4/7/67 | Colin O. | Hines | Chicago | Gravity Waves in the Ionosphere |
2/11/00 | Gary | Hinshaw | GSFC | Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background: A Unique Window on the Early Universe |
1/19/07 | Gary | Hinshaw | GSFC | Taking the Measure of the Universe: Cosmology from the WMAP Mission |
5/28/82 | William J. | Hinze | Purdue | Modern Petroleum Exploration: A Booming Industry |
2/1/80 | Robert M. | Hjellming | NRAO-NM | New Results from the NRAO Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes |
3/21/97 | Peter | Hobbs | Univ. Washington | Quonam Evasit Cloud Seeding Research? |
11/18/94 | Carroll Ann | Hodges | US Geo. Survey | Minerals and World Affairs: Cause for Conflict? |
4/25/03 | Martin | Hoffert | New York Univ. | Energy for a Greenhouse Planet |
3/27/98 | Paul | Hoffman | Harvard | Dance of the Continents |
11/9/16 | Kara | Hoffman | University of Maryland | HIgh-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos |
9/19/75 | Banesh | Hoffmann | CUNY-Queens Coll. | Albert Einstein, Creator and Rebel |
2/13/76 | Robert | Hofstadter | Stanford | Laser Induced Fusion |
5/9/86 | Douglas | Hofstadter | Michigan | The Challenge of Analogy for Artificial Intelligence |
1/29/10 | Brent | Holben | GSFC | AERONET- NASA’s Ground-based Satellite |
4/25/14 | Gordon | Holman | GSFC | The Puzzle of Energy Release in Solar Eruptive Events |
5/25/01 | Brian | Holmes | San Jose State U. | The Physics of Brass Musical Instruments: What Do Horn Players Do with their Right Hand Anyway? |
10/15/76 | Stephen S. | Holt | GSFC | The Temporal X-Ray Signatures of Neutron Stars and Black Holes |
4/18/80 | Stephen S. | Holt | GSFC | New Results from the Einstein X-Ray Observatory |
2/22/85 | James R. | Holton | U.Wash.-Seattle | Oscillations of the Equatorial Atmosphere |
3/28/80 | Neil A. | Holtzman | Johns Hopkins | Detection of Human Genetic Disorders |
10/3/80 | Thomas E. | Holzer | Boulder-NCAR, HAO | Solar Corona Holes and High Speed Wind Streams |
10/2/98 | Richard | Hoover | Marshall Sp.Flt. Ctr. | Evidence for Microfossils in Ancient Rocks and Meteorites |
3/20/09 | Gary | Horowitz | U. Calif. Santa Barbara | Quantum Black Holes |
11/18/11 | Sarah | Horst | U. Colorado | Do the Building Blocks of Life Exist in Titan's Atmosphere: Lessons from the Lab |
10/10/80 | Nicholas | Hotten | Smithsonian | A Cold Look at Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs |
3/16/12 | Ralph | Houze | U. Washington | TRMM Insights into Recent Floods in India and Pakistan |
1/20/12 | Paul | Hseih | U.S. Geological Survey | The Science Behind the Taming of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
12/15/00 | Norden | Huang | GSFC | Applications of the Hilbert-Huang Transform |
1/8/71 | Harvey H. | Hubbard | Langley Res. Ctr. | Recent Results on Sonic Boom Research |
12/7/12 | Scott | Hubbard | Stanford U. | Exploring Mars: Following the Water |
11/7/86 | John P. | Huchra | Harvard-CfA | Structure in the Universe: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble |
2/27/98 | John | Huchra | Harvard | Hubble Constant: the End Game |
5/26/89 | Hugh S. | Hudson | UC-San Diego | Solar Cycle Variability of the Solar Luminosity |
10/24/08 | Scott | Hughes | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | Astronomy with Gravitational Waves |
11/19/10 | Bei-Lok | Hughes | U. Maryland | New View on Quantum Gravity and the Origin of the Universe |
5/14/04 | Gauthier | Hulot | GSFC | Past and Future of the Earth's Magnetic Field |
5/7/93 | Arthur | Hundhausen | Boulder-NCAR/HAO | Solar Coronal Activity |
1/28/72 | Donald M. | Hunten | KPNO | Surface Topography of Mars |
6/11/82 | Donald M. | Hunten* | Arizona | Titan--A Satellite with an Atmosphere |
11/8/13 | Terry | Hurford | GSFC | Antarctic Rifts as an Analog for Studying Tidal Motions along Cracks on Icy Satellites |
9/19/69 | Patrick M. | Hurley | MIT | Continental Drift |
3/2/84 | John B. | Hutchings | Canada-DAO | Quasars and Colliding Galaxies |
3/23/73 | Charles L. | Hyder | GSFC-Albuquerque | Solar Flares: Possible Mechanisms |
1/6/67 | J. Allen | Hynek | Northwestern | Unusual Aerial Phenomena |
3/30/73 | Icko | Iben | Illinois | Stellar Evolution |
10/15/82 | Icko | Iben | Illinois | Stellar Evolution and the Carbon Star Mystery |
3/13/18 | Garth | Illingworth # | U. of California Santa Cruz | Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn: Exploring the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer - Implications for JWST |
10/30/81 | John | Imbrie | Brown | Ice Ages |
2/20/87 | John | Imbrie | Brown U. | Ice Ages and the Astronomical Theory |
4/28/06 | Marc | Imhoff | GSFC | Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production - Can Earth Keep Up? |
11/5/76 | Andrew P. | Ingersoll | Caltech | The Meteorology of Jupiter |
10/1/10 | Andrew | Ingersoll | Cal. Inst. Tech. | Lightning on Saturn |
1/28/83 | Martin H. | Israel | Wash.U.-St.Louis | HEAO Results on Ultraheavy Cosmic Rays |
2/4/66 | Luigi | Jacchia | Harvard-SAO | Density Variations in the Heterosphere |
6/7/74 | William M. | Jackson | GSFC | Kohoutek: a Scientific Spectacular |
12/14/90 | William M. | Jackson | UC-Davis | Chemistry of Comets |
3/4/15 | Gail Skofronick | Jackson | GSFC | Let it Rain and Snow: A Year of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Data |
1/18/02 | Daniel | Jacob | Harvard | Atmospheric Chemistry: from Air Pollution to Global Change and Back |
5/1/09 | Daniel | Jacob | Harvard U. | New Understanding of Air Polution: the Perspective from Space |
10/12/84 | Allan S. | Jacobson | JPL | HEAO-3 and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy |
2/7/18 | Ted | Jacobson | University of Maryland | Black Hole Entropy, Entanglement, and Holographic Spacetime |
12/17/71 | Richard H. | Jahns | Stanford | Earthquake Hazards: Consequences and Possibilities for Prediction |
5/6/15 | Bruce | Jakosky | U. Colorado | Early Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars |
12/8/95 | Kay | Jamison | Johns Hopkins Med. | Manic-depressive Illness and the Creative Mind |
2/24/67 | Robert | Jastrow | GISS | Advances in Infrared Astronomy |
2/25/77 | Robert | Jastrow | GISS | Cause for Climate Change |
5/23/69 | Ali | Javan | MIT | Lasers |
10/18/02 | Ray | Jayawardhana | Univ. of Michigan | Probing the Origins of Planetary Systems |
5/31/74 | Edward B. | Jenkins | Princeton | Observations of the Interstellar Medium Using Copernicus |
5/12/89 | David C. | Jewitt | U. Hawaii | Distant Comets |
2/5/99 | David | Jewitt | U. Hawaii | The Kuiper Belt |
10/9/98 | Kenneth | Jezek | Ohio State U. | Mapping Antarctica: The New Results from Radarsat |
3/23/83 | Donald | Johanson | Inst. Human Origins | Life with Lucy |
2/3/95 | Donald | Johanson | Inst. Human Origins | Lucy's Grandson |
10/14/66 | Francis S. | Johnson | Dallas-SCAS | The Structure of the Lower Thermosphere |
9/26/86 | Torrence V. | Johnson | JPL | Satellites of the Outer Solar System |
5/30/97 | Torrence | Johnson | JPL | The Jovian System: a View from Galileo |
10/15/04 | Torrence | Johnson | Jet Propulsion Lab | Galileo at Jupiter |
11/5/14 | Benjamin | Johnson | U. Maryland Balt. Cty. | Life of a Snowflake |
11/6/87 | Arch | Johnston | Memphis State U. | The Great Memphis Earthquake of 2010 |
2/18/15 | Joanna | Joiner | GSFC | Taking the Pulse of Plants from Space: Satellite Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence |
10/2/70 | Frank C. | Jones | GSFC | The Rise and Fall of Galactic Cosmic Rays |
6/3/05 | Christopher | Justice | U. Maryland | Global Monitoring of Fires from Space |
10/1/71 | Mark | Kac | Rockefeller U. | The Nature of Statistical Thinking |
5/30/18 | Daniel | Kadouri | Rutgers University | A Predator a Day Might Keep the Doctor Away |
3/10/78 | Michael L. | Kaiser | GSFC | Earth: the Second Most Interesting Planet |
6/6/86 | Michael L. | Kaiser | GSFC | The Voyager 2 Encounter with Uranus |
1/18/08 | Michael | Kaiser | GSFC | New Views of the Sun and Inner Solar System from STEREO |
10/15/14 | Jason | Kalirai | Space Telescope Sci. Inst. | The End Fate of Our Solar System |
9/30/94 | Eugenia | Kalnay | Nat. Meteorol. C. | New Developments in Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction |
10/17/08 | Vicky | Kalogera | Northwestern U. | Black Holes and Neutron Stars: From Explosive Birth to Powerful Mergers |
10/12/01 | Bruce | Kane | Maryland | Quantum Computing |
2/24/95 | Tom | Karl | Nat. Climatic Data | Observed Climate Change and Variations in the Instrument Record |
5/23/86 | Michele | Kaufman | Ohio State & GSFC | Star Formation and Spiral Structure in the M81 Galaxy |
4/28/00 | Yoram | Kaufman | GSFC | Early Results from EOS Terra |
12/2/66 | William M. | Kaula | UC-Los Angeles | The Gravity Field of the Moon |
6/8/90 | William M. | Kaula* | UCLA | Venus: A Contrast in Evolution to the Earth |
5/19/86 | H. U. | Keller | ESA | First Results from the Giotto Encounter with Comet Halley |
3/10/72 | Kenneth | Kellermann | NRAO-Greenbank | Radio Galaxies, Quasars and Cosmology |
11/30/12 | Richard | Kelley | GSFC | The Thermal Detection of Energy Quanta |
11/30/16 | Richard | Kelley * | GSFC | The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies and the Future of High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy |
10/29/65 | William W. | Kellogg | Boulder-NCAR | Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of the Atmosphere |
11/19/65 | Paul | Kellogg | Minnesota | The Nature of the Magnetospheric Boundary and Shock Transition |
11/19/76 | Charles F. | Kennel | UC-Los Angeles | What Have We Learned from Magnetospheres? |
10/23/81 | Charles F. | Kennel | UC-Los Angeles | Pulsar Winds and the Crab Nebula |
5/19/95 | Charles | Kennel | NASA HQ | Scientific Challenges of Mission to Planet Earth |
2/15/74 | Joseph P. | Kerwin | Johnson Space Ctr. | Results from the First Skylab Mission |
10/8/71 | Edwin | Kessler | NOAA | Severe Storms |
4/30/04 | Mark | Kessler | U. Calif., Santa Cruz | Self-organization of Patterned Ground |
12/5/97 | Wolfgang | Ketterle | MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser |
11/18/15 | Wolfgang | Ketterle | MIT | Ultracold Atoms as Quantum Simulators for New Materials - Optical Lattices, Synthetic Magnetic Fields and Topological Phases |
5/18/07 | Lisa | Kewley | Univ. Hawaii | The Star Formation and Metallicity History of Galaxies |
12/16/11 | Krishan | Khurana | UCLA | Moon Magnetic Fields and Oceans |
3/18/05 | Susan | Kieffer | U. Illinois | Geologic Nozzles: Mount St. Helens, Old Faithful Geyser, and the Rapids of the Colorado River |
9/29/95 | Jeffrey | Kiehl | Nat.Ctr.Atmos.Res. | Atmospheric Absorption of Solar Radiation |
3/20/87 | Randy | Kimble | Johns Hopkins | Supernova 1987A: The First Month |
10/5/90 | Michael | King | GSFC | Ship Tracks, Cloud Reflectance and Global Climate |
11/16/01 | Michael | King& | GSFC | A Perspective of Our Planet’s Atmosphere, Land, and Oceans: A View from Space |
3/28/14 | Dalia | Kirschbaum | GSFC | Finding the Slippery Slope: Detecting Landslides from Space |
11/30/79 | Robert P. | Kirshner | Michigan | Supernovae |
4/24/15 | Robert | Kirshner # | Harvard U. | Hubble and the Extravagant Universe |
4/4/75 | Carl | Kisslinger | Boulder-UC | Earthquake Physics and Earthquake Prediction |
11/22/96 | Philip J. | Klass | Aviation Week | Bringing UFOs Down to Earth |
5/15/92 | Richard G. | Klein | Chicago | Human Origins |
11/3/78 | Susan G. | Kleinmann | MIT | Star Formation |
10/6/67 | Alex | Klimas | ARA-Princeton | The Crab Nebula |
9/27/13 | James | Klimchuk * | GSFC | Why is the Solar Corona So Hot? |
3/18/94 | George | Kling | Univ. Michigan | Lake Nyos: An Update |
1/10/75 | Donald A. | Kniffen | GSFC | Gamma Ray Observations of Galactic Structure and the Crab Nebula |
2/21/92 | Don | Kniffen | Hampden-Sydney Inst | Galaxies, Black Holes, and Bursts: First Results from GRO |
10/18/13 | Matthew | Knight | Lowell Observatory | What's the Big Deal about Comet ISON? |
1/16/70 | Leon | Knopoff | UC-Los Angeles | The Upper Mantle of the Earth: Kinematics and Dynamics |
3/18/15 | Heather | Knutson | Calif. Inst. Tech. | Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era |
1/20/06 | Christof | Koch | Calif. Inst. Tech. | The Quest for Consciousness - A Neurobiological Approach |
10/15/10 | Paul | Kocin | NOAA | East Coast Snowstorms of 2009/2010: An Extraordinary Winter for a Variety of Reasons |
3/9/12 | Laura | Koenig | GSFC | Cold Facts: Snow Accumulation Research in West Antarctica |
4/9/99 | Edward | Kolb | Fermi National Lab | What's the Matter with the Universe: Photinos,Neutrinos, Wimpzillas, Omega, Lambda, et al.? |
4/18/69 | Zdenek | Kopal | UK-Manchester | Erosion Processes on the Lunar Surface |
