Fran Bagenal
Biography
Fran Bagenal is a renowned astrophysicist and planetary scientist, born on November 4, 1954, in Dorchester, Dorset, England. She pursued her PhD at MIT in 1981 and has since contributed significantly to various space missions, including Voyager, Galileo, and New Horizons. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, Bagenal is recognized for her expertise on plasmas in outer planetary magnetospheres.