Norman Frederick Ness (April 15, 1933 – December 4, 2023) was an American geophysicist.
He worked at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From 1966 to 1986 he was director of the Laboratory of Extraterrestrial Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
[1] In 1987 he became director of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware.
[2] Ness died in Venice, Florida, on December 4, 2023, at the age of 90.