Richard Alan Wolf

Advice from Richard Alan Wolf: Lessons from a Life in Space Physics

Richard Alan Wolf is a name etched into the very foundation of space physics. A Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Rice University, Wolf has spent more than five decades exploring one of the most complex and awe-inspiring systems in our cosmic neighborhood: Earth’s magnetosphere. His research has helped shape the way we understand the movement of charged particles in near-Earth space, the physics of geomagnetic storms, and the behavior of space plasmas under dynamic conditions.