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Harold Furth - Wikipedia

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Harold Paul Furth

Born	Harald Fürth (1930-01-13)January 13, 1930 Vienna, Austria
Died	February 21, 2002(2002-02-21) (aged 72) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Resting place	Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
Nationality	Austrian-American
Education	Harvard University (B.S., Ph.D.)
Known for	Resistive magnetohydrodynamics
Awards	James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1983) Delmer S. Fahrney Medal (1992)
Scientific career
Fields	physics, astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, nuclear radiation,^[1] controlled thermonuclear fusion^[1]
Institutions	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Princeton University

Harold Paul Furth (January 13, 1930 – February 21, 2002) was an Austrian-American physicist who was a pioneer in leading the American efforts to harness thermonuclear fusion for the generation of electricity.^[2]^[3] He died of a heart ailment on 21 February 2002.^[4]

Early life

Furth emigrated to the United States in 1941. His father fled a POW camp during WWI, but returned to Vienna a few years later. In his later years, he ran a shoe-making business with his family.^[4] He also developed an interest for literature. In the summer of 1939, Harold's father had escaped to Switzerland. After studying at the French-speaking École Internationale in Geneva, Harold immigrated to New York City in 1941. He later graduated at the head of his class at The Hill School.^[5] He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960. His PhD thesis is entitled Magnetic Analysis of K^– Interactions in Emulsion Nuclei.^[6]

Career

Furth worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1956 to 1967 before going in 1967 to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)^[5] where he would spend the rest of his career working in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was also a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University.^[7]

In the late 1960s, Furth contributed some important theoretical work on resistive magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma.

In 1981 Furth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until 1990 during record setting magnetic fusion energy experiments on the largest tokamak in the country, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).

Awards

In 1983, Furth was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society.^[8] In 1992, he was awarded the Delmer S. Fahrney Medal (now known as the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics) by the Franklin Institute.^[9]

Furth was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Harold P. Furth page on The Free Dictionary". Retrieved November 3, 2018.
^ Chang, Kenneth (2002-02-22). "Harold P. Furth, 72, Dies; Led Fusion Experiments". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
^ "Professor of astrophysical sciences Harold P. Furth dies". Princeton University. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
^ ^a ^b Fisch, Nathaniel J.; Fowler, T. Kenneth; Frieman, Edward A.; Goldston, Robert J. (2004). "Harold Paul Furth". Physics Today. 57 (2): 76–77. Bibcode:2004PhT....57b..76F. doi:10.1063/1.1688079. ISSN 0031-9228.
^ ^a ^b ^c Fowler, T. Kenneth (2003). "Chapter 4. Harold P. Furth 1930–2002". Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 83. National Academies Press. pp. 35–45.
^ "Harvard Physics PhD Theses 1954–1970" (PDF). harvard.edu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
^ Furth, Harold (1995) Fusion, Scientific American 273(3), 174-176.
^ "1983 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
^ "Harold P. Furth". The Franklin Institute. 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2020-02-15.

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1975–1990	1975: Lyman Spitzer 1976: Marshall Rosenbluth 1977: John M. Dawson 1978: Richard F. Post 1979: Tihiro Ohkawa 1980: Thomas H. Stix 1981: John Nuckolls 1982: Ira B. Bernstein 1983: Harold Fürth 1984: Donald W. Kerst 1985: John H. Malmberg 1986: Harold Grad 1987: Bruno Coppi 1988: Norman Rostoker 1989: Ravindra N. Sudan 1990: William L. Kruer
1991–2000	1991: Hans R. Griem 1992: John M. Greene 1993: Russell Kulsrud 1994: Roy W. Gould 1995: Francis F. Chen 1996: Thomas M. O'Neil 1997: Charles Kennel 1998: Boris Kadomtsev 1999: John B. Taylor 2000: Akira Hasegawa
2001–2010	2001: Roald Sagdeev 2002: Edward A. Frieman 2003: Eugene Parker 2004: Noah Hershkowitz / Valery Godyak 2005: Nathaniel J. Fisch 2006: Chandrashekhar J. Joshi 2007: John Lindl 2008: Ronald C. Davidson 2009: Miklos Porkolab 2010: James F. Drake
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