Russell Kulsrud
Russell M. Kulsrud (born April 10, 1928 in Lindsborg , Kansas ) is an American physicist who mainly deals with plasma physics and its application in astrophysics .
Kulsrud studied at the University of Maryland (bachelor's degree in 1949) and the University of Chicago , where he received his master's degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1954 under Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( Effect of Magnetic Fields on Generation of Noise by Isotropic Turbulence ). From 1954 he was in the Matterhorn project of nuclear fusion with magnetic confinement at Princeton University and subsequently at the university's plasma physics laboratory. In 1964 he became head of the theoretical department there. In 1966 he went to Yale University as a professor , but returned to Princeton University in 1967 (as professor of astrophysical sciences), where he retired in 2004 .
In 1993 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics .
Fonts
- Plasma Physics for Astrophysics . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2004, ISBN 978-0-691-12073-7 .
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| SURNAME | Kulsrud, Russell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kulsrud, Russell M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindsborg , Kansas |