Richard J. Temkin (born 8 January 1945) is a
plasma physicist and researcher on plasma-heating
gyrotron
High-power 140 GHz gyrotron for plasma heating in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment, Germany.
A gyrotron is a class of high-power linear-beam vacuum tubes that generates millimeter-wave electromagnetic waves by the cyclotron resonance of e ...
s and other electromagnetic devices involving high-powered microwaves or terahertz radiation.
[Richard Temkin, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, mit.edu]
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Education and career
Temkin received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1966 and a Ph.D.from MIT in 1971, supervised by Benjamin Lax
Benjamin Lax (29 December 1915, Miskolc, Hungary – 21 April 2015, Newton, Massachusetts) was a solid-state and plasma physicist. (with selected bibliography)
Biography
Benjamin Lax immigrated in 1926 with his family to the United States. After ...
and Paul M. Raccah with thesis ''Experimental charge density of copper''.
Dr. Temkin has served as a senior research scientist in the MIT Physics Department
The MIT Department of Physics has over 120 faculty members, is often cited as the largest physics department in the United States, and hosts top-ranked programs. It offers the Bachelor of Science, SB, Master of Science, SM, PhD, and ScD degrees. ...
since 1985, and as the associate director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) since 1998. He is also the division head for the PSFC's Waves and Beams Division. Awards received include the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award (2013); Exceptional Service Award of the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (2011);Society Prizes , Irmmw-thz
/ref> the Robert L. Woods Award of the U. S. Department of Defense for Vacuum Electronics, the Certificate of Recognition from the IEEE Electron Device Society, and the Kenneth J. Button Prize and Medal from the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE, and the Institute of Physics.[
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Selected publications
*with Bruce Gordon Danly:
*with Lino R. Becerra, Gary J. Gerfen, David J. Singel, & Robert G. Griffin:
*with Kevin L. Felch, Bruce Danly, Hopward R. Jory, Kenneth E. Kreischer, Wes Lawson, & Baruch Levush:
*with Melanie Rosay, Jonathan C. Lansing, Kristin C. Haddad, William W. Bachovchin, Judith Herzfeld, R. G. Griffin:
*with Thorsten Maly, Galia T. Debelouchina, Vikram S. Bajaj, Kan-Nian Hu, Chan-Gyu Joo, Melody L. Mak–Jurkauskas, Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri, P. C. van der Wel, J. Herzfeld, & R. G. Griffin:
*with John H. Booske, Richard J. Dobbs, Colin D. Joye, Carol L. Kory, George R. Neil, Gun-Sik Park, & Jaehun Park:
See also
*ITER
ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ''iter'' meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process s ...
References
External links
Dr. Richard Temkin: High Powered Microwaves & Nuclear Fusion Energy, YouTube, 16 December 2014Prof. Richard J. Temkin, "High Frequency Gyrotrons and Their Applications", 22 January 2014, Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering
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21st-century American physicists
1945 births
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the Institute of Physics