2/26/10 | Randal | Koster | GSFC | Soil Moisture and Its Impacts on Climate Variability |
3/3/95 | Takeo | Kosugi | Nat. Astro. Obs. | New Understanding of Solar Flares With Yohkoh Hard X-ray Images |
10/14/15 | Chryssa | Kouveliotou | George Washington U. | The State of Magnetars |
11/20/09 | William | Krabill & | GSFC | Airborne LIDAR/GPS Mapping of Ice Sheets and Glaciers |
10/27/95 | David | Kramer | Franklin & Marshall | The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem: Why Now? |
12/3/10 | Lawrence | Krauss | Arizona State U. | Cosmology as Science? From Inflation to Eternity |
3/12/76 | E. Philip | Krider | Arizona | Lightning |
11/30/90 | Fred | Krimgolds | USGS, Reston | Techniques of Search-Rescue Following Earthquakes |
5/7/04 | Tom | Krimigis | Applied Physics Lab | Voyager at the Edge of the Solar System? |
2/21/86 | Richard G. | Kron | Chicago | The Faintest Galaxies and What They Tell Us |
9/26/18 | Leah | Krubitzer | University of California, Davis | Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes |
3/8/68 | Lawrence S. | Kubie | Maryland-Baltimore | Psychoanalysis as Science |
3/26/71 | Gerard P. | Kuiper | Arizona | Planetary Atmospheres and Clouds |
4/28/89 | Shrinivas | Kulkarni | Caltech | Pulsars: Old and New |
3/30/01 | Shrinivas | Kulkarni | Caltech | Gamma Ray Bursts: Dying Cries from the Deep Universe |
4/30/99 | Christian | Kummerow | GSFC | Results from TRMM |
2/28/86 | Mukul | Kundu | Maryland | Radio Emission from the Sun and Stars |
3/16/01 | William | Kuperman | Scripps Institution | Time-Reversed Acoustics |
1/13/16 | Nathan | Kurtz | GSFC | To the Ends of the Earth: Surveys of Polar Ice from Operation IceBridge |
11/13/87 | Siegfried | Kutter | Evergreen C. & GSFC | The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth |
2/8/85 | John | Kutzbach | Wisconsin | Climate Change in the Last Twenty Thousand Years |
11/18/88 | Edward | LaChapelle | U. Washington | Avalanches |
5/18/84 | Charles J. | Lada | Arizona | Outflows from Young Stars |
11/30/84 | Frederick K. | Lamb | Illinois | Probing Neutron Stars when Noise is Music to the Ear |
1/13/06 | Fred | Lamb | U. Illinois | The Impact of Rossi XTE on General Relativistics and High Energy Astrophysics |
2/26/99 | Steve | Lamoreaux | Los Alamos | The Power of Nothing: Zeroing on the Casimir Effect |
4/22/77 | Helmut E. | Landsberg | Maryland | Fluctuations of the Earth's Climate |
12/15/06 | Christopher | Landsea | Nat. Hurricane Center | Hurricanes and Global Warming: Expectations and Observations |
1/8/99 | Laura | Landweber | Princeton | DNA, Cells, and Computation |
2/6/81 | Robert A. | Langel | GSFC | The Magnetic Earth Viewed from Magsat |
1/26/96 | Robert | Langel | GSFC | Recent Progress in Modeling the Near Earth Geomagnetic Field |
10/24/03 | Robert | Lanza | Advanced Cell Technology | Cloning and Stem Cells in Medicine |
3/9/79 | Louis J. | Lanzerotti | Bell Labs | Geomagnetic Influences on Man-Made Systems |
3/8/91 | Louis J. | Lanzerotti | Bell Labs | Impact of Solar Activity on Technological Systems |
1/30/70 | Ralph E. | Lapp | Quadri-Science,Inc. | The SALT Talks and Strategic Weapons Development |
12/8/00 | Erik | Larson | author | Isaac's Storm: the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 |
6/1/16 | Richard | Larson | MIT | Queues: The Long and the Short of Waiting |
5/14/71 | Gary V. | Latham | Columbia | Results from Apollo Seismic Experiments--Implications |
4/26/74 | Gary V. | Latham | Texas | Lunar Structure and Tectonism |
2/19/93 | William | Lau | GSFC | Climate and the Global Hydrological Cycle |
1/12/07 | William | Lau | GSFC | Aerosols, Clouds, Rainfall, Winds and Climate Change |
10/29/99 | Robert | Laughlin | Stanford | The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
1/26/01 | Daniel | Lavanchy | World Health Organization | Epidemics: Properties, Surveillance and Early Warnings |
4/8/15 | Charles | Lawrence | Jet Propulsion Lab | Measuring the Universe |
5/16/86 | Kenneth L. | Laws | Dickinson | The Physics of Dance |
10/5/71 | L. S. B. | Leakey | Kenya-Nairobi | Man's Evolution in Africa |
1/17/03 | Judith | Lean | Naval Research Laboratory | Solar Forcing of Climate - The Previous Millenium, the coming Millenium |
5/21/99 | John | Learned | U. Hawaii | The Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass: Muon Disappeareance at SuperKamiokande |
10/24/86 | Stephen | Leatherman | U. Maryland | Barrier Islands |
10/30/09 | Dave | Leckrone | GSFC | Hubble: A New Beginning |
11/1/85 | Leon | Lederman | Fermilab | The Early Universe |
3/2/79 | Typhoon | Lee | Chicago | Al-26 in Early Solar System, Indicator for a Supernova Trigger? |
9/27/96 | Ants | Leetmaa | Nat. Ctrs. Environ. | Climate Predictions for the US: Problems&Potentials |
12/13/96 | John | Leibacher | Nat. Solar Observ. | Helioseismology: Probing the Invisible Interior... |
11/5/69 | Robert B. | Leighton | Caltech | The Mariner 6 and 7 Television Experiment |
3/12/10 | Margaret | Leinen | Climate Response Fund | What Are the Implications of Increased Calls for Geoengineering Research? |
10/7/77 | Cecil E. | Leith | Boulder-NCAR | Climate Predictability |
11/4/11 | Richard | Lenski | Michigan State U. | Evolutionary Dynamics in a 50,000 Generations Experiment with Bacteria |
11/7/80 | Conway B. | Leovy | Washington-Seattle | The Climate of Mars |
3/24/78 | Ronald P. | Lepping | GSFC | What Mariner 10 Has Told Us About Venus and Mercury |
5/19/06 | Laurie | Leshin | GSFC | Early Results from Stardust |
2/1/17 | Emily | Levesque | University of Washington | Host Environments and Progenitor Evolution of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts |
3/18/70 | Gilbert B. | Levin | Biospherics,Inc. | Detection of Extraterrestrial Life |
1/16/87 | Joel S. | Levine | NASA-Langley | The Early Atmosphere: A New View |
11/1/91 | Joel | Levine | Langley Res. Ctr. | Biomass Burning: A Driver for Global Change? |
9/27/91 | David H. | Levy | Tucson, AZ | How to Discover Comets and Other Things |
3/14/86 | Walter H.G. | Lewin | MIT | The Radio Pulsar/X-Ray Binary Connection |
11/8/74 | John S. | Lewis | MIT | Origin of the Solar System |
2/17/89 | Kenneth G. | Libbrecht | Caltech | New Findings from Helioseismology |
3/6/70 | Willard F. | Libby | UC-Los Angeles | Space Chemistry |
5/14/76 | William | Liller | Harvard | What X-Ray Sources Look Like to an Optical Astronomer |
1/26/68 | John C. | Lilly | Comm.Res.Inst-Fla | Dolphins and Communication |
10/18/96 | Douglas N.C. | Lin | U.Cal. Santa Cruz | The Origin of Planetary Systems |
9/27/02 | Robert | Lin | Univ. California Berkeley | Views from the Sun and other Gamma-Ray Emitters - First Results from RHESSI |
3/27/09 | Shawn-Yu | Lin | Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. | Non-periodic Nanostructure: a New Pathway to Control the Flow of Light |
4/11/97 | Donald A.B. | Lindberg | Nat. Lib. Med. | Computers, the Modern Library, and Medicine |
2/13/70 | Richard S. | Lindzen | Chicago | The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation of the Earth's Atmosphere |
1/22/82 | Richard S. | Lindzen | Harvard | Current Views of the Atmospheric Circulation of Planet Earth |
12/9/94 | Richard | Lindzen | MIT | A Current View of Global Warming |
10/31/80 | Jeffrey L. | Linsky | Boulder-JILA | Chromospheres and Coronae of Stars |
12/4/87 | Jeffrey L. | Linsky | JILA & U. Colorado | Inferring the Spatial Structure of Active Stars |
11/21/75 | John | Linsley | New Mexico | Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: Recent Air Shower Results & Interp. |
10/20/78 | Sarah L. | Lippincott | Swarthmore | Our Stellar Neighbors |
10/10/03 | Mario | Livio | Space Telescope Sci.Inst. | The Golden Ratio |
9/23/14 | Mario | Livio | Space Telescope Sci. Inst. | Brilliant Blunders |
10/5/07 | Fred | Lo | NRAO | Megamasers, Dark Energy, and the Hubble Constant |
4/29/88 | Jay | Lockman | NRAO | First 21 Years of Astronomy with NRAO 300-ft Telescope, Green Bank |
3/29/02 | Avi | Loeb | Harvard University | The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe |
1/5/01 | Suzanne | Lomax | National Gallery of Art | The Application of Chemistry to the Examination of Works of Art |
1/22/71 | Julius | London | Boulder-UC | The Radiation Budget of the Planet Earth |
10/26/90 | Malcolm | Longair | Roy. Obs.,Edinburgh | Galaxy Formation -- The Plot Thickens |
4/20/79 | Edward N. | Lorenz | MIT | Weather and Climate--Predictable Or Unpredictable? |
1/13/95 | Ed | Lorenz | MIT | The Ubiquity of Chaos |
12/4/09 | Ralph | Lorenz | Applied Physics Lab | Lakes of Hydrocarbons and Seas of Sand on Titan |
1/24/14 | Ralph | Lorenz | Johns Hopkins APL | Dune Worlds : How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes |
5/20/15 | Duncan | Lorimer | West Virginia U. | Fast Radio Bursts: The Story So Far |
10/23/70 | Frank J. | Low | Arizona | Infrared Astronomy |
10/8/65 | Paul D. | Lowman | GSFC | Terrain Photography from Gemini Spacecraft |
1/7/72 | Paul D. | Lowman | GSFC | Earth,Moon,Mars:Comparative Crustal Evolution of Silicate Planets |
9/26/75 | Paul D. | Lowman | GSFC | Geology from Washington to the Alleghenies |
3/11/94 | Paul | Lowman | GSFC | Geology of Maryland: From Highway and Skyway |
3/5/04 | Paul | Lowman | GSFC | Space Exploration and Plate Tectonics |
4/3/87 | Baerbel | Lucchitta | USGS-Flagstaff | Martian and Terrestrial Glacial Features |
5/30/86 | Jonathan | Lunine | Arizona | The Nature and Evolution of Brown Dwarf Atmospheres |
11/8/91 | Jonathan | Lunine | U. Arizona | Does Titan Have an Ocean? |
1/25/08 | Jonathan | Lunine | U. Arizona | Titan from Cassini-Huygens: A Once and Future Earth? |
6/6/14 | Scott | Luthcke & | GSFC | Satellite Geodesy and NASA Earth Remote Sensing Missions |
3/14/03 | David | Lynch | Aerospace Corporation | Color and Light in Nature |
4/30/10 | David | Lynch | The Aerospace Corp. | Color and Light in Nature |
5/3/17 | David | Lynch | Thule Scientific | Color and Light in Nature: Seeing the Sky with the Naked Eye |
12/3/65 | Raymond | Lyttleton | UK-Cambridge | The Nature and Origin of Comets |
3/13/09 | Chung-Pei | Ma | U. Calif. Berkeley | Galaxy Mergers in a Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter Universe |
4/24/09 | Allan | MacDonald | U. Texas | Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland |
1/26/73 | Lester | Machta | NOAA | Man's Influence on the Climate |
10/5/12 | Philip | Mackowiak | U. Md. School Medicine | Beethoven and the Sound that Failed |
5/24/74 | Robert M. | MacQueen | Boulder-HAO | Skylab/ATM Observations of the Sun |
5/3/13 | Paul | Mahaffy | GSFC | Satisfying our Curiosity about the Habitability of Ancient Mars with 9 Months of Exploration of Gale Crater |
10/1/14 | Paul | Mahaffy * | GSFC | Chlorinated Organics in a Gale Crater Mudstone and the Imprint of an Ancient Fluvial Environment in 3 Billion Year Old Water Found in a 4 Billion Year Old Martian Rock |
1/29/99 | Michael | Malin | Malin Sp.Sci. Systems | Rocks and Shocks: High Resolution Photographic Investigation of Mars |
11/2/16 | Joan | Maloof | Salisbury University | Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests |
5/28/10 | Tom | Malzbender | Hewlett-Packard Labs. | The Antikythera Mechanism |
2/4/83 | Syukuro | Manabe | NOAA-GFDL | Numerical Modeling Studies of CO2-Induced Climate Change |
10/13/95 | Syukuro | Manabe | NOAA, Princeton U. | The Role of Oceans and Continental Surfaces in Climate Variability |
10/9/92 | Richard | Manchester | Australia/Princeton | Pulsars--Young and Old |
9/28/16 | Avi | Mandell | GSFC | Exoplanets as Planets: Bridging the Gap Between Observations and Modeling of Exoplanet Atmospheres |
3/21/75 | Stephen P. | Maran | GSFC | Infrared Astronomy in Space |
5/2/97 | Geoffrey | Marcy | San Francisco St. | New Planetary Detections |
12/14/07 | Geoffrey | Marcy # | U. Calif. Berkeley | Properties of Exoplanets: Orbits, Interiors, and Origins |
10/6/00 | Michael | Marder | Univ. of Texas | How Things Break |
3/3/67 | Henry | Margenau | Yale | A Message of Modern Physics to Philosophers |
4/25/80 | Bruce H. | Margon | UC-Los Angeles | The Bizarre Spectrum of SS 433 |
9/8/00 | Bruce | Margon | U. Washington | The Universe in Ten Terabytes: Scientific Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
10/17/80 | Lynn | Margulis | Boston U. | Gaia: Biology and the Atmosphere |
2/15/91 | Lynn | Margulis | Massachusetts | NASA's Gaia vs. NSF's Microcosm |
11/3/00 | Lynn | Margulis& | Univ. of Massachusetts | New Gaia: Living Earth from Space |
10/7/81 | Hans M. | Mark | NASA HQ | NASA in the Shuttle Era: NASA, DOD, Space Science Relations |
1/28/66 | William | Markowitz | USNO | Relativity Tests by Precise Timing & Experiments in Radio Astron. |
