This is a list of physicists who have worked in or made notable contributions to the field of plasma physics. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! Name !! Known for , - , Hannes Alfvén , , 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics "''for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics''" , - ,

Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry. Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 art ...

, , coined the term "plasma" to hint at the lifelike behavior of this state of matter. Developed electron temperature concepts and an electrostatic probe, the

Langmuir probe A Langmuir probe is a device used to determine the electron temperature, electron density, and electric potential of a plasma. It works by inserting one or more electrodes into a plasma, with a constant or time-varying electric potential between ...

. , - , Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova , , first stable plasmas in tokamaks, first experimental measurement of plasma energy with diamagnetic loop, disruption studies, confinement studies, pioneering female leader of Russian fusion research, Alfvén Prize 2017 , - , Anatoly Vlasov , , first suggested the Vlasov equation, a correct description of plasma with long-range interaction between particles , - , Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov , , proposed the development of the tokamak device for use in controlled thermonuclear fusion. , - ,

Boris B. Kadomtsev Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (russian: Борис Борисович Кадомцев; 9 November 1928 – 19 August 1998) was a Soviet and Russian plasma physicist who worked on controlled fusion problems (e.g. tokamaks). He developed a theory of ...

, , early plasma turbulence theory, stability and nonlinear theory of MHD and kinetic instabilities. James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1998) , - ,

Katherine Weimer Katherine Ella Mounce Weimer (April 15, 1919 – April 23, 2000) was a research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at the Princeton University. She is known for her scientific research in the field of plasma magnetohydrodynamic ...

, , scientific research in the field of plasma magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability theory , - , Yu Lin , , computational research in nonlinear physics in the boundary layers of space plasmas,

Katherine Weimer Award Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christ ...

(2002). , - , Elena Belova , , numerical contributions to the fundamental physics of magnetically confined plasmas,

(2005). , - ,

Lin Yin Lin or LIN may refer to: People *Lin (surname) (normally ), a Chinese surname *Lin (surname) (normally 蔺), a Chinese surname * Lin (''The King of Fighters''), Chinese assassin character *Lin Chow Bang, character in Fat Pizza Places *Lin, Iran, ...

, , research on instabilities and magnetic reconnection in space plasmas and of the physics of relativistic laser-plasma interactions through complex modeling,

(2008). , - , Yuan Ping , , pioneering experiments to explore the interaction of high-intensity laser light with matter,

(2011). , - , Anne White , , fundamental contributions to the understanding of turbulent transport in tokamaks,

(2014). , - , Félicie Albert , , pioneering development and characterization of x-ray sources from laser-wakefield accelerators,

(2017). , - ,

Maria Gatu Johnson Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...

, , significant contributions to Inertial fusion sciences and pioneering work in Stellar Nucleosynthesis through nuclear measurements,

(2019). , - , Kristian Birkeland, , First suggested that polar electric currents (or auroral electrojets) are connected to a system of filaments (now called " Birkeland currents") that flow along geomagnetic field lines into and away from the polar region. , - , Lev Landau, , Landau damping , - , Meghnad Saha, , Saha ionization equation , - ,

Sydney Chapman Sydney Chapman may refer to: *Sir Sydney Chapman (economist) (1871–1951), British economist and civil servant * Sydney Chapman (mathematician) (1888–1970), FRS, British mathematician *Sir Sydney Chapman (politician) Sir Sydney Brookes Chapma ...

, , development of the

kinetic theory of gases Kinetic (Ancient Greek: κίνησις “kinesis”, movement or to move) may refer to: * Kinetic theory, describing a gas as particles in random motion * Kinetic energy, the energy of an object that it possesses due to its motion Art and enter ...

, - , Vitaly Ginzburg , , theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas , - , Vitaly Shafranov , , theoretical contributions to plasma physics (e.g. Grad–Shafranov equation, Kruskal–Shafranov instability) , - ,

Willard Harrison Bennett Willard Harrison Bennett (June 13, 1903 – September 28, 1987) was an American scientist and inventor, born in Findlay, Ohio. Bennett conducted research into plasma physics, astrophysics, geophysics, surface physics, and physical chemistry. ...

