NASA's Parker Solar Probe namesake dies

By Kathleen Foody
Updated March 17 2022 - 7:46am, first published 7:43am
Physicist Eugene Parker, namesake of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, has died at 94.
Physicist Eugene Parker, namesake of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, has died at 94.

Eugene Parker, a physicist who theorised the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, has died.

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