Prize Recipient

Jon Mearns McChesney

Citation:

"For sophisticated measurements showing anomalous ion heating in a tokamak and for its subsequent explanation in terms of chaos theory, thus demonstrating the relevance of basic research to the fusion effort."

Selection Committee:

F.F. Chen (Chair), N. Hershkowitz, V.L. Granatstein, R.S. Post, I.B. Bernstein