D. A. Gurnett

Donald A. Gurnett

James A. Van Allen/Roy J. Carver Emeritus Professor of Physics

Contact Information

U.S. Mail: Donald A. Gurnett
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1479
Internet: donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu
Office location: 715 Van Allen Hall
Office phone:
fax:
319 335 1697
319 335 1753


Link to photos taken during Don Gurnett's retirement celebration sponsored and hosted by the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy in June 2019.

The Gurnett Symposium was held on Oct. 16-17, 2015, on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.

Recent highlighted publications:

In Situ Observations of Interstellar Plasma With Voyager 1
by D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, L. F. Burlaga, and N. F. Ness, Science, 341, Issue 6153, 1489-1492, doi:10.1126/science.1241681, Sept. 27, 2013.

Plasma Densities Near and Beyond the Heliopause from the Voyager 1 and 2 Plasma Wave Instruments
by D. A. Gurnett and W. S. Kurth, Nature Astronomy, 3, 1024-1028, doi:10.1038/S41550-019-0918-5, Nov. 4, 2019.

A Foreshock Model for Interstellar Shocks of Solar Origin: Voyager 1 and 2 Observations
by D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, E. C. Stone, A. C. Cummings, B. Heikkila, N. Lal, S. M. Krimigis, R. B. Decker, N. F. Ness, and L. F. Burlaga, The Astrophysical Journal, in press, online December 3, 2020. link to accepted preprint.



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