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Stan Cowley

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

1947 (age 77–78)
EducationCaludon Castle School
Alma materImperial College London (PhD)
AwardsChapman Medal (1991)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsSolar-planetary physics[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado
University of Leicester
ThesisSelf-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets (1972)
Academic advisorsJames Dungey[2]
Doctoral students
Websitele.ac.uk/people/stanley-cowley Edit this at Wikidata

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]

Education

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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

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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

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Emma Bunce and Stan Cowley in 2006

References

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  1. ^ a b Stan Cowley publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Cowley, Stanley William Herbert (1972). Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/16302. OCLC 930651468.
  3. ^ a b 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. Free access icon
  4. ^ a b Fox, Nicola Justine (1995). Ionospheric convection during substorms (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/104251. OCLC 53652582.
  5. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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 Edit this at Wikidata
  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. ^ a b Anon (2020). "Professor Stan Cowley". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2020.


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