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Bennett pinch A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is the compression of an electrically conducting Electrical filament, filament by magnetic forces, or a device tha ...

". Also invented radio frequency

mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is use ...

. , - , Lyman Spitzer, , theoretical contributions to plasma physics,

Spitzer resistivity The Spitzer resistivity (or plasma resistivity) is an expression describing the electrical resistance in a plasma, which was first formulated by Lyman Spitzer in 1950. The Spitzer resistivity of a plasma decreases in proportion to the electron temp ...

, director of Project Matterhorn (1951-1961), James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1975) , - ,

Marshall Rosenbluth Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February 1927 – 28 September 2003) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, and member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of ...

, , fundamental theoretical contributions plasma physics, and in particular, plasma instabilities, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1976) , - ,

John M. Dawson John Myrick Dawson (30 September 1930 in Champaign, Illinois – 17 November 2001 in Los Angeles) was an American computational physicist and the father of plasma-based acceleration techniques. Dawson earned his degrees in physics from t ...

, , introduced the use of computer simulation to plasma physics, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1977) , - , Richard F. Post, , developed the magnetic mirror concept for magnetic confinement fusion, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1978) , - , Tihiro Ohkawa, , developed the doublet approach for toroidal confinement fusion, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1979) , - ,

Thomas H. Stix Thomas Howard Stix (July 12, 1924 – April 16, 2001) was an American physicist. Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962's ''The Theory of Plasma Waves''. History Born in S ...

, , developed the doublet approach for toroidal confinement fusion, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1980) , - ,

John H. Nuckolls John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, , introduced the inertial confinement approach to fusion, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1981) , - , Ira B. Bernstein, , fundamental theoretical contributions plasma physics including a wave mode in his name, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1982) , - , Harold Fürth, , fundamental contributions to plasma physics including resistive instabilities, Director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1981-1990), James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1983) , - ,

Donald W. Kerst Donald William Kerst (November 1, 1911 – August 19, 1993) was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts (accelerator physics) and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel ...

, , invention of the levitated toroidal multipole, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1984) , - ,

John H. Malmberg John Holmes Malmberg (July 5, 1927 – November 1, 1992) was an American plasma physicist and a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was known for making the first experimental measurements of Landau damping of plasma waves in ...

, , experimental demonstration of Landau damping and development of pure electron plasmas, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1985) , - , Harold Grad, , theoretical contributions to magnetohydrodynamics, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1986) , - , Bruno Coppi, , pioneering work in the conceptual and engineering design of high field tokamaks, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1987) , - , Norman Rostoker, , pioneering theoretical contributions to the statistical mechanics of particles with Coulomb interactions, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1988) , - ,

Ravindra Sudan Ravindra Nath Sudan (also called Ravi Sudan; June 8, 1931 – January 22, 2009) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and physicist who specialized in plasma physics. He was known for independently discovering the whistler instability in 196 ...

, , pioneered the study of the generation and propagation of intense ion beams, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1989) , - ,

William L. Kruer William L. Kruer (born 20 April 1942, Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American physicist, specializing in plasma physics. Kruer studied at the University of Louisville (Master's degree, 1965) and received his Ph.D. in 1969 from ...

, , seminal contributions to the theoretical and experimental understanding of the intense electromagnetic waves with plasmas, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1990) , - ,

Hans R. Griem Hans Rudolf Griem (October 7, 1928 – October 2, 2019) was a German-American physicist who specialized in experimental plasma physics and spectroscopy. Early life and career Griem received his doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1954 an ...

, , contributions to plasma spectroscopy and spectral line broadening in plasmas, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1991) , - ,

John M. Greene John Morgan Greene (22 September 1928 – 22 October 2007) was an American theoretical physicist and applied mathematician, known for his work on solitons and plasma physics. Education After several successes as a high school student in the state m ...

, , contributions to theory of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and ideal and resistive instabilities, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1992) , - , Russell M. Kulsrud, , pioneering contributions to basic plasma theory, including magnetic reconnection, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1993) , - , Roy W. Gould, , pioneering research in beam-plasma interactions, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1994) , - ,

Francis F. Chen Francis F. Chen (born November 18, 1929) is a Chinese-born American plasma physicist and electrical engineer. Early life and education On November 18, 1929, Chen was born in Guangdong, Guangdong province, China. Chen studied at Harvard Univer ...

