Stanley William Herbert Cowley (born 1947) is a British physicist, emeritus Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the

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Career

He was educated at

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, Coventry, and

Imperial College, London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, graduating with first class honours in physics in 1968. He was awarded a Ph.D by Imperial in 1972. He had a visiting Scholarship at the

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in 1972–73 before returning to Imperial, where he became a Lecturer in 1982, Reader in 1985 and Professor in 1988. He was appointed Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial in 1990 before moving in 1996 to the

as Head of the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group. His primary research interest is the physical processes that shape the outer plasma environments of Earth and the magnetised planets.

Honours and awards

*2011: Elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

*2006: Julius Bartels Medal of the

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*2006:

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society is the highest award given by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). The RAS Council have "complete freedom as to the grounds on which it is awarded" and it can be awarded for any reason. Past awar ...

for Geophysics *1995: Elected a Fellow of the

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*1991:

Chapman Medal The Chapman Medal is an award of the Royal Astronomical Society, given for "investigations of outstanding merit in the science of the Sun, space and planetary environments or solar-terrestrial physics". It is named after Sydney Chapman (1888� ...

of the

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References

1947 births Living people Alumni of Imperial College London Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Fellows of the Royal Society Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society {{Scientist-stub