Margaret G. Kivelson

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Margaret Kivelson
Kivelson in 2007
Born
Margaret Galland Kivelson

(1928-10-21) October 21, 1928 (age 95)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRadcliffe College (A.B.),
Radcliffe College (A.M.),
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
UCLA (1967-present)
University of Michigan (2010-present)
Thesis Bremsstrahlung of High Energy Electrons  (1957)
Doctoral advisorJulian Schwinger[1][2]

Margaret Galland Kivelson (born October 21, 1928) is an American

planetary scientist, and distinguished professor emerita of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] From 2010 to the present, concurrent with her appointment at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist and scholar at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn
.

Recent research has also focused on Jupiter's

JUICE mission to Jupiter. Kivelson has published over 350 research papers and is co-editor of a widely used textbook on space physics (Introduction to Space Physics).[3]

Early life and education

Kivelson was born in New York City on October 21, 1928. Her father was a medical doctor and her mother had an undergraduate degree in physics.

Harvard's women's college in 1946, obtained her A.B. degree from Radcliffe in 1950, completed her master's degree in 1952, and was awarded her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1957.[4]

Career

Kivelson completed her PhD thesis "

Electrons
' in 1957. Her thesis provided an expression for the cross section of forward
Coulomb interaction.[2]

From 1955 to 1971 Kivelson worked as a consultant in physics at the

Harvard and MIT.[2]

Motivated by her experiences in academia through the Radcliffe Institute, Kivelson joined

National Research Council's Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research from 1989 to 1992, and co-chaired the UCLA Academic Faculty Senate's Committee on Gender Equality issues from 1998 to 2000.[4] In 2009 she became a distinguished professor of space physics, emerita and in 2010 she also took a position as a research professor at the University of Michigan.[3]

Scientific contributions

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Kivelson has had a very successful career as a scientist that include many publications and original work.[1] Some of her accomplishments are discovering an internal magnetic field at Ganymede,[6] providing compelling evidence for a sub-surface ocean at Europa,[7] and elucidating some of the processes explaining the behavior of ultralow frequency waves in the terrestrial magnetosphere,[8] the discovery of cavity mode oscillations in the magnetosphere,[9] developed new ways of describing wave-particle interactions in magnetohydrodynamic waves,[10] and provided insight into the mechanism of interchange diffusion in rotating plasmas.[11] This research has led Kivelson to being an author or co-author on over 350 publications that have accumulated over 12,000 citations.[12]

Gender gap

Some of Kivelson's recollections about establishing a career as a woman scientist have been documented in an interview by the American Astronomical Society and piece in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. When she started to pursue her undergraduate degree in physics her family joked she was really pursuing a "Mrs" degree. Before World War II, courses at Radcliffe were segregated by gender from courses at Harvard. When she attended Radcliffe/Harvard in the first class after the war, classes did not return to being segregated. She was often the only woman in her courses.[2]

Over the course of

Stanford, and afterwards she often faced criticism for continuing to work despite being a mother. In 1955 her husband received an appointment at UCLA and she followed him to Los Angeles. She started working part-time at the RAND Corporation while completing her thesis. A few months after receiving her PhD in 1957, she gave birth to her second child, Valerie Kivelson, now a professor of history at the University of Michigan.[2][13]

In 1973, Kivelson won a

Imperial College in London. She said "that fellowship gave me for the first time the sense that I was being taken seriously as a scientist. More than money, it gave me status and increased my self-confidence considerably."[2]

Honors and awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out". New York Times. October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124312
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  3. ^ a b c d e "Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics". Archived from the original on 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9781438118826
    .
  5. doi:10.1103/physrev.129.2376
    .
  6. S2CID 4246607
    .
  7. PMID 10958778
    .
  8. ISSN 0148-0227
    .
  9. S2CID 56251553
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  10. S2CID 55008683
    .
  11. ISSN 2156-2202
    .
  12. ^ "Margaret G. Kivelson". Thomson Reuters Citation Index. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  13. ^ "AAS Committee on the Status of Women: Interview with Margaret Kivelson". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
  14. ^ a b c "CLaSP mkivelso – Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering". clasp.engin.umich.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  15. ^ "1989 AAAS Fellow". Retrieved 2014-04-10.[permanent dead link]
  16. doi:10.1029/91EO00182
    . Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  17. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  18. ^ "2005 John Adam Fleming Medal Winner". Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  19. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  20. ^ "2017 Prize Recipients - Division for Planetary Sciences". dps.aas.org.
  21. ^ "EGU announces 2019 awards and medals". European Geosciences Union (EGU).
  22. ^ "Leading astronomers and geophysicists honoured by Royal Astronomical Society | The Royal Astronomical Society". ras.ac.uk.
  23. ^ "Margaret Kivelson". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  24. ^ "2020 APS Fall Prize & Award Recipients". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  25. ^ "2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-07-24.

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