Stanley William Herbert Cowley

Background

Cowley, Stanley William Herbert was born on April 11, 1947 in Coventry, England. Son of Leslie and Jenny (Clarke) Cowley.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Imperial College, London, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, U. London, 1972; Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, Imperial College, 1972.

Career

Research assistant, Imperial College, 1975-1977; SERC advanced fellow, Imperial College, 1977-1982; lecturer, Imperial College, 1982-1985; reader in space physics, Imperial College, 1985-1988; professor physics, head space & atmospheric physics group, Imperial College, 19888-95; professor, head radio & space plasma physics group, Leicester (England) University, since 1996. Chairman International Association Geomagnetism and Aeronomy/division III International,1991-1995. Member European Incoherent Scatter (Radar Association) Council International, 1990-1995, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, Swindon, United Kingdom, 1994-1996.

Birkeland lecturer Norwegian Academy Science and Letters, 1994.

Achievements

• Stanley William Herbert Cowley has been listed as a noteworthy Solar-planetary physics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Astronomical Society (Chapman medal 1991), American Geophysical Union (Van Allen lecturer 1994). Member Institute Physics, European Geophysical Society.

Interests

• Avocations: painting, drawing.

Connections

Married Lynn Doreen Moore, August 15, 1970;children: William, James, Emma.

Father:

Leslie Cowley

Mother:

Jenny (Clarke) Cowley

Spouse:

Lynn Doreen Moore

child:

William Cowley

child:

Emma Cowley

child:

James Cowley