1/20/16 | Paul | Markowski | Penn State U. | How to Make a Tornado: Ideas Emerging from Decades of Theory, Simulation, and Field Observations |
9/18/98 | Brian | Marsden | Smithsonian Ast. Ob. | Potentially Hazardous Asteroids: '2028' and All That |
11/5/04 | Christopher | Martin | Calif. Inst. Tech. | GALEX: A Year Exploring the UV Universe |
5/31/17 | William | Martin | Catoctin Land Trust | The Timber Rattlesnake, a 44-Year Study and an Overview |
5/16/18 | Katherine | Marvel | Columbia Univ. | What Does Recent History Teach Us About Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity? |
10/14/83 | Ursula B. | Marvin | SAO | Collecting Meteorites in Antartica |
2/11/94 | Glenn | Mason | Univ. Maryland | SAMPLEX Mission Overview and Scientific Results |
3/31/95 | Glenn | Mason | U. Maryland | SAMPEX Mission Overview and Scientific Results |
2/9/07 | Todd/Robin | Mason | The Journey to Palomar | |
10/28/77 | Harold | Masursky | USGS | A Viking View of Mars Geologic Processes |
2/9/90 | John C. | Mather | GSFC | First Results from the COBE Mission |
10/25/02 | John | Mather | GSFC | The James Webb Space Telescope and Beyond |
11/21/06 | John | Mather | GSFC | The COBE Legacy |
12/14/16 | Jennifer | Mather | University of Lethbridge | Non-Terrestrial Intelligence: Octopuses |
6/7/17 | John | Mather | GSFC | Future Science, Brilliant Engineering, for James Webb Space Telescope |
5/17/96 | Pam | Matson | U.Cal. Berkeley | Changes in the Global Nitrogen and Carbon Budgets |
11/17/67 | Thomas | Matthews | Maryland | Quasars |
12/10/71 | Bernd T. | Matthias | UC-San Diego | Superconductivity |
10/30/92 | William | Matuszeski | Ches.Bay.Prog./EPA | Progress in the Chesapeake Bay |
12/10/04 | Michael | Maunder | Fairchild Tropical Garden | Invasive Species |
3/30/07 | Claire | Max | Univ. Calif. Santa Cruz | Nearby Active Galaxies Seen with Keck Telescope Adaptive Optics |
2/26/88 | Robert | May | Princeton | The Transmission Dynamics of HIV (AIDS) |
2/17/84 | Hans G. | Mayr | GSFC | Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres |
11/8/85 | Donald | McCarthy | Arizona | Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarfs |
1/27/89 | Patrick | McCarthy | Mt. Wilson/Las Camp | Galaxies in the Early Universe |
4/17/98 | Chuck | McClain | GSFC | New Results in Ocean Biology from SeaWIFS |
6/3/11 | Jeffrey | McClintock | Center for Astrophys. | The Full Story on Eight Stellar-Mass Black Holes |
5/21/12 | David | McComas | Southwest Res. Inst. | Science Results from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX |
2/1/74 | Thomas B. | McCord | MIT | Composition of the Asteroids |
5/29/92 | Pat | McCormick | Langley Res. Ctr. | Mt. Pinatubo: Effects on the Environment |
10/29/76 | Richard A. | McCray | Boulder-UC | Interstellar Gas Dynamics |
5/4/84 | Richard A. | McCray | Boulder-JILA, UC | Supernovae, Giant Interstellar Shells & Propagating Star Formation |
8/14/08 | W. Patrick | McCray | U. Calif. Santa Barbara | Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age |
10/8/65 | James A. | McDivitt | Manned Spacecraft C | Terrain Photography from Gemini Spacecraft |
11/7/69 | Frank B. | McDonald | GSFC | Galactic and Solar Cosmic Rays |
4/9/82 | Frank B. | McDonald | GSFC | Studies of Solar System & Cosmic Rays Using Pioneer 10 & Voyager |
5/7/99 | Frank | McDonald | U. Maryland | 40 Years of Science at Goddard |
5/7/04 | Frank | McDonald | U. Maryland | Voyager at the Edge of the Solar System? |
5/16/08 | John | McDonald, III | Kennedy Krieger Inst. | Contemporary Evidence-based Research in Spinal Cord Rehabilitation |
1/31/14 | William | McDonough | U. Maryland | Imaging the Earth's Interior with Geo-neutrinos |
11/12/14 | Jonathan | McDowell | Harvard/Smithsonian | Space and Earth: How the Search for MH370 Reveals the Ubiquity - and Limitations - of Surveillance from Space |
12/16/66 | W. D. | McElroy | Johns Hopkins | Bioluminescence |
3/3/72 | Michael B. | McElroy | Harvard | Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres |
2/14/75 | Michael B. | McElroy | Harvard | Atmospheric Ozone--Bombs, Planes, Spray Cans and What Else? |
10/19/84 | Michael B. | McElroy | Harvard | Life, Milankovitch and Climate |
10/8/14 | Michael | McElwain | GSFC | See the Ball, Be the Ball: How to Find and Characterize Planets Beyond our Solar System |
10/8/10 | Julie | McEnery * | GSFC | Two Years of Discovery with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
5/23/18 | Alfred | McEwen | University of Arizona | Are Martian Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) Habitable? |
4/26/13 | Beth | McGee | Chesapeake Bay Inst. | Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint |
6/6/18 | Patrick | McGovern | U. Penn | Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-created |
1/10/18 | Matthew | McHarg | Air Force Academy | High-speed Imaging and Spectra of Streamers and Leaders |
5/10/91 | Chris | McKay | Ames Research Ctr. | Terraforming Mars |
5/3/96 | Chris | McKay | NASA Ames | Existence of Life in Extreme Environments |
1/31/97 | David | McKay | NASA Johnson | Search for Past Life on Mars |
10/7/11 | Erin | McKean | Wordnik | How to Make a Massively Multiplayer Dictionary |
1/11/85 | Malcolm | McKenna | Mus.Nat.Hist.,NYC | Fossil Mammals: What is the Evidence for Cosmic Extinctions? |
4/16/99 | Miles | McPhee | McPhee Research Co. | The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic--The Problem and the Program |
1/31/03 | Harry | McSween, Jr. | Univ. of Tennessee | The Rocks of Mars, from Far and Near |
10/16/09 | Jaylee | Mead | GSFC | The Early Years at Goddard |
2/10/78 | Dennis | Meadows | Dartmouth | Dynamics of the Limits to Energy Growth |
12/8/06 | Victoria | Meadows | Calif. Inst. Tech. | The Virtual Planetary Laboratory and the Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System |
3/20/70 | Robert R. | Meier | NRL | Geocoronal Hydrogen Airglow |
5/26/72 | Aden B. | Meinel | Arizona | Thermal Conversion of Solar Energy for Central Power Stations |
10/18/85 | Aden B. | Meinel | Arizona | Sunsets, Twilights and Evening Skies |
10/18/85 | Marjorie | Meinel | JPL | Sunsets, Twilights and Evening Skies |
4/16/04 | Fulvio | Melia | U. of Arizona | The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy |
11/21/86 | N. David | Mermin | Cornell U. | Is the Moon There when Nobody Looks?: Quantum Mysteries for Anyone |
2/11/72 | Eugen W. | Merzbacher | North Carolina | Gedanken Experiments: How to Do Experiments Without Funds |
10/22/10 | Richard | Mewaldt | Cal. Inst. Tech. | Record-Breaking Cosmic-Ray Intensities During an Unusual Solar-Minimum and in the Distant Past |
2/17/67 | Peter | Meyer | Chicago | Cosmic Ray Electrons |
4/23/76 | Peter | Meyer | Chicago | Cosmic Rays: Astronomy with High-Energy Particles |
12/3/82 | Andrew | Michalitsianos | GSFC | Interacting Binary Stars: The Symbiotic Mystery |
3/19/82 | Donald J. | Michels | NRL | The Comet that Smashed into the Sun |
10/4/91 | Philip | Michlin | Western Mich. U. | The Drying of the Aral Sea: A Man-made Environmental Disaster |
6/8/12 | Elizabeth | Middleton & | GSFC | Advancing Study of Ecosystems from Space with Spectroscopy |
3/30/16 | Jessica | Miesel | Michigan State U. | Fires in the Wild West: Forest Carbon, Black Carbon and Post-fire Nutrient Dynamics |
4/30/82 | Richard H. | Miller | Chicago | Computer Modeling of Galaxy Formation |
1/10/95 | Henry | Miller | Historic St. Mary's | Project Lead Coffin: the Search for Maryland's Founders |
10/21/11 | Jon | Miller | U. Michigan | Galactic Black Holes |
11/16/16 | Tracey | Mincer | Woods Hole Research Center | The Unnatural History of Plastic Marine Debris |
2/23/73 | Jack | Minker | Maryland | Artificial Intelligence |
10/4/67 | M. | Minnaert | Netherl.-Utrecht | The Spectrum of the Solar Photosphere: Aims and Problems |
11/15/68 | Marvin L. | Minsky | MIT | Experiments with Artificial Intelligence |
3/29/96 | Bernard | Minster& | UC San Diego | Global Space Geodesy: A New Look at Active Tectonics |
6/7/85 | Yale | Mintz | GSFC & Wash/Seattle | The Movement of Water over the Globe |
4/6/01 | Larry | Mintz | Maryland | Humor as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon |
12/11/73 | Charles W. | Misner | Maryland | Defusing the Cosmological (Big-Bang) Singularity |
4/18/75 | J. Murray | Mitchell | NOAA-EDS | Is There an Ice Age in Our Future? |
5/11/79 | J. Murray | Mitchell | NOAA | The Drought-Sunspot Connection |
2/25/72 | Milton A. | Mitz | NASA HQ | Exploring the Distant Parts of the Solar System |
5/23/03 | Eberhard | Moebius | Univ. of New Hampshire | Exploring Beyond the Solar System |
3/22/17 | Rabindra | Mohapatra | University of Maryland | Neutrino Mass: Where We Are, Where We Are Going and Why Is It Important? |
6/2/89 | Mario | Molina | JPL | Chlorine Chemistry in the Polar Stratosphere |
11/15/96 | Mario | Molina& | M.I.T. | Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: A Global Problem |
4/13/84 | E. | Mollo-Christenson | GSFC | Dynamics of the Sea Ice Edge |
5/18/01 | Michael | Molnar | Rutgers | The Star of Bethlehem |
4/16/10 | Michael | Montgomery | Naval Postgraduate Sch. | Some Recent Developments in Tropical Cyclone Dynamics |
1/21/66 | Elliott | Montroll | Maryland | Mathematical Models in Biological and Behavioral Problems |
3/1/96 | Hal | Mooney | Stanford | Biodiversity - Significance of Additions and Deletions |
3/7/69 | Francis D. | Moore | Harvard | The Effect of Acute Stress on Body Composition |
9/8/89 | Berrien | Moore | U. New Hampshire | The Global Carbon Cycle - Balances and Imbalances |
5/9/03 | Berrien | Moore | Univ. of New Hampshire | The Carbon Cycle: A Hallmark of Global Environmental Change |
5/18/16 | Thomas | Moore | GSFC | The Magnetic Musculature of Space as Revealed by MMS |
3/10/06 | Warren | Moos | Johns Hopkins U. | How Much Deuterium in the Milky Way? |
5/12/95 | James | Moran | Harvard-Smithsonian | Searching for Massive Black Holes With Megamasers |
2/8/91 | Mark | Morris | UCLA & Grenoble | A Cometary Supergiant in the Winds of the Galactic Center |
4/29/66 | Philip | Morrison | MIT | The Output of a Supernova |
12/19/69 | Philip | Morrison | MIT | X-Rays and Cosmic Rays Between the Galaxies |
9/18/81 | David D. | Morrison | Hawaii | Voyager Looks at Saturn |
12/6/91 | David | Morrison | NASA-Ames | Cosmic Catastrophies |
11/14/08 | David | Morrison | Ames Research Ctr. | Impacts and Evolution |
4/13/16 | Adele | Morrison | Princeton University | Upwelling in the Southern Ocean |
6/8/73 | Philip | Morrison* | MIT | Two Universes: the Thermal and the Ordered |
2/7/14 | Douglas | Morton | GSFC | Fire in the Earth System |
5/4/16 | Harvey | Moseley | GSFC | Exploration, Discovery, and Technology in Space Astrophysics |
10/23/87 | Ellen | Mosley-Thompson | Ohio State U. | Global Paleoclimatic Reconstruction: Ice Core Contributions |
1/24/92 | E. | Moudrianakis | Johns Hopkins U. | A New Twist on Genetics |
3/25/94 | Peter | Mouginis-Mark | Univ. Hawaii | Hot Rocks and Satellites: Remote Sensing of Volcanoes, etc. |
10/10/69 | Paul M. | Muller | JPL | Mascons on the Moon |
12/5/75 | Michael J. | Mumma | GSFC | Comets |
4/25/97 | Michael | Mumma | GSFC | Comets! |
2/25/05 | Michael | Mumma | GSFC | Detection and Mapping of Methane on Mars |
6/5/09 | Michael | Mumma * | GSFC | Methane on Mars — Geology, Biology, Neither, or Both? |
11/9/07 | Scott | Murchie | Applied Physics Lab | Mapping of Mars' Surface and Atmosphere by the CRISM Imaging Spectrometer on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter |
2/19/82 | Richard F. | Mushotzky | GSFC | Active Galaxies: What X-Ray Observations Tell Us |
12/6/85 | Richard F. | Mushotzky | GSFC | Supermassive Black Holes at the Center of Galaxies |
2/9/01 | Richard | Mushotzky | GSFC | The X-Ray Background - A Year of Discovery |
1/28/05 | Richard | Mushotzky | GSFC | The Accretion History of the Universe - New Results on Active Galaxies from Chandra and XMM |
3/14/80 | Thomas A. | Mutch | NASA HQ | The Geology of Mars--Discoveries from Viking |
10/27/11 | Alden | Myer | Union Concerned Scientists | Policy Responses to the Threat of Global Climate Change |
8/30/17 | n/a | n/a | GSFC | Film: The Farthest: Voyager in Space |
12/13/17 | Sultana | Nahar | Ohio State U. | Knowing the Universe through Atoms |
4/23/82 | Yosio | Nakamura | Texas-Galveston | Moonquakes: Key to Lunar Structure |
5/7/76 | Jerome | Namias | UC-San Diego | Air-Sea Interactions and Climate Changes |
4/21/00 | Kirpal | Nandra | GSFC | X-rays from Extragalactic Black Holes |
4/4/97 | Ramesh | Narayan | Harvard | Black Holes and Event Horizons |
9/22/67 | Rocco S. | Narcisi | AFCRL | The Ionospheric D and E Regions |
