Robert James Hastie

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Robert James Hastie , often quoted as RJ Hastie, called Jim Hastie, is a British theoretical plasma physicist .

Hastie works in the theory department of the Joint European Torus in Culham.

He is engaged in theoretical research on plasmas in the context of the tokamak path for controlled nuclear fusion. He worked closely with John Bryan Taylor and John William Connor (Jack Connor) since the 1960s . In the 1970s they developed the theory of ballooning-fashion instabilities

In 2004 he received the Hannes Alfvén Prize with Taylor and Connor .

In 2002 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JW Connor, RJ Hastie, JB Taylor: Shear, Periodicity, and Plasma Ballooning Modes . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 40 , no. 6 , 1978, p. 396-399 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.40.396 .
  2. Fellowships APS