Frank Scherb

Professor Emeritus of Physics - Research in Plasma Astrophysics

Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States

About

Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, specializing in Plasma Astrophysics, Physics of the Interstellar Medium and Solar System Astrophysics. Interests include: Fellow, American Physical Society; American Geophysical Union; American Astronomical Society; International Astronomical Union; AAS Division for Planetary Science. Plasma Experiment Review Panel for Pioneer F/G Missions to Jupiter, 1969. Particles and Fields Sub-Committee, NASA office of Space Science and Applications, 1969-70 NASA Mariner Venus-Mercury Mission Proposal Evaluation Committee, 1970 NAS Senior Postdoctoral Research Associateship, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1972-73 NASA Consultant, 1969-74 NASA Pioneer Venus Orbiter Proposal Evaluation Committee, 1974 Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, July – August, 1977 Board of Trustees, Universities Space Research Association, 1981-83 NASA International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Proposal Evaluations Panel, 1986 Proposal Review Activities for NSF, Astronomy Branch, 1985-86 NASA Proposal Review Panel for IUE, 1986 Proposal Review Panel for NASA Astrophysics Data Program, Pasadena, California, 1989 Proposal Review Panel for IUE, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1993 Proposal Review Panel for IUE, Kitt Peak, 1994 Proposal Review Panel for IUE, Paris, 1995 Proposal Review Panel for NASA Planetary Astronomy Program, Houston, 1999 Personal Bio Born in Union City, New Jersey. Married to Rita Scherb (Margartia Sergeevna Ignatenko of St. Petersburg, Russia). Father of Irina Hynes, Katherine Lerner, Madeline Scherb and Benjamin Scherb. Grandfather of Kieran and Daniel Hynes, and Helen and Toby Lerner.

Experience

  • Professor Emeritus - Physics Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Mar 1996 - Present · 30 yrs 4 mos

    Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, specializing in Plasma Astrophysics, Physics of the Interstellar Medium and Solar System Astrophysics.

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
    • Professor of Physics
      1969 - 1996 · 27 yrs

      Professor of Physics. Heliophysics and Interstellar medium. Ph.D Theses 1970 Davidson, Joseph Stellar Inferometry for Faint Astronomical Objects 1971 Reynolds, Ronald J. An Investigation into the Optical Fluorescence of Interstellar HI 1972 Lode, Tenny Observations of the 10,830 Å Metastable Helium Line in the Spectrum of Alpha Orionis 1973 Lange, James J. Ion Abundances in the Solar Wind 1976 Pulliam, Donald M. The Composition and Charge Spectrum of Positive Ions in a Hydrogen Aurora 1981 Ogden, Peter M. High Resolution Infrared Interferometry of the Interstellar Medium 1983 Oliversen, Ronald J. The Io Plasma Torus: Its Structure and Sulfur Emission Spectra 1987 Brinkmann, Jonathan Val CCD Observations of the Spatial Distribution of the Hydrogen Balmer Alpha Diffuse Galactic Background 1988 Magee-Sauer, Karen P. Ground-Based Fabry-Perot Observations of Neutral and Ionic Atoms and Molecules of Comet Halley 1992 Woodward, Roland C. The Sulfur Emission and Periodicity of the Jupiter Plasma Torus in 1988 1993 Schultz, Daniel Fabry-Perot Observations of Comet Austin 1990V 1994 Milster, Scott The Spatial Structure of the Interstellar Diffuse Ionized Medium S.M. Theses 1965 Elliot, James L. A Stellar Interferometer for Faint Astronomical Objects (M.I.T.) 1965 Floyd, Franklin W. A Solar Wind Deuterium Detector and Charge-Spectrum Analyser (M.I.T.) 2001 Corliss, Jason Post-Eclipse Neutral Sodium Observations Near Io S.B. Theses 1991 Li, Gabriel S. H. Fabry Perot/CCD Images of [OI]6300 Emission from Comet Austin (1989 c1) 1999 Steffl, Andrew J. Narrowband Filter Imaging of Io Using the Adaptive Optics System of the Mt. Wilson 100-inch Telescope

    • Associate Professor of Physics
      1965 - 1969 · 4 yrs

      Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Associate Professor of Physics
      1964 - 1965 · 1 yr

      Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in Solar Wind research.

    • Assistant Professor of Physics
      1961 - 1964 · 3 yrs

      Assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Research Staff Associate, Space Physics
      1958 - 1961 · 3 yrs

      Research Staff Associate in Space Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.