The book provides an
introduction to the observational and theoretical knowledge of solar and
stellar magnetic activity for graduate or advanced undergraduate students.
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Gibor Basri has been a Professor of Astrophysics at UC Berkeley for 40 years (now Emeritus), and is the author of more than 200 technical papers and reviews. He has served on grant and telescope time selection committees for NASA, NSF, Keck and Lick Observatories. He has held a Miller Professorship, a NASA Faculty Fellowship, and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship. He is also a recipient of the Carl Sagan Award for Popularizing Science.
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