Edward C. Stone

Edward C. Stone
Stone with a Voyager model in 1992
Born	Edward Carroll Stone January 23, 1936 (1936-01-23) (age 78)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago (M.S., Ph.D.)
Occupation	professor, physicist
Known for	JPL director and Voyager scientist

Edward Carroll Stone (born 23 January 1936^[1]) is an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).^[2][3]

Biography

Stone was born in Knoxville, Iowa, on January 23, 1936. After receiving his undergraduate education at Iowa's Burlington Junior College, Stone attended the University of Chicago where he earned his MS and Ph.D. in physics. Stone's astrophysics career goes back to his first cosmic-ray experiments on Discoverer satellites in 1961. He then joined the staff of Caltech as a research fellow, and became a full faculty member in 1967.

He was named professor of physics in 1976, and was chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy from 1983 to 1988. He has also served as director of the Caltech Space Radiation Laboratory, and as vice president for Astronomical Facilities. He is currently the Morrisroe Professor of Physics^[4] and the vice-chair of the Thirty Meter Telescope Board of Directors.^[5]

As project scientist for the unmanned Voyager spacecraft missions to the outer Solar System since 1972, and a major spokesman for the Voyager science team, he became especially well-known to the public in the 1980s. He has since been principal investigator on nine NASA spacecraft missions and coinvestigator on five more.

JPL director

Ed Stone receives an award from Nichelle Nichols on the 30th anniversary of the Voyager launches, 2007

Stone was the director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California from 1991 to 2001. During his tenure, the Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner rover were successful. Other JPL missions in the period included Mars Global Surveyor, Deep Space 1, TOPEX/Poseidon, NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT)^[6] and the launches of Cassini, Stardust, and 2001 Mars Odyssey.

Awards and honors

• Recipient of the 2007 Philip J. Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Recipient of the 1999 Carl Sagan Memorial Award
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Recipient of the National Medal of Science, 1991
• Recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

References

1. ↑ Edward C. Stone personal website
2. ↑ Streeter, Kurt (April 14, 2011). "A new frontier in quest to understand the cosmos". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 April 2011. 
3. ↑ JPL biography
4. ↑ JPL: Profile of Edward Stone
5. ↑ TMT Board of Directors
6. ↑ F. Naderi, M. H. Freilich, and D. G. Long, Spaceborne Radar Measurement of Wind Velocity Over the Ocean--An Overview of the NSCAT Scatterometer System, Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 850-866, Vol. 79, No. 6, June 1991,

External links

• Stone's web page
• Space Radiation Laboratory
• JPL Gallery for Ed Stone

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