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Michelle Thomsen

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American space physicist

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Planetary Science
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According to Wikipedia, Michelle F. Thomsen is space physicist known for her research on the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Education and career Thomsen received an undergraduate degree from Colorado College in 1971. She then earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Iowa. Her doctoral advisor, James Van Allen, recruited her right from her entrance exam to work on the data from Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 on the radiation belts of Jupiter and Saturn. From 1977 until 1980 she remained at the University of Iowa as a postdoctoral scientist, and then left for the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie in Lindau, West Germany. In 1981 she joined Los Alamos National Laboratory. As of 2019, she is a guest scientist at Los Alamos and a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute.

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