Stanton J. Peale | |
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| Born | Stanton Jerrold Peale (1937-01-23)January 23, 1937 |
| Died | May 14, 2015(2015-05-14) (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1979) James Craig Watson Medal Award for Contributions to Astronomy (1982),[1] Brouwer Award (1992) National Academy of Sciences (2009)[1] Kuiper Prize (2016)[2] |
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| Fields | Astrophysics,planetary science |
| Institutions | Cornell University,University of California, Los Angeles,University of California, Santa Barbara |
Stanton Jerrold Peale (January 23, 1937 – May 14, 2015) was an Americanastrophysicist,planetary scientist, and Professor at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.[1] His research interests include the geophysical and dynamical properties of planets and exoplanets.
Stanton J. Peale received a Ph.D. in astronomy fromCornell University in 1965, where he worked withThomas Gold. He was an assistant professor of astronomy atUCLA before moving toUCSB in 1968.
In 1969 Peale published a generalization ofCassini's laws that explain the rotation of the Moon and other bodies subject to tides.[3]
In 1976 Peale published a procedure to determine the size and state of the core ofMercury.[4]
In 1979 Peale and collaborators predicted thatJupiter's satelliteIo might show widespreadvolcanism as a result of the action oftides.[5] This prediction was confirmed by data from theVoyager 1 mission which showed that Io is the most volcanically active body in theSolar System.
He died on May 14, 2015, in Santa Barbara, California.[6]
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