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1. Photo of Eugene Parker. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images. 2. Eugene Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, visiting the spacecraft that bears his name on October 3, 2017, in the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where the probe was designed and built. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman.

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1. Photo of Eugene Parker. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images. 2. Eugene Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, visiting the spacecraft that bears his name on October 3, 2017, in the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where the probe was designed and built. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is named after pioneering solar and plasma physicist Eugene N. Parker (Jun 10, 1927 – Mar 15, 2022). It is the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person.
In the 1950s, Parker proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted the shape of the solar magnetic field. In 1987, he proposed nanoflares to explain why the corona is much hotter than the Sun’s surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Parker
https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.php?articleID=176
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