Roy W. Gould

Roy W. Gould (born April 25, 1927 in Los Angeles ) is an American electrical engineer and physicist who deals with plasma physics.

Gould graduated from Caltech (bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1949), Stanford University (master's degree in electrical engineering in 1950), and received a PhD in physics from Caltech in 1956 (on microwave and radio noise from the sun). 1951/52 he was research engineer for rocket control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech and from 1953 to 1955 at Hughes Aircraft , where he researched electron tubes.

In 1955 he became Associate Professor and 1960 Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. In 1974 he moved to the Faculty of Physics as Professor of Applied Physics, and from 1980 he was Simon Ramo Professor . He has been Professor Emeritus since 1996.

From 1979 to 1985 he was director of the engineering and applied science department at Caltech. From 1970 to 1972 he was director of fusion research at the Atomic Energy Commission .

In 1966 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1971 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1974 . In 1994 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics .

Web links

• Roy W. Gould. In: Faculty Directory, Caltech. (English). 
• Literature by and about Roy W. Gould in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Roy W. Gould. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
• Interview with Roy W. Gould by Shirley K. Cohen. In: Caltech Oral Histories. 1996(English). 
• List of publications. In: plasma.caltech.edu. (English).