The probe that NASA has sent to study the sun is called the Parker Probe – named after Dr. Eugene Parker, who spent his entire life trying to better understand the processes that take place in the sun. He was the first scientist to study the nuclear interactions in the stars and the dynamics of the plasma and predicted that the sun and every star would emit a burst of charged particles all the time which they Named after Solar Wind

Dr. Parker received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1951. After four years teaching at the university and Utah, he began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1955. And began research work that lasted until his death, 67 years

In 1957, he wrote a paper on the physics of the solar corona in which he predicted that the solar corona would emit a burst of charged particles that would reach the earth. Until then, we did not know of any such phenomenon. When he sent the paper to the scientific journal Physics, the reviewers rejected the paper, saying that he should first go to the library and do some study of the sun and avoid such nonsensical predictions. Dr. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar, another reviewer of the journal, accepted the paper because he did not find any mathematical error in the paper, although he was of the opinion that the prediction was very speculative. Has been awarded the Nobel Prize and NASA’s Chandra Observatory is named after him.

Just a few months after the paper was published, a NASA probe headed for Venus to detect a burst of charged particles that had exactly the same properties as Dr. Parker had predicted. The best American astronomers began to study the sun, cosmic rays, the magnetic field between galaxies, and many other subjects, and discovered many new phenomena. His colleagues recognized him as an ideal physicist. There are those who used to make predictions based on data and models without any prejudice

Dr. Parker retired in 1995 but continued to do research and lectures in the field of astronomy until his death – he was 94 years old.