4/16/93 | Randy | Nelson | Johns Hopkins | Biological Clocks |
4/20/90 | Anthony | Nero | UC-Berkeley | Indoor Radon: Myths and Reality |
3/31/67 | Norman F. | Ness | GSFC | Solar Wind and Planetary Magnetic Fields |
1/30/76 | Norman F. | Ness | GSFC | Planetary Magnetism |
2/3/84 | Norman F. | Ness | GSFC | Planetary Magnetism |
4/5/91 | Gayl | Ness | Michigan | The Population Crisis and its Global Impact |
12/2/05 | Norman | Ness | Bartol Research Inst. | Voyager I Exits the Heliosphere by Crossing the Termination Shock |
2/28/92 | Marcia | Neugebauer | JPL | The Interaction of the Solar Wind with Active Comets |
4/22/05 | Greg | Neumann | MIT | New Perspectives on Old Impacts: The Crustal Structure of Moon and Mars |
5/3/74 | Werner M. | Neupert | GSFC | Observations of Solar Activity by OSO-7 |
11/7/03 | Heidi | Newberg | Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. | The Ring Around the Milky Way |
11/12/65 | Homer | Newell | NASA HQ | Some Thoughts on the Future of the Space Program |
11/22/68 | Reginald E. | Newell | MIT | The Circulation of the Upper Atmosphere |
10/25/68 | Gordon A. | Newkirk,Jr. | Boulder-HAO | The Solar Corona |
1/14/11 | Paul | Newman | GSFC | What Would Have Happened to the Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Had Not Been Regulated? |
6/10/11 | Paul A. | Newman & | GSFC | The Montreal Protocol and the Recent Findings of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010 |
3/1/74 | Robert R. | Newton | APL | Non-Gravitational Forces in the Earth-Moon System |
4/14/67 | Edward P. | Ney | Minnesota | The Optical Environment of the Earth |
4/21/78 | Edward P. | Ney | Minnesota | Star Dust |
12/7/01 | Jack | Ng | U. North Carolina | Quantum Foam |
10/9/09 | Y. Jack | Ng | U. North Carolina | A Cosmic Peek at Spacetime Foam |
3/10/00 | Sharon | Nicholson | Florida State U. | The Influence of Land Surface Changes, Natural and Anthropogenic, on Climatic Change in West Africa |
5/13/15 | Miguel | Nicolelis | Duke School of Medicine | Computing with Populations of Neurons: from Basic Science to Brain-Machine Interfaces |
2/24/06 | Hasso | Niemann | GSFC | Huygens and Cassini Results at Titan |
11/9/90 | Euan | Nisbet | Saskatchewan,Canada | The Role of Life in Shaping the Young Earth |
1/17/14 | Larry | Nittler | Carnegie Inst. of Washington | Exploring Mercury: Scientific Results from the MESSENGER Mission |
4/4/08 | William | Noel | Walters Art Gallery | Eureka! The Archimedes Palimpsest |
4/20/07 | Keith | Noll | Space Tel. Sci. Inst | Is Pluto a Planet? The Great Planet Debate |
12/1/67 | William | Nordberg | GSFC | Meteorology from Space |
11/10/72 | William | Nordberg | GSFC | Results from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
10/18/91 | Michael | Norman | U. Illinois | Supercomputing in Astrophysics |
12/7/79 | Gerald R. | North | GSFC | What Can Toy Models Tell Us about the Earth's Climate? |
3/16/16 | Gerald | North | Texas A&M University | What Can a Greenland Ice Core Tell us about Climate over the Last 4000 Years? |
10/20/72 | Robert W. | Noyes | Harvard-SAO | Ultraviolet Observations of the Sun |
4/16/76 | Amos M. | Nur | Stanford | Earthquakes: Cause and Prediction |
3/3/89 | Joseph A. | Nuth | GSFC | Puzzles, Paradigms and Research on the Origins of Solar Systems |
3/11/83 | Otto W. | Nuttli | Wash.U.-St.Louis | The New Madrid (MO) Earthquake |
10/3/86 | James | O'Brien | Florida State U. | Numerical Model of the Arabian Sea |
9/20/96 | Stephen | O'Brien | Nat. Cancer Inst. | Adapting Genes and Genomes:..."Big Cats" |
2/17/95 | Robert | O'Dell | Rice | Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula |
6/3/66 | John A. | O'Keefe | GSFC | Physical Processes on the Surface of the Moon |
10/13/67 | John A. | O'Keefe | GSFC | The Moon and Its Environment |
9/12/69 | John A. | O'Keefe | GSFC | Lunar Science After Apollo 11 |
9/28/84 | John A. | O'Keefe | GSFC | History of the Earth-Moon System |
3/7/75 | Gerard K. | O'Neill | Princeton | Colonization of Space |
1/10/86 | Charles B. | Officer | Dartmouth | Volcanism and Cretaceous/Tertiary Extinctions |
10/12/90 | Charles B. | Officer | Dartmouth | New Information on the Fate of the Dinosaurs |
10/20/95 | Hakki | Ogelman | U. Wisconsin | Pulsars, Neutron Stars, and Jets |
5/23/75 | Keith W. | Ogilvie | GSFC | Interaction of the Solar Wind with Planets |
5/26/00 | Keith | Ogilvie | GSFC | The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared |
2/13/19 | Angela | Olinto | University of Chicago | Space Probes of the Highest Energy Particles: POEMMA & EUSO-SPB |
2/20/70 | Vincent J. | Oliver | NOAA | Weather Forecasting with Satellites |
3/11/77 | Vincent J. | Oliver | NOAA | Severe Weather as Seen from a Satellite |
11/6/09 | Peter | Olson | Johns Hopkins U. | Probing the Geodynamo |
5/2/14 | Luke | Oman | GSFC | Modeling Extreme Events in the Earth System |
1/24/18 | Lazaros | Oreopoulos | GSFC | Clouds: Regulators of Earth's Radiation Budget |
12/11/92 | Harold | Orville | S.Dakota Mines/Tech | Weather Modification Around the World |
3/28/97 | Douglas | Osheroff | Stanford | Superfluid Helium-3 |
12/16/05 | Douglas | Osheroff | Stanford | Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident and its Impace on the Fiture of Human Space Flight |
4/11/08 | Rachel | Osten | U. Maryland | New Insights into the Physics of Stellar Flares |
3/10/67 | Donald E. | Osterbrock | Wisconsin | Gaseous Nebulae |
6/4/99 | Jeremiah | Ostriker* | Princeton | Computing the Cosmos |
9/15/00 | Steve | Ostro | JPL | Strange Worlds: Radar Encounters with Earth-Approaching Asteroids |
5/13/88 | Ed | Ott | U. Maryland | Chaos, Strange Attractors & Fractal Basin Bound. in Non-Linear Dyn |
3/5/76 | Tobias C. | Owen | SUNY-Stony Brook | The Giant Planets and Their Satellites |
1/12/90 | Tobias C. | Owen | SUNY-Stony Brook | Deuterium in Solar System: Clue to Origin & Evol. Plan. Atmosphere |
4/19/91 | Bohdan | Paczynski | Princeton | Gravitational Lenses |
12/10/99 | Bohdan | Paczynski | Princeton | Hypernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts |
4/9/76 | Hans A. | Panofsky | Penn State | Weather Satellites and the Problem of Clear Air Turbulence |
4/8/11 | Robert | Pappalrdo | Jet Propulsion Lab | Searching for Europa's Hidden Ocean |
9/29/89 | Robert L. | Park | U. Maryland | A Palladium Curtain Descends over Utah |
1/7/66 | Eugene N. | Parker | Chicago | The Galactic Halo and Cosmic Rays |
10/29/71 | Eugene N. | Parker | Chicago | Origin of Magnetic Fields |
12/1/78 | Eugene N. | Parker | Chicago | What Is a Sunspot? |
9/23/88 | Eugene N. | Parker | U. Chicago | How Well Do We Understand the Closest Star - the Sun? |
6/7/68 | Eugene N. | Parker* | Chicago | Dynamics of Magnetic Fields & Cosmic Rays: Effect on Gal. Evolut'n |
2/14/86 | Claire L. | Parkinson | GSFC | Observations and Theory of Global Sea Ice Distributions |
5/4/12 | Claire | Parkinson | GSFC | Aqua at Ten Years and Counting |
6/10/15 | Claire | Parkinson & | GSFC | Climate Change as Revealed in Satellite Sea Ice Observations |
10/30/87 | Kumar | Patel | Bell Labs. | Key Findings of APS Study of Science & Tech. of Directed Energy |
10/19/12 | DJ | Patil | Greylock Partners | Science and Industry -- Lessons from LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and All those Other Companies in Silicon Valley |
11/9/84 | Joseph | Patterson | Columbia | The Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables |
2/18/72 | C. | Payne-Gaposhkin | Harvard-SAO | Magellanic Clouds and the Structure of Our Galaxy |
1/15/82 | John C. | Pearl | GSFC | The Voyager 2 Flyby of the Saturnian System |
3/5/71 | P. James E. | Peebles | Princeton | Galaxies--The Challenge and the Opportunity for Cosmology |
10/27/78 | P. James E. | Peebles | Princeton | Recent Developments in Cosmology |
9/25/92 | P. James E. | Peebles | Princeton | COBE and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe |
10/4/85 | Richard | Peltier | Toronto | Deformation of the Earth's Crust by Large Ice Sheets |
10/11/96 | W.R. | Peltier | Univ. Toronto | Dynamic Complexity in Three Geophysical Fluids |
9/12/95 | Roger | Penrose | Oxford Univ. | Shadows of the Mind |
3/23/79 | F. W. | Perkins | Princeton | The Tokamak Approach to Controlled Fusion |
5/5/00 | Sidney | Perkowitz | Emory U. | Galaxies, Beer, and Baked Alaska: the Science of Foams |
11/3/89 | Richard A. | Perley | NRAO-Socorro | High-Resolution Studies of Radio Galaxies with Very Large Array |
4/2/99 | Saul | Perlmutter | Lawrence Berkeley Lab | Distant Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe |
4/25/18 | Mark | Perry | Applied Physics Lab | Ring Rain and Tar Polluting Saturn: A New Understanding of the Interactions Between Saturn and Its Rings |
6/8/01 | Michael | Perryman* | ESA/ESTEC | The Three-Dimensional Structure of our Galaxy |
12/10/76 | Joseph E. | Persico | White House | 1918: the Plague Year |
12/10/65 | Sidney | Pestka | NIH | Biological Coding |
5/9/18 | Kirstin | Petersen | Cornell U. | Designing Robot Collectives |
10/25/96 | Vahe | Petrosian | Stanford Univ. | Gravitationally Lensed Arcs in Clusters: a New Way... |
1/14/66 | Harry E. | Petschek | Avco-Everett | Whistler Waves and a Limit on Stably Trapped Particles |
5/27/66 | Gordon H. | Pettengill | MIT | Recent Radar Results: Rotation & Surface Features of Inner Planets |
11/17/72 | Gordon H. | Pettengill | MIT | Planetary Radar Astronomy |
4/29/83 | N. Douglas | Pewitt | White House-OSTP | Science Policy at the White House |
11/1/13 | Rob | Pfaff | GSFC | It Is Rocket Science -- Remarkable Discoveries from NASA's Sounding Rocket Program |
2/25/94 | George | Philander | Princeton | El Nino: A Predictable Climate Fluctuation |
1/22/99 | William | Phillips | NIST | Almost Absolute Zero: the Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping |
2/6/70 | John A. | Philpotts | GSFC | Summary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Analyses |
5/19/72 | Robert A. | Phinney | Princeton | Structure of the Earth's Core |
3/9/01 | E. Sterl | Phinney | Caltech | LISA and Gravitational Radiation |
12/6/02 | Steward | Pickett | Inst. For Ecosystem Studies | The Structure and Function of Metropolitan Baltimore as an Ecological System |
3/26/04 | Roger | Pielke | Colorado State U. | Ten Overlooked Issues in the IPCC and US National Assessments of Climate Change |
9/18/70 | George F. | Pieper | GSFC | Priorities in Space Science and Applications |
3/15/74 | Willard J. | Pierson | CUNY-City Coll. | Physical Oceanography from Space |
5/21/04 | Catherine | Pilachowski* | Indiana U. | Giant Telescopes, Heavy Metal, and Ancient Superstars |
5/22/70 | Robert O. | Piland | Manned Spacecraft C | Remote Sensing of Earth Resources from Aircraft and Satellites |
11/7/97 | David | Pimentel& | Cornell | Global Depletion of Topsoil: Implications for Society |
11/9/79 | David | Pines | Illinois | Compact X-Ray Sources |
11/12/99 | Walter | Pitman | Columbia | Noah's Flood |
3/31/06 | Phil | Plait | Sonoma State U. | The Moon Hoax Hoax |
1/19/68 | John R. | Platt | Michigan | Images and Goals for the Technological Future |
4/2/82 | Mirek J. | Plavec | UC-Los Angeles | IUE and the Evolution of Binary Stars |
11/12/71 | Henry H. | Plotkin | GSFC | Lasers for Tracking and Communications in Space |
1/24/97 | Arthur I. | Poland | GSFC | First Results from SOHO |
9/21/84 | James B. | Pollack | Ames Research Ctr. | Climatic Effects After Nuclear War |
2/7/69 | Cyril A. | Ponnamperuma | Ames Research Ctr. | Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life |
3/22/74 | Cyril A. | Ponnamperuma | Maryland | Origin of Life in the Universe |
4/7/05 | Carolyn | Porco | Space Science Institute | Highlights from Cassini's Imaging Adventures at Saturn |
4/9/13 | Carolyn | Porco | Space Science Institute | The Active South Polar Terrain of Enceladus: How Its Jets, Heat and Tidal Stresses Are Related |
5/20/11 | Lisa | Porter | IARPA | Scientific Challenges Faced by the Intelligence Community |
1/6/95 | Tom | Potemra | Johns Hopkins APL | Space Science and 19th Century Polar Explorers |
12/14/12 | Rick | Potts | Smithsonian Inst. | Emerging Trends in Paleoanthropology |
3/22/13 | Matthew | Povich | Cal. State Polytech. U. | The Milky Way Project: Citizen Scientists Map Massive Star Formation Throughout the Galaxy |
12/2/83 | Warren L. | Prell | Brown | Paleoclimate: Ancient Monsoons |
3/19/76 | Frank | Press | MIT | The Use of Pattern Recognition in Geophysics |
11/14/18 | Philip | Pressel | Perkin-Elmer | The Hexagon KH-9 Spy Satellite |
6/5/98 | Eric | Priest* | U. of St. Andrew's | Our Sun: Puzzles and Surprises |
4/21/06 | Lawrence | Principe | Johns Hopkins U. | Alchemy as the Forerunner of Modern Chemistry |
