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Alan William Hood is a professor in the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.^[1]

He is best known for his wave heating theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun's atmosphere.

He is married to Beatrice Hood, a part-time primary school teacher at St Leonard's School, St Andrews, with whom he has three children: Rachel born 1983, Alistair born 1985 and Graeme born 1987.^[2]

• Coronal heating problem
• Alan Hood at Google Scholar

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