List of plasma physicists
- List of plasma physicists
*Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
*Hannes Alfvén - Received the only Nobel Prize specifically for contributions to plasma physics.
*Willard Harrison Bennett - The Z-pinch is a form of "Bennett pinch". Also invented radio frequency mass spectrometry.
*Kristian Birkeland - First suggested that polar electric currents (or auroral electrojets) are connected to a system of filaments (now called "Birkeland currents") that flow along geomagnetic field lines into and away from the polar region.
*David Bohm - derived the Bohm sheath criterion, which states that a plasma must flow with at least the speed of sound toward a solid surface
*Fran Bosnjakovic
*Oscar Buneman - Pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation.
*F. F. Chen
*William Crookes
*Peter Debye - Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist, after whom Debye shielding and Debye length are named
*Philo Farnsworth - credited with the invention of the cathode ray tube, television and Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor
*Harold Furth
*Vitaly Ginzburg
*Russell Alan Hulse
*Predhiman Kaw
*Lev Davidovich Landau
*Irving Langmuir - Developed electron temperature concepts and an electrostatic probe, the Langmuir probe. Coined the term "plasma" to hint at the life-like behavior of this state of matter.
*Eric Lerner - Pioneer of focus fusion and advocate of plasma cosmology
*Ernst Messerschmid
*Forrest S. Mozer - electric field measurements in space plasma
*Anthony Peratt - electrical engineer and advocate of plasma cosmology
*Marshall Rosenbluth
*Dr. J. Reece Roth - Inventor of atmospheric plasma technologies.
*Megh Nad Saha - Saha equation
*Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov - Proposed the development of the tokamak device for use in controlled thermonuclear fusion.
*Rudolf Seeliger
*Lyman Spitzer
*Johannes Stark
*V. Alexander Stefan - Inventor of the Beat Wave-Driven Free-Electron Laser
*Thomas H. Stix
*Igor Tamm
*Nikola Tesla - Innovative inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer
*Lewi Tonks
"See also:" Plasma physics
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