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Tribute to DPP member Prