APS Fellow Archive

The APS Fellow Archive contains records of many APS Fellows from 1921 to the present. Please note some Fellows may not be displayed or may display with limited information.

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Keith Howard Burrell [1985]
General Atomics
Citation: For experimental and theoretical investigation in the area of particle and energy transport in magnetically confined plasmas, especially for work on controlling that transport.
Nominated by: DPP

Richard J Buttery [2019]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of magnetohydrodynamics stability in tokamak plasmas, including the physics of tearing modes and magnetic field errors, and for outstanding scientific leadership of national and international fusion research.
Nominated by: DPP

Jeff Candy [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For groundbreaking advancements in gyrokinetic simulation of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas including the first multi-scale kinetic simulations with coupled ion and electron scales.
Nominated by: DPP

Vincent S. Chan [1988]
General Atomics
Citation: For significant insights into the physics of wave heating in tokamaks and original ideas to improve tokamak performance with rf waves.
Nominated by: DPP

Ming Sheng Chu [1990]
General Atomics
Citation: For elucidating the relationship between ideal and resistive MHD in toroidal configurations.
Nominated by: DPP

Todd Evans [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of complex 3-D magnetic field topologies and their application to the beneficial control of the plasma edge in high temperature fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

John R. Ferron [2006]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding and control of the MHD stability of high-pressure tokamak plasmas, including the stability of the H-mode edge.
Nominated by: DPP

Raymond Kurt Fisher [1997]
General Atomics
Citation: For innovative leading-edge contributions, including the first measurements of confined alphas and knock-on tails, the first observations of plasma resonance cones, and pioneering experiments on non-circular tokamaks.
Nominated by: DPP

Andrea M.V. Garofalo [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of tokamak plasma stability in the presence of a conducting wall, leading to sustained operation above the free-boundary pressure limit.
Nominated by: DPP

Charles Greenfield [2013]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions in establishing the physics basis of high performance, internal transport barrier operation in H-mode plasmas and for outstanding leadership of national research teams in resolving key fusion science issues.
Nominated by: DPP

Richard Joseph Groebner [1994]
General Atomics
Citation: For significant experimental contributions to our knowledge of anomalous ion thermal transport and changes in the edge radial electric field at the L-H transition in tokamaks.
Nominated by: DPP

Houyang Guo [2020]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to tokamak and alternative magnetic confinement approaches toward the development of fusion energy, including discoveries of relaxed high-beta plasma states, the role of fast particles on stability and confinement, and for innovative solutions to power exhaust for fusion reactors.
Nominated by: DPP

Hiroyuki Ikezi [1980]
General Atomics
Citation: None
Nominated by: DPP

Torkil Hesselberg Jensen [1984]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to both experimental and theoretical plasma physics, especially in the area of linear waves, resistive instabilities and the doublet and reversed field configuration.
Nominated by: DPP

Robert J La Haye [2003]
General Atomics
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding and control of nonlinear resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamic stability in high beta tokamak plasmas, and for leadership in comparison of theory to experimental data.
Nominated by: DPP

Lang L. Lao [1992]
General Atomics
Citation: For his contributions to the development of equilibrium analysis of tokamak discharges.
Nominated by: DPP

Anthony W. Leonard [2014]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to tokamak boundary plasma research in divertor heat flux dissipation and control, transport of confined core plasma to material surfaces due to Edge-Localized Modes, and the mechanisms defining the structure of the H-mode edge pedestal.
Nominated by: DPP

Timothy C Luce [2004]
General Atomics
Citation: For definitive experimental investigation and analysis of key physics across a broad range of issues in magnetically confined plasmas, especially the physics of high power waves in plasmas, the establishment of nondimensional scaling properties, and the d.
Nominated by: DPP

Mohamad Ali Mahdavi [2000]
General Atomics
Citation: For original and longstanding contributions to the development and understanding of poloidal divertor for particle and impurity control, heat flux dissipation, and confinement enhancement in toroidal plasma confinement devices.
Nominated by: DPP

Robert Lynn Miller [1999]
General Atomics
Citation: For original studies in optimizing magnetic configurations to improve plasma performance covering many advanced fusion devices including the discovery of a high beta noncircular tokamak with large indentation.
Nominated by: DPP

Tom Osborne [2014]
General Atomics
Citation: For seminal research in experimentally establishing the physics limits to the attainable pressure in the H-mode pedestal, for identifying the scaling of the width of the pedestal and for testing a model for pedestal structure, based on these two physics elements.
Nominated by: DPP

Clinton Petty [2007]
General Atomics
Citation: For accurate measurements of rf-driven non-inductive current profiles leading to the validation of theory in unprecedented detail, and for innovative developments in heat transport scaling with dimensionless parameters.
Nominated by: DPP

Ronald Prater [1988]
General Atomics
Citation: For leadership in the area of electron-cyclotron heating of tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

David Paul Schissel [1999]
General Atomics
Citation: For developing innovative video and web-based K-12 resources for plasma physics and for providing student access to experimental facilities at the cutting edge of plasma physics research.
Nominated by: FED

Philip Snyder [2010]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the H-mode pedestal and edge localized modes in tokamaks, and for theoretical and computational advances in electromagnetic plasma turbulence research.
Nominated by: DPP

Gary Staebler [2011]
General Atomics
Citation: For his leadership role in developing the trapped gyro-Landau fluid (TGLF) equations and establishing that a quasilinear transport theory model based on these provides an accurate model of nonlinear gyrokinetic turbulence simulations enabling large dataset validation of gyrokinetic transport against experiment.
Nominated by: DPP

Edward J. Strait [1995]
General Atomics
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding and improvement of the stability of high beta tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

Tony Stephen Taylor [1994]
General Atomics
Citation: For leadership and fundamental contributions in high beta plasma research through extensive investigations of profile and shaping effects on the stability of tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

Alan D. Turnbull [2002]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering theory demonstrating the importance of shape, profiles, and conducting wall on tokamak stability, leading to validation of beta limit improvements in experiments and to innovative advanced tokamak concepts.
Nominated by: DPP

Mickey Wade [2010]
General Atomics
Citation: For outstanding contributions to burning plasmas physics, including helium ash removal, impurity transport and the development of advanced tokamak scenarios.
Nominated by: DPP

Ronald E. Waltz [1986]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of transport in tokamaks and for pioneering numerical simulations of turbulent transport in plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

Mingsheng Wei [2018]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to the field of experimental high intensity laser plasma interactions and in particular for improved understanding of hot electron transport with regard to applications such as fast ignition fusion and ion acceleration.
Nominated by: DPP

Lawrence Woolf [2010]
General Atomics
Citation: For extensive work in teacher professional development, for assistance to California school districts, and for leadership in K-12 science education at a national level.
Nominated by: FED