Bruno Coppi
Bruno Coppi (born November 19, 1935 in Gonzaga , Italy ) is an Italian-American physicist who deals with plasma physics.
Coppi received his doctorate at the Polytechnic in Milan in 1959 and was then a lecturer and scientist at the Polytechnic and University of Milan, before joining the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University as a scientist in 1961 . From 1964 to 1967 he was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego , from 1967 to 1969 at the Institute for Advanced Study and was professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 .
Coppi dealt with theoretical plasma physics, space plasmas and magnetic fusion, where he developed the Alcator experiment at MIT and the resulting Russian-American Ignitor program, which is to build a fusion reactor near Moscow. He is also a leader in the Frascati Torus program in Italy.
In the 1980s he was involved in the Voyager spacecraft program.
In 1987 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics and the Award of Excellence in Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the American Physical Society (1976). He received the US Dante Alighieri Prize, the Science Prize of the Italian Government and the Science and Technology Prize from Italgas, as well as the gold medal of the Polytechnic in Milan. He is a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy . For 2016 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coppi, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gonzaga , Italy |