Miklos Porkolab
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Stanford University (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Humboldt Prize (1976)
- John Dawson Award (1984)
- Karoly Simony Memorial Plaque and Prize (2007)
- Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award (2010)
- James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2009)
- Hannes Alfvén Prize (2013)
Miklos Porkolab | |
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| Born | March 24, 1939 |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia (B.S.) Stanford University (M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Known for | plasma waves, plasma microturbulence, phase-contrast imaging |
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| Fields | Plasma Physics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Microinstabilities and Diffusion Processes in a Thermal Plasma (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gordon S. Kino[1] |
Miklos Porkolab (born March 24, 1939) is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics.[2]
In 1957, Porkolab emigrated from Hungary to Canada. He obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of British Columbia in 1963 and then his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964 and 1967 respectively.
He moved to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he worked as a senior research physicist until 1975. During the following year, Porkolab worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, under the auspices of the Humboldt Foundation as a winner of the "US Senior Scientist Award". In 1977, he became professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later led the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) for many years.[3]
Between 1991 and 2001, Porkolab served as editor of Physics Letters A, in the Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics subsection. He also represented the U.S. Plasma Physics community for six years on the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission–16 (Plasma Physics) (1991-1997). Between 1992 and 1995, he served as a member of the National Research Council Subpanel on Plasma Science. In 1999, he served as chair of the Plasma Physics Division of the American Physical Society.[4]
