Allen Boozer

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Allen Hayne Boozer (born July 28, 1944 in Orangeburg , South Carolina ) is an American plasma physicist.

Boozer studied physics at the University of Virginia (bachelor's degree in 1966) and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1970. 1970 to 1974 he was an officer in the US Air Force (where he received the Commendation Medal ). From 1974 he conducted research at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he was acting head of the theory department in 1985/86. From 1986 he was Professor of Physics at the College of William & Mary and from 1994 Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University . In 1982 he was visiting professor at Nagoya University .

Since 1989 he has been an "External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society .

With his theoretical work, Boozer revolutionized the development of stellarators for nuclear fusion, which have advantages compared to tokamaks (for example, they can work in continuous operation), but also more complicated magnetic field configurations for plasma confinement. In the 1980s he introduced coordinates ( Boozer coordinates ) in which the magnetic fields of stellarators, for example, looked particularly simple and formulated inclusion criteria for stellarators: quasi-symmetry, used in HSX (University of Wisconsin) and NCSX (Princeton), and Equality of the minimums of the magnetic field strength on magnetic surfaces, used in Wendelstein 7-X . He is also involved in the Columbia Non-Neutral Torus .

He is co-inventor of a method of current control in plasmas, for example of tokamaks and stellarators, Electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD), for which he holds a patent (1984).

In 2010 he and Jürgen Nührenberg received the Hannes Alfvén Prize for this .

From 1992 to 1994 he was Associate Editor of Physics of Plasmas and from 1992 to 1995 Associate Editor of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. In 1992 he was president of the University Fusion Association.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society , whose plasma physics section he headed for three years from 1998, and the American Geophysical Union .

His wife, Carol Boozer, with whom he has been married since 1968 and has two children, is a professor and director of the Columbia University Obesity Research Center.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Physics of Fluids, Volume 24, 1981, p. 1999
  3. ↑ Phys. Fluids, Vol. 26, 1983, p. 496
  4. ↑ Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 48, 1982, p. 322
  5. ↑ Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Boozer, Kremer, Lefrancois, Marksteiner, Sarasola First Results from the Columbia Non-Neutral Torus , 32nd EPS Conf. Plasma Physics, Tarragona 2005, Online, pdf
  6. ↑ NJ Fisch, Boozer, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 45, 1980, p. 720
  7. ↑ MPI on the Alfvén Prize for Boozer and Nührenberg 2010 by Isabella Milch
personal data
SURNAME Boozer, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boozer, Allen Hayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American plasma physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Orangeburg , South Carolina