This prolific researcher helped us understand the interactions of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections with Earth’s magnetic field.
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Samuel J. Bame Jr. (1924–2014)
The pioneering space physicist made fundamental discoveries about space plasmas, including first measurements of solar wind structures and magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause.

 
				