Juan Gualterio Roederer

Juan G. Roederer
Born (1929-09-02) September 2, 1929
Trieste, Italy
Residence United States United States
Nationality United States American
Fields Space physics, Psychoacoustics, Information theory
Institutions University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Alma mater University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Ph.D. in 1952)
Known for Solar cosmic rays, Theory of earth’s radiation belts, Neural networks for pitch processing, Foundations of information theory
Notable awards AGU Fellow (1977), AAAS (1980), Edward A. Flinn III Award of the AGU (2000), Recipient of the medal "100 Years of International Geophysics" of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences (awarded to 100 geophysicists worldwide), NASA four Group Achievement Awards, Galileo Mission

Juan G. Roederer is a professor of physics emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (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.[1]

Career

Roederer was born in Trieste, Italy, on September 2, 1929. He lived as a child in Vienna, Austria, where he went to primary school. In 1939 his family emigrated to Argentina where he completed his education. Roederer earned a Ph.D. in physical-mathematical sciences at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1952. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as guest research scientist at Werner Heisenberg's Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen, Germany. 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 University of Denver, Colorado. In 1977 he was appointed director of the Geophysical Institute at UAF, a post held until 1986; during that time he also served four years as dean of the College of Environmental Sciences. From 1987 till 2014 he taught and conducted research at the University of Alaska, which conferred him emeritus status in 1993. A visiting staff member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory 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 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. He now lives in Boulder, Colorado. 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[2]

Publications

Roederer is author of 250 articles in scientific journals.[3] He is author and editor of various books

Awards and honors

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 03, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.