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Charles F. Kennel (born August 20, 1939) is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA.[1][2] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[3] and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997.[4] In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.[5]
Early life and career[edit]Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. His doctoral thesis was advised by Edward A. Frieman.[1][6]
Charles Kennel was a former Associate Administrator of NASA. He was the director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program during the Clinton Administration to perform a comprehensive survey and observation of our home planet. He was a member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee which he quit in 2006.[7]
Kennel was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987[11] and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.[3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.[12] In 1997, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society.[4]
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