, , pioneering works on electrostatic probes, the plasma physics textbook "''Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion"'' James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1995) , - ,

Thomas M. O'Neil Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, , seminal contributions to plasma theory, including extension of Landau damping to the nonlinear regime James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1996) , - , Charles F. Kennel, , fundamental contributions to the basic plasma physics of collisionless shocks James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1997) , - , John Bryan Taylor, , helicity conservation, bootstrap current, ballooning transformation, plasma theory James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1999) , - ,

Akira Hasegawa is a theoretical physicist and engineer who has worked in the US and Japan. He is known for his work in the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation, which describes fundamental plasma turbulence and the consequent generation of zonal flow tha ...

, , theories of nonlinear drift wave turbulence, including the Hasegawa-Mima equation James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2000) , - , Roald Sagdeev, , contributions to modern plasma theory including collisionless shocks and stochastic magnetic fields James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001) , - ,

Edward A. Frieman Edward Allan Frieman (January 19, 1926 – April 11, 2013) was an American physicist who worked on plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 through 1996, and then the senior vice ...

, , theory of magnetically confined plasmas, including fundamental work on the formulation of the MHD Energy Principle James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2002) , - ,

Eugene N. Parker Eugene Newman Parker (June 10, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Park ...

, , seminal contributions in plasma astrophysics, including predicting the solar wind, explaining the solar dynamo, and formulating the theory of magnetic reconnection James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2003) , - , Noah Hershkowitz, , fundamental contributions to the physics of low temperature plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2004) , - , Valery Godyak, , fundamental contributions to the physics of low temperature plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2004) , - ,

Nathaniel Fisch Nathaniel Joseph Fisch is an American plasma physicist known for pioneering the excitation of electric currents in plasmas using electromagnetic waves, which was then used in tokamak experiments. This contributed to an increased understanding ...

, , theoretical development of efficient rf-driven current in plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2005) , - , Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, , application of plasma concepts to high energy electron and positron acceleration James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2006) , - ,

John Lindl John D. Lindl (born July 27, 1946 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American physicist who specializes in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). He is currently the chief scientist of the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ...

, , contributions in high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2007) , - ,

Ronald C. Davidson Ronald Crosby Davidson (3 July 1941 – 19 May 2016) was a Canadian physicist, professor, and scientific administrator who worked in the United States. He served as the first director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 1978 to 1988, ...

, , pioneering contributions to the physics of one-component non-neutral plasmas, first director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (1991-1996), director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1991-1996), James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2008) , - , Maxim G. Ponomare

, pioneering investigations of disturbances of all plasma species by modeling charged particle emissions from imaginary and additional sources:. Imaginary-emission method for modeling disturbances of all magnetoplasma species: Reflecting and absorbing objects in motion through a rarefied plasma at different angles to the ambient magnetic field (Phys. Rev. E 54, 5591 – Published 1 November 1996)

and First suggested the Resonant Moments method for Enhanced acceleration of electrons populations by crossing electron cyclotron waves in an ambient magnetic fiel

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Miklos Porkolab Miklos Porkolab (born March 24, 1939) is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics. Early life and career In 1957, Porkolab emigrated from Hungary to Canada. He obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of British ...

, , pioneering investigations of linear and nonlinear plasma waves and wave-particle interactions James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2009) , - , James Drake, , theory of the fundamental mechanism of fast reconnection of magnetic fields in plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2010) , - ,

Gregor Eugen Morfill Gregor Eugen Morfill (born 23 July 1945 in Oberhausen, Germany) is a German physicist who works in basic astrophysical research and deals with complex plasmas and plasma medicine. Early life and career Gregor Morfill moved to England in 196 ...

, , discovery of plasma crystals as a solid state of aggregation of dusty plasmas (1994). Former Director of

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany. In 1991 the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics split up into the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Ph ...

, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2011) , - , Liu Chen, , recipient of numerous awards for research on plasma physics (e.g. John Dawson Prize (2004), Hannes Alfvén Prize (2008) and James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2012)) , - ,

Phillip A. Sprangle Phillip A. Sprangle (born September 27, 1944, in Brooklyn) is an American physicist who specializes in the applications of plasma physics. He is known for his work involving the propagation of high-intensity laser beams in the atmosphere, the in ...

, , pioneering contributions to the physics of high intensity laser interactions with plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2013) , - ,

Clifford Surko Clifford Michael Surko (born October 11, 1941, in Sacramento, California) is an American physicist, whose works involve plasma physics, atomic physics, nonlinear dynamics and solid state physics. Together with his colleagues, he developed tech ...

, , invention of and development of techniques to accumulate, confine, and utilize positron plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2014) , - ,

Masaaki Yamada is a Japanese plasma Plasma or plasm may refer to: Science * Plasma (physics), one of the four fundamental states of matter * Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral * Quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in quantum chromodynam ...

, , fundamental experimental studies of magnetic reconnection relevant to space, astrophysical and fusion plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2015) , - ,

Ellen G. Zweibel Ellen Gould Zweibel (born 20 December 1952, New York City) is an American astrophysicist and plasma physicist. In 1973, Zweibel received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and in 1977 her Ph.D. in physics from Pr ...

, , seminal research on the energetics, stability, and dynamics of astrophysical plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2016) , - ,

Dmitri Ryutov Dmitri Dmitriyevich Ryutov (Russian: Дми́трий Дми́триевич Рю́тов; born March 6, 1940, in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical plasma physicist. Early life and career Ryutov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and ...

, , contributions to the theoretical plasma physics of low and high energy density plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2017) , - ,

Keith H. Burrell Keith Howard Burrell (born April 13, 1947 in Santa Monica, California) is an American plasma physicist. Early life and career Burrell received bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University in 1968. He then received a master's degree a ...

, , established the links between sheared plasma flow and turbulent transport James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2018) , - , William H. Matthaeus, , pioneering research into the nature of turbulence in space and astrophysical plasmas James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2019) , - ,

Warren Bicknell Mori Warren Bicknell Mori (born August 8, 1959) is an American computational plasma physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for his contributions to ...

, , pioneering contributions to the theory and kinetic simulations of nonlinear processes in plasma-based acceleration James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2020) , - ,

Melvin Gottlieb Melvin Burt Gottlieb (May 25, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois – December 1, 2000 in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania) was a high-energy physicist and director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1961–1980). With Van Allen he did the early ...

, , responsible for building Princeton Large Torus and Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at PPPL, director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1961-1980) , - ,

Robert J. Goldston Robert James Goldston (born May 6, 1950) is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and a former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Early life and education Goldston was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1950, the son of Eli ...

, , empirical scaling relationship for the confinement of energy in tokamak plasmas, director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1997-2008) , - , Stewart C. Prager, , director of the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) experiment, director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (2008-2016) , - ,

Sir Steven Cowley Sir Steven Charles Cowley (born 1959) is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and Plasma physics, astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Princeto ...

, , pioneering research in astrophysical and turbulent plasmas, director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (2018–present) , - , Friedrich Wagner , , discovery of H-mode in ASDEX in 1984 , - , Anthony Peratt , , influential advocate of plasma cosmology , - , David Bohm , , derived the

Bohm sheath criterion The Debye sheath (also electrostatic sheath) is a layer in a plasma (physics), plasma which has a greater density of positive ions, and hence an overall excess positive charge, that balances an opposite negative charge on the surface of a material w ...

, which states that a

plasma Plasma or plasm may refer to: Science * Plasma (physics), one of the four fundamental states of matter * Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral * Quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics Biology * Blood pla ...

must flow with at least the speed of sound toward a solid surface , - ,

Eric Lerner Eric J. Lerner (born May 31, 1947) is an American popular science writer, and independent plasma researcher. He wrote the 1991 book ''The Big Bang Never Happened'', which advocates Hannes Alfvén's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory. ...

