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Sir William Ian Axford (2 January 1933 – 13 March 2010) was a New Zealand space scientist who was director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1974 to 1990. Axford's research was focused on the interaction of the sun with the magnetic field of earth (magnetosphere) or the interstellar medium (heliosphere). ==Life and work== Axford studied at Canterbury University in Christchurch for his double bachelor's degrees in science and engineering, followed by a double Master's in science with first class honours and in engineering with distinction, then undertook doctoral studies at the University of Manchester and received his PhD in 1960.〔 After a year at the University of Cambridge in 1960, where he played two matches of first-class cricket for the Cambridge University Cricket Club,〔(Ian Axford ) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 November 2012.〕 Axford then joined the Defence Research Board of Canada, where he published one of his most cited papers: ''A unifying theory of high-latitude geophysical phenomena and geomagnetic storms'', in 1961. He became a professor of physics and astronomy at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1963. He later moved to the University of California, San Diego. Axford became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy (since renamed the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) in 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Professor Sir Ian Axford )〕 He held that position, with a short break in which he was Vice Chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington from 1982 to 1985, until his retirement in 2001. The institute participated in the international missions Giotto to Halley's Comet, solar observatories Ulysses and SOHO while Axford was director of the institute. The science of all three missions had a strong connection to the activity of the sun: SOHO and Ulysses monitored solar activity, and the Giotto mission was able to monitor the interaction of solar particles with Halley's Comet. Most of Axford's research was associated with the magnetosphere and the heliosphere. He died on 13 March 2010, aged 77, following a long illness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Professor Sir Ian Axford tritt in den Ruhestand (Professor Sir Ian Axford retires) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 CENTREFOLD: Professor W. Ian Axford )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Tributes for NZ space scientist ) with image of Ian Axford〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Professor W. Ian Axford )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Death of Sir Ian Axford, NZ scientist )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Axford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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