Stanislav I. Braginsky was a Research Geophysicist at

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. In 1964, he contributed to models of the

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with his theory of the "nearly symmetric dynamo", published 1964. He emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1988. In 1992, the

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awarded him the John Adam Fleming Medal for contributions to geomagnetism.

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References

Living people University of California, Los Angeles faculty Soviet geophysicists Year of birth missing (living people) Soviet emigrants to the United States {{Geophysics-stub