Bonny L. Schumaker
American physicist and pilot
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Bonny L. Schumaker's Degrees
- Masters Aerospace Engineering Stanford University
- Bachelors Physics California Institute of Technology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bonny Laura Schumaker is an American physicist and pilot who worked on the LISA Pathfinder. In 2010 she founded the nonprofit "On Wings of Care", a charity which protects animals and environments. Early life and education Schumaker was born and raised in Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. She wanted to be a vet but was awarded a scholarship to study physics at the California Institite of Technology. She loved mathematics, and continued at the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a PhD in 1985. She worked under the supervision of Kip Thorne. Over six papers, her PhD thesis considered theoretical investigations into nonlinear quantum optics. She developed the mathematical theory of torsional oscillations in fully relativistic spherical stellar models and worked on homodyne detection. Her work considered two-photon physics using quadrature phase amplitudes, a technique now known as the Caves–Schumaker formalism, which has become a standard mathematical tool in optomechanics, quantum optics and gravitational wave science. She worked at Caltech as a postdoctoral research fellow for a year, before moving to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for her contributions to quantum optics. Schumaker trained as a pilot in 1996 and flew for Continental Airlines. She became a Federal Aviation Administration instructor in the mid nineties. She developed the Precision Optical INTerferometer in space that was proposed for the ASEPS-1 mission.
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