Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.
Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble professor who for nearly three decades at Iowa combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics, has died. He was 65.