John Linsley
John Linsley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on March 12th, 1925 and is the American Physicist. At the age of 77, John Linsley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After the closing of Volcano Ranch, Linsley continued his work in the field of cosmic rays. In 1979, he proposed detecting the fluorescence created by cosmic rays in the atmosphere through the use of a space-based observatory, a project which he called SOCRAS (Satellite Observation of Cosmic Ray Air Showers). This was the first proposal of a space-based cosmic ray observatory. He served as Principal Investigator on two research projects and collaborated on several others.
Linsley was nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics by Pierre Auger in 1980 for his work with cosmic rays. He won the Premio Internazionale San Valentino d’Oro in astrophysics in 1982. In 1986, he became a visiting professor at the University of Palermo and a Senior Fellow at the Istituto di Fisica Cosmica in Palermo, Italy. In the mid-1990s, Linsley's idea of a space-based observatory was revived by the establishment of the international AirWatch consortium. Linsley was actively involved in this project, which evolved into AirWatch-OWL, and in the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, another project to create a space-based observatory for the investigation of cosmic rays.
John Linsley died on September 15, 2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is survived by his son, Alessandro and his daughter, Amina.