Carl R. Sovinec

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Carl Richard Sovinec is an American physicist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sovinec is the son of Dr. Richard and Cathleen Sovinec and a 1981 graduate of Winona Senior High School in Winona, Minnesota. He attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [1] He was awarded the status of Fellow [2] in the American Physical Society, [3] after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 2009, [4] for using large scale magnetohydrodynamic simulation to elucidate the roles of reconnection, relaxation and transport in self-organization processes of low field magnetic confinement devices and for providing a primary scientific leadership role in the development of the NIMROD project.

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References

  1. "A.F. Student Spreads the Word". The Winona Daily News. Winona, Minnesota. 23 November 1982. p. 3. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  2. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  3. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  4. "APS Fellows 2009". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.