Phillip Sprangle

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Phillip Sprangle (born September 27, 1944 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist who deals with applications of plasma physics.

Sprangle graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1967, his master's degree from the University of Puerto Rico in 1969, and received his doctorate in applied physics from Cornell University (where he was since 1969) in 1973 . From 1972 he was at the Naval Research Laboratory, from 1982 as a senior scientist. There he headed the Beam Physics department . He is a professor at the University of Maryland .

He dealt with the propagation of high-intensity laser beams in the atmosphere, the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses from high-power lasers with matter, nonlinear optics and nonlinear plasma physics, free electron lasers, and lasers in particle acceleration.

In 2008 he received the IEEE Plasma Science Award, in 1991 the International Free Electron Laser Prize, in 1986 the EO Hulburt Science and Engineering Award, in 2008 he was named Top Navy Scientist and Engineer of the Year and in 2012 the Fred E. Saalfeld Award for outstanding lifetime achievement as Scientists from the Office of Naval Research.

In 2013 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics , for pioneering work on the interaction of high intensity lasers with plasma, the development of plasma accelerators, free electron lasers, gyrotrons and electron accelerators with high current density .

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE .

Web links

  • Sprangle, Phillip. Department of Physics, MIT(English, official homepage).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ for pioneering contributions to the physics of high intensity laser interactions with plasmas, and to the development of plasma accelerators, free-electron lasers, gyrotrons and high current electron accelerators , University of Maryland for the award ceremony
personal data
SURNAME Sprangle, Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn