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
William Wallace Destler [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For contributions in relativistic electron beam physics notably those leading to efficient, high-power, coherent microwave generation from rotating E layers, and collective acceleration of heavy ions.
Nominated by: DPP
John McMaster Finn [1988]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to nonlinear dynamics perturbation techniques, and to understanding of basic processes in low frequency behavior of plasmas, including the role of nonlinear dynamics in orbits and field lines.
Nominated by: DPP
Ian H. Hutchinson [1988]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For innovative experimental and theoretical contributions to the understanding of toroidal plasmas especially through measurements of their MHD instabilities and electron cyclotron emission.
Nominated by: DPP
Mukul Kundu [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the solar plasma through pioneering radio astronomy large sidereal interferometric techniques.
Nominated by: DPP
Anthony Tung-hsu Lin [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For important contributions which enhance the understanding of physical processes in the areas of electron-cyclotron resonant heating and coherent radiation generation from relativistic electron beam.
Nominated by: DPP
Kunioki Mima [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For contributions to the theory of nonlinear phenomena in magnetized and laser-produced plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP
William McCay Nevins [1988]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For numerous contributions to the theory of fusion plasma, particularly in the area of the nonlinear interaction of plasma with intense microwave pulses.
Nominated by: DPP
Dwight R. Nicholson [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For original and important contributions to the theory of strong Langmuir turbulence, and for perceiving and developing applications of theory to ionospheric modification experiments and to solar radio emission observations.
Nominated by: DPP
Stephen Philip Obenschain [1988]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For major contributions to electron driven inertial fusion; particularly in the areas of ablative acceleration and thermal smoothing and for co-invention of the Induced Spatial Incoherence technique for improving laser beam quality.
Nominated by: DPP
Nobuyoshi Ohyabu [1988]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For significant contribution to development of the tokamak boundary control schemes, including expanded boundary divertor and ergodic limiter, and advancement of divertor and H-mode physics.
Nominated by: DPP
Ronald Prater [1988]
General Atomics
Citation: For leadership in the area of electron-cyclotron heating of tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP
Weston M. Stacey [1988]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the application of plasma physics of fusion-reactor concepts, and for international leadership in multi-disciplinary reactor-design activities.
Nominated by: DPP
James Douglas Strachan [1988]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the measurement and understanding of the physics of fusion reaction products in tokamaks, of electron runaway, and of chock wave propagation in inhomogeneous media.
Nominated by: DPP
Toshi Tajima [1988]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For significant contributions to new plasma accelerators, plasma physics understanding of magnetospheric and solar disturbances, and work in the fusion problem through computational and theoretical methods.
Nominated by: DPP
Francis S. Troyon [1988]
EPFL - Lausanne
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of the stability and equilibrium of toroidal plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP
John Pace VanDevender [1988]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For technical leadership in inertial confinement fusion with light ion beams, pulsed power accelerator design and research, magnetically insulated electron flow, vacuum interface flashover, and beam-plasma heating.
Nominated by: DPP
Henry Vernon Wong [1988]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For formal and applied application of Hamiltonian stability techniques to numerous complex plasma systems including tandem mirrors, EBT, and free electron lasers.
Nominated by: DPP