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{{Short description|Scottish academic and astronomer}}
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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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-maths.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/homepages/awh.html|title=Prof Alan W Hood|publisher=[[University of St Andrews]]|accessdate=20 January 2011}}</ref>

He is best known for his wave heating theory involving the [[Coronal heating problem]] of the [[Sun]]'s [[Stellar atmosphere|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~alan/|title=Alan Hood's Personal Home Page|website=www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=2016-12-29}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/report-33153.html Coronal heating problem]
*[https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Alan+Hood&btnG= Alan Hood at Google Scholar]

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