John Lindl

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John D. Lindl (* 27. July 1946 in Toledo (Ohio) ) is an American physicist who particularly with inertial confinement fusion is concerned (Inertial confinement fusion ICF).

Lindl grew up as the son of a ranger in Ohio and Kenosha (Wisconsin). He studied physical engineering at Cornell University (bachelor's degree 1968) and received his doctorate under John M. Dawson at Princeton University in 1972 with a thesis on plasma physics (to which his interest in lightning led him). From 1972 he was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he worked with John Nuckolls in the beginnings of inertial fusion research (e.g. optimal target design for lasers and particle beams, hydrodynamic instabilities, plasma development in cavity and cavity design, implosion symmetry). In 1976 he was involved in the design of the first laser fusion experiments with the Cyclops laser. In 1983 he was deputy program manager for theory and target design in the ICF program of the LLNL. In 1990 he became director of the Nova Laser Program to demonstrate the use of a 1 to 2 megajoule laser for inertial fusion. After the previously secret research was made public in 1993, Lindl wrote a review article in Physics of Plasmas , from which his book on inertial fusion emerged. At the LLNL, he is the chief scientist of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), construction of which began in 1997 and was inaugurated in 2009 (with the first large-scale laser target experiments).

He has also recently been to the research on magnetic fusion on Sustained Spheromak Physics experiment involved (SSPX) of LLNL.

In 2007 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics . In 1993 he received the Edward Teller Medal of the American Nuclear Society, in 2000 the Fusion Power Associates Leaders Award and in 1994 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Inertial Confinement Fusion: The Quest for Ignition and Energy Gain Using Indirect Drive, Springer 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Lindl: Development of the indirect-drive approach to inertial confinement fusion and the target physics basis for ignition and gain . In: Physics of Plasmas . tape 2 , 1995, p. 3933 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.871025 . His review article was later published by John D. Lindl, Peter Amendt, Richard L. Berger, S. Gail Glendinning, Siegfried H. Glenzer, Steven W. Haan, Robert L. Kauffman, Otto L. Landen, Laurence J. Suter: The physics basics for ignition using indirect-drive targets on the National Ignition Facility . In: Physics of Plasmas . tape 11 , 2004, p. 339 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1578638 .
  2. ↑ NIF Project Status 2009 First NIF Shots fired to cavity targets , LLNL 2009 ( Memento of 28 May 2010 at the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lindl, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindl, John D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo (Ohio)