Winston H. Bostick

Infobox_Scientist
name = Winston H. Bostick

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birth_date = birth date|1916|3|5
birth_place = Freeport, Illinois, USA
death_date = death date and age|1991|1|19|1916|3|5
death_place = Tijuana, Mexico
nationality = American
field = Physicist
work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Stevens Institute of Technology
alma_mater = University of Chicago
doctoral_advisor = Arthur Compton
known_for = plasmoids
plasma focus
Magnetic explanation of Hubble expansion

Winston H. Bostick (March 5 1916 - January 19 1991) was an American physicist who discovered plasmoids, plasma focus, and plasma vortex phenomena. He simulated cosmical astrophysics with laboratory plasma experiments, and showed that Hubble expansion can be produced with repulsive mutual induction between neighboring galaxies acting as homopolar generators. His work on plasmas provided evidence for finite-sized elementary particles and the composition of strings.

Biography

Winston H. Bostick, born in Freeport, Illinois, received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. His Ph.D. thesis on cosmic rays was completed under the direction of Nobel laureate Arthur Compton. While working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory from 1941 to 1948, he helped build a microwave linear electron accelerator. As an associate professor of Tufts University from 1948 to 1954, he researched magnetic pinch effects, which led to his later work on plasma pinch effects. His discoveries of plasmoids and other plasma-related effects began between 1954 and 1956 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where he continued to act as consultant. A 1956 "New York Times" front page story featured Bostick's "plasma gun". [William L. Laurence, " [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D1EFC3B54157B93C0A81789D95F428585F9 Physicist 'Creates' Universe in a Test Tube; Atom Gun Produces Galaxies and Gives Clues to Creation Cosmos 'Created' in a Test Tube] ", "The New York Times", Wednesday, December 12, 1956.] [" [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50716FF3A5A137A93C1A91789D85F438585F9 Physicists Depict New Concepts Of Universe and Its Basic Laws] ", "The New York Times", Sunday, February 3, 1957.] He served as Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology from 1956 until receiving Professor Emeritus status at his retirement in 1981, and as head of the physics department from 1968. While visiting Tijuana, Mexico in 1991, he died of lung cancer at age 74. [" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DB1131F936A15752C0A967958260 Dr. Winston Bostick, Atomic Physicist, 74] ", "The New York Times", Friday, January 25, 1991.]

cientific contributions

In 1956 Bostick demonstrated the existence of "plasmoids", force-free, charge-carrying "strings". [Winston H. Bostick, " [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1956PhRv..104..292B&db_key=PHY&data_type=HTML&format= Experimental Study of Ionized Matter Projected across a Magnetic Field] ", " [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v104/i2/p292_1 Physical Review] ", V104, N2, pp. 292-299 (Oct 1956).] Ten years later he postulated an electron composed of helical plasmoids forming vortex "loops" around a "ring", similar to the Parson Magneton. [Winston H. Bostick, "Pair Production of Plasma Vortices", " [http://scitation.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=PHFLE6&ONLINE=YES&smode=strresults&sort=chron&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&possible1zone=article&possible4=bostick&possible4zone=author&bool4=and&OUTLOG=NO&viewabs=PFLDAS&key=DISPLAY&docID=2&page=1&chapter=0 Physics of Fluids] ", V9, N10, pp. 2078-2080 (Oct 1966).] [Winston H. Bostick, "Mass, Charge, and Current: The Essence and Morphology", " [https://secure.physicsessays.com/sale.aspx Physics Essays] ", V4, N1, pp. 45-59 (Spr 1991)] Bostick maintained that this model could account for atomic structure, strong and weak forces within the nucleus, and that it was a physical basis for string theory, but this view received no support from the mainstream scientific community and is considered fringe science.

References

External links

* [http://www.plasma-universe.com/index.php/Winston_H._Bostick Winston H. Bostick - Plasma Universe]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PHY&qform=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=bostick%2C+w+h&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&gif_link=YES&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 Winston H. Bostick - Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Database]

Persondata
NAME= Bostick, Winston H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Bostick, Winston
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= March 5 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH= Freeport, Illinois, USA
DATE OF DEATH= January 19 1991
PLACE OF DEATH= Tijuana, Mexico