Education: Sc.D. (1976), Department of Physics, MIT
Present position: Astrophysicist, Space Science Division, Naval Research
Laboratory
Main interests: Solar magnetic fields, solar corona, solar wind
Yi-Ming Wang, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, has been honored with the 2011 Sigma Xi Award for Pure Science presented by NRL's Edison Chapter of Sigma Xi. Wang is recognized for fundamental contributions on the nature of solar magnetic fields, the solar wind, and the sunspot cycle. He has 194 refereed publications, and has a H-index 63.
