Noah Hershkowitz

Noah Hershkowitz (born August 16, 1941 in New York City ) is an American physicist who deals with plasma physics.

Hershkowitz studied at Union College in New York (Bachelor's degree in 1962) and received his doctorate in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1966 . He was then an instructor at Johns Hopkins and from 1967 Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Iowa . In 1981 he became a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he is currently Irving Langmuir Professor of Engineering Physics . In 1974/75 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and 1980/81 at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

In addition to research on low-temperature plasmas, he also dealt with many other topics in plasma physics, including magnetically enclosed plasmas for fusion research (tokamaks, mirror machines) and solitons in plasmas.

Since 1981 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE . In 2004 he and Valery Godyak received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for fundamental contributions to the physics of low-temperature plasmas, including radio wave heating, physics of plasma layers, potential profiles, diagnostics of plasmas and industrial applications .

Web links

• Biography at the APS
• To receive the Maxwell Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laudation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of low temperature plasmas, including radio frequency wave heating, sheath physics, potential profiles, diagnostic probes, and the industrial applications of plasmas.