Louis J. Lanzerotti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American academic
Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1938
Place of Birth: Carlinville, Illinois, United States
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Louis J. Lanzerotti
- Louis John Lanzerotti (born April 16, 1938) is a Distinguished Research Professor of physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey.
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- Lanzerotti was born and grew up in Carlinville, Illinois.
- After serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, he joined the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1965.
- He retired in 2002 and remained a consultant to Alcatel-Lucent through 2008.
- In 2002, he was appointed a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.
- He has also served as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of Florida and as a Regents' lecture at UCLA.
- His principal research interests have included space plasmas, geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impacts of atmospheric and space processes and the space environment on space and terrestrial technologies.
- Much of his research has involved close collaborations with telecommunications service providers on commercial satellite and long-haul (principally transoceanic) cables.
- His research has also involved geomagnetism, solid earth geophysics, and some oceanography.
- This research has been applied to design and operations of systems associated with spacecraft and cable operations.
- Lanzerotti has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several United States NASA interplanetary and planetary missions including ATS-1&3, IMP-4&5, Voyager 1&2, Ulysses, Galileo Orbiter and Entry Probe, ACE, and Cassini.
- Currently, he is a Principal Investigator with instruments on each of the two spacecraft in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission launched August 2012.
- He has also conducted geophysical research in the Antarctic and the Arctic beginning in the 1970s, directed largely toward understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments.
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