Photos: Remembering Eugene Parker, 1927-2022

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Eugene Parker, pictured in 1977, pointing to a poster of a solar eclipse

Eugene Parker in front of a blackboard in 2017

Eugene Parker speaks during NASA's announcement of the Parker Solar Probe in 2017

Eugene Parker blows out candles on a cake surrounded by UChicago colleagues

Parker, pictured in 1977. The solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse.

Photo courtesy of the Hanna Holborn Special Collections Research Center