Eugene Parker Quotes


The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.


Citations

Lerner, Louise. "NASA names spacecraft after UChicago physicist Eugene Parker." UChicago News, University of Chicago, 31 May 2017.

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Eugene Parker
Eugene Parker
  • Born: June 10, 1927
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Eugene Newman Parker is an American solar astrophysicist who—in the mid-1950s—developed the theory of the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer Solar System. In 1987, Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny "nanoflares", miniature brightenings resembling solar flares that would occur all over the surface of the Sun.