Article ID: CBB734006677

Memorable Events During a Research Career (2019)

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In this paper, I sketch a path through my research career in solar and heliospheric physics, recalling some memorable events and discoveries that occurred along the way. This chain of events begins with an influential Time magazine article in 1955 and progresses through a summer at Bell Labs, 9 years at Caltech, 7 years at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, 43 years at the Naval Research Laboratory, and ends with a digitized map of the Sun's Ca II K-Line emission in 1919 when the AGU was born. Accidents and puzzling results are often the keys to progress and should be examined carefully.

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Authors & Contributors
Abt, Helmut A.
Goodstein, Judith R.
Guerrini, Anita
Martin, John
Muñoz Muñoz, Ana M.
Oliver, Kendrick
Journals
Journal of Geophysical Research
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Physics in Perspective
British Journal for the History of Science
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
American Chemical Society
University of Minnesota
Universidad de Granada
Palmetto Publishing
Concepts
Career development
Autobiographies
Physics
Personal narratives
Space research and exploration
Research
People
Fowler, William A.
Kármán, Theodore von
Pauling, Linus Carl
Dicke, Robert Henry
Breslow, Ronald
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
China
Spain
Pasadena (California)
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
Bell Telephone Laboratories
National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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