Coronal Physics Investigator (CPI) (John Kohl)
John Kohl is a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He is the principal investigator for
the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and he was
the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Coronal Spectrometer on Spartan 201, a shuttle-deployed and -retrieved
satellite that carried out four successful two-day flights. The proof of concept for the SOHO and Spartan 201
instruments and the first high-resolution spectroscopy in the extended solar corona (i.e., above 1.5 solar radii from
sun-center) was accomplished with a rocket-borne Lyman Alpha Coronagraph during three sounding rocket flights.
All of his projects were fully successful and accomplished their proposed primary science goals. UVCS/SOHO has
resulted in 518 published papers.
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