Thomas Michael O'Neil
Thomas Michael O'Neil (born September 2, 1940 ) is an American physicist who works in plasma physics.
O'Neil graduated from California State University , Long Beach ( bachelor's degree in 1962) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he received his master's degree in physics in 1964 and his doctorate in 1965 . From 1965 to 1967 he was a scientist at General Atomics and from 1967 at UCSD as an assistant professor and later professor. 1980 to 1984 he was on the advisory board of the Institute of Fusion Studies at the University of Texas at Austin .
In 1971 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1996 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics . From 1979 to 1983 he was co-editor of Physical Review Letters . In 1991, together with John Malmberg and Charles Driscoll, he received the John M. Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for their investigations into non-neutral plasmas.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 1996 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient. Thomas Michael O'Neil. American Physical Society, accessed June 24, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | O'Neil, Thomas Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1940 |