[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVIII, Issue 36

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVIII, Issue 36
Jul.03,2021

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1. Aharon (Arkee) Eviatar (2/20/1931 – 6/27/2021)

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Aharon (Arkee) Eviatar (2/20/1931 – 6/27/2021)

From: Margaret Kivelson (mkivelson at igpp.ucla.edu)

Aharon Eviatar, known to his friends as Arkee, was born in Duluth Minnesota. He immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he studied History at the Hebrew University.  Following service as a meteorologist in the Israel Air Force, he returned to the Hebrew University where he obtained an M.S. in Physics and Mathematics. In 1962 he took his young family to the U.S. where he received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1966. Following two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Labs, he returned to Israel and started his academic career in the department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv University where he remained until his retirement in 1999. Through his collaborations with faculty members at UCLA and colleagues at JPL and APL and elsewhere, he made important contributions to our understanding of planetary magnetospheres, contributing to the interpretation of measurements made on such major missions as Voyager, Galileo, Cassini and others.  His detection of ionized sulfur near Jupiter’s moon, Io, anticipated the discovery of volcanic activity on that active body.

Following his retirement, in addition to remaining an enthusiastic space physicist, Arkee became an avid activist for human rights, heading Amnesty International in Israel in the early 2000s.  He wrote hundreds of letters pleading for prisoners of conscience all over the world. Up into his middle 80s, he participated in marches and demonstrations for human rights in Israel, until he realized he couldn’t outrun the tear-gas cannisters anymore.  His goal was to try to leave the world a better place, and we believe, he succeeded, if only in the addition of joy that he brought to his own and other’s lives.

He died peacefully in his own bed, on Sunday June 27, 2021. He will be remembered with admiration and affection by his family and his colleagues all over the world.


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