History of UW Plasma Physics
J. C. Sprott
Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison Presented to the
Plasma Physics Group Meeting
on November 13, 2001
Nuclear History
1942 First fission reactor (Dec) 1942 - 1945 Manhattan Project 1945 First fission bomb (Jul) 1952 First fusion bomb (Oct) 1952 - 1958 Project Sherwood 1958 Controlled fusion declassified
1960 First fission power plant
1963 Plasma physics begins at UW
US Fusion Program 1960
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Stellarators Oak Ridge National Lab - ECRH Mirror Devices Lawrence Livermore National Lab Gun-Injected Mirror Devices Los Alamos Scientific Lab Toroidal Pinches General Dynamics - Toroidal Pinches
Donald W. Kerst
1911 - 1993
Wanderings of Don Kerst
Toroidal Octupole
Early Ph.D. Graduates
Dale Meade (Kerst 65) - PPPL Jim Paukey (Symon 66) - Sandia Gerry Barney (Kerst 67) - Rockfeller Cliff Erickson (Kerst 67) - Honeywell Jim Howard (Symon 69) - U. Colorado John Schmidt (Mills 69) - PPPL Clint Sprott (Kerst 69) - U. Wisconsin Don Lencioni (Kerst 69) - MIT Lincoln Lab Glenn Kuswa (Kerst 70) - Sandia Charles Stallings (Kerst 70) - Physics Int.
Plasma Physics Faculty
Don Kerst Keith Symon Fred Mills Dale Meade Clint Sprott Stewart Prager Dick Dexter Paul Terry Sam Hokin Cary Forest
Early Engineering Plasma Faculty
Jim Beyer (ECE) Leon Shohet (ECE) John Scharer (ECE) Harold Forsen (EP) Gil Emmert (EP) Bob Conn (EP) Gerry Kulcinski (EP) Dick Post (EP) John Conrad (EP) Jim Callen (EP)
Tokapole II Vacuum Field
Tokapole II with Plasma