Harold Fürth
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| Harold Fürth | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harold Paul Fürth January 13, 1930 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | February 21, 2002 (aged 72) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Cause of death | Heart ailment |
| Residence | Princeton, New Jersey |
| Nationality | Austrian-American |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | resistive magnetohydrodynamics |
| Awards | Delmer S. Fahrney Medal, Maxwell Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physics, astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, nuclear radiation[1], controlled thermonuclear fusion[1] |
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Princeton University |
Harold Fürth (January 13, 1930 in Vienna – February 21, 2002 in Philadelphia) was an Austrian-American physicist.[2]
Early Life[edit]
Fürth emigrated to the United States with his parents, Dr. Otto Fürth and Gertrude Hnatek Fürth, and his sister, Inge Gabriele Fürth Steer[3], in 1941, and graduated at the head of his class at The Hill School[4]. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960.
Career[edit]
Fürth worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for several years before going to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) where he would spend the rest of his career working in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was also a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University.[5]
In the late 1960s, Fürth contributed some important theoretical work on resistive magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma.
In 1981 Fürth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until 1990 during record setting magnetic fusion energy experiments on the largest tokamak in the country, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).
Awards[edit]
He was awarded the Maxwell Prize in 1983 and the Delmer S. Fahrney Medal in 1992.
Later Life[edit]
Fürth was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Death[edit]
He died of a heart ailment on 21 February 2002.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Harold P. Fürth page on The Free Dictionary". Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ Fisch, Nathaniel J.; Fowler, T. Kenneth; Frieman, Edward A.; Goldston, Robert J. (February 2004). "Obituary: Harold Paul Fürth". Physics Today. 57 (2): 76–77. Bibcode:2004PhT....57b..76F. doi:10.1063/1.1688079.
- ^ "Harold Fürth's page on Geni". Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/furth-harold-1.pdf
- ^ Fürth, Harold (1995) Fusion, Scientific American 273(3), 174-176.
