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- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Michael Donahue was an American physicist, astronomer, and space and planetary scientist. Donahue graduated in 1942 from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri and received in 1947 his PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University, with an interruption of his graduate studies by WW II and service in the Army Signal Corps.
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- Extreme Ultraviolet Observations from Voyager 1 Encounter with Jupiter (1979) (688)
- The dynamics of a rapidly escaping atmosphere: Applications to the evolution of Earth and Venus (1981) (416)
- Venus Was Wet: A Measurement of the Ratio of Deuterium to Hydrogen (1982) (350)
- The composition of the Jovian atmosphere as determined by the Galileo probe mass spectrometer. (1998) (314)
- Ultraviolet Spectrometer Observations of Neptune and Triton (1989) (300)
- A low-temperature origin for the planetesimals that formed Jupiter (1999) (270)
- Stability of the Martian Atmosphere (1972) (269)
- Overview of the Voyager ultraviolet spectrometry results through Jupiter encounter (1981) (236)
- The Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer: Composition of Jupiter's Atmosphere (1996) (231)
- Extreme Ultraviolet Observations from the Voyager 2 Encounter with Saturn (1982) (204)
- Galileo Probe Measurements of D/H and 3He/4He in Jupiter's Atmosphere (1998) (190)
- Ultraviolet Spectrometer Observations of Uranus (1986) (186)
- Composition of the Venus lower atmosphere from the Pioneer Venus Mass Spectrometer (1980) (148)
- Evolution of a Nitrogen Atmosphere on Titan (1978) (147)
- Noctilucent clouds in daytime - Circumpolar particulate layers near the summer mesopause. (1972) (143)
- Noble gas abundance and isotope ratios in the atmosphere of Jupiter from the Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer (2000) (141)
- Distribution of atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere deduced from Ogo 6 airglow observations (1973) (133)
- The evolution of atmospheric ozone (1980) (131)
- Extreme ultraviolet observations from voyager 1 encounter with saturn. (1981) (122)
- Oxygen levels in the prebiological atmosphere (1979) (120)
- Oscillatory Phenomena in Direct Current Glow Discharges (1951) (119)
- Ultraviolet spectrometer experiment for the Voyager mission (1977) (110)
- Composition and thermal profiles of the Jovian upper atmosphere determined by the Voyager ultraviolet stellar occultation experiment (1981) (105)
- Methane flux from wetlands areas (1977) (104)
- The Aeronomy of Hydrogen in the Atmosphere of the Earth (1974) (101)
- Jupiter - Structure and composition of the upper atmosphere (1981) (100)
- Hydrogen Loss from the Terrestrial Planets (1976) (96)
- The Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer for the Huygens Probe (2002) (93)
- A mass spectrometer observation of NO in an auroral arc (1970) (86)
- Composition and Structure of the Venus Atmosphere: Results from Pioneer Venus (1979) (81)
- Sources and sinks of atmospheric N2O and the possible ozone reduction due to industrial fixed nitrogen fertilizers (1977) (80)
- Ion composition and ion chemistry in an aurora (1970) (77)
- The regulation of hydrogen and oxygen escape from Mars (1976) (77)
- Realistic Model of Hydrogen Constituents in the Lower Atmosphere and Escape Flux from the Upper Atmosphere (1974) (76)
- The Venus Atmosphere and Ionosphere and Their Interaction with the Solar Wind: an Overview (1997) (75)
- Electron Temperatures and Densities in the Venus Ionosphere: Pioneer Venus Orbiter Electron Temperature Probe Results (1979) (75)
- Excitation and radiative transport of OI 1304 A resonance radiation. I - The dayglow. II - The aurora (1970) (75)
- Theory, measurements, and models of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of Saturn (1984) (75)
- Past and present water budget of Venus (1992) (74)
