Donald A. Gurnett
James A. Van Allen/Roy J. Carver Professor of Physics
Contact Information
U.S. Mail:
Donald A. Gurnett
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa
Iowa City
,
IA
52242-1479
Internet:
donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu
Office location:
715 Van Allen Hall
Office phone:
fax:
319 335 1697
319 335 1753
Sounds of Space
Lectures:
From the Dawn of the Space Age to the Edge of the Solar System
, 26th Annual Presidential Lecture, The University of Iowa, February 15, 2009
Lightning in Planetary Atmospheres
, American Geophysical Union Franklin Lecture, San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2006
The Search for Water at Mars
, Iowa City, Iowa, February 3, 2004
Sounds of Space and the Kronos Quartet 'Sun Rings'
, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2002
(48-minute MPEG)
or
(five 10-minute MPEG segments)
Physics of Flight
(14M PDF file)
Course Web Pages
Biographical Information
List of Spacecraft Projects
Publications
Graduate Advisee Theses
In 1998, elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
In 2004, elected a member of the
National Academy of Arts and Sciences
In April 2006, received the Hannes Alfven Medal from the European Geosciences Union
(Photo)
Space Plasma Wave Research
Group
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