Robert Allan Langel III

Background

III, Robert Allan Langel was born on May 25, 1937 in Pittsburgh. Son of Robert Allan II and Fay Mildred (Harvey) L.

Education

AB, Wheaton College, 1959; Master of Science, U. Maryland., 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Maryland., 1973.

Career

Physicist, United States Naval Research Laboratory, 1959-1962; physicist microwave antennas, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1963-1964; magnetospheric physicist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1964-1974; geophysicist magnetic fields satellite project, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1974-1997. Visiting scholar Bullard laboratories, Cambridge (England) University, 1983-1984, Purdue University, 1992-1993, Copenhagen U., 1994. Member Executive Committee National Geomagnetic Workshop, 1992.

Co-principal investigator magnetic field modeling Orsted Satellite Project, Denmark, since 1993.

Achievements

• Robert Allan Langel III has been listed as a noteworthy Geophysicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Director youth Grace Brethren Church, Temple Hills, Maryland., 1965-1968. Director college-career Berwyn Baptist Church, College Park, Maryland., 1975-1989, director singles, 1989-1991. Fellow American Geophysical Union.

Member International Association Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (vice chair Division I 1983-1987, chair working group on main field and secular variation 1987-1991).

Connections

Married Carolyn May Wills, June 13, 1959. Children: Kathleen Carol, Susan Lynn, Joy Christine.

Father:

Robert Allan II L.

Mother:

Fay Mildred (Harvey) L.

Spouse:

Carolyn May Wills

child:

Susan Lynn III

child:

Joy Christine III

child:

Kathleen Carol III