BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Alan C. Cummings

Date of Birth	March 20, 1944

Education
	1962-1966	Rice University, B.A., Physics
	1966-1967	Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
	1967-1973	Caltech, Ph.D., Physics

Awards
	1965		Elected Phi Beta Kappa
	1966		Elected Sigma Xi
	1966		Graduated Summa Cum Laude (Rice U.)
	1966		NSF Fellowship
	1966		Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
	1966		U.S. Churchill Foundation Fellowship
	1967-1970	NASA Traineeship
	1979		GSFC ISEE-C Project Recognition Certificate
	1981		Voyager Project Group Achievement Awards (2)
	1981		Voyager Project Certificate of Appreciation
	1986		Voyager Project Group Achievement Award
	1993		SAMPEX Project Group Achievement Award

Positions
	1973-1978	Scientist, Caltech
	1978-1981	Senior Scientist, Caltech
	1981-Date	Member of the Professional Staff, Caltech

Major Research Responsibilities
	1968-1973:	 Thesis:  Balloon-borne cosmic ray e+- spectrometer.
	1973-1977:	 Detector system fabrication and testing for Cosmic Ray Subsystem
		         (CRS) experiment launched on Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1977.
	1976-1978:	 Detector system fabrication and testing for Heavy Isotope 
		         Spectrometer Telescope (HIST) launched on ISEE-C in 1978.
	1978-Date:	 Analysis of Voyager cruise and encounter data.
	1979-1982:	 Project Manager of Mass Spectrometer Telescope (MAST) and Proton
		         Electron Telescope (PET) which are subassemblies of the 
		         Comprehensive Particles Analysis System (COMPAS) for the 
		         International Solar Polar Mission.
	1982-1985:	 Project Manager of the Gamma-Ray Imaging Payload (GRIP) experiment
		         which was launched on a high altitude balloon in October 1986.
	1984-1985:	 Detector system fabrication for Heavy Element Monitor (HIC) on the
		         Galileo Mission.
	1987-Date:	 Co-Investigator of Voyager CRS experiment.
	1988-1989:	 Phase A Study Manager for Advanced Composition Explorer.
	1989-Date:	 MAST/PET Project Manager (SAMPEX Small Class Explorer experiment)
	1990-Date:	 Co-Investigator of Advanced Composition Explorer
	1990-Date:	 CRIS/SIS Project Manager (part of ACE Mission)
	1991-Date:	 Co-Investigator for Development of Interdigitated Pixel PIN Detector

Other Responsibilities
	1989-Date:	 Member of NASA's Planetary Plasma Interactions Node Science Panel
	1989-1992:	 Member of Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Relationships of the
		         National Research Council
	1990-1993:	 Member of NASA's Cosmic and Heliospheric Management Operations
		         Working Group (CHMOWG)
	1993-Date:	 Member of NASA's Heliospheric Program Working Group
	1993:	         Member of Space Physics Pluto Fast Flyby Science Definition Team
	1993:	         Member of Organizing Committee for Second Pioneer and Voyager
		         Symposium on Energetic Particles and Fields in the Outer Heliosphere,
		         Durham, NH 5/31/94-6/3/94
	1994-Date:	 Member of Cosmic and Heliospheric Discipline Coordination Team of the
		         NASA Space Physics Data System