Tor Hagfors

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Tor Hagfors

Tor Hagfors (18 December 1930 – 17 January 2007) was a

7279 Hagfors
after him.

Early life

Tor Hagfors was born in Oslo in 1930. He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) and received his doctorate degree in 1959 from the University of Oslo.

Scientific work

Hagfors worked at the

Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts
in two periods, from 1963 to 1967 and from 1969 to 1971. In the early 1960s he was one of a handful of pioneering theorists (others included
University of Illinois
). [1]

From 1967 to 1969 he was director of the

Lurigancho, outside Lima, Peru. Between 1971 and 1973 he was site director at the Arecibo Observatory. He lectured electrical engineering at NTH from 1973 to 1982, and in 1975 he became the first director of the EISCAT scientific association, when the organization's facilities in northern Scandinavia were constructed.[2]
He held that position until 1982 when he returned to Cornell to direct NAIC.

From October 1982 to September 1992 Hagfors was director of the

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) at Cornell University in Ithaca NY, which operated the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico until September 30, 2011, and professor of astronomy and electrical engineering at Cornell University
.

In 1992 he was appointed director of the

Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Lindau (Katlenburg-Lindau) in Germany, a position he held until his retirement in 1998. Hagfors was chairman of EISCAT Council from 1995 to 1996, chairman of the space science committee in the Norwegian Research Council from 1992 to 1997, and member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1995. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Tromsø, Norway, Nagoya University in Japan, and Lancaster University in Great Britain
.

Hagfors's research was very broad, comprising amongst other things ionospheric modification (heating), radar astronomy within the Solar System, observations of planetary surfaces from space, techniques in radio remote sensing, scattering from rough surfaces, thermal fluctuations in complex plasmas, antennas and radio wave propagation. He published around 170 scientific papers.

Death

Tor Hagfors died of a

heart attack in Puerto Rico
on 17 January 2007.

Honours

Asteroid 1985 VD1 was named

7279 Hagfors
in 2000.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Incoherent Scatter Spectral Theories — Part I : A General Framework and Results for Small Magnetic Aspect Angles, E. Kudeki and M. Milla, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 49, 315-328, 2011(January 2011)~~~~
  2. ^ History of EISCAT – Part 1: On the early history of EISCAT with special reference to the Swedish part of it, B. Hultqvist, Hist. Geo Space Sci., 2, 115–121, 2011(19 December 2011)~~~~
  3. ^ Laureates Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine of the URSI Awards. Retrieved 16 June 2007
  4. ^ List of honorary doctorates Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine awarded at the University of Oulu on 25 May 2002. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  5. ^ Article in Tromsøflaket Archived 2008-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
Preceded by Director, Jicamarca Radio Observatory
1967–1969 		Succeeded by
Ron Woodman
Preceded by
N/A
 First Director, EISCAT Scientific Association
1975–1982 		Succeeded by
Murray Baron
Preceded by
Hal Craft
 Director of
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

1982–1992 		Succeeded by
Paul Goldsmith
Preceded by
Ian Axford
 Director of
Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy

1992–1998 		Succeeded by
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