, , pioneer of

focus fusion A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a type of plasma generating system originally developed as a fusion power device starting in the early 1960s. The system demonstrated scaling laws that suggested it would not be useful in the commercial power role, an ...

and advocate of plasma cosmology , - ,

Forrest S. Mozer Forrest S. Mozer (born February 13, 1929 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American experimental physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur known best for his pioneering work on electric field measurements in space plasma and for development of solid stat ...

, , electric field measurements in space plasma , - ,

Fran Bošnjaković Fran Bošnjaković (1902–1993) was a noted Croatian thermodynamicist considered to be one of the pioneers in the development of technical thermodynamics. Bošnjaković was born in Zagreb, where he was initially educated. He continued his educa ...

, , , - , Franklin Chang-Diaz , , created the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) concept, an electromagnetic thruster for spacecraft propulsion , - , Friedrich Paschen , , Paschen's law, an equation relating the breakdown voltage to the gas pressure and electrode gap length , - , Ghulam Murtaza , , , - ,

Mounir Laroussi Mounir Laroussi (born August 9, 1955) is a Tunisian-American scientist. He is known for his work in plasma science, especially low temperature plasmas and their biomedical applications. Biography Early life Mounir Laroussi was born and rais ...

, , Plasma pencil, seminal contributions to the biomedical applications of low temperature plasma, plasma medicine , - ,

Nam Chang-hee Nam Chang-hee (; born February 14, 1957) is a South Korean plasma physicist. Nam is specializing in the exploration of relativistic laser-matter interactions using femtosecond PW lasers. Currently he is professor of physics at Gwangju Institute ...

, , , - , Li Jiangang , , , - , Harold P. Eubank , , , - ,

Oscar Buneman Oscar Buneman (28 September 1913 – 24 January 1993) made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation. Career In 1940 upon completion of his PhD with Douglas Ha ...

, , computational plasma physics and plasma simulation, Farley–Buneman instability , - , Peter Debye , , Nobel Prize–winning physicist and chemist, after whom

Debye shielding The debye (symbol: D) (; ) is a CGS unit (a non- SI metric unit) of electric dipole momentTwo equal and opposite charges separated by some distance constitute an electric dipole. This dipole possesses an electric dipole moment whose value is give ...

and Debye length are named , - , Philo Farnsworth , , invention of the

cathode ray tube A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. The images may represent electrical waveforms ( oscilloscope), pictu ...

, television and Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor , - , Predhiman Krishnan Kaw, , founding director of the

Institute for Plasma Research The Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) is an autonomous physics research institute in India. The institute is involved in research in aspects of plasma science including basic plasma physics, research on magnetically confined hot plasmas and ...

(1986-2012) , - , Radu Bălescu , , recipient of the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2000 , - ,

Ratko Janev Ratko Janev ( mk, Ратко Jанев) (March 30, 1939 – December 31, 2019) was a Yugoslav and Serbian atomic physicist and Macedonian academician. Biography Janev was born on March 30, 1939 in Sveti Vrach, Bulgaria. During his youth he mov ...

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Rudolf Seeliger Rudolf Seeliger (12 November 1886 – 20 January 1965) was a German physicist who specialized in electric discharges in gases and plasma physics. From 1906 to 1909, Seeliger studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg ...

, , specialized in electric discharges in gases and plasma physics , - ,

Subrata Roy Subrata Roy (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman who founded Sahara India Pariwar in 1978. Sahara India Pariwar has operated a vast number of businesses such as Aamby Valley City, Sahara Movie Studios, Air Sahara, hockey sport ...

, , invention of the

Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle The Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle (WEAV) is a heavier than air flight system developed at the University of Florida, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The WEAV was invented in 2006 by Dr. Subrata Roy, plasma physicis ...

and serpentine geometry plasma actuator , - , Shaukat Hameed Khan , , laser isotope separation, Chief Science Officer of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (1969-2005) , - , William Crookes , , pioneer of vacuum tubes and the Crookes tube , - ,

A A Mamun Abdullah Al Mamun (born 31 December 1966) is a Bangladeshi physicist who is a professor of physics at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.. Early life and education A A Mamun (son of Darbesh Ali and Rizia Ali) was born in Dhamrai U ...

, , pioneer of nonlinear dynamics of dusty plasma physics, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in 2009 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , -

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