Editing Martin Walt

'''Martin Walt''' (1926-2021) was a [[professor]] of [[electrical engineering]] at [[Stanford University]]. He specialized in [[magnetosphere|magnetospheric physics]]. He was also the father of [[Stephen Walt]], a professor at [[Harvard University]]'s [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/03/22/the-space-shuttle-program-stunning-success-or-dismal-failure/|title = The space shuttle program: Stunning success or dismal failure?|publisher=[[Foreign Policy]] magazine |last=Walt |first=Martin |date=March 22, 2011}}</ref>

==Education==
He received his B.S. (Physics) from California Institute of Technology (1950),
his M.S. (Physics) from  University of Wisconsin–Madison (1951) and 
his Ph.D. (Physics), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1953).
His graduate education was in [[experiment]]al [[nuclear physics]].

==Career==
He worked for 1953–1956 at [[Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]].
From 1956 to 1992 he worked for the Research laboratory of the [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed Missiles and Space Company]].
In 1993 he began teaching at [[Stanford University]].

==Honors and awards==
He received the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation [[Fellow]]ship in 1951 and [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] Fellowship for 1952–1953.
He was a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] and the [[American Geophysical Union]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030221093055/http://www-star.stanford.edu/~walt/ Martin Walt] (Official)
*[http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/ccr/cgi-bin/publications/Walt.html Publications]
*[http://pixie.spasci.com/ PIXIE]
*[http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/ POLAR]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060908013048/http://www.css.taylor.edu/~physics/seps.html SEPS]

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