5/20/83 | Ronald | Prinn | MIT | The Early Solar System and Jupiter's Satellites |
12/3/14 | John | Priscu | Montana State U. | Sources and Sinks of Methane in Aquatic Environments beneath Polar Ice |
11/19/14 | Louise | Prockter | Johns Hopkins APL | The Science and Exploration of Europa |
9/15/89 | Robert | Provine | U. Maryland | Contagious Yawning |
11/1/96 | Robert | Provine | UMBC | The Science of Laughter |
10/10/08 | Robert | Provine | U. Maryland Balt. Cty. | Tickle and Beyond |
4/5/13 | Robert | Provine | U. Md. Balto. County | Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond |
5/17/17 | Antti | Pulkkinen | GSFC | Geomagnetically Induced Currents: Science, Engineering and Applications Readiness |
5/9/69 | Joseph D. | Purcell | GSFC | Results from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) |
10/3/18 | Nick | Pyenson | Smithsonian Inst. | The Past, Present, and Future of Whales |
4/12/91 | Philip D. | Rabinowitz | Texas A & M | The Ocean Drilling Program |
4/3/81 | Jurgen | Rahe | GSFC & Germany | Halley's Comet and Plans for its Return |
2/15/17 | Kahn | Ralph | GSFC | Desert Dust, Wildfire Smoke, Volcanic Ash, Urban and Industrial Pollution - Grasping the Role Particles Play in Global Climate and Regional Air Quality |
4/5/74 | Colin S. | Ramage | Hawaii | The El Nino Current |
5/17/02 | V. | Ramanathan | Scripps Institution | Aerosols and Climate - A Hazy Future for the Blue Planet? |
11/2/79 | Reuven | Ramaty | GSFC | Gamma Ray Line Astronomy |
5/17/74 | Estelle R. | Ramey | Georgetown | The Hormonal Basis for Sex Differentiation in Humans |
4/26/02 | Michael | Rampino | New York University | Volcanic Eruptions and their Effects on Climate |
11/22/02 | Sheldon | Rampton | Center for Media and Democracy | Public Relations Maniipulation of Science |
10/5/73 | Norman F. | Ramsey | Harvard | Spin Temperatures and Negative Absolute Temperatures |
2/4/00 | David | Randall | Colorado State | Atmospheric Circulations on Buckeyball Grids |
3/1/85 | James | Randi | Invest'n Paranormal | The Need for Skepticism in Science |
2/27/87 | Eugene M. | Rasmusson | U. Maryland | African Drought |
11/5/65 | S. Ichtiaque | Rasool | GISS | The Atmosphere of Mars - Recent Findings |
12/8/72 | S. Ichtiaque | Rasool | NASA HQ | History of Planetary Atmospheres |
5/30/75 | S. Ichtiaque | Rasool | NASA HQ | Major Questions in Extraterrestrial Sciences |
2/21/18 | Michael | Raupp | University of Maryland | Return of Periodical Cicadas: Why the Visit in 2017 and What to Expect in 2021? |
2/29/08 | A.R. | Ravishankara | NOAA Earth Sys. Res. Lab. | Role of Aerosols in Earth’s Climate: From Radiative Forcing to Chemistry |
12/13/13 | Paul | Ray | Naval Research Laboratory | Attack of the Gamma-Ray Spiders from Space! |
11/22/85 | David | Rea | Michigan | Climate History: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind |
10/18/74 | Robert D. | Reasenberg | MIT | A Day with Venus, a Year With Mercury |
5/7/10 | Kelly | Redmond | West. Reg. Climate Ctr. | Western United States Climate Variability and Change: Observations and Projections |
6/14/74 | Martin | Rees* | UK-Cambridge | Neutron Stars & Black Holes: Evidence from X-Ray & Gamma-Ray Astr. |
11/3/95 | Hubert | Reeves | Saclay | The Early Moments of the Universe |
2/28/68 | Frederick | Reines | UC-Irvine | Neutrinos Under Ground |
5/19/86 | Ruedegar | Reinhard | ESA | First Results from the Giotto Encounter with Comet Halley |
5/12/78 | Sheldon | Reiser | USDA-Beltsville | Human Nutrition and Disease |
5/4/07 | Lorraine | Remer | GSFC | Can Aerosols Solve the Global Warming Problem? |
5/10/85 | Richard M. | Restak | Author,"The Brain" | Split Brain Research |
9/26/97 | Caird | Rexroad | USDA Beltsville | One Small Lamb: An Historic Step in Animal Biology |
5/9/14 | Christopher | Reynolds | U. Maryland | Putting a New Spin on Black Holes |
2/27/81 | Peter B. | Rhines | Woods Hole | The Physics of Ocean Eddies |
3/27/19 | John | Richardson | MIT | Voyager Observations of the Outer Heliosphere and Interstellar Medium |
4/7/89 | Barry | Richmond | NIMH | A New View of Vision |
11/5/82 | Frank M. | Richter | Chicago | Models for the Thermal Structure of the Earth |
4/13/79 | Charles | Rieger | Maryland | Artificial Intelligence |
2/19/10 | George | Rieke | Steward Observatory | Following Back Roads on the NASA Exoplanet Roadmap |
5/14/10 | Adam | Riess | Johns Hopkins U. | Expansion and Dark Energy |
4/1/11 | Jane | Rigby | GSFC | Watching Galaxy Evolution in High Definition |
10/17/18 | Jane | Rigby* | Goddard Space Flight Center | A Magnified Vision of How Galaxies Evolve |
5/15/09 | Steve | Ritz | GSFC | Early Results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
10/10/18 | Steve | Ritz | University of California, Santa Cruz | Observing the Universe Broadly, Deeply, and Frequently |
5/17/68 | Franklin E. | Roach | ESSA | Airglow-Ionosphere Interactions in the Tropics |
10/26/07 | Massimo | Robberto | Space Tel. Sci. Inst | The Hubble View of the Orion Nebula |
2/22/91 | R. Robert | Robbins | Texas | Archaeoastronomy of the Mimbres People |
3/21/69 | Morton S. | Roberts | NRAO-Greenbank | Properties of Normal Galaxies |
11/8/02 | Hamish | Robertson | Univ. of Washington | SNO Flies: the Solar Neutrino Problem Resolved |
3/26/93 | Alan | Robock | Maryland | Volcanoes and Climate: Lessons of El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo |
3/4/11 | Alan | Robock | Rutgers U. | Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming? |
1/18/13 | Matthew | Rodell | GSFC | Monitoring Groundwater from Space |
1/24/75 | Juan G. | Roederer | Denver | The Psychophysics of Music Perception |
4/2/71 | Elizabeth | Roemer | Arizona | Comets--Samples of the Primeval? |
5/15/87 | Robert T. | Rood | Virginia | Searching for Unicorns and Extraterrestrial Civilizations |
9/17/65 | Robert | Roper | GSFC & Australia | Atmospheric Motions as Determined from Radio Meteor Trails |
12/14/01 | Marzia | Rosati | Iowa State U. | Little Big Bangs at the PHENIX Experiment at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
11/15/91 | Brian A. | Rosborough | Earthwatch | Chicken Little, the Sky is Falling! Earthwatch and Global Change |
10/15/71 | David | Rose | Oak Ridge | Status and Outlook for Controlled Nuclear Fusion |
5/11/01 | Brian | Rose | U. Cincinnati | Archaeology at Troy |
3/21/86 | Norman J. | Rosenberg | Nebraska & Res.Fut. | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Agricultural Productivity |
12/4/81 | Robert | Rosner | Harvard | The Sun as a Star |
10/28/66 | Bruno | Rossi* | MIT | Recent Results of X-Ray Astronomy |
2/24/89 | Thomas | Rossing | Northern Illinois U | Physics of Compact Disk Audio Systems |
2/19/93 | Gordon | Rostoker | Canad.SpRes/Alberta | Northern Lights: Beauty and the Beast |
10/1/76 | Arnold H. | Rots | NRAO-Greenbank | A New Look at the Spiral Galaxy M81 |
10/17/03 | Gary | Rottman | U. Colorado | SORCE and the Future of Space-based Irradiance Observations |
9/23/77 | Wallace | Rowe | NIH | The Recombinant DNA Debate |
3/30/84 | Sherwood F. | Rowland | UC-Irvine | Mercury, Methane and Ozone in the Environment |
11/18/83 | Carlo | Rubbia | Harvard | The Discoveries of the Intermediate Bosons |
11/14/75 | Vera C. | Rubin | Carnegie-DTM | Is the Galaxy Moving? |
1/24/03 | Vera | Rubin | Carnegie Inst. of Washington | A Brief History of Dark Matter |
6/9/95 | Vera | Rubin* | Carnegie Inst. | Bright Galaxies and Dark Matter |
10/3/75 | Malvin A. | Ruderman | Columbia | Super-Strong Magnetic Fields and Neutron Stars |
1/6/84 | Malvin A. | Ruderman | Columbia | The Millisecond Pulsar and What It Means |
1/7/15 | Roberta | Rudnick | U. Maryland | Earth's Unique Continents |
1/21/72 | Remo | Ruffini | Princeton | Black Holes in Space |
5/24/85 | Keith | Runcorn | UK-New Castle | Ancient Lunar Dynamos |
2/17/06 | John | Rundle | U. Calif. Davis | Earthquake Forecasting on Complex Multiscale Earthquake Fault Systems: Progress and Prospects |
3/7/08 | James | Russell, III | Hampton U. | Overview and Science Results from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Mission |
2/14/97 | Bob | Ryan | WRC-TV News | Predicting the Weather for the Public |
11/14/69 | Carl | Sagan | Cornell | Recent Studies of the Planet Mars |
10/19/73 | Carl | Sagan | Cornell | Intelligent Life in the Universe |
3/9/07 | Kailash | Sahu | Space Tel. Sci. Inst | Worlds in Transit |
2/18/77 | Vincent V. | Salomonson | GSFC | Space Views of Watersheds: from the Mississippi to the Patuxent |
5/27/83 | Vincent V. | Salomonson | GSFC | Landsat-4: Oh Say Can You See? |
9/20/02 | Vincent | Salomonson | GSFC | LANDSAT at 30- Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future |
11/3/06 | Vincent | Salomonson& | U. Utah and GSFC | NASA EOS and MODIS: Past, Present and Future (Would Bill Nordberg Be Pleased?) |
11/1/74 | Edwin E. | Salpeter | Cornell | Expanding Supernova Remnants |
5/22/81 | Edwin E. | Salpeter* | Cornell | Galaxies, Clusters, and Invisible Mass |
10/28/88 | Nils | Salvesen | SAIC-Annapolis | Physics of Sailing: Radical America's Cup Designs |
6/9/89 | Allan R. | Sandage* | Mt. Wilson/Las Camp | The Age of the Milky Way and the Age of the Universe |
3/22/96 | Dave | Sandwell | Scripps Inst. | New Observations of Sea Floor Topography |
4/20/17 | Benjamin | Santer | Lawrence Livermore National Lab | Lessons Learned After the 1995 "Discernible Human Influence" Finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
12/5/08 | Craig | Sarazin | U. Virginia | Hot Baryons in the Biggest Potential Wells in the Universe |
10/16/81 | Wallace L. W. | Sargent | Caltech | Intergalactic Clouds at Large Redshifts |
1/29/93 | Anneila | Sargent | Caltech | Millimeter Wave Interferometry of Potential Planetary Systems |
2/24/84 | William C. | Saslaw | Virginia | Galaxy Clustering |
4/14/89 | William C. | Saslaw | U. Virginia | Gravity and Large Scale Structure in the Universe |
11/13/81 | Blair D. | Savage | Wisconsin | The Galactic Corona |
11/2/12 | Rebecca | Saxe | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | How We Think about Other People's Thoughts |
4/22/94 | Brad | Schaefer | GSFC | Eclipses, Cresents, and History |
1/9/70 | Evry | Schatzman | France-Paris | Turbulent Diffusion in Stars |
4/15/83 | Evry | Schatzman | France-Nice | Physics of Matter & Anti-Matter in Bi-Partition Model of Universe |
6/6/75 | Evry | Schatzman* | France-Meudon | Turbulent Diffusion in Stars |
6/1/07 | Thomas | Schelling | Univ. Maryland | Game Theory and Applications to Global Warming |
10/7/66 | Leonard I. | Schiff | Stanford | The Experimental Basis of General Relativity |
4/18/08 | David | Schiminovich | Columbia Univ. | A Journey through the Ultraviolet Universe: New Insights and Discoveries from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) |
10/22/04 | Michael | Schlesinger | U. Illinois | Human-Induced Climate Change: To Hedge or Not to Hedge Against an Uncertain Climate Future |
12/10/15 | Joan | Schmelz | University of Memphis | Why So Few? Growth Mindset, Stereotype Threat, and Spatial Skills |
5/1/81 | Maarten | Schmidt | Caltech | Quasar Redshift Distribution |
2/20/98 | Harrison | Schmitt | Wisconsin | Return to the Moon |
2/22/80 | Stephen H. | Schneider | Boulder-NCAR | Climate Modeling in Perspective: Co-Evolution of Climate and Life |
10/15/99 | Glenn | Schneider | Steward Observatory | Exploring the Environments of Nearby Stars |
5/11/73 | Marvin | Schneiderman | NIH | Incidence of Cancer and Factors Affecting It |
2/3/16 | Jeremy | Schnittman | GSFC | The Science of Interstellar: Thoughts on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting Black Holes |
3/25/88 | Mark | Schoeberl | GSFC | The Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
1/14/05 | Mark | Schoeberl | GSFC | The Interaction between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere: What are We Learning from Satellite Observations? |
6/3/15 | Robert | Schoelkopf | Yale U. | Using Cat States in a Microwave Cavity for Quantum Information |
1/5/79 | J. William | Schopf | UC-Los Angeles | The Oldest Fossils and What They Mean |
5/4/01 | William | Schopf | UCLA | The Earliest Life on Earth |
10/14/77 | David N. | Schramm | Chicago | Supernovae: A New Look |
10/14/94 | David | Schramm | Univ. Chicago | Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure in the Universe |
5/8/87 | J. R. | Schubel | SUNY-Stony Brook | Effects of Agriculture and Urbanization on Estuaries |
2/18/05 | Siegfried | Schubert | GSFC | On the Cause of the 1930's Dust Bowl Drought |
4/23/03 | Bernard | Schutz | Max Planck, Gravitational Physics | Opening Our Eyes to Gravitational Waves |
10/19/07 | Joel | Schwartz | Harvard School Public Health | Aerosols and Health |
