Juan Gualterio Roederer
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Juan G. Roederer is a professor of physics emeritus at the
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(UAF). His research fields are space physics, psychoacoustics, science policy and information theory. He conducted pioneering research on solar cosmic rays, on the theory of earth's radiation belts, neural networks for pitch processing, and currently on the foundations of information theory. He is also an accomplished organist.


Career

Roederer was born in
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,
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, on September 2, 1929. He lived as a child in
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,
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, where he went to primary school. In 1939 his family emigrated to
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where he completed his education. In high school he met physicist Beatriz Cougnet who would become his wife and research partner. Roederer earned a Ph.D. in physical-mathematical sciences at
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,
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in 1952 where he studied with
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. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as guest research scientist at
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's
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,
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. From 1959 to 1966 he was professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1967 he moved to the United States where he became professor of physics at the
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,
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. In 1977 he was appointed director of the
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at
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, a post he held until 1986; during that time he also served four years as dean of the College of Environmental Sciences. From 1987 until 2014 he taught and conducted research at the University of Alaska, which conferred him emeritus status in 1993. A visiting staff member of the
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since 1978, he was chairman of its advisory committee on Earth and Space Sciences from 1983 to 1988. From 1986 to 1992 he served two United States presidents as chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Between 1997 and 2003 he was senior adviser to the director of the
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in
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, Italy. He now lives in
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, Colorado, where one of his activities is writing politically oriented letters to the local newspaper The Daily Camera. He served as member and chairman of several United States Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council committees, and was president of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy and of the ICSU Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics


Publications

Roederer is author of 250 articles in scientific journals.ISI Web of KnowledgeSM
He is author and editor of various books * Roederer, J.G., 2015: Electromagnetismo Elemental, Eudeba, Buenos Aires, 419 pp. * Roederer, J.G., 1962: Mecanica Elemental, Eudeba, Buenos Aires. Last Edition 2002. * Roederer, J.G., 1970: Dynamics of Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation. Springer, Berlin, 187 pp. (translated into Russian). * Roederer, J.G., 1973: Physics and Psychophysics of Music. Springer, New York, 161 pp. (translated into German, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese). Fourth Edition 2008, 226 pp. * Roederer, J.G. (ed.), 1983: Progress in Solar-Terrestrial Physics. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, The Netherlands/Boston, USA, 442 pp. * Malone, T.F., Roederer, J.G. (eds.), 1985: Global Change : The Proceedings of a Symposium. Cambridge University Press, 512 pp. * Roederer, J.G., 2005: Information and its Role in Nature. Springer, Heidelberg, 250 pp. * Roederer, J.G., Zhang, H., 2014: Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles. Springer, Heidelberg, 192 pp.


Awards and honors

* Fellow of the
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(1977) * Fellow of the
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(1980) * Senior Research Fellow of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1964–1966) * Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Science of Argentina (1983) * Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Science of Austria (1985) * Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (1990) * Edward A. Flinn III Award of the
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(2000) * Honorary Member of the Argentina Physical Association * Honorary Member of the Argentine Association of Geodesists and Geophysicists * Recipient of the medal "100 Years of International Geophysics" of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences (awarded to 100 geophysicists worldwide) * Recipient of four
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Group Achievement Awards for his collaboration in the Galileo Mission to Jupiter


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roederer, Juan G. 21st-century American physicists University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty University of Buenos Aires alumni Living people 1929 births Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science