Stan Cowley

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Stan Cowley
FRS
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Stan Cowley in 2016
Born
Stanley William Herbert Cowley

1947 (age 77–78)
Education Caludon Castle School
Alma mater Imperial College London (PhD)
Awards Chapman Medal (1991)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
Scientific career
Fields Solar-planetary physics [1]
Institutions University of Colorado
University of Leicester
Thesis Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets  (1972)
Academic advisors James Dungey [2]
Doctoral students
Website le.ac.uk/people/stanley-cowley OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Stanley William Herbert Cowley FRS [6] (born 1947) [7] is a British physicist, Emeritus Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the University of Leicester. [8] [9] [10]

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Education

Cowley was educated at Caludon Castle School, Coventry, and Imperial College, London, graduating with first class honours in physics in 1968. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial in 1972 for research supervised by James Dungey. [2]

Career and research

Cowley had a visiting Scholarship at the University of Colorado in 1972–73 before returning to Imperial, where was appointed a Lecturer in 1982, Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1988. He was appointed Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial in 1990 before moving in 1996 to the University of Leicester as Head of the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group. [11]

Cowley's primary research interest is the physical processes that shape the outer plasma environments of Earth and the magnetised planets. [1] [11]

Cowley's former doctoral students include Emma Bunce, [3] Nicola Fox, [4] and Caitriona Jackman. [5]

Honours and awards

Emma Bunce and Stan Cowley in 2006 Professor Emma Bunce and Professor Stan Cowley FRS 02.jpg
Emma Bunce and Stan Cowley in 2006

References

  1. 1 2 Stan Cowley publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Cowley, Stanley William Herbert (1972). Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/16302. OCLC   930651468.
  3. 1 2 Bunce, Emma J. (2001). Large-scale current systems in the Jovian magnetosphere. le.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Leicester. hdl:2381/30647. OCLC   505259820. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.696997. Lock-green.svg
  4. 1 2 Fox, Nicola Justine (1995). Ionospheric convection during substorms (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/104251. OCLC   53652582.
  5. 1 2 Jackman, Caitriona M. (2006). Solar wind-magnetosphere coupling at Saturn. le.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:2381/504. OCLC   500127581. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.432990.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2011). "Stanley Cowley". royalsociety.org. Royal Society . Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Anon (2007). "Cowley, Prof. Stanley William Herbert" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12102.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ le.ac.uk/people/stanley-cowley OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  9. ↑ Anon (2018). "Professor Stan Cowley — University of Leicester". le.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Anon (2018). "Congratulations to Professor Stan Cowley FRS — University of Leicester". le.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  11. 1 2 Anon (2020). "Professor Stan Cowley". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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