2/13/09 | Steve | Schwartz | Brookhaven | Consider a Spherical Earth: Heat Capacity, Time Constant and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System |
4/17/18 | Steven | Schwartz | Brookhaven | How Long Does Anthropogenic CO2 Stay in the Atmosphere? |
3/13/87 | John | Schwarz | Caltech | Superstrings |
6/8/84 | Martin | Schwarzschild* | Princeton | Characters behind the Theory of Stellar Evolution |
5/22/87 | Francois | Schweizer | DTM-Carnegie | Colliding and Merging Galaxies |
3/14/72 | David R. | Scott | Manned Spacecraft C | Field Geology Studies on the Lunar Surface |
3/3/78 | John S. | Scott | Maryland | What's Interesting About Quasars? |
2/26/82 | John S. | Scott | Arizona | Winds from Quasars |
10/27/06 | Eugenie | Scott | Nat. Ctr. Sci. Education | Lessons from Dover's Intelligent Design Trial |
10/14/05 | Ryan | Scranton | U. Pittsburgh | Cosmic Magnification Seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
11/3/67 | Glenn T. | Seaborg | AEC | New Outlook for the Transuranium Elements |
12/11/09 | Sara | Seagar | Mass. Inst. Of Technology | Exoplanets: From Discovery to Characterization and Beyond |
4/7/00 | William | Seegar | US. Army Aberdeen | Nineteen Years of Satellite Tracking Development and Application to Wildlife Research and Conservation |
12/2/11 | Thomas | Seeley | Cornell U. | Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees |
11/4/15 | Julie | Segre | National Inst. Of Health | In Good Company: Human Microbial Ecosystems |
12/1/04 | Ed | Seidel | Louisiana State U. | Using Supercomputers to Collapse Gravitational Waves, Collide Black Holes (and Study Other Cataclysms) |
5/28/10 | John | Seiradakis | Aristotle University | The Antikythera Mechanism |
2/5/88 | Pier | Sellers | U. Maryland | Biology and the Global Climate System |
8/17/16 | Piers | Sellers & | GSFC | NASA and the Land Biosphere |
2/1/91 | Kristen | Sellgren | Ohio State | Interstellar Dust: Tiny Grains and Large Molecules |
6/2/95 | Davis | Sentman | U. Alaska | Jets and Sprites and Things That Flash in the Night |
5/3/91 | Peter J. | Serlemitsos | GSFC | First Results from the BBXRT (Broad Band X-Ray Telescope) |
11/4/71 | A. B. | Severny | USSR-Crimea Obs. | Solar Magnetic Fields |
10/27/67 | Maurice | Shapiro | NRL | The "Age" of Cosmic Rays |
4/24/81 | Irwin I. | Shapiro | MIT | Gravitational Lenses in Space |
4/18/18 | Arthur | Shapiro | American University | Why Are We Surprised by Only Some of the Things We See? Optical Illusions, Contrast, and Harmonic Systems |
6/13/86 | Irwin I. | Shapiro* | Harvard-SAO | Twenty Years of VLBI: The Impact on Astrophysics and Geophysics |
2/23/68 | Neil R. | Sheeley,Jr. | KPNO | Observations of the Solar Magnetic Field |
9/20/74 | William E. | Shenk | GSFC | Satellite Observations of Cyclones |
2/4/05 | Marshall | Shepherd | GSFC | From the Chicago Heat Wave to Houston Floods: How Cities Affect Weather and Climate |
11/28/18 | J. Marshall | Shepherd | University of Georgia | From the "Brown Ocean Effect" to Water Availability: Two Facets of the Hydroclimate from a NASA Perspective |
12/5/86 | Harry L. | Shipman | U. Delaware | White Dwarf Stars: Late Stages of Stellar Evolution |
10/16/87 | Pat | Shipman | Johns Hopkins Med. | Why Did the Human Lineage Survive? |
5/7/71 | Eugene M. | Shoemaker | Caltech | Geology of the Moon |
11/14/86 | Eugene M. | Shoemaker | USGS-Flagstaff | Mass Extinctions, Crater Ages and Comet Showers |
10/29/93 | Eugene | Shoemaker | US Geological Surv. | Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Its Impact with Jupiter |
12/14/94 | Eugene | Shoemaker | US Geo Survey | The Crash of '94: Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
2/6/70 | Nicholas M. | Short | GSFC | Summary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Analyses |
1/18/74 | Nicholas M. | Short | GSFC | ERTS-1: a "Bird" for All Seasons |
1/7/83 | Nicholas M. | Short | GSFC | The Temperature of the Earth's Surface |
2/16/07 | Adam | Showman | Univ. Arizona | Dynamics of the Atmospheres of Giant Planets Inside and Outside the Solar System |
10/8/82 | Frank H. | Shu | Princeton-IAS | Waves in Galactic Disks and Planetary Rings |
5/6/94 | Frank | Shu | UCal Berkeley | Star Formation |
5/27/05 | Frank | Shu* | National Tsing Hua U., Taiwan | The Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems |
2/7/86 | Jagadish | Shukla | Maryland | Influence of Ocean Temperature on Weather and Climate |
4/15/05 | Jagadish | Shukla | George Mason U. | From Weather Prediction to Climate Prediction: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges |
12/9/05 | J. Michael | Shull | U. Colorado | Searching Between the Galaxies: Mission Baryons in the Intergalactic Medium |
1/25/13 | David | Sibeck | GSFC | THEMIS and ARTEMIS: Past Successes and Future Prospects |
5/1/87 | Charles | Sibley | San Franciso State | Molecular Evolution in Birds and Primates |
10/12/07 | John | Sigwarth | GSFC | Global Auroral Imaging During the Polar Mission Era |
12/16/77 | Joseph | Silk | UC-Berkeley | Origin of the Galaxies |
11/19/71 | Thomas | Simkin | Smithsonian | Modern Studies of Active Volcanoes |
11/4/66 | Joanne | Simpson | ESSA | Experiments on Tropical Hurricanes |
11/4/66 | Robert H. | Simpson | ESSA | Experiments on Tropical Hurricanes |
10/18/68 | John A. | Simpson | Chicago | Particle Astronomy and the Origin of Cosmic Rays |
3/13/81 | Joanne | Simpson | GSFC | Hurricanes |
10/11/91 | Joanne | Simpson | GSFC | Waterspouts --- Related to Tornadoes? |
10/1/82 | S. Fred | Singer | Virginia | The Future of World Oil |
5/2/69 | Robert L. | Sinsheimer | Caltech | Bacterial Virus Reproduction |
10/26/79 | George L. | Siscoe | UC-Los Angeles | Io Plasma Disks: Post Voyager Interpretations |
3/20/92 | George | Siscoe | UCLA | Why the Magnetosphere is Different |
9/20/02 | David | Skole | Michigan State | LANDSAT at 30- Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future |
10/26/12 | James | Slavin | U. Michigan | MESSENGER Observations of Extreme Space Weather in Mercury's Magnetosphere |
11/2/07 | Paul | Slovic | Decision Research | The Sociopolitics of Risk: Challenges for Risk Assessment |
3/18/66 | Joseph | Smagorinsky | ESSA | Theoretical Modeling of the Atmosphere's General Circulation |
3/26/82 | Joseph | Smagorinsky | NOAA-GFDL | Reflections on the Early History of Numerical Weather Prediction |
10/9/70 | Harlan J. | Smith | Texas | The Planet Jupiter |
4/30/76 | William L. | Smith | NOAA | The Radiative Heating and Cooling of the Earth Atmosphere System |
4/6/79 | Bradford A. | Smith | Arizona | Rendezvous with a Giant: Jupiter System as Seen by Voyager Cameras |
4/27/84 | David E. | Smith | GSFC | Space Geodesy: Results from NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project |
4/27/90 | Robert W. | Smith | Air & Space Museum | Edwin P. Hubble and the Transformation of Cosmology |
1/22/93 | Edward | Smith | JPL | Ulysses Encounter with Jupiter |
3/12/99 | David | Smith | GSFC | New Findings from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter |
1/27/06 | James | Smith | GSFC | Space Based Ornithology: On the Wings of Migration and Biophysics |
4/17/09 | Peter | Smith | U. Arizona | The Journey of the Phoenix (Mars Lander) |
2/3/12 | David | Smith | Duke U. | Progress in Electromagnetic Metamaterials |
5/22/19 | Fred | Smith | Illinois State University | Neandertals in Evolutionary Perspective |
11/4/94 | William | Smith& | Univ. Wisconsin | Satellite Soundings of the Atmosphere.. |
4/10/87 | Herschel B. | Snodgrass | Lewis & Clark Coll. | New View of the Sunspot Cycle |
10/7/15 | Steven | Snowden * | GSFC | The Soft X-ray Diffuse Background - Nearly 50 Years of Progress |
3/24/67 | Frederick | Snyder | NIH | Recent Developments in the Investigation of Sleep |
12/1/72 | Lewis E. | Snyder | Virginia | Interstellar Molecules |
9/22/00 | Dava | Sobel | author | Galileo's Daughter |
3/18/11 | Alicia | Soderberg | Harvard U. | A Holistic Study of Cosmic Explosions |
1/9/81 | Lawrence | Soderblom | USGS-Flagstaff | Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn |
1/14/77 | Gerald A. | Soffen | Langley Res. Ctr. | The Results of Viking |
3/21/80 | Sabatino | Sofia | GSFC | The Restless Sun |
2/6/09 | Jennifer | Sokoloski | Columbia Univ. | Fountains from Exploding Stars |
2/25/00 | Pierre | Sokolsky | Univ. of Utah | The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
2/28/75 | Philip M. | Solomon | SUNY-Stony Brook | The Distribution and Physics of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy |
5/29/87 | Sean | Solomon | MIT | Tectonic Evolution of Venus and the Earth |
10/21/94 | Sean | Solomon | Carnegie Institute | Worlds Apart: the Inner Planets |
1/15/10 | Sean | Solomon | Carnegie Inst. of Washington | Exploring Mercury by Spacecraft: the MESSENGER Flybys |
11/7/08 | Susan | Solomon & | NOAA | A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
6/10/94 | Susan | Solomon* | NOAA Aeronomy Lab | Ozone Depletion at the Ends of the Earth and Points In Between |
4/11/86 | Richard | Somerville | Scripps | Supercomputer Simulations of Thermal Convection |
1/27/95 | Richard | Somerville | Scripps Institute | Uncertainty in Greenhouse Effect Climate Change |
3/31/00 | Richard | Somerville | Scripps Institute | Global Warming: Can Climate Models Be Trusted? |
5/5/72 | Charles P. | Sonett | Ames Research Ctr. | Lunar Magnetic Fields for Fun and Profit |
2/14/18 | George | Sonneborn | GSFC | The Supernova of the Century: Supernova 1987A at 31 Years |
11/19/04 | Soroosh | Sorooshian& | U. California, Irvine | Water Distribution and Availability |
1/16/81 | Nelson W. | Spencer | GSFC | The V-2 Rocket for Experimental Space Science |
1/21/15 | John | Spencer | Southwest Res. Inst. | Saturn's Icy Satellites |
12/6/16 | David | Spergel | Princeton University | WFIRST: A Powerful Tool for a Diverse Astrophysics Program |
5/24/68 | Edward A. | Spiegel | NYU | Jets in Galaxies |
11/16/79 | Edward A. | Spiegel | Columbia | Large Scale Motions in the Sun |
1/22/10 | Anatoly | Spitkovsky | Princeton University | Extreme Magnetospheres: From Neutron Stars to Accretion Disks |
2/9/73 | Lyman | Spitzer,Jr. | Princeton | Preliminary Results from Copernicus on the Interstellar Medium |
5/25/79 | Lyman | Spitzer,Jr.* | Princeton | The Dynamic Evolution of Globular Clusters |
2/10/95 | Paul | Spudis | Lunar & Planetary | Clementine Explores the Moon |
1/7/05 | Steven | Squyers | Cornell U. | Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Missions |
12/2/94 | Steve | Squyres | Cornell | Early Mars: How Warm and How Wet? |
10/5/16 | Raymond | St.Leger | University of Maryland | Insect Pathogens: A Model for Human Interventions |
3/9/73 | David H. | Staelin | MIT | Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Atsmosphere: Passive Microwave Tech. |
2/13/98 | Dennis | Stanford | Smithsonian | The Earliest Americans |
2/1/13 | Ray | Stanford | Life in a Dinosaur-Dominated Environment: Examining Life in Maryland's Early Cretaceous (~ 110 Million Years Ago) | |
2/25/83 | Steven M. | Stanley | Johns Hopkins | The Punctuational Model of Evolution |
2/27/04 | James | Starrs | George Washington U. | Exhumations: The Science and the Law |
9/20/91 | Theodore P. | Stecher | GSFC | First Results from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on Astro-1 |
3/7/80 | Floyd W. | Stecker | GSFC | The Gestation, Birth and Death of the Universe: A View from 1980 |
10/4/02 | Floyd W. | Stecker | GSFC | Exploring Galaxy Evolution with High Energy Gamma Rays |
1/9/98 | Charles | Steidel | Caltech | Young Galaxies |
3/24/95 | Gary | Steigman | Ohio State | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Consistency or Crisis? |
11/12/93 | Seth | Stein | GSFC/Northwestern | New Models of Contemporary Plate Motions |
4/12/02 | Paul | Steinhardt | Princeton University | The Endless Universe |
4/13/73 | Hans | Stenbach-Nielsen | Alaska | Magnetospheric Barium Releases Using Shaped Charges |
1/24/86 | Reiner L. | Stenzel | UC-Los Angeles | Experimental Plasma Physics Relevant to Space Physics |
9/17/76 | David P. | Stern | GSFC | Alfven's Theory of Magnetic Storms and the Controversy Around It |
5/5/89 | S. Alan | Stern | U. Colorado | Pluto at Perihelion -- Sixty Years After Discovery |
6/3/94 | Alan | Stern | Southwest Res Inst | The Solar System Beyond Neptune and Pluto |
9/7/16 | Rick | Sternbach | International Association of Astronomical Artist | Star Trek and NASA: 50 Years of Inventing the Future Together |
5/24/17 | Alan | Sternbach | Southwest Res. Inst. | The Exploration of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons Mission |
10/28/83 | David J. | Stevenson | Caltech | Winds,Rings,Fields: Formation, Evol. & Structure of Giant Planets |
