Joseph W. Chamberlain

Who is this?

Joseph Wyan Chamberlain (August 24, 1928 – April 14, 2004) was an American atmospheric scientist and astronomer whose work shaped modern studies of the upper atmosphere and planetary aeronomy. He developed a kinetic description of the collisionless exosphere that is widely used to model atmospheric escape. He wrote the monograph Physics of the Aurora and Airglow in 1961, described by colleagues as a "classic book," and later the graduate text Theory of Planetary Atmospheres with Donald M. Hunten. He received the American Astronomical Society's Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy in 1961 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965. Chamberlain died at home in Tucson, Arizona, on April 14, 2004, at 75.

Career

1. 1928
   Born
2. 1961
   Won Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
3. 1962
   Won Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
4. 2004
   Passed away
5. Member of National Academy of Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Boonville
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: researcher, astronomer, university teacher