- Ionosphere of Venus: First Observations of Day-Night Variations of the Ion Composition (1979) (73)
- Ionospheric reaction rates in the light of recent measurements in the ionosphere and the laboratory (1966) (71)
- Evolution of water reservoirs on Mars from D/H ratios in the atmosphere and crust (1995) (67)
- New Analysis of Hydrogen and Deuterium Escape from Venus (1999) (65)
- Ion/neutral Escape of Hydrogen and Deuterium: Evolution of Water (1997) (63)
- Mesospheric Hydrogen Related to Exospheric Escape Mechanisms (1974) (60)
- Ionosphere of Venus: First Observations of the Dayside Ion Composition Near Dawn and Dusk (1979) (59)
- The problem of atomic hydrogen (1966) (58)
- Distribution of sodium in the daytime upper atmosphere as measured by a rocket experiment (1967) (56)
- Model ionospheres of Jupiter (1976) (54)
- ESCAPE OF ATMOSPHERES AND LOSS OF WATER (1989) (54)
- The distribution of ammonia and its photochemical products on Jupiter (1977) (53)
- Sodium dayglow: Observation and interpretation of a large diurnal variation (1964) (52)
- Excitation of the auroral green line by dissociative recombination of the oxygen molecular ion: Analysis of two rocket experiments (1968) (51)
- The dayglow of the sodium D lines (1961) (49)
- Extreme Ultraviolet Observations from Voyager 2 Encounter with Jupiter (1979) (48)
- Effect of water vapor on the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere perturbed by ClX or NO x pollutants (1976) (46)
- A Search for Far-Ultraviolet Emissions from the Lunar Atmosphere (1973) (46)
- Spatial and temporal behavior of atomic oxygen determined by Ogo 6 airglow observations (1974) (45)
- Ionosphere of Venus: First Observations of the Effects of Dynamics on the Dayside Ion Composition (1979) (44)
- Excitation and radiative transport of OI 1304 Å resonance radiation—II: The aurora☆ (1970) (42)
- On the ionospheric conditions in the D region and lower E region (1966) (42)
- Ionospheric Composition and Reactions (1968) (41)
- Krypton and xenon in the atmosphere of Venus (1981) (41)
- UV stellar occultation measurements of nighttime equatorial ozone (1977) (40)
- Limitation of fertilizer induced ozone reduction by the long lifetime of the reservoir of fixed nitrogen (1976) (39)
- An interpretation of the Voyager measurement of jovian electron density profiles (1979) (39)
- Venus Ionosphere: Photochemical and Thermal Diffusion Control of Ion Composition (1979) (39)
- Deuterium in the upper atmospheres of Venus and Earth (1969) (38)
- Jupiter's Ionosphere: Prospects for Pioneer 10 (1974) (38)
- Atomic oxygen between 80 and 120 km: Evidence for a latitudinal variation in vertical transport near the mesopause (1979) (36)
- Rocket investigation of the auroral green line (1970) (36)
- The Upper Atmosphere of Venus: A Review (1968) (36)
- Analysis of Ogo 6 observations of the O I 5577-A tropical nightglow. (1972) (36)
- Positive ion chemistry of the D and E regions. (1972) (35)
- Climatic Impact Assessment Program (1975) (35)
- Venus Lower Atmospheric Composition: Preliminary Results from Pioneer Venus (1979) (34)
- The aeronomy of the upper atmosphere of Venus (1975) (33)
- Measurements of the spectral profile of Balmer alpha emission from the hydrogen geocorona (1980) (33)
- The altitude of the scattering layer near the mesopause over the summer poles. (1973) (31)
- The Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer Aboard Huygens (1997) (31)
- Hydrogen and deuterium in the thermosphere of Venus: Solar cycle variations and escape (1996) (30)
- An observation of the helium I 584‐A dayglow radiation between 400 and 1000 km (1971) (29)
- Jovian upper atmospheric temperature measurement by the Voyager 1 UV spectrometer (1979) (29)
- Lyman α scattering in the Earth's hydrogen geocorona: 2. (1963) (28)
- Search for Jovian auroral hot spots (1977) (28)
- Temperatures in a runaway greenhouse on the evolving Venus: implications for water loss (1984) (27)
- Venus methane and water (1993) (27)
