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Margaret Kivelson
Professor Emerita
310-825-3435
mkivelson@igpp.ucla.edu
6843 Slichter
PhD Harvard University, 1957
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American Geophysical Union Fellow
1992
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
1992
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
1998
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1999
American Physical Society Fellow
2001
Alfven Medal of the European Geophysical Union
2005
Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union
2005
American Philosophical Society
2005
Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society
2017
Jean-Dominique Cassini Medal of the European Geosciences Union
2019
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
2019
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Planetary Science
Space Physics
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American Geophysical Union
American Philosophical Society
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