3/17/89 | Walter | Stewart | NIH | Misconduct in Science: How to Keep the Politicians Out |
9/27/67 | Arnold | Stokes | Georgetown | Non-Linear Diff'l Equations: Effect of Computers on Modern Math |
1/26/79 | Richard S. | Stolarski | GSFC | Stratospheric Ozone: Natural and Man-Made Perturbations |
2/6/87 | Richard S. | Stolarski | GSFC | The Antarctic Ozone Hole |
1/10/92 | Richard S. | Stolarski | GSFC | Stratospheric Ozone: An Update on Observations of Ozone Depletion |
12/12/08 | Richard | Stolarski | GSFC | Chlorofluorocarbons, Stratospheric Ozone, and the Montreal Protocol |
5/16/69 | Robert G. | Stone | GSFC | The Radio Explorer Satellite |
6/2/72 | Robert G. | Stone | GSFC | Space Radio Astronomy |
1/23/81 | Edward C. | Stone | Caltech | Science Results from Voyager Saturn Encounter |
1/30/87 | Edward C. | Stone | Caltech | The Voyager Encounter with Uranus |
11/7/89 | Edward C. | Stone | Caltech | The Voyager Encounter with Neptune |
11/20/92 | Edward C. | Stone | JPL | Comparative Planetary Physics |
9/13/02 | Edward C. | Stone | Caltech | The Heliosphere - Love it or Leave it |
5/29/13 | Gregory | Stone | Conservation International | Underwater Eden and What We Each Can Do to Create and Sustain a Healthy Ocean Environment |
11/30/01 | Susan | Stranahan | author | Chesapeake Bay - The Sediment Problem |
4/2/04 | Michael | Strauss | Princeton University | 3D Map of the Universe from Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
12/15/72 | Bernard L. | Strehler | USC | Toward the Control of Human Aging |
11/17/06 | Tod | Strohmayer | GSFC | New Views of Neutron Stars |
3/30/12 | Tod | Strohmayer | GSFC | Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer: Taking the Pulse of the Universe |
2/19/88 | Stephen E. | Strom | U. Massachusetts | Disks Around Young Stars |
6/6/69 | Bengt | Stromgren* | Denmark-Copenhagen | Some Modern Results of Stellar and Galactic Astronomy |
10/15/65 | John | Strong | Johns Hopkins | Planetary Observations from Balloons |
12/6/13 | Keith | Strong | GSFC/U. Maryland | The Solar Cycle Conundrum |
11/12/82 | Minze | Stuiver | Washington-Seattle | History of the Sun by Radiocarbon Analysis and Climatic Change |
12/3/71 | Peter A. | Sturrock | Stanford | A Model of Pulsars |
5/27/77 | Peter A. | Sturrock* | Stanford | Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life |
10/21/88 | Max | Suarez | GSFC | Theories of El Nino and the Southern Oscillation |
5/20/77 | Joseph | Sucher | Maryland | New Discoveries in Elem. Particle Physics: Facts and Fancies '77 |
1/25/17 | Joseph | Sucher | University of Maryland | The Romance of Physics |
2/1/85 | Lawrence R. | Sulak | Michigan | Search for Proton Decay |
11/6/70 | Walter | Sullivan | New York Times | Communicating Science to the Public |
5/24/88 | Kathy | Sullivan | NASA-JSC | Oceanic & Atmospheric Phenomenon as Seen from the Space Shuttle |
5/16/03 | Raman | Sundrum | Johns Hopkins Univ. | The Cosmological Constant Problem in Fundamental Physics |
4/30/16 | Raman | Sundrum | University of Maryland | Particle Physics, the Large Hadron Collider, and Beyond |
6/22/07 | Rashid | Sunyaev | MPI Astrophysics | The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination |
10/27/11 | Rashid | Sunyaev | Max Planck Inst.Astrophys.. | Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and Cosmology |
5/31/91 | Rashid | Sunyaev* | Space Res.Inst,USSR | Astrophysical Discoveries with Granat & Mir-Kvant Satellites |
9/25/70 | Verner E. | Suomi | Wisconsin | The Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) |
1/17/75 | Verner E. | Suomi | Wisconsin | Clouds of Venus |
10/5/79 | Verner E. | Suomi | Wisconsin | The Meteorology of the Planets, including Earth |
2/20/04 | Stephen | Suomi | National Inst. Of Health | Nature vs. Nurture in Monkeys |
1/16/76 | Zdenek | Svestka | AS&E | Physics of Solar Flares |
10/4/96 | Jean | Swank | GSFC | Pulses of the Universe as Seen with Rossi X-ray... |
2/12/99 | Jean | Swank | GSFC | The 'Old Faithful' Black Hole and Other Discoveries of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer |
3/30/12 | Jean | Swank | GSFC | Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer: Taking the Pulse of the Universe |
3/22/02 | Mark | Sykes | Steward Observatory | Exploring Main Belt Asteroids |
2/10/16 | Adam | Szabo | GSFC | The Two Faces of a Spacecraft: Both Earth and Space Science Observations by the DSCOVR Spacecraft |
9/21/16 | Adam | Szabo | GSFC | The Two Faces of a Spacecraft: Both Earth and Space Science Observations by the DSCOVR Spacecraft |
1/30/09 | Alex | Szalay | Johns Hopkins U. | From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World |
1/11/13 | Doug | Tallamy | U. Delaware | Bringing Nature Home |
5/19/00 | Pieter | Tans | Climate Modeling Lab | Man-Made Climate Change is Here to Stay |
11/5/10 | Nial | Tanvir | U. Leicester | Exploring the First Stars and Galaxies with Gamma-ray Bursts |
3/28/86 | Jill C. | Tarter | Ames Research Ctr. | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) |
10/22/99 | Jeffrey | Taubenberger | Armed Forces Inst. Pathology | The Search for the 1918 Spanish Influenze Virus |
10/10/75 | Joseph H. | Taylor | Massachusetts | The Galactic Distribution of Pulsars |
9/21/79 | Joseph H. | Taylor | Massachusetts | Gravity Waves and the Binary Pulsar |
10/25/85 | Joseph H. | Taylor | Princeton | Tests of Relativity Using Binary Pulsars |
1/17/86 | Joseph H. | Taylor | Massachusetts | Tests of Relativity Using Binary Pulsars |
5/23/97 | Richard | Taylor | Stanford | Electron Scattering and the Structure of the Proton |
12/2/15 | TBA | TBA | TBA | The Legacy of ASTRO-1 (STS-35): 25 Years Later |
1/13/89 | Bonnard J. | Teegarden | GSFC | Supernova 1987a: The High Energy Story |
10/13/00 | Max | Tegmaark | Univ. of Pennsylvania | Zeroing in on Cosmological Parameters |
2/25/66 | Edward | Teller | UC-Davis-Livermore | Scientific Experiments in Space |
5/2/75 | Edward | Teller | UC-Livermore | Looking Back on Earth |
1/16/04 | John | Terborgh | Duke U. | Ecological Meltdown in Forest Fragments |
1/28/00 | Yervant | Terzian | Cornell | Binary Galaxies and Dark Matter in the Universe |
4/28/67 | Patrick | Thaddeus | GISS | The Primordial Fireball |
9/28/73 | Patrick | Thaddeus | GISS | Interstellar Molecules and the Formation of Stars |
5/6/77 | Patrick | Thaddeus | GISS | The Gentle Universe: the Chemical Bond in Interstellar Space |
3/11/88 | Patrick | Thaddeus | Harvard-CfA | A CO Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud |
2/28/69 | Matthew P. | Thekaekara | GSFC | Direct Measurements of Solar Energy from an Aircraft |
1/24/69 | Richard N. | Thomas | Boulder-UC, NBS | Solar and Stellar Chromospheres |
4/18/86 | Lonnie | Thompson | Ohio State | Past Climates from Ice Cores in Andean Glaciers |
5/24/91 | Anne | Thompson | GSFC | EOS and Oceanographic Cruise on Global Changes (Soviet-American) |
12/1/00 | Barbara | Thompson | GSFC | Sun Storms - The Science of Space Weather Eruptions |
10/8/10 | David J. | Thompson | GSFC | Two Years of Discovery with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
11/13/98 | Lonnie | Thompson& | Ohio State U. | Global Climate Change, Past and Present |
10/31/18 | Anne | Thompson& | Goddard Space Flight Center | Variability in Ozone Structure: Insights from Strategic Ozonesonde Networks |
4/28/72 | Kip S. | Thorne | Caltech | Experimental Tests of General Relativity |
2/2/79 | Kip S. | Thorne | Caltech | Gravity Experiments and Gravitational Waves |
5/31/02 | Kip S. | Thorne* | Cal Tech | LISA and LIGO: Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves |
3/23/01 | Mark | Tilden | Los Alamos | Nervous Networks and the Architecture of "Living" Machines |
9/26/80 | Robert I. | Tilling | USGS-Reston | Mt. St. Helens Volcano: Sleeping Beauty Awakes |
2/9/79 | Adrienne F. | Timothy | NASA HQ | NASA Space Science Program: Current Achievements and Future Plans |
3/18/77 | Beatrice M. | Tinsley | Yale | Interpretation of Cosmological Tests |
9/24/82 | Frank | Tipler | Tulane | Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist |
2/13/81 | M. Nafi | Toksoz | MIT | Continental Collisions and the Evolution of Tibet |
12/9/77 | Alar | Toomre | MIT | Colliding Galaxies |
1/20/84 | Juri | Toomre | Boulder-JILA | Solar Seismology |
4/8/83 | Owen Brian | Toon | Ames Research Ctr. | The El Chichon Volcano and Climate Change |
10/16/98 | Owen Brian | Toon | U. of Colorado | Aerosols and Climate: Unsolved Problems, from the Possible Impact of Aviation on Climate to the Faint Young Sun Paradox |
1/28/15 | Owen Brian | Toon | U. Colorado | Dead Dinosaurs and Nuclear Wars |
12/6/74 | Richard | Tousey | NRL | Observations of the Sun in XUV with ATM |
11/22/74 | Charles H. | Townes | UC-Berkeley | New Approaches to Infrared Astronomy |
10/29/04 | John | Townshend | U. Maryland | Monitoring Land Cover Change Globally: Opportunities and Challenges |
2/2/68 | James H. | Trainor | GSFC | The Galactic Jupiter Probe |
1/11/74 | James H. | Trainor | GSFC | Pioneer 10 Jupiter Flyby |
10/12/79 | James H. | Trainor | GSFC | Pioneer 11 Results from Saturn |
10/11/74 | Newell J. | Trask,Jr. | USGS | Geology of Mercury: Preliminary Results |
4/8/88 | Scott | Tremaine | Canad.Inst.Th.Astro | Evolution of Cometary Orbits |
10/6/89 | Kevin E. | Trenberth | NCAR-Boulder | The 1988 North American Summer Drought |
10/10/97 | Kevin | Trenberth | NCAR Boulder | Global Warming — Fact or Fiction? |
10/12/16 | Kevin | Trenberth | National Center for Atmospheric Research | Implications of Earth's Energy Imbalance for Surface Fluxes and Especially Ocean Heat Transport |
9/29/78 | Virginia | Trimble | Maryland | The Origin and Abundances of the Chemical Elements |
10/19/90 | Virginia | Trimble | UC-Irvine & U. MD | Cosmology Yesterday and Today |
9/21/01 | Virginia | Trimble | U. Cal. Irvine | Triumphs of 20th Century Astronomy |
3/2/01 | Todd | Tripp | Princeton | The Census of the Nearby Universe: The Intergalactic Population |
1/11/91 | Joachim | Trumper | Max Planck,Garching | A New Look at the X-Ray Sky with ROSAT |
3/7/86 | Compton J. | Tucker | GSFC | Global Monitoring of Vegetation Dynamics from Space |
10/3/97 | Compton J. | Tucker | GSFC | Our Planet: Vegetation Trends and Anomalies |
2/27/19 | Compton | Tucker | Goddard Space Flight Center | Dinosaurs, Milankovitch Cycles & Back to a Cretaceous Earth |
10/9/91 | Edward R. | Tufte | Yale Univ. | Envisioning Information |
4/15/66 | John W. | Tukey | Princeton | Uses of Numerical Spectrum Analysis in Geophysics |
4/22/88 | Don | Turcotte | Cornell | Fractals in Geophysics |
2/5/71 | Karl K. | Turekian | Yale | An Ocean for the Earth |
3/15/85 | Karl K. | Turekian | Yale | Mantle Degassing and Planetary Veneering |
3/7/03 | Michael | Turner | Univ. of Chicago | The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Star Stuff We're Made of |
4/30/93 | J. Anthony | Tyson | AT&T Bell Labs | Gravitational Lenses |
9/25/98 | Douglas | Ubelaker | Smithsonian Inst. | Forensic Anthropology: Dead Men Tell Tales |
11/16/07 | Louis | Uccellini & | NOAA Ctr. Env. Predict | Use of Satellite Data in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction: Present Status and Future Challenges |
10/11/68 | S. M. | Ulam | Boulder-UC | Computations on Many Bodies and Continuous Gravitating Systems |
2/26/71 | Martin A. | Uman | Westinghouse | Lightning |
3/8/85 | Anne | Underhill | GSFC | The Riddle of the Wolf-Rayet Stars |
6/5/70 | Harold C. | Urey* | UC-San Diego | Is the Moon Older Than the Earth? |
12/15/95 | Meg | Urry | Space Telescope | Active Galaxies - the Multiwavelength Approach |
2/10/12 | Meg | Urry | Yale U. | The Interplay of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution |
5/25/73 | James A. | Van Allen | Iowa | Energetic Solar Electrons and Their Interplanetary Propagation |
2/3/78 | James A. | Van Allen | Iowa | Discovery of the Radiation Belts of the Earth |
6/9/67 | H.C. | Van de Hulst* | Netherl.-Leiden | Interstellar Magnetic Fields |
4/8/94 | Sidney | Van den Bergh | Dominion Univ. B.C. | The Local Group of Galaxies |
3/29/16 | Ewine | Van Dishoeck # | Leiden Universtiy | Where Does the Water in Our Oceans Come from? |
6/2/06 | Ewine | van Dishoeck* | Leiden Observatory | From Molecules to Planets |
2/7/75 | R.J. | Van Duinen | Netherl.-Groningen | First Results from the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite |
11/29/17 | Dennis | Van Engelsdorp | University of Maryland | Drivers of Honey Bee Colony Losses |
10/8/76 | Thomas | Van Flandern | USNO | Is Gravity Getting Weaker? |
5/8/98 | Jan | Van Paradijs | Alabama, Huntsville | Recent Developments in Gamma Ray Bursts |
