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[Paul Cannon]

Death of Prof. Tor Hagfors

We regret to inform you that have learnt of the death of Professor Tor
Hagfors, He was 76 years old and died on Tuesday, 16 January  in Puerto
Rico, while visiting the Arecibo radio-telescope, one of the sites he had
managed.


Tor was one of the pioneers of incoherent scatter. He was radio astronomer,
ionospheric physicist and plasma physicist, and moreover a theoretician as
well as an experimentalist.



During his long and auspicious career Tor Hagfors was both Director of
Arecibo and of EISCAT, the latter during the definition and construction
period from 1975 to 1983. He was subsequently one of the three co-directors
of Max-Planck institute in Lindau, together with I. Axford and V.
Vasyliunas. Latterly, he has been one of the most influential members of the
EISCAT Scientific Council. Recently he was co-investigator of the cometary
instrument, Concert.


All those who knew him will remember a cultured and affable man.

 

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