Henry Kolm

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Henry Herbert Kolm is an American physicist.

Henry Kolm worked on various electromagnetic launch concepts including the Mass driver at MIT in the 1970s and 1980s. He was one of the founders and a long-time director of the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory. His goal was the creation and application of high magnetic fields.

Over the years he worked with Francis Bitter, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Eric Drexler, among others.