4/19/02 | Cindy Lee | VanDover | College of William and Mary | Deep-Ocean Journeys: Volcanoes and Life |
10/10/86 | Frank C. | Vasek | UC-Riverside | Creosote Bush - The Plant of Ages |
5/27/15 | John | Veil | Veil Environmental | Fracking - Evil Scourge or Game-changing Technology? |
1/25/91 | Wilfred | Veldkamp | MIT | Binary Optics Lights the Way to New Imaging Sensors |
1/25/74 | George | Veronis | Yale | Jupiter's Red Spot |
2/12/88 | Joseph | Veverka | Cornell | Satellites of the Outer Solar System |
4/6/16 | Sara | Via | University of Maryland | Climate Change Effects on Native Plants |
10/1/99 | Steven | Vogel | Duke | Locating Life's Limits with Dimensionless Numbers |
5/19/67 | Wernher | Von Braun | Marshall SF Ctr. | Antarctica as a Lunar Logistics Laboratory |
9/17/71 | Wernher | Von Braun | NASA HQ | The Scientific Objectives of the Skylab and Space Shuttle Programs |
9/23/66 | Russel | Von Eshleman | Stanford | Bistatic Radar Astronomy |
2/16/73 | Sebastian | Von Hoerner | NRAO-Greenbank | Population Explosion and Interstellar Expansion |
9/27/85 | Tycho | Von Rosenvinge | GSFC | The ICE Encounter with Comet Giacobini-Zinner |
5/13/11 | John | Wahr | U. Colorado | The GRACE Satellite Mission: Using Time-Variable Gravity to Study the Earth |
3/6/98 | Robert | Wald | Chicago | Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and the Information 'Paradox' |
2/12/71 | Robert M. | Walker | Wash.U.-St.Louis | Rocks as Particle Detectors |
11/5/71 | James C. G. | Walker | Yale | Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere |
10/21/77 | Robert M. | Walker | Wash.U.-St.Louis | Application of Physical Science Techniques to Art and Archaeology |
11/21/80 | James C. G. | Walker | Michigan | Atmospheric History Recorded in Stone |
4/19/85 | Arthur B.C. | Walker | Stanford | Science from the Moon Base |
11/9/12 | Lucianne | Walkowicz | Princeton University | Stellar Magnetic Activity with Kepler: Understanding Exoplanets in Light of their Host Stars |
6/10/83 | John M. | Wallace* | Washington-Seattle | Frontiers in Long-Range Weather Forecasting |
3/22/85 | John | Walsh | South Florida | Ocean Color |
11/22/91 | John | Walsh | U. Illinois | Arctic Climate: Changes & Relationships to Poss. Global Warming |
4/6/84 | Willem | Wamsteker | Spain-ESA/VILSPA | IUE: A 45-cm UV Window on the Explosive Universe |
4/18/03 | Daniel | Wang | Univ. of Massachusetts | The Heart of the Milky Way |
2/22/17 | Stephen | Warren | University of Washington | Climate of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
10/22/65 | James W. | Warwick | Boulder-UC | Nonthermal Radio Emission from Jupiter |
1/7/94 | Warren | Washington | NCAR | New Findings from Computer Simulations of the Greenhouse Effect |
3/28/69 | Gerald J. | Wasserburg | Caltech | Times of Formation of Plan. Objects/Early History of Solar System |
6/7/96 | Gerry | Wasserburg* | Cal. Tech. | Radioactive Nuclei in the Interstellar Medium |
9/12/86 | Ira | Wasserman | Cornell U. | Evolution of Wide Binary Star Systems |
1/8/93 | Joseph | Waters | JPL | UARS MLS Experiment: New Results on Stratospheric Ozone Depletion |
3/1/06 | Harold | Weaver, Jr. | Applied Physics Lab | Pluto: Gateway to the Solar System's Third Zone |
1/31/69 | Joseph | Weber | Maryland | Gravitational Radiation Experiments |
9/15/72 | Joseph | Weber | Maryland | Gravitational Radiation Experiments |
5/31/85 | Peter | Webster | Penn State | El Nino and the Monsoon |
4/3/98 | Peter | Webster | Colorado | Monsoons - Processes and Predictions |
1/31/86 | Trevor C. | Weekes | Harvard-SAO | High-Energy Observations of Cygnus X-3 |
11/21/03 | Trevor C. | Weekes | Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs. | Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics |
2/6/76 | Alvin M. | Weinberg | Oak Ridge | Is Nuclear Energy Acceptable? |
2/10/89 | David | Weishampel | Johns Hopkins Med. | New Discoveries of Dinosaurs |
4/8/77 | Rainer | Weiss | MIT | Prospects for Experimental Relativity in Space |
5/9/17 | Rainer | Weiss # | MIT | Observation of the Merger of Binary Black Holes: the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
3/17/00 | Martin | Weisskopf | MSFC | Early Results from the Chandra Observatory |
3/6/87 | Paul | Weissman | JPL | Comet Showers and Biological Extinctions |
9/28/79 | Donat G. | Wentzel | Maryland | The Solar Corona: A Cosmic Laboratory |
11/9/01 | William | Wergin | US. Dept. Agriculture | Structure and Metamorphosis of Frozen Precipitation As Observed with Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscopy |
3/12/04 | Michael | Werner | Jet Propulsion Lab | Early Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope |
6/13/14 | Michael | Werner | Jet Propulsion Lab | 10 Years of Infrared Exploration with the Spitzer Space Telescope |
9/19/18 | Robert | Weryk | University of Hawaii | `Oumuamua: the First Interstellar Comet |
5/10/68 | Eugene | Wescott | GSFC | Magnetospheric Dynamics |
5/2/80 | Robert L. | Wesson | USGS-Reston | Earthquake Prediction |
4/24/98 | Geoffrey | West | Los Alamos | The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology |
11/17/00 | Michael | West | Advanced Cell Technology | Telomeres, Cellular Immortality, and Cloning: Opportunities and Challenges |
9/26/69 | Gart | Westerhout | Maryland | The Spiral Structure of Our Galaxy |
10/13/78 | Gart | Westerhout | USNO | Providing the Foundations of Astronomy |
3/27/81 | James A. | Westphal | Caltech | The Universe as Viewed from Space Telescope |
5/17/91 | James A. | Westphal | Caltech | Results from Wide Field Planetary Camera on Hubble Space Telescope |
2/16/01 | Andrew | Westphal | Cal. Berkeley | The Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays: New Results from the Russian Space Station |
5/4/79 | George W. | Wetherill | Carnegie-DTM | The Origin of Meteorites |
6/5/87 | George W. | Wetherill | Carnegie-DTM | Formation of the Terrestrial Planets |
1/11/80 | Ray J. | Weymann | Arizona | Binary Quasars & Other Distant Phenom. with Multi-Mirror Telescope |
5/4/73 | John | Wheeler | Princeton | Black Holes and Cosmology |
3/29/91 | John | Wheeler | Princeton-IAS | Part of Missing Mass as Early Black Holes from Gravity Wave Chaos |
11/2/73 | Fred L. | Whipple | Harvard-SAO | Comets |
12/4/98 | Stanley | Whitcomb | CalTech | The LIGO Project |
9/30/88 | Nicholas E. | White | ESA-ESTEC | Highlights from the EXOSAT Observatory |
9/22/89 | Timothy D. | White | UC-Berkeley | Hominids in Africa |
5/25/90 | James | White | Biosys | Building Better Worms for Insect Control: From Lab to Marketplace |
10/5/01 | Charles | Whitney | Harvard | The Milky Way: An Elephant in the Sky |
6/11/10 | Mark | Whittle | U. Virginia | Primal Scream: Sounds from the Infant Universe |
4/26/96 | Carl | Wieman | Inst.Lab.Astrophys. | Bose-Einstein Condensates |
4/19/68 | Anthony J. | Wiener | Hudson Inst., NY | Technology and Society in the Year 2000 |
12/7/73 | Eugene P. | Wigner | Princeton | Measurement Theory and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics |
4/14/72 | John M. | Wilcox | Stanford | Stellar, Solar, Interplanetary and Geomagnetic Fields |
9/29/72 | Paul | Wild | Australia-CSIRO | Solar Radio Astronomy |
4/2/93 | Robert | Wilhelmson | Illinois | Probing Atmospheric Flows in an Interactive & Distributed Environ. |
5/6/83 | David | Wilkinson | Princeton | Cosmology and the Microwave Background |
2/20/81 | Donald J. | Williams | NOAA-Boulder | A New Perception of Solar Terrestrial Physics: Results from ISEE |
12/10/82 | Harold | Williams | Canada-Newfoundland | Changing Ideas in Development of Appalachian Mountain Chain |
1/22/88 | Ellen | Williams | U. Maryland | Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy: Implementation and Applications |
5/5/95 | Richard | Williams | US Geological Surv. | Global Monitoring of Fluctuations of Glaciers |
4/13/01 | Terrie | Williams | U.Cal. Santa Cruz | Deep Diving Strategies of Marine Mammals |
3/15/02 | David | Williams | Univ. of Rochester | The Limits of Human Vision |
9/20/02 | Darrel | Williams | GSFC | LANDSAT at 30- Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future |
12/9/15 | Ellen | Williams | Department of Energy | Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy: Innovation for Impact |
11/19/99 | Richard | Williams& | U.S. Geological Survey | Iceland: Dynamic Land of Ice and Fire |
1/25/02 | Gerard | Williger | Johns Hopkins | Large Quasar Groups |
5/9/80 | Robert | Wilson | UK-Un.Coll.,London | The Impact on Astronomy by the IUE Satellite |
3/16/84 | Robert E. | Wilson | Florida | What is New and Exciting in Binary Star Evolution |
4/14/00 | Frank | Wilson | U. Calif. San Francisco | Preternatural Pentadactyly in the Age of Planetary Probes: Can We Explore Mars Without Astronauts? |
6/11/76 | J. Tuzo | Wilson* | Canada-Ontario | The History and Development of Plate Tectonics |
1/5/90 | John | Winchester | Florida State U. | Aerosol Components in Remote Atmospheres: Acid & Smoke Pollution |
1/14/72 | John | Winckler | Minnesota | Magnetospheric Substorms: Origin of Van Allen Radiation Belt |
10/6/95 | Brian | Winer | Fermilab | Discovery of the Top Quark |
4/9/10 | Warren | Wiscomb | GSFC | The Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program (ARM): A Revolutionary Approach to Field Campaigns |
5/11/84 | Warren | Wiscombe | GSFC & NYU | A Historical Perspective on the CO-2 Problem |
3/31/89 | Jack | Wisdom | MIT | Chaos in the Solar System |
1/28/94 | Jack | Wisdom | MIT | Chaos and the Solar System |
2/15/08 | Jennifer | Wiseman | GSFC | The Wave(length)s of the Future: Observing Star and Planet Formation with ALMA and Herschel |
5/10/13 | Jennifer | Wiseman | GSFC | Hubble at 23! |
1/23/98 | Steven | Wofsy | Harvard | Atmospheric Science in Extreme Environments: Arctic Bogs to Ozone Holes |
5/30/80 | Charles A. | Wood | GSFC | Volcanoes and Rift Valleys in the Solar System |
9/28/01 | Charles | Wood | Biosphere 2 | Science Education and History at Biosphere 2 |
1/30/81 | Bruce E. | Woodgate | GSFC | Solar Flares--The News from SMM |
2/15/85 | Bruce E. | Woodgate | GSFC | New Results from the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) |
10/24/97 | Bruce | Woodgate | GSFC | Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
3/4/88 | Stanford | Woosley | UC-Santa Cruz | Supernova 1987a: One Year Later |
2/11/11 | Ned | Wright | UCLA | Exploring the Universe with WISE |
12/12/18 | Ernie | Wright | Goddard Space Flight Center | CSI Apollo: Recreating the Iconic Earthrise Photograph |
10/23/92 | Klaus | Wyrtki | U. Hawaii | Forty Years of Oceanography |
2/17/16 | Angel | Yanagihara | University of Hawaii | From Beach to Bench and Back: The Science of the Box Jellyfish Sting |
11/17/78 | Hatten S. | Yoder | Carnegie-GL | The Interior of the Earth and Generation of Magmas |
10/7/83 | James A. | York | Maryland | Chaotic Dynamical Processes |
5/3/85 | Andrew T. | Young | San Diego State | Color and Sulfur on Io |
1/9/87 | Richard E. | Young | NASA-Ames | The Vega Venus Balloon Mission |
2/23/90 | Judith S. | Young | U. Massachusetts | Molecular Clouds and Star Formation and Galaxies |
2/7/97 | Rich | Young | NASA Ames | Refined Results from the Galileo Probe |
3/19/10 | Suzanne | Young | U. Massachusetts | The Phoenix Mission to Mars: Top Ten Discoveries of NASA’s Innovative Explorer of the Red Planet and the Implications for Bio-habitability |
12/15/67 | Harold S. | Zapolsky | Maryland | Astronomical Tests of General Relativity |
3/22/91 | Michael | Zeilik | New Mexico | Microwave Observations of the Planet Mercury |
11/17/89 | Patrick | Zimmerman | NCAR_Boulder | Termites and Their Possible Climatic Impact |
1/18/91 | Norton D. | Zinder | Rockefeller U. | The Human Genome Program |
1/29/71 | Harold | Zirin | Caltech | Solar Flares |
1/28/77 | Jack B. | Zirker | Sac Peak | Coronal Holes |
10/27/00 | Maria | Zuber | MIT | Seasonal Variations, Climate Change and the Thermal History of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor Topography and Gravity |
10/11/02 | Steven | Zubrick | National Weather Service | The Washington DC Tornado of 24 September 2001: Pre-Storm Environment and Radar Perspectives Plus a Preliminary Look at the 28 April La Plata Maryland F4 Tornado |
3/15/13 | Steven | Zubrick | NOAA | Some Meteorological Aspects of the Derecho of June 29, 2012 |
4/27/12 | Kathyrn | Zurek | U. Michigan | Theories of Dark Matter and Their Observational and Experimental Signatures |
11/4/88 | Jay | Zwally | GSFC | Polar Ice Sheets and Global Change |
1/13/67 | Fritz | Zwicky | Caltech | Morphology of Extra-Galactic Research |
9/23/15 | Multiple Speaker | GSFC | 50 Years of the Goddard Scientific Colloquium | |
3/29/19 | Multiple | Our Years with Piers: A Tribute to Piers Sellers |