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Outline• Early History of Magnetic Reconnection– 1930s through 1981• Middle History of Magnetic Reconnection– 1979 through 2001• Recent History of Magnetic Reconnection– Magnetospheric Applications, 2000 - present• The FutureH. Alfven, Keynote Address, Proceedings from NASA Workshop on DoubleLayers, Huntsville AL, March 17-19, 1986.Referring to “magnetic merging”:“I was naïve enough to believe that such a pseudo-science woulddie by itself in the scientific community, and I concentrated mywork on more pleasant problems. To my great surprise theopposite has occurred: ‘merging’ pseudo-science seems to beincreasingly powerful. Magnetospheric physics and solar windphysics today are no doubt in a chaotic state, and a major reasonfor this is that part of the published papers are science and partpseudo-science, perhaps even with a majority in the latter group." 2
Magnetic Reconnection• An ISI search (06/2012) found >9,100 papers from 1957-2012 on reconnection(h-index = 132)600Reconnection Publications15,000Reconnection Citations30010,0005,00019571975199220121958197519922012• Focus of this talk: History and fundamental physics of reconnection How fundamental reconnection physics enters magnetospheric applications• Biases: Mine• To be omitted: Copious references, observations,(except where experiments, other applicationsrelevant) 3
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