| Peter A. Sturrock
studied mathematics at Cambridge University (with an interruption for
radar research from 1944 until 1947) and was awarded the University Rayleigh
Prize in 1949, a Ph.D. in 1951, and a Prize Fellowship at St John's College
in 1952. After research at the National Bureau of Standards, the University
of Paris, the Cavendish Laboratory, and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment,
Sturrock went to Stanford University in 1955. After research at CERN,
the European Center for Nuclear Research (1957-58), he returned to Stanford
and was appointed professor in 1961. He was Professor of Applied Physics
from 1961 until 1998, and is now Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics
and of Physics. He served as Director of the Center for Space Science
and Astrophysics from 1992 until 1998, and as President of the Society
for Scientific Exploration from 1981 until 2001. He has also served as
Chairman of the Plasma Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society,
as Chairman of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical
Society
His research interests
have included electron physics, particle accelerators, plasma physics,
solar physics, astrophysics, and scientific inference. He has received
the annual prize of the Gravity Foundation (1967), the Hale Prize of the
American Astronomical Society (1986), the Arctowski Medal of the National
Academy of Sciences (1990), and the Space Science Award of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1992)
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