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Edward Carroll Stone (born January 23, 1936) is an American space scientist,
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Stone was the director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
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Space Radiation Laboratory
Profile in Discover magazine
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professor
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of physics
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at the California Institute of Technology
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, and former director of the NASA
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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(JPL).
Biography
Stone was born in Knoxville, Iowa
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. After receiving his undergraduate education at Iowa's Burlington Junior College in Iowa, Stone attended the University of Chicago
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where he earned his M.S.
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and Ph.D. degrees in physics. Stone's astrophysics career goes back to his first cosmic-ray experiments on Discoverer satellites in 1961. He then joined the staff of Caltech as a research fellow, and became a full faculty member in 1967.
He was named professor of physics in 1976, and was chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy from 1983 to 1988. He has also served as director of the Caltech Space Radiation Laboratory, and as vice president for Astronomical Facilities. He is currently the Morrisroe Professor of Physics and the vice-chair of the Thirty Meter Telescope
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Board of Directors.
As project scientist for the unmanned Voyager
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spacecraft missions to the outer Solar System
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from 1972, and a major spokesman for the Voyager science team, he became especially well known to the public in the 1980s. He has since been principal investigator on nine NASA spacecraft missions and coinvestigator on five more.
He was the principal investigator for the Cosmic Ray System
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on the ''Voyager 1'' and ''2'' spacecraft, an experiment to measure cosmic rays. He also appeared in ''The Farthest
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'', a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program
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. Stone retired from project scientist of the Voyager missions in 2022 after holding the role for 50 years.
JPL director
Stone was the director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
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from 1991 to 2001. During his tenure, the Mars Pathfinder
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and its ''Sojourner'' rover were successful. Other JPL missions in the period included ''Mars Global Surveyor
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'', Deep Space 1
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Launched on 24 October 1998, the ''Deep Space ...
, TOPEX/Poseidon
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,
NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) and the launches of '' Cassini'', ''Stardust
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'', and ''2001 Mars Odyssey
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''.
Awards and honors
* Member of theNational Academy of Sciences
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* Member of the American Philosophical Society
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* Recipient of the 1991 National Medal of Science
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* Recipient of the 1992 Magellanic Premium
* Recipient of the 1992 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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* Recipient of the 1999 Carl Sagan Memorial Award
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* Recipient of the 2007 Philip J. Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement
* Recipient of the 2013 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
* Recipient of the 2014 Howard Hughes Memorial Award
* Recipient of the 2019 Shaw Prize
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in Astronomy
* Minor planet 5841 Stone discovered by Eleanor Helin
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is named after him.
References
External links
Stone's web page
Space Radiation Laboratory
Profile in Discover magazine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Edward C 1936 births Living people California Institute of Technology faculty National Medal of Science laureates Voyager program Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences People from Knoxville, Iowa 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists Scientists from Iowa University of Chicago alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the American Philosophical Society