Stanislav I. Braginsky was a Research Geophysicist at
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...
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In 1964, he contributed to models of the
geodynamo
In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid can ...
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
American Geophysical Union
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awarded him the
John Adam Fleming Medal for contributions to geomagnetism.
Selected publications
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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
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