List of plasma physicists
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- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
- Hannes Alfvén - Received the only Nobel Prize specifically for contributions to plasma physics.
- Willard Harrison Bennett - The Z-pinch is a form of "Bennett pinch". Also invented radio frequency mass spectrometry.
- Kristian Birkeland - First suggested that polar electric currents (or auroral electrojets) are connected to a system of filaments (now called "Birkeland currents") that flow along geomagnetic field lines into and away from the polar region.
- David Bohm - derived the Bohm sheath criterion, which states that a plasma must flow with at least the speed of sound toward a solid surface
- Fran Bosnjakovic
- Oscar Buneman - Pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation.
- F. F. Chen
- William Crookes
- Peter Debye - Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist, after whom Debye shielding and Debye length are named
- Philo Farnsworth - credited with the invention of the cathode ray tube, television and Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor
- Harold Furth
- Vitaly Ginzburg
- Russell Alan Hulse
- Predhiman Kaw
- Lev Davidovich Landau
- Irving Langmuir - Developed electron temperature concepts and an electrostatic probe, the Langmuir probe. Coined the term "plasma" to hint at the life-like behavior of this state of matter.
- Eric Lerner - Pioneer of focus fusion and advocate of plasma cosmology
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Anthony Peratt - electrical engineer and advocate of plasma cosmology
- Marshall Rosenbluth
- Dr. J. Reece Roth - Inventor of atmospheric plasma technologies.
- Megh Nad Saha - Saha equation
- Andrey Dmitriyevich Sakharov - Proposed the development of the tokamak device for use in controlled thermonuclear fusion.
- Rudolf Seeliger
- Lyman Spitzer
- Johannes Stark
- V. Alexander Stefan - Inventor of the Beat Wave-Driven Free-Electron Laser
- Thomas H. Stix
- Igor Tamm
- Nikola Tesla - Innovative inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer
- Lewi Tonks
See also: Plasma physics
