Ronald Davidson

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Ronald C. Davidson (born July 3, 1941 in Norwich , Ontario , † May 19, 2016 in Cranbury , New Jersey ) was a Canadian physicist who worked in plasma physics.

Davidson graduated from McMaster University (bachelor's degree in 1963) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1966 . As a post-doc he was from 1966 to 1968 at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1968 Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland . In 1972 he became an associate professor and in 1973 a professor. In 1970 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). From 1978 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Plasma Fusion Center, whose director he was from 1978 to 1988. From 1991 he was Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University and from 1991 to 1996 director of the Plasma Physics Laboratory there. From 1982 to 1986 he was chairman of the Magnetic Fusion Advisory Committee of the US Department of Energy (DOE) and from 1982 to 1983 chairman of the plasma physics division of the American Physical Society .

In 2008 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for fundamental contributions to the physics of non-neutral plasmas, particle beams of high intensity and collective non-linear interaction processes in plasmas at high temperature. He was the author and co-author of over 350 scientific journal publications. In particular, he dealt with non-neutral plasmas (that is, the total charge does not disappear), such as those that occur in particle beams in high-energy scattering experiments in elementary particle physics.

He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1986 he received the Leadership Award from Fusion Power Associates and in 2005 the IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award.

Fonts

  • with Hong Quin: Physics of intense charged particle beams in high energy accelerators , Imperial College Press, London, 2001
  • Physics of non neutral plasmas , World Scientific 2001
  • An introduction to the physics of non-neutral plasmas , Addison-Wesley 1990
  • Theory of non-neutral plasmas , Benjamin 1974
  • Methods in nonlinear plasma theory , Academic Press 1972

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ronald C. Davidson, Pioneer of Fusion Power, Dies at 74
  2. ↑ Laudation for the Maxwell Prize: for pioneering contributions to the physics of one-component non-neutral plasmas, intense charge particle beams, and collective nonlinear interaction processes in high-temperature plasmas
personal data
SURNAME Davidson, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davidson, Ronald C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwich , Ontario , Canada
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2016
Place of death Cranbury , New Jersey , United States