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Born 6 Nov. 1927 Tacoma WA, USArmy 1946-7. Married Dorothy DelBourgo 1956, Children Kenneth and David, divorced, Married Janet Schuffenhouer April 1969, adopted her children, Deidre and Todd.
Ph.D Cornell 1955, Philip Morrison advisor. Fulbright fellow 1954-5 at Institut for Theoretisk Physik, Copenhagen, Denmark. NRC associateship at Naval Research Laboratory 1955-56, took first and only job at University of Minnesota. Retired from teaching June 1998, kept up research.
Waves and instabilities in plasmas (experimental and theoretical), particularly: experiments on satellites to measure the naturally occurring waves in the earth's magnetosphere and in the solar system. Currently our group has experiments on four spacecraft orbiting the sun, measuring the electric and magnetic fields of the waves and turbulence of the solar wind.