Stanton Jerrold Peale

Background

Peale, Stanton Jerrold was born on January 23, 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Frederick and Edith May (Murphy) Peale.

Education

Biosystems Engineering, Purdue University, 1959; Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Cornell Univercity, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Physics, Cornell Univercity, 1965.

Career

Research assistant, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1962-1964; research associate, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1964-1965; assistant research geophysicist, assistant professor astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965-1968; assistant professor physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968-1970; associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970-1976; professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976-1994; professor emeritus, research professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1994. Member committee lunar and planetary exploration NAS-National Research Council, Washington, 1980-1984, lunar and planetary geoscience review panel, 1979-1980, 86-89, 94-96, Planetary Sys. Science Working Group, 1988-1993, Lunar and Planetary Science Council, 1984-1987, member committee astronomy and astrophysics, since 1997.

Lunar science advisory group National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 1970-1972. Member Keck time allocation committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1996-1998.

Achievements

• Stanton Jerrold Peale has been listed as a noteworthy Physics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (Newcomb Cleveland prize 1979), American Geophysical Union. Member American Astronomical Society (divisions planet science and dynamic astronomy, Dirk Brouwer award 1992), International Astronomical Union.

Interests

• Avocation: gardening.

Connections

Married Priscilla Laing Cobb. June 25, 1960; children: Robert Edwin, Douglas Andrew.

Father:

Robert Frederick Peale

Mother:

Edith May (Murphy) Peale

Spouse:

Priscilla Laing Cobb

child:

Robert Edwin Peale

child:

Douglas Andrew Peale