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Harold P. Furth
Harold P. Furth
Pages 34-45
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I am cleeply saciclenecl by his cleath en cl honored to be the one to record his career for the National Academy of Sciences. HaroIcl was electecl to the Academy in 1976 for his many achievements in plasma physics, the underlying discipline for the magnetic confinement approach to harness nuclear fusion energy.
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.. 1 1 , lunching In tne wake or tne Ott crisis of that time, was cleterminecl to embark on a tokamak experiment with actual DT fusion reactions, not just a simulation with ordinary hycirogen plasmas as in all past experiments, the nearer to a power reactor the better.
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There he soon began the fruitful collaboration with Stirling Colgate that lecl to HaroIcl's first experimental work on plasma confinement devices that might eventually serve as fusion reactors, initially in a linear pinch in which the mutual attraction of parallel currents in a plasma applies a constricting force that confines the plasma column. Instability of the pinch had inspired an improved version with
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During a year-Ion" workshop at Trieste in 1965-66, HaroIcl joined Soviet colleagues Roalcl Sagcleev en cl Alex Galeev in showing how Coulomb collisions among plasma particles could transport them across the magnetic field of devices like the Soviet tokamak much faster than they couIcl in icleaTizec! moclels, by virtue of complicates!
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After arriving at Princeton in 1967 as professor of astrophysical sciences en cl co-heacl of the Experimental Division at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, HaroIcl assumed leaclership in planning new experiments, shortly before the breakthrough announcement in 1968 that the Soviets hacl achieved a record temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius in one of the tokamak crevices caller!
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Anne Davies, current director of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy. "Scintillating" is the worcl Marshall Rosenbluth chose to describe HaroicI.
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Atomic Energy Commission in ~ 974, the James Clerk Maxwell Awarc! from the American Physical Society in ~ 983, the Joseph Priestly Awarcl from Dickinson College in 1985, en cl the Delmer S
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I WISH TO THANK colleagues quoted in this memoir and to express appreciation for much assistance from Dolores Lawson of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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Production and use of high transient magnetic fields.
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Production of thermonuclear power by non-Maxwellian ions in a closed magnetic field configuration.
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Initial confinement studies of ohmically heated plasmas in the tokamak fusion test reactor.
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