User:Bakerkb1

Kile B Baker
Kile Baker started his scientific career in his home laboratory (i.e. his mother's kitchen) boiling a variety of home chemicals in pots to create various noxious messes. In his teens he helped his father (a chemist at Montana State University) study hydrocarbon synthesis in insects by raising cockroaches in large, galvanized trash cans. Since cockroach ranching did not appear to be a good career choice, he took up the study of physics in college, eventually earning a PhD in physics from Stanford University. His thesis was on particle acceleration in pulsar magnetospheres. He then moved to Boston University where he worked on problems related to the solar corona. From there he moved on to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he worked on problems related to Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. The trend was clearly downhill - from stellar astrophysics to the sun to Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. He is attempting to prevent a further slide downward by clinging on desperately to a job with the Federal Government as the Program Director for Magnetospheric Physics at the National Science Foundation.

--Bakerkb1 18:47, 20 October 2005 (UTC)