Kenneth John Frost
American astrophysicist
Born on: October 3, 1934Died on: August 5, 2013
Aged: 78 years 306 days (946 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United states
Birth Sign: Libra
Kenneth John Frost was a pioneer in the early space program, designing and flying instruments to detect and measure X-rays and gamma-rays in space, primarily from the Sun.
He was the first to suggest the use of an active scintillation shield operated in electronic anticoincidence with the primary detector to reduce the background from cosmic ray interactions, an innovation that made sensitive hard X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy possible.
He was an American astrophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center working as a civil servant for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
During his career, he was the project scientist of the Solar Maximum Mission, principal investigator of six science instruments, the head of the Solar Physics Branch, and the associate director of Space Sciences.
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