# Stan Cowley

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**Stanley William Herbert Cowley** [6] (born 1947)[7] is a British physicist, [Emeritus](/source/Emeritus) Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the [University of Leicester](/source/University_of_Leicester).[8][9][10]

## Education

Cowley was educated at [Caludon Castle School](/source/Caludon_Castle_School), Coventry, and [Imperial College, London](/source/Imperial_College,_London), graduating with first class honours in physics in 1968. He was awarded a [PhD](/source/PhD) by Imperial in 1972 for research supervised by [James Dungey](/source/James_Dungey).[2]

## Career and research

Cowley had a visiting Scholarship at the [University of Colorado](/source/University_of_Colorado) in 1972–73 before returning to Imperial, where was appointed a [Lecturer](/source/Lecturer) in 1982, [Reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in 1985 and Professor in 1988. He was appointed Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial in 1990 before moving in 1996 to the [University of Leicester](/source/University_of_Leicester) as Head of the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group.[11]

Cowley's primary research interest is the physical processes that shape the outer plasma environments of Earth and the magnetised planets.[1][11]

Cowley's former doctoral students include [Emma Bunce](/source/Emma_Bunce),[3] [Nicola Fox](/source/Nicola_Fox),[4] and [Caitriona Jackman](/source/Caitriona_Jackman).[5]

### Honours and awards

- 2011: Elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) (FRS)[6]
- 2006: Awarded the Julius Bartels Medal by the [European Geosciences Union](/source/European_Geosciences_Union)
- 2006: Awarded the [Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society](/source/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society) for Geophysics
- 1995: Elected a [Fellow](/source/Fellow) of the [American Geophysical Union](/source/American_Geophysical_Union)
- 1991: Awarded the [Chapman Medal](/source/Chapman_Medal) by the [Royal Astronomical Society](/source/Royal_Astronomical_Society)

## References

1. Cowley, Stanley William Herbert (1972). ["Self-consistent models of magnetic neutral sheets"](https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/16302) (PhD). *imperial.ac.uk*. [hdl:10044/1/16302](https://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/16302). [OCLC 930651468](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930651468)

1. Bunce, Emma J. (2001). ["Large-scale current systems in the Jovian magnetosphere"](https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Large-scale_current_systems_in_the_Jovian_magnetosphere/10146707) (PhD). *le.ac.uk*. University of Leicester. [hdl:2381/30647](https://hdl.handle.net/2381/30647). [OCLC 505259820](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505259820)

1. Fox, Nicola Justine (1995). [*Ionospheric convection during substorms*](https://dx.doi.org/10044/1/104251) (PhD). University of London. [hdl:10044/1/104251](https://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/104251). [OCLC 53652582](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53652582)

1. Jackman, Caitriona M. (2006). ["Solar wind-magnetosphere coupling at Saturn"](https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Solar_wind-magnetosphere_coupling_at_Saturn/10078148) (PhD). *le.ac.uk*. [hdl:2381/504](https://hdl.handle.net/2381/504). [OCLC 500127581](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500127581)

1. Anon (2011). ["Stanley Cowley"](https://royalsociety.org/people/stanley-cowley-11271/). *royalsociety.org*. [Royal Society](/source/Royal_Society). Retrieved 16 September 2018.

1. Anon (2018). ["Professor Stan Cowley — University of Leicester"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034415/https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/stancowley). *le.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/stancowley) on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

1. Anon (2018). ["Congratulations to Professor Stan Cowley FRS — University of Leicester"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034441/https://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2011-archive/may/congratulations-to-professor-stan-cowley-frs). *le.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2011-archive/may/congratulations-to-professor-stan-cowley-frs) on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

1. Anon (2020). ["Professor Stan Cowley"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034415/https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/stancowley). University of Leicester. Archived from [the original](https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/stancowley) on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

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