Biography:William L. Kruer
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William L. Kruer (b. 20 April 1942, Louisville, Kentucky) is an United States physicist, specializing in plasma physics.[citation needed]
Kruer studied at the University of Louisville (Master's degree, 1965) and received his PhD in 1969 from Princeton University. Afterwards he was a research associate scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 1970 a full member of the research staff. Starting in 1972 he was a group leader for theoretical plasma physics and simulation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and from 1993 a chief scientist in plasma physics there. He wrote an important book on laser plasma interactions.[1]
In 1990, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Kruer, William L. (2001). The Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions. Westview Press. ISBN 9780813340838. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_physics_of_laser_plasma_interaction.html?id=uAF_HWb8FAQC.
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