Juan Gualterio Roederer

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Juan Gualterio Roederer
Born	September 2, 1929 (1929-09-02) (age 78) Trieste, Italy
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Space physics, Psychoacoustics, Science policy, 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
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)

Juan Gualterio 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, and on neural networks for pitch processing.^[1]

Contents 1 Career 2 Publications 3 Awards and Honors 4 References

[edit] 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 scientists at Werner Heisenberg's Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen, Germany. From 1959 to 1966 he was professor of physics at that university. 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 world-renowned 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 at UAF. Since 1987 he teaches and conducts research at the University of Alaska. 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 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]

[edit] Publications

Roederer is author of 250 articles in scientific journals^[3]. He is author and editor of various books^[4]

• Roederer, J.G., 1962: Mecanica Elemental.
• Roederer, J.G., 1970: Dynamics of Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation. Springer, Berlin, 187 pp. (translated in Russian).
• Roederer, J.G., 1973: Physics and Psychophysics of Music. Springer, New York, 161 pp. (translated into German, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese).
• Roederer, J.G. (ed.), 1983: Progress in Solar-Terrestrial Physics. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, The Netherlands/Boston, USA, 442 pp. (reprinted from Space Science Reviews 34, 1 to 4).
• Malone, T.F., Roederer, J.G. (eds.), 1985: Global Change : The Proceedings of a Symposium. Cambridge University Press, 512 pp.
• Roederer, J.G., 2005: Information and its Role in Nature. Springer, Heidelberg, 250 pp.

[edit] Awards and Honors

• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1977)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980)
• Senior Research Fellow of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1964-1966)
• Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Science of Argentina (1983)
• Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Science of Austria (1985)
• Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1990)
• Edward A. Flinn III Award of the American Geophysical Union (2000)
• Honorary Member of the Argentine Association of Geodesists and Geophysicists
• Recipient of the medal "100 Years of International Geophysics" of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences (awarded to 100 geophysicists worldwide)

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