Tatiana Korcová. (7 March 1937 – 12 November 1997) was a Slovak

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

specializing in the study of

solar wind The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the Stellar corona, corona. This Plasma (physics), plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy betwee ...

s. Tatiana Korcová was born on 7 March 1937 in

Trenčianska Teplá Trenčianska Teplá () is a village and municipality in Trenčín District in the Trenčín Region of north-western Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1155. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude ...

. She studied Physics and Chemistry at the

Comenius University Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

, graduating in 1959. Following graduation she briefly worked as a high school teacher in

Trenčín Trenčín (, also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is a List of towns in Slovakia, city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech Republic, Czech border, around from Bratislava. It has a populati ...

. In 1963 she joined the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, where she spent her entire career. Korcová studied cosmic radiation and high-energy particles in close cooperation with

Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences (, or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestablished in 1953. Its primary ...

. In 1985 she was awarded the

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degree by the academy. Korcová's

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thesis, which she passed in 1994, was on the issue of long-term solar wind variations. Tatiana Korcová died on 12 November 1997 at the age of 60 in

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