Donald A. Gurnett

James A. Van Allen/Roy J. Carver Professor of Physics

Contact Information

• 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 Home Page
• The Department of Physics and Astronomy