- The temperature gradient between 100 and 120 km (1975) (26)
- Fractionation of noble gases by thermal escape from accreting planetesimals (1986) (26)
- Deactivation of N2A 3Σu+molecules in the aurora☆ (1971) (26)
- Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere of Mars (1966) (23)
- Aeronomy of CO2 Atmospheres: A Review (1971) (22)
- Effect of chlorofluoromethane infrared radiation on zonal atmospheric temperatures (1978) (22)
- SOLAR CYCLE VARIATIONS IN H + AND D + DENSITIES IN THE VENUS IONOSPHERE: IMPLICATIONS FOR ESCAPE (1992) (22)
- Effect of odd hydrogen on ozone depletion by chlorine reactions (1976) (21)
- Ionospheric Models of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (1975) (20)
- Hα excitation in the hydrogen near the earth (1964) (20)
- Ultraviolet stellar occultation measurement of the H 2 and O 2 densities near 100 km in the Earth's atmosphere (1976) (20)
- Models of the Jovian upper atmosphere (1979) (19)
- Polar ion flow: Wind or breeze? (1971) (18)
- On the measurement of sodium dayglow emission by means of a Zeeman Photometer (1966) (18)
- A model of the Venus ionosphere (1975) (18)
- Some considerations concerning radiation transport in the OI 1304 triplet in the upper atmosphere. (1965) (17)
- Pioneer Venus Results: An Overview (1979) (17)
- Chemical composition measurements of the atmosphere of Jupiter with the Galileo Probe mass spectrometer. (1998) (16)
- Oxides of nitrogen and the clouds of Venus (1979) (16)
- Influence of lateral flow on the diurnal variation in exospheric hydrogen (1964) (15)
- N2 positive and N2+ band systems and the energy spectra of auroral electrons (1972) (15)
- A new look at Venus' thermosphere H distribution (1996) (14)
- Lyman α scattering in the Earth's hydrogen geocorona: 3. The extrageocoronal contribution (1964) (13)
- Observation and interpretation of resonance scattering of lyman alpha and oi /1300/ in the upper atmosphere. (1964) (13)
- The Significance of the Absence of Primary Electrons for Theories of the Origin of the Cosmic Radiation (1951) (13)
- The role of hydrocarbons in the lonospheres of the outer planets (1975) (12)
- Accretion, loss, and fractionation of martian water (2004) (12)
- The atmosphere and ionosphere of Jupiter (1981) (12)
- Measurement of the Temperature in the Upper Atmosphere to 150 km in a Rocket Experiment (1961) (12)
- The Planet-B neutral gas mass spectrometer (1998) (12)
- Saturn - Tropospheric ammonia and nitrogen (1980) (11)
- Distribution in the Upper Atmosphere of Sodium Atoms Excited by Sunlight (1956) (11)
- Sodium in the upper atmosphere (1961) (11)
- Distribution of hydrogen in the outer atmosphere (1963) (11)
- Excitation of the sodium twilight glow (1959) (10)
- The effect of resonance absorption on the determination of the height of airglow layers (1955) (10)
- Excitation of the Lyman-α in the night sky (1962) (10)
- Planetary Sciences: American and Soviet Research (1991) (10)
- Comment on the Paper On the influx of small comets into the Earth's upper atmosphere II. Interpreta (1986) (10)
- Pre-global surveyor evidence for Martian ground water. (2001) (10)
- The neutral composition of the stratosphere and mesosphere (1975) (10)
- A hydrogen bulge over the springtime pole. (1969) (9)
- Cometesimals in the inner Solar System (1987) (9)
- Why explore Venus? (1977) (9)
- Charge Transfer for Protons in H 2 (1959) (8)
- Resonance Absorption of Sunlight in Twilight Layers (1955) (8)
- Clock Paradox and the Physics of Discontinuous Gravitational Fields (1958) (8)
- Deuterium on Venus (1989) (8)
- FORMATION OF NEGATIVE IONS IN CO BY ELECTRON CAPTURE FROM FAST HYDROGEN ATOMS (1959) (7)
- Evidence of electron impact ionization on the nightside of Venus from Pioneer Venus Orbiter Ion Mass Spectrometer measurements near solar minimum (1994) (7)
- FORMATION OF NEGATIVE IONS IN A GAS BY CHARGE TRANSFER FROM A FAST ATOMIC HYDROGEN BEAM. Technical Report No. 4 (1961) (7)
- A note on polar black outs (1961) (7)
