Douglas ReVelle

Douglas O. ReVelle (1945 – 2 May 2010) was an American scientist. He worked for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory^[1].

ReVelle received his bachelor degree in meteorology and oceanography in 1968, followed by a master degree in aeronomy and planetary atmospheres in 1970 and finally his doctorate in atmospheric science in 1974. All of these degrees were from the department of atmospheric ocean and space sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His thesis work was about acoustics of meteors ^[2].

He studied in pioneering theoretical work the interaction of meteors and planetary atmospheres. He addressed in particular aerodynamics, ablation, meteor acoustics and infrasonic meteor observations ^[3]. ReVelle died in 2010 due to complications of chemotherapy treatment for lymphoma.

An asteroid was named in his honor, 13358 Revelle, with the dedication “Douglas O. ReVelle, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is well known for his pioneering theoretical work in meteor physics and astronomy based on theoretical aerodynamics, in meteor acoustics and in the interpretation of infrasonic meteor observations. The name was suggested by Z. Ceplecha.”^[4]

External links

• Short biography
• Obituary
• In Memoria

References

1. ^ "Meteor sonic signal detection at LANL". http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/97-155.shtml. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
2. ^ "Scientific vita (Entry of March 5, 2003)". http://www.ees.lanl.gov/news/archive_jan_mar_2003.shtml. Retrieved 2010-11-23. 
3. ^ Meteor-generated infrasound. Bibcode 1976JGR....81.1217R. 
4. ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=13358+Revelle. Retrieved 2011-06-01. 

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Name	ReVelle, Douglas
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Date of birth	1949
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Date of death	2010-05-02
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