Nathaniel fish

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Nathaniel Joseph Fisch (born before 1975) is an American physicist who mainly deals with plasma physics.

Fisch studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (as the MIT National Scholar from 1968 to 1972), where he received his master's degree in 1975 and his doctorate in computer science and electrical engineering in 1978. From 1978 he was a scientist in the plasma physics laboratory of Princeton University , where he has been a professor in the Faculty of Astrophysics since 1991 (since 2000 also associated with the Faculty of Mechanics and Aviation Technology) and directs the University's plasma physics program. In 1986 he was a visiting scientist at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM . From 1981 to 1986 he was a consultant at Exxon Research.

Fisch did pioneering work in the excitation of electrical currents in plasmas with electromagnetic waves, which was soon used in tokamak experiments. He also deals with inertial fusion and methods of generating intense laser fields and particle acceleration (plasma thrusters) with methods of plasma physics and of accelerating plasmas with lasers. Further fields of work are hydrodynamics of charged liquids, petroleum refinement and pattern recognition.

In 2005 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics for theoretical work on radio wave-induced currents in plasmas and for fundamental advances in the ability to understand, analyze, and use the interaction of electromagnetic waves with plasmas .

In 1985 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2004 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize . For 2015 he was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987), whose Award of Excellence in Plasma Physics he received in 1992 for fundamental theoretical work on non-inductive power generation in toroidally enclosed plasmas .

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  1. ↑ Laudation for the Maxwell Prize: For theoretical development of efficient rf-driven current in plasmas and for greatly expanding our ability to understand, to analyze, and to utilize wave-plasma interactions.
  2. ↑ Laudation based on Fisch's CV
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SURNAME Fish, Nathaniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fish, Nathaniel Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1975