Miriam Ausman Forman is an American astrophysicist known for her work on solar cosmic rays, turbulence and energy cascades in magnetohydrodynamics, and the solar wind.

Education and career

Forman entered graduate study at

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in 1968, completed her Ph.D. there in 1972, and remained affiliated with Stony Brook as an adjunct faculty member, supported by grants from NASA, until 1985. The grant encompassed her thesis in Cosmic Rays in Interplanetary Space. From 1991 to 1998, Forman managed the heliospheric section of the Science Division at NASA HQ in Washington DC. She worked as an administrator for the

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from 1985 until 1991, when she joined the NASA Space Physics Division, and became program scientist for Heliospheric Missions at NASA. She stepped down from that position in 1998, and was seconded from NASA to the White House for a year, then returned in 1999 to Stony Brook as adjunct faculty again.

Recognition

In 1984 Forman was named a

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(APS), after nomination by the APS Division of Astrophysics, "for fundamental contributions to the theory of propagation and acceleration of energetic particles in the solar system and for application of the theory in the interpretation of observation". She was chair of the Division of Astrophysics for 1986–1987. In 2002 she was named a Fellow of the

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"for research and teaching in astrophysics, especially solar physics, and for valuable service to professional societies and the government on behalf of science".

References

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