- ELECTRON CAPTURE AND LOSS BY HYDROGEN ATOMS IN MOLECULAR HYDROGEN (1960) (7)
- Noble gas abundance and isotope ratios in the of Jupiter from the Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer atmosphere (2007) (7)
- Origin of Sodium and Lithium in the Upper Atmosphere (1959) (7)
- Discussion of paper by Y. Kondo and J. E. Kupperian, Jr., ‘Interaction of the neutral hydrogen and charged particles in the radiation belts: The consequent Lyman‐alpha emission’ (1968) (7)
- Copernicus measurement of the Jovian Lyman-alpha emission and its aeronomical significance (1982) (7)
- Comment on the paper, "the reaction of nitric oxide with atomic nitrogen as a possible excitation source of auroral green une" (1975) (6)
- Observations of comet Halley at Hα and 6300 Å (1987) (6)
- OGO-6 Observations of 5577 Å (1975) (6)
- An upper limit to the product of NO and O densities from 105 to 120 km (1974) (6)
- Detection of Negative Ions formed by Charge Transfer (1959) (6)
- A calculation of the sodium dayglow intensity (1956) (6)
- Discussion of an experiment to measure the polarization of dayglow Lyman alpha (1967) (6)
- Comment on 'Atomic oxygen densities in the lower thermosphere as derived from in situ 5577-A night airglow and mass spectrometer measurements' by D. Offermann and A. Drescher (1975) (5)
- Production of Sodium Airglow Excitation by Imprisonment of Resonance Radiation (1953) (5)
- Detection of high-altitude explosions by observation of air fluorescence (1965) (5)
- The sodium twilight airglow 1955-1957 II (1959) (5)
- Methane measurement by the Pioneer Venus large probe neutral mass spectrometer (1992) (5)
- THE ATMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE (1982) (5)
- The influence of resonance absorption in the sodium layer on temperature and density measurements in the upper atmosphere (1961) (4)
- The Rayleigh scattering correction in measurements of the sodium twilight flash (1956) (4)
- Eddy diffusion coefficients in the mesosphere: Comment on “An observational study of water vapor in the mid‐latitude mesosphere using ground‐based microwave techniques” by R. M. Bevilacqua et al. (1985) (4)
- Small comets: Implications for interplanetary Lyman α (1987) (4)
- Heavy Noble Gases in the Atmosphere of Jupiter (1998) (4)
- Counterbalanced Bellows in Vacuum Systems (1956) (3)
- Sodium in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere (1959) (3)
- The correction of sodium twilight glow observations (1958) (3)
- Apollo‐Soyuz O(³P) and N(4S) density measurement by UV spectroscopy (1977) (3)
- Evolution of Oxygen and Ozone in Earths Atmosphere (1981) (3)
- Determination of Upper Atmosphere Sodium Abundance fromD2D1Measurements in Twilight (1958) (3)
- Comments on “observation of the airglow Hα emission” by E. B. Armstrong (1967) (2)
- A Wind Shear Mechanism for Producing Sporadic E by Concentrating Minor Meteoric Ions (1966) (2)
- Chemistry in the Outer Solar System (2000) (2)
- Ground-based measurements of O1D and the H2O production rate from comets (1989) (2)
- COLLISION PROCESSES RELEVANT TO AERONOMY. (1968) (2)
- Trace constituents in the middle atmosphere by high resolution UV spectroscopy (1980) (1)
- The sixteenth presentation of the John Adam Fleming medal to Thomas M. Donahue (1981) (1)
- High spectral resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer measurements of comet Halley at H-alpha and 6300 A (1985) (1)
- Mercury and Venus (1973) (1)
- Planetary exploration: Accomplishments and goals (1971) (1)
- Ionosphere, D and E regions (1971) (1)
- Differential electron flux as determined by auroral observations of the N2 positive and N2/+/ systems (1971) (1)
- The Apollo 17 Orbital Ultraviolet Spectrometer Experiment (1973) (1)
- Special Issue: International Space Science (1988) (1)
- The aeronomical pilgrim's progress (1996) (1)
- Water on Mars and Venus (2008) (1)
- A program of stratospheric research (1980) (0)
- Shapley's Poor Seeing of Astronomy's Future (1990) (0)
- Resisting Seductive Results (1982) (0)
