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T. Neil Davis
Thomas Neil Davis
(February 1, 1932 – December 10, 2016) was a professor of
geophysics
from the
University of Alaska Fairbanks
and the author of several books. Born in
Greeley, Colorado
, Davis received his B.S in geophysics from
University of Alaska Fairbanks
in 1955, an M.S. in geophysics from
California Institute of Technology
in 1957, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1961. Davis spent most of his working career at the
Geophysical Institute
, pioneering the use of all-sky and low-level light
camera
s for the study of the
aurora borealis
and conducting rocket studies of the aurora. With
Masahisa Sugiura
(while both were at
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
) he introduced the AE (auroral electrojet) index now commonly used as a measure of solar-terrestrial interaction. A student of
Beno Gutenberg
and
Charles Richter
at Caltech, he also has done work in observational
seismology
.
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