Masaaki Yamada
Masaaki Yamada (born August 9, 1942 in Japan ) is a Japanese plasma physicist .
Yamada graduated from Tokyo University with a bachelor's degree in applied physics in 1966 and a master's degree in nuclear engineering in 1968, and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois in 1973 . He then went to Princeton University and, from 1978, to its Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where from 1978 to 1988 he headed the development of the Spheromak S-1, a compact toroidal system for plasma confinement, which was studied for some time as an alternative to the tokamak . Since 1982 he has been a Principal Research Physicist at the PPPL (2015 he is a Distinguished Laboratory Research Fellow). Since the early 1990s he has been leading a research program to study magnetic reconnection at the PPPL (Magnetic Reconnection Experiment, MRX) with applications both to fusion plasmas and in astrophysics.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1985) and received the Excellence of Plasma Physics Award from APS (2002) and the Kaul Prize from Princeton University (2003). In 2015 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for his research on reconnection and as a pioneer of laboratory plasma physics for astrophysics. He has produced over 200 scientific publications.
He was visiting professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , the University of Tokyo and Kyoto .
Fonts
- with Russell Kulsrud, Hantao Ji: Magnetic reconnection . Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 82, 2010, pp. 603-664
- with Ellen Zweibel: Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas . Ann. Rev. Astronomy and Astrophysics, AA47-08, 2009, pp. 291-332
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References and comments
- ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yamada, Masaaki |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese plasma physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Japan |