Lingenfelter, Richard E.

Biography

Richard E. Lingenfelter was born on April 5, 1934, in Farmington, New Mexico. He received his B.A. in physics from UCLA in 1956 and was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the TATA Institute for Fundamental Research in 1968-69. He held research positions at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1957-1962) and at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1969-1979). Lingenfelter took the post of research physicist, theoretician and senior lecturer at UCSD's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) in 1979.

At CASS, Lingenfelter has worked with the Solar Physics Group and the High Energy Astronomy Group. His areas of research include cosmic gamma-rays, gamma-ray bursts and supernovas (especially SN 1987a). Lingenfelter's major research proposals and projects include Solar Flare Gamma Ray and Neutron Studies and Gamma-rays from Astrophysical Sources. Lingenfelter has also been involved with such NASA missions as the Gamma-Ray Observatory, the Nuclear Astrophysics Explorer, the Solar Maximum Mission, and the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory 1.

Lingenfelter served as chair of the NASA Gamma-ray Program Working Group (1986-1995), and participated on the NASA Gamma-ray Observatory User's Committee (1986-1993), among others. He has been a consultant for NASA as well as for the National Science Foundation, the California Space Institute and the Lunar and Planetary Institute. The ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, THE PHYSICAL REVIEW, and JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH are among the many journals for which he has reviewed manuscripts. He is the author of over 200 scientific articles, many published in these same journals. Lingenfelter has also published several articles and books in the field of western American history.

Institutions at which Lingenfelter instructed undergraduate students in physics, earth science and history include UCLA; TATA Institute of Fundamental Research; the University of Nanjing, China; the International Summer School on Particles and Fields in Space at Balatonfured, Hungary; and, UCSD.

Biography

Richard Emery Lingenfelter was born on April 5, 1934 in Farmington, New Mexico; AB, UCLA, 1956; became physicist at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1957-62; research geophysicist (1962-68) and professor of geophysics and planetary physics (1969-79), UCLA; affiliated with Center for Astrophysics, UC San Diego; author of several books on western American history, including The Nonpareil press of T.S. Harris (with Richard A. Dwyer, 1957), The newspapers of Nevada, 1858-1958 (1964), The songs of the American West (co-editor, 1968), The hardrock miners (1974), Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916 (1978).