Thomas Antonsen
Thomas Antonsen | |
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| Born | Thomas Marbory Antonsen Jr. December 7, 1950 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland |
| Thesis | Theoretical problems in plasma heating (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Ott |
Thomas Marbory Antonsen Jr. (born December 7, 1950) is an American physicist, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Early life and career
[edit]Antonsen graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1973, an M.S. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1977.[1]
He was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1976-77 and a research scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1977 to 1980. He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 1980 as a research assistant, where his research interests include nonlinear dynamics and chaos and plasma theory.[2] He was appointed professor at Maryland in 1989.
Honors and awards
[edit]Antonsen was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986 for "contributions to the theory of the stability of high temperature plasmas and the theory of the production of intense ion beams".[3] He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for "contributions to the theory of magnetically confined plasmas, laser-plasma interactions and high power coherent radiation sources".[4]
Antonsen was awarded the 2016 John Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics from IEEE.[5] He was also awarded the 2022 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award[6] and the 2023 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Antonsen is married with 3 children.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Antonsen, Thomas". University of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "Antonsen, Thomas M., Jr". University of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2012.
- ^ "John Pierce Awards". IEEE. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "IEEE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Award". IEEE Awards. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
- ^ "2023 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". aps.org. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
External links
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Cornell University alumni
- Fellows of the IEEE
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- American electrical engineers
- American plasma physicists
- 20th-century American engineers
- 21st-century American engineers
- 20th-century American physicists
- 21st-century American physicists