Curiosity and chance
Abstract
The author recounts some stations of his professional life, which was to a large extent dedicated to active experimentation with plasma clouds in space and to the development of theoretical concepts for some intriguing plasmaphsical processes. The human and political environment of this work receives some coverage as well as his opinion of state and future of his discipline.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- May 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1029/96JA00136
- Bibcode:
- 1996JGR...10110541H
- Keywords:
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- Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic particles;
- trapped;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics;
- Space Plasma Physics: Active perturbation experiments;
- Space Plasma Physics: Ionization processes