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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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Awards

  • 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

Research Areas

  • Planetary Science
  • Space Physics

Membership in Academies and Socieities

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Philosophical Society
  • National Academy of Sciences

The Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

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