Alice Harding

Alice Kust Harding is an American astrophysicist in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Harding in 2012

She gained a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1973,[1] and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in 1979.[2] In 1980 she was appointed an astrophysicist in the Astrophysics Science Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, a post she has held since then. Her main research interests have been high-energy particle acceleration and radiation processes in pulsars, highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), gamma-ray bursts, and supernova remnants. [3]

She was awarded the status of Fellow[4] in the American Physical Society,[5] after being nominated by their Division of Astrophysics in 1991,[6] for pioneering investigation of the theory of pulsar atmospheres, including the pulsar wind and its role in accelerating particles to high energies, and for contributions to the theory of basic electromagnetic interactions in the presence of super-strong magnetic fields.

She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [7]

References
  1. "NASA Astrophysicist Alice K. Harding '73 to Open Summer Series of Lectures by Prominent Women in Science". Bryn Mawr College News Archive. June 23, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  2. "Astronomy Alumni & PhD Theses". University of Massachusetts Amherst - College of Natural Sciences - Department of Astronomy. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  3. "Alice K. Harding". APS. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  4. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  6. "APS Fellows 1991". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  7. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
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