Charles Kennel
Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997. In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.
Charles F. Kennel | |
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| Born | August 20, 1939 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard College (A.B.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | NASA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA |
| Thesis | Low-frequency stability of spatially non-uniform plasmas (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward A. Frieman |
| Doctoral students | Mary Hudson |
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