Eugene Parker

Eugene Parker is a renowned astrophysicist who made significant contributions to our understanding of the Sun and its interactions with space. He proposed the existence of the solar wind—streams of charged particles released from the Sun that influence the entire solar system. Parker's ideas transformed solar physics and paved the way for future research on plasma behavior in space. His work underpins many modern explorations of the Sun and its effects on planetary atmospheres, including Earth, and laid the foundation for missions like NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which studies the Sun up close.