Clifford Surko

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Clifford Michael Surko (born October 11, 1941 in Sacramento , California ) is an American plasma physicist .

Life

Surko studied mathematics and physics at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a PhD in physics in 1968. He then went to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, where he became department head for research on semiconductors and chemical physics in 1982, and from 1988 he was a professor at the University of California, San Diego .

He was visiting scholar at MIT (Plasma Fusion Center, 1977 to 1984), at Ecole Polytechnique (1978/79) and at University College London.

He dealt with plasma and atomic physics, nonlinear dynamics and solid state physics. Together with colleagues, he developed techniques for laser scattering at small angles to study waves and turbulence in tokamak plasmas and invented a positron trap (buffer gas positron trap), which was used in experiments around the world to study antimatter. Surko also developed other techniques for studying positron plasmas and studied atomic and plasma physics with positrons.

In 2014 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for the invention and development of techniques to collect, enclose and use positron plasmas and for fundamental experimental studies of waves and turbulence in tokamak plasmas (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Editor and co-author (with John Ahearne): Plasma Science, National Academy Press 1995
  • Editor with Franco A. Gianturco: New Directions in Antimatter Chemistry and Physics, Kluwer 2002
  • with GF Gribakin, JA Young: Positron-Molecule Interactions: Resonant Attachment, Annihilation, and Bound States, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 82, 2010, pp. 2557-2607

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References and comments

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Surko, Clifford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Surko, Clifford Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American plasma physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California