Fran Bagenal
Planetary scientist
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Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 4 November 1954) is a Professor Emerita of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.
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| Born | 4 November 1954 Dorchester, Dorset, England |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Planetary science |
| Institutions | NASA |
Early life
Bagenal is from Dorchester, England, and grew up near Cambridge.[1]
Career
Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.[2] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[1] Bagenal chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.[3] She appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.[4]
Honors
- Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[5]
- James Van Allen Lecture award of the American Geophysical Union in 2018[6][7]
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [8]
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 [9]
- The outer main-belt asteroid 10020 Bagenal, discovered by astronomer Schelte J. Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.[10] The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103974).[11]
Selected publications
- Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
- Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.