John Nuckolls

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John H. Nuckolls (born November 17, 1930 in Chicago ) is an American physicist.

Nuckolls studied at Wheaton College (Bachelor 1953) and Columbia University (Master's degree 1955). From 1955 he was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , where he was deputy head of department from 1965 and deputy head of the laser fusion program from 1975. In 1983 he was deputy head of the laboratory's physics department and director of the laboratory from 1988 to 1994. He was then Associate Director at Large.

In Livermore he mainly dealt with inertial fusion with the help of lasers . In 1972 he and colleagues published an article in Nature in which these considerations were first made public. Originally, the research arose out of efforts to make hydrogen bombs as small as possible, in which Nuckolls played a leading role since the 1950s.

In 1969 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize for the development of hydrogen bombs, in particular for the plowshare program (application in earthworks) and the development of techniques to calculate their interaction with the subsurface.

In 1981 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics .

Fonts

  • The feasibility of inertial confinement fusion , Physics Today, Volume 35, September 1982, pp. 24-31
  • with Lowell Wood, A. Thiessen, George Zimmerman: Laser compression of matter to superhigh densities: thermonuclear applications , Nature, Volume 239, 1972, pp. 139-142

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lindl
  2. ^ Laudatory speech Lawrence Award
personal data
SURNAME Nuckolls, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuckolls, John H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago