Biography:William Heidbrink

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William Walter Heidbrink
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (BA, 1997)
Princeton University (PhD, 1984)
AwardsJohn Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
InstitutionsMaxwell Laboratories
University of California, Irvine (1988-present)
Websitehttps://www.physics.uci.edu/~wwheidbr/
Short description: Plasma physicist

William Heidbrink is an plasma physicist and professor at the department of physics and astronomy at University of California, Irvine.

Education

William Walter Heidbrink[1][2] received his Bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977. For the next two years, Heidbrink pursued research in pulsed power at Maxwell Laboratories. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1984.[3]

Career

In 1988, Heidbrink joined the physics department at University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is a professor emeritus and distinguished professor there. Heidbrink is a plasma physicist.[3][4]

Awards and honors

In 1996, Heidbrink was elected as an American Physical Society fellow for "quantitative studies of the confinement and thermalization of fast ions in tokamak plasmas and for discovery of several fast-ion driven instabilities."[1]

In 2004, Heidbrink received the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society for "the theoretical Discovery and Experimental Identification of Toroidicity Induced Alfven Eigenmodes."[2]

See also

  • List of Princeton University people
  • List of University of California, San Diego people
  • List of University of California, Irvine people
  • List of fellows of the American Physical Society (1972–1997)

References