Kenneth W. Gentle from the University of Texas, Austin, was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 1996, [3] for his pioneering experiments on wave-particle and wave-wave interactions which have illuminated the fundamental nonlinear phenomena in collisionless plasmas, and for his leadership in the development of experiments which directly measure the fundamental processes of transport in Tokamak plasmas.
Margaret Galland Kivelson is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and distinguished professor emerita of space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2010 to the present, concurrent with her appointment at UCLA, Kivelson has been a research scientist and scholar at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Chandrashekhar "Chan" Janardan Joshi is an Indian–American experimental plasma physicist. He is known for his pioneering work in plasma-based particle acceleration techniques for which he won the 2006 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics and the 2023 Hannes Alfvén Prize.
Miklos Porkolab (born March 24, 1939) is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics.
Michael Dennis Feit (1942–2023) was an American physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California.
Kenneth Ivan Golden from the University of Vermont, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 1991, for pioneering work in the theory of dynamical processes in strongly coupled plasmas; for extending the theory to the analysis of binary ion mixtures and of two dimensional electron systems; for contributions to the theory of the structure of shock waves in magnetized plasmas.
Henry Philip Freund from the Science Applications International Corporation, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 1997, for seminal contributions to the theory of collective radiation mechanisms in plasma and relativistic electron beans, and the application of the theory to runaway electron instabilities in tokamaks and to coherent radiation sources such as Free-Electron Lases and Cerenkov Masers.
James Douglas Beason, from the Air Force Research Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society after being nominated by the APS in 2000. The honor was for his advancement of national science policy, especially for his impact throughout the government on basic research. In addition, he has fundamentally advanced science in his work toward solving the relativistic Compton scattering kernel, and inventing innovative techniques for simulating lasers and plasmas.
William Arthur Coles, from the University of California, San Diego, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics in 2006, for his major contributions to our understanding of the effect of plasma turbulence on radio wave propagation, and the use of radio propagation measurements to infer properties of remote turbulent plasmas in interplanetary space and the interstellar medium.
Karl Krushelnick is an American plasma physicist located at the University of Michigan. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by the university's Division of Plasma Physics in 2007, for "pioneering contributions to experimental high-intensity laser plasma physics including the production of high-quality relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams and the development of techniques to measure very large magnetic fields in intense laser-produced plasmas."
Leonid Eremeyevich Zakharov is a Russian physicist who is a researcher at Princeton University. He attended Lomonosov Moscow State University (1965–1971). He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 2007, for "contributions to the theory and numerical calculation of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria, stability, and transport in toroidal plasma confinement devices and for innovative ideas concerning the development of a lithium walled tokamak as an approach to an economic reactor."
Richard Peter Majeski is an American physicist from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He earned his bachelor's (1973) and master's (1974) degrees from the University of Scranton and his PhD in physics from Dartmouth College (1979).
Oleg Ivanovich Zatsarinny (1953-2021) was a Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist noted for his contributions to all aspects of research related to electron scattering in atoms. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2008, for "the development of the B-Spline R-matrix method with non-orthogonal orbital sets for atomic structure calculations of exceptional accuracy and benchmark calculations for excitation and ionization of complex atoms and ions by photon and electron impact."
Gaston R. Gutierrez currently works at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) where he holds a Scientist II position. He completed his undergraduate education in the National University of La Plata, Argentina in 1977. In 1982 he received his PhD from the same institution. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Particles and Fields in 2009, for leading the introduction of ""matrix-element"" techniques for extracting precise measurements of standard-model parameters at hadron colliders and for seminal and vital contributions to the construction of the unique scintillating fiber tracker for the DZero experiment.
Walter N. Gekelman is an experimental plasma physicist and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is known for the development and construction of the Large Plasma Device (LAPD), an over 20-meter long cylindrical plasma device to study fundamental plasma processes, such as Alfvén waves and magnetic flux ropes, under laboratory conditions. He is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
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 of plasma wave–particle interactions in the field for which he was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 2005 and the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2015.
Thomas Michael O'Neil is an American physicist who specializes in plasma physics.
Denise Hinkel is a plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
David A. Hammer is the J. Carlton Ward, Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2004, Hammer received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award, as well as the Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates in 2018.
Reiner Ludwig Stenzel was an American plasma physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was known for his experimental work in basic plasma physics, such as on whistler waves and magnetic reconnection, and had contributed to the development of various plasma probes and antennas, which included the microwave resonator (hairpin) probe. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society.