Guenter Brueckner

{{Short description|Physicist (1934–1998)}}

Guenter E. Brueckner (1934–1998)[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999BAAS...31.1596H Obituary] was a solar physicist who spent much of his career at the US Naval Research Lab. His life's efforts included research into aspects of the sun relevant to radio signal quality, terrestrial weather, space weather and applications of plasmas such as in fusion energy. He is known for work on coronal mass ejections;{{Cite web |url=http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/gen/cme_general_info.html |title=CME background |access-date=2009-06-28 |archive-date=2010-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610101944/http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/gen/cme_general_info.html |url-status=dead }} various innovations in solar observing optical systems,{{Cite web |url=http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/hrts_hist.html |title=Tandem Wadsworth |access-date=2009-06-28 |archive-date=2007-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009192503/http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/hrts_hist.html |url-status=dead }} in particular the Skylab mission, design and development (with John-David F. Bartoe) of the Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SUSIM) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS); and for being the principal investigator for the LASCO instrument.[https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=brueckner+lasco Google results on Br and LASCO ]

In the 1970s, he worked with Richard Tousey to make several notable observations including the coronal mass ejections mentioned above, lithium ions in solar flares,parroting from reference [20] in [http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1742-6596/88/1/012059/jpconf7_88_012059.pdf?request-id=26093ecf-65f2-4cf3-af9a-0e57265c68f2 article] and various other things.{{Clarify|date=February 2010}}