Sentences with phrase «plasma physicist for»

Ronald C. Davidson, a pioneering plasma physicist for 50 years who directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) during a crucial period of its history and was a founding director of the Plasma Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), passed away on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, New Jersey, due to complications from pneumonia.

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The data may be quite important for another reason, says Philippe Escoubet, a plasma physicist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

Until then, physicists will scour Petawatt's data for clues about how so - called relativistic plasmas behave in space.

Theoretical physicists Dam Thanh Son and Andrei Starinets, for example, collaborated on an idea that used black hole math to predict the viscosity of an ultrahot gas, or plasma, that forms in certain particle collider experiments.

Although the notion of the plasma antenna has been knocked around in labs for decades, Ted Anderson, president of Haleakala Research and Development — a small firm in Brookfield, Mass. — and physicist Igor Alexeff of the University of Tennessee — Knoxville have recently revived interest in the concept.

... A team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton - driven plasma - wakefield acceleration (PWFA).

This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

Plasma physicist Michael Keidar, director of the George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues have a five - year, $ 445,000 grant to investigate the physical effects of plasma on thePlasma physicist Michael Keidar, director of the George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues have a five - year, $ 445,000 grant to investigate the physical effects of plasma on theplasma on the body.

In 1942, Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Alfvén predicted the existence of a new type of wave due to magnetism acting on a plasma, which led him to obtain the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970.

For PPPL physicist Erik Gilson, the plasma source he designed for the accelerator marks the third generation of components that he has created for Berkeley Lab projects that are part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a joint venture of PPPL, Berkeley Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoFor PPPL physicist Erik Gilson, the plasma source he designed for the accelerator marks the third generation of components that he has created for Berkeley Lab projects that are part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a joint venture of PPPL, Berkeley Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratofor the accelerator marks the third generation of components that he has created for Berkeley Lab projects that are part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a joint venture of PPPL, Berkeley Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratofor Berkeley Lab projects that are part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a joint venture of PPPL, Berkeley Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.

Early evidence for the waves was found several decades ago by Princeton astrophysicist Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse, a former physicist for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

PPPL collaborations with physicists at Princeton University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have now uncovered a method for speeding the growth of nanoparticles — a step toward understanding, predicting and controlling the synthesis of plasma to produce the prized material.

In a potentially major advance, physicists at PPPL and the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE have discovered a way to reduce the loss of heat and particles from fusion plasmas.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) high - performance computer sites have selected a dynamic fusion code, led by physicist C.S. Chang of the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), for optimization on three powerful new supercomputers.

Schweickhard «Schwick» von Goeler, an award - winning physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for more than 35 years and the inventor of numerous X-ray diagnostics used in fusion experiments worldwide, died of leukemia on Dec. 6 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

PPPL postdoctoral fellow Ammar Hakim, center, described his poster on unified methods for simulating plasmas to physicists Steve Cowley, left, director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the United Kingdom and a member of the PPPL Advisory Committee; and Frank Jenko of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany.

Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion plasmas.

«The trim coils have proven extremely useful, not only by ensuring a balanced plasma exhaust onto the divertor plates, but also as a tool for the physicists to perform magnetic field measurements of unprecedented accuracy,» said Thomas Sunn Pederson, Max Planck director of stellarator edge and divertor physics.

Physicists Luis Delgado - Aparicio and Egemen Kolemen of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have won a national scientific competition to conduct a full day of experiments on the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates in San Diego for the DOE.