John Plane

Plane was born in South Africa. He took an MA (1979) and a PhD (1983) at the University of Cambridge, where he also held a research fellowship. Later, he held academic appointments at the University of Miami and the University of East Anglia, before moving to the University of Leeds.{{cite web |title=John Plane: Biography |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/John-Plane-25383/ |website=The Royal Society |access-date=28 April 2022}}

Plane's research focuses on understanding the chemistry of planetary atmospheres (including Earth's) involving a combination of laboratory techniques (kinetics and photochemistry), atmospheric measurements (in situ and satellite remote sensing), and modelling at different scales. His research group studies four main areas: Earth's mesosphere (middle and upper atmosphere) and troposphere (lower atmosphere), the atmospheres of other planets, and interstellar chemistry (such as the formation of stardust). Plane is particularly noted for his work on the chemistry of metals that ablate ("erode") from cosmic dust particles, such as meteoroids, as they enter the atmosphere. He is an expert on mesospheric metal chemistry, a pioneer of Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS), and one of the developers of tropospheric iodine chemistry – a means of studying the composition of Earth's atmosphere.{{cite web |title=Prof. John Plane awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes medal for 2017 |url=https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/chemistry/news/article/6/prof-john-plane-awarded-the-vilhelm-bjerknes-medal-for-2017 |website=University of Leeds: School of Chemistry |publisher=University of Leeds |access-date=28 April 2022 |date=12 January 2017}} He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed papers.{{cite web |title=PoSSUM Science Team |url=https://projectpossum.org/team/science/ |website=PoSSUM : Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere (PoSSUM) |access-date=28 April 2022}}

Plane has received numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Society of Chemistry prize in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms (2005), a Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize Lectureship (2006) ("for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of the troposphere and mesosphere through field measurements, laboratory experiments and theory"),{{cite web |title=Tilden Prizes |url=https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/find-a-prize/tilden-prizes/previous-winners/ |website=The Royal Society of Chemistry |access-date=19 September 2022}} the National Science Foundation CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Lecture Prize (2007), and the European Geosciences Union Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal (2017) ("in recognition of his groundbreaking work in atmospheric chemistry").{{cite web |title=Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2017: John M. C. Plane |url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/vilhelm-bjerknes/2017/john-m-c-plane/ |website=European Geosciences Union |access-date=19 May 2022}} He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2017. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020. In 2022, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.{{cite web|title=John Plane|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Plane_John|work=Member|publisher=Academia Europaea|access-date=2024-10-05}}

The IAU named after him the asteroid nr. 33832 of the Main belt, Johnplane.{{cite web | url = https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=johnplane | title = Small-Body Database Lookup – 33832 Johnplane (2000 EE135) | publisher = JPL – Solar System Dynamics | accessdate =2025-02-01}}

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