DPP Winter 2000 Newsletter

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APS Newly Elected Fellows

Division of Plasma Physics and Forum on Education

Barbara Abraham-Shrauner--Washington University

For important theoretical contributions to a broad range of plasma topics, including: space plasmas, nonlinear dynamics, and plasma processing.

John Patrick Apruzese--Naval Research Laboratory

For significant and original studies of radiation in dense plasmas and the theory of plasma x-ray lasers.

Christopher Deeney--Sandia National Laboratories

For a series of contributions that coupled theory and experiments to increase the understanding of z-pinch physics, resulting in increased x-ray energy and power.

Amnon Fruchtman--Center for Technilogical Education, Holon, ISRAEL

For original theoretical contributions to the phenomenon of fast magnetic field penetration into plasmas due to the Hall field, and to the theory of free electron lasers.

Alan Herbert Glasser--Los Alamos National Laboratory

For contributions to the theory of toroidal ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and their applications to plasma confinement for magnetic fusion energy research.

Steven Paul Hirshman--Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For fundamental contributions to the theory of neoclassical transport in toroidal plasmas, theory and computation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional MHD equilibrium, and for analysis and optimization of three-dimensional toroidal systems.

Michael E. Jones--Los Alamos National Laboratory

For the development of novel particle-in-cell simulation methods and their use in the study of the generation, transport, and stability of intense charged particle beams and plasmas.

Michael Hannam Key--Lawrence Livermore National Lab

For experimental work in laser plasma inertial confinement fusion including x-ray laser backlighting and x-ray lasers.

Sergei I. Krasheninnikov--Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For his contributions to the understanding of tokamak edge plasmas and atomic physics effects, long mean free path electron transports, and the influence of sheared electric fields on particle orbits.

Karl Lackner--Max Planck Institute, Garching, GERMANY (through the International Physics Forum)

For his fundamental contributions to tokamak equilibrium, boundary layer and divertor physics and his leadership in international fusion research.

Robert Lynn Miller--Archimedes Technology Group, Inc.

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.

David Paul Schissel--General Atomics (through the Forum on Education)

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.

Frederick N. Skiff--University of Iowa

For fundamental experiments on wave-particle interactions and the development of experimental techniques using laser-induced florescence.

Peter Eric Young--Lawrence Livermore National Lab

For his experimental work on filamentation and channel formation of intense laser beams in laser-produced plasmas.