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Henry Vernon Wong

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Henry Vernon Wong
Born(1938-12-04)December 4, 1938
CitizenshipUnited States[explain status]
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies (B.S.)
Oxford University (D.Phil.)
Known forPlasma physics
SpouseDorit Wong (née Stebbing)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Thesis (1964)

Henry Vernon Wong is a Jamaican-American physicist known for his work in plasma physics. He is professor emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin.

Career

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Wong's early education was at Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He won a Jamaica Scholarship to the University of the West Indies, graduating with a B.Sc. in physics in 1961.[1] He obtained his D.Phil. in Nuclear physics from Wadham College, Oxford in 1964. Wong remained at Oxford during 1964–1965 as a postdoctoral scholar. In 1965, he was the recipient of a CIBA Fellowship to continue his research at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The following year he joined the Laboratoria Gas Ionizzati in Rome. In 1967, Wong joined the Fusion Research Center (FRC) of the University of Texas at Austin as a research scientist.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "History of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics". Archived from the original on May 22, 2022. Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "University of Texas Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS)". Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "University of the West Indies Rhodes Scholars". 10 July 2010. Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Rhodes Scholar Database". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
  5. ^ "Fellows of the American Physical Society". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.