Norman Frederick Ness

Background

Ness, Norman Frederick was born on April 15, 1933 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Herman Hugo and Eva (Carlson) Ness.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1959.

Career

Space physicist, assistant professor geophysics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959-1961; NAS-National Research Council postdoctoral research associate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960-1961; research physicist in space science, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1961-1986; head extraterrestrial physics branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1968-1969; chief Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1969-1986; professor, president Bartol Research Institute,, U. Delaware, Newark, since 1987; director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant College Space Consortium, Delaware, since 1991. Lecturer mathematics U. Maryland., 1962-1964, associate research professor, 1965-1967.

Achievements

• Norman Frederick Ness has been listed as a noteworthy Astrophysicist, educator, administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Geophysical Union (John Adam Fleming award 1965), Royal Astronomical Society. Member NAS, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Royal Ocean Racing Club.

Connections

Children: Elizabeth Ann, StephenAndrew.

Father:

Herman Hugo Ness

Mother:

Eva (Carlson) Ness

child:

StephenAndrew Ness

child:

Elizabeth Ann Ness