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Alan Title was awarded the 2011 John Adam Fleming Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 7 December 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for “original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, aeronomy, space physics, and related sciences.

Citation:

Alan Title is immensely curious about many things, in both science and society. The combination of that curiosity, a strong memory, and an unusual imagination serves him well, making him a remarkable solar scientist, optical designer, and research manager.He has led the development of critical hardware components. He motivates an innovative group of engineers in the development of instruments for ground-based observatories as well as... Read More »

Response:

The Fleming Medal is a great honor. It is especially pleasing to me that AGU recognizes that solar physics is important for understanding the Earth and its surroundings. Also, I accept this honor with the recognition that Alan Title is the name for a team of scientists and engineers who have for more than 4 decades developed instruments, measurement techniques, and data analysis systems. These instruments... Read More »