LEONARD F. BURLAGA Interplanetary Physics Branch, Laboratory for 
Extraterrestrial Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
Greenbelt, Maryland

Dr. Burlaga was born on October 1, 1938 in Superior Wisconsin. He 
received a B. S. degree from the University of Chicago in 1960 and 
his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1966. He joined the 
Goddard Space Flight Center in 1968 and participated in plasma and 
magnetic field experiments. He has published over 250 articles on the 
structure and dynamics of the he-liosphere, the propagation of cosmic 
rays through the heliosphere, and the interaction of the solar wind 
with plan-ets and comets. He has received the NASA Exceptional 
Scientific Achievement Medal, The Lindsay Award, and The Goddard 
Space Flight Center Award of Merit. He has been a Goddard Senior 
Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Burlaga 
has participated actively in spacecraft experiments as a 
Co-Investigator on the magnetometer investiga-tions on Helios 1 and 
2, Voyager 1 and 2, Giotto, WIND and ACE and as a Co-Investigator on 
the plasma science investigations on Explorer 34, Voyager 1-2, and 
WIND. He served as the Project Study Scientist for WIND from its 
inception to the approval of ISTP. He has been a member of the Cosmic 
and Heliospheric Physics Management Operations Working Group and 
numerous NASA Advisory Groups. He served the science community as the 
President of the Commission on the Interplanetary Plasma and the 
Heliosphere of the International Astronomical Union, the Secretary of 
the Cosmic Ray Section of the AGU, and the Chairman of the Solar Wind 
and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Division of IAGA.