Noah Hershkowitz

Noah Hershkowitz (born August 16, 1941) is an American experimental plasma physicist.[1] He was jointly awarded the 2004 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics with Valery Godyak for his research on low-temperature plasmas.[2] These include radio frequency wave heating,[3][4] sheath physics,[5] potential profiles,[6] diagnostic probes,[7][8] and the industrial applications of plasmas.

Noah Hershkowitz
Born (1941-08-16) August 16, 1941
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationUnion College (B.S.)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Thesis (1966)

He is also known to have worked on magnetic confinement fusion (i.e. tokamaks, magnetic mirrors)[9][10] as well as solitons in plasmas.[11]

Early life and career

Hershkowitz obtained a bachelor's degree from Union College in 1962 and a Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1966. Upon graduation, Hershkowitz remained at the university to become an instructor in physics until 1967, where he was employed as assistant professor at the University of Iowa until 1980. During this time between 1974 and 1975, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1980 and 1981, he was a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1981, he became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently Irving Langmuir Professor of Engineering Physics.[12]

Honors and awards

Hershkowitz has been a fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE since 1981. In 2004, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics with Valery Godyak.[2]

References
  1. "Hershkowitz, Noah - UW-Engineering Directory | College of Engineering @ The University of Wisconsin-Madison". Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  2. "2004 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  3. Intrator, T.; Probert, P. H.; Vukovic, M.; Wukitch, S.; Elfimov, A.; Durst, R.; Breun, R. A.; Brouchous, D.; Diebold, D.; Doczy, M.; Fonck, R. (1996). "Alfvén ion–ion hybrid wave heating in the Phaedrus‐T tokamak". Physics of Plasmas. 3 (4): 1331–1339. Bibcode:1996PhPl....3.1331I. doi:10.1063/1.871786. ISSN 1070-664X.
  4. Sheehan, J. P.; Barnat, E. V.; Weatherford, B. R.; Kaganovich, I. D.; Hershkowitz, N. (2014). "Emissive sheath measurements in the afterglow of a radio frequency plasma" (PDF). Physics of Plasmas. 21 (1): 013510. Bibcode:2014PhPl...21a3510S. doi:10.1063/1.4861888. ISSN 1070-664X.
  5. Hershkowitz, Noah (2005). "Sheaths: More complicated than you think". Physics of Plasmas. 12 (5): 055502. Bibcode:2005PhPl...12e5502H. doi:10.1063/1.1887189. ISSN 1070-664X.
  6. Hershkowitz, Noah (1985). "Review of recent laboratory double layer experiments". Space Science Reviews. 41 (3): 351–391. Bibcode:1985SSRv...41..351H. doi:10.1007/BF00190655. ISSN 1572-9672.
  7. Smith, J. R.; Hershkowitz, N.; Coakley, P. (1979). "Inflection‐point method of interpreting emissive probe characteristics". Review of Scientific Instruments. 50 (2): 210–218. Bibcode:1979RScI...50..210S. doi:10.1063/1.1135789. ISSN 0034-6748. PMID 18699471.
  8. Koo, Bon-Woong; Hershkowitz, Noah; Sarfaty, Moshe (1999). "Langmuir probe in low temperature, magnetized plasmas: Theory and experimental verification". Journal of Applied Physics. 86 (3): 1213–1220. Bibcode:1999JAP....86.1213K. doi:10.1063/1.370873. ISSN 0021-8979.
  9. Intrator, T.; Probert, P.; Wukitch, S.; Vukovic, M.; Brouchous, D.; Diebold, D.; Breun, R.; Doczy, M.; Edgell, D.; Elfimov, A.; Hershkowitz, N. (1995). "Alfvén wave current drive in the Phaedrus‐T tokamak". Physics of Plasmas. 2 (6): 2263–2271. Bibcode:1995PhPl....2.2263I. doi:10.1063/1.871249. ISSN 1070-664X.
  10. Hatakeyama, R.; Hershkowitz, N.; Majeski, R.; Wen, Y. J.; Brouchous, D. B.; Proberts, P.; Breun, R. A.; Roberts, D.; Vukovic, M.; Tanaka, T. (1997). "Measurements on rotating ion cyclotron range of frequencies induced particle fluxes in axisymmetric mirror plasmas". Physics of Plasmas. 4 (8): 2947–2954. Bibcode:1997PhPl....4.2947H. doi:10.1063/1.872427. ISSN 1070-664X.
  11. Hershkowitz, Noah; Romesser, Thomas (1974). "Observations of Ion-Acoustic Cylindrical Solitons". Physical Review Letters. 32 (11): 581–583. Bibcode:1974PhRvL..32..581H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.581.
  12. "Hershkowitz, N. (Noah), 1941-". history.aip.org. Retrieved February 27, 2020.

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