Ira B. Bernstein

Ira B. Bernstein (born November 8, 1924 in New York City ) is an American physicist who is particularly concerned with theoretical plasma physics.

Bernstein studied chemical engineering at the City University of New York (bachelor's degree in 1944) and received his PhD from New York University in 1950 . 1950 to 1954 he was at the research laboratories of Westinghouse . From 1954 to 1964 he was a scientist at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory , where he was involved in the Matterhorn project (early, at the time still secret research on magnetic fusion) and became a senior scientist. He has been Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University since 1964 , where he was Carl A. Morse Professor of Technical Mechanics and Physics since 1994 and has retired in 2004. He was a scientific advisor to the United Technologies and RCA research laboratories , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Naval Research Laboratory. He has served on the Fusion Policy Advisory Committee and the Fusion Energy Advisory Board of the Department of Energy.

In 1958 he described the amber wave in plasma physics .

In 1966 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1982 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984).

Web links

• Biography at the APS
• Literature by and about Ira B. Bernstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data based on Lisl Goodman Death and the creative life: conversations with prominent artists and scientists , Springer 1981 and Burning Plasma: bringing a star to earth , National Research Council