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III, Joseph Carter Cain was born on October 31, 1930 in Georgetown, Kentucky, United States. Son of Joseph Carter Junior and Anna Elizabeth (Virgin) C.
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Joseph Carter Cain III
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Joseph Carter Cain III, American Educator, researcher. Fellow American Geophysical Union (president geomagnetism and paleomagnetism section 1974-1976); member International Association Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (chairman internal fields division 1973-1975, chairman United States National Committee 1976-1980), Sigma Xi.
Education
Bachelor of Science, U. Alaska, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Alaska, 1957.
Career
Physicist Geophysical Institute,, U. Alaska, College, 1952-1957; assistant professor geophysical research, U. Alaska, College, 1957-1959; physicist fields and particles branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1959-1963; head world magnetic survey section, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1963-1971; physicist Laboratory for Space Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1971-1972; physicist applications division geophysics branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1973-1974; geophysicist branch theoretical and applied geophysics, United States Geological Survey Office Geochemistry and Geophysics, Reston, Virginia, 1974-1975; geophysicist branch theoretical and applied geophysics, United States Geological Survey, Denver, 1983-1986; research associate, Cooperative Institute Research Environmental Science, Boulder, Colorado, 1986; associate in geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1987-1995; scientist, scholar Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1996. Advisor American Institute Physics, since 1991.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Geophysical Union (president geomagnetism and paleomagnetism section 1974-1976). Member International Association Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (chairman internal fields division 1973-1975, chairman United States National Committee 1976-1980), Sigma Xi.
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Married Ann Ottney, June 8, 1959 (divorced February 1968). 1 child, Jeffrey S.; married Shirley Jane Twigg, April 13, 1968. Children: Joseph Carter 4th, Roger D., M. Thomas, Timothy E.