- CHARGE TRANSFER FOR PROTONS IN Hâ. Technical Report No. 7 on CAPTURE-LOSS AND IONIZATION CROSS-SECTIONS OF IONS AND NEUTRAL PARTICLES (1958) (0)
- Outer planets Grand Tour ultraviolet spectroscopy experiment (1974) (0)
- The SST and Ozone Depletion. (1975) (0)
- Electioneering at the polls (1968) (0)
- Deactivation of N2 A/super 3/Sigma/sub u/+ molecules in the aurora. (1971) (0)
- Pioneer VenusOrbiter Electron Temperature Probe (1980) (0)
- Space Science Needs a Variety of Launch Vehicles (1986) (0)
- THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF QUESTIONS DEVELOPED BY A STUDY OF AIR FLUORESCENCE AS A METHOD OF DETECTING NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (1967) (0)
- Effect of water vapor on the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere perturbed by ClX or NO<subscr><emph type (2007) (0)
- The polar ion flow - Wind or breeze /ques/ (1970) (0)
- Figures in dispute (1991) (0)
- Response : The SST and Ozone Depletion (1975) (0)
- Effect of Water Vapor on the Destruction of Ozone in the Stratosphere Perturbed by C 1 X or Pollutants (2007) (0)
- Origin and loss of the volatiles of the terrestrial planets (1994) (0)
- Excitation and radiative transport of OI 1340 angstrom resonance radiation. Part 1 - The dayglow (1969) (0)
- An interpretation of a far ultraviolet dayglow experiment (1965) (0)
- The Atmospheric CH 4 Budget (1980) (0)
- Ultraviolet spectrometer experiment. [on Apollo 17 flight] (1973) (0)
- Book-Review - Venus (1983) (0)
- EFFECT OF WATER-VAPOR ON DESTRUCTION OF OZONE IN STRATOSPHERE PERTURBED BY C1X OR NOX POLLUTANTS (2007) (0)
- Structure and Composition of the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter by Voyager 2 UVS Stellar Occultation Experiment. (1980) (0)
- The O(3P) and N(4S) density measurement at 225 km by ultraviolet absorption and fluorescence in the Apollo-Soyuz test project (1976) (0)
- Basic Processes in the Stratosphere and the Mesosphere (1976) (0)
- OGO-6 observations of 5577 A. [airglow measurements] (1975) (0)
- Ultraviolet absorption: Experiment MA-059. [measurement of atmospheric species concentrations (1977) (0)
- The problem of using Mariner IV ionospheric densities to deduce a model of the Martian atmospheric structure. (1968) (0)
- How many habitable planets in the universe (1990) (0)
- Ultraviolet absorption: Experiment MA-059 (1976) (0)
- ATMOSPHERE II. INTERPRETATIOn' BY L. A. FRANK, J. B. SIGWARTH AND J. D. CRAVEN (1986) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1975) (0)
- INELASTIC COLLISION CROSS SECTIONS FOR PROTONS AND ATOMIC HYDROGEN ON MOLECULAR HYDROGEN. Technical Report No. 8 on CAPTURE-LOSS AND IONIZATION CROSS-SECTIONS OF IONS AND NEUTRAL PARTICLES (1959) (0)
- A Investigation of the Spontaneous Oscillations in Glow Discharges. (1948) (0)
- The problem of sodium distribution (1966) (0)
- Optical Absorption Techniques (1976) (0)
- Deactivation of N2A 3 Sigma u plus molecules in the aurora (1971) (0)
- Comments on the excitation of the geocoronal H alpha nightglow (1968) (0)
- EXCITATION OF THE AURORAL GREEN LINE BY DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION OF O$sub 2$$sup +$: ANALYSIS OF TWO ROCKET EXPERIMENTS. (1967) (0)
- Fastie Spectrometer Recollections (1991) (0)
- Venus. An international conference on the Venus environment, held in Palo Alto, California, November 2 - 6, 1981. (1983) (0)
- Legislative action for Earth science (1990) (0)
- Deuterium on Venus. Comment and reply (1989) (0)
- MICROSPECTROSCOPY OF GAS DISCHARGES WITH SPECIAL APPLICATIONS TO DEUTERIUM. Technical Report No. 6 (1951) (0)
- USE OF SPACE STATION FOR SCIENCE (1983) (0)
- The Nozomi (Planet-B) Neutral Gas Mass Spectrometer (2002) (0)
- Atomic oxygen between 80 and 120 km: evidence for a rapid spatial variation in vertical transport near the ionosphere. Final technical report, September 1976--August 1977 (1977) (0)
- Nelson Spencer (1918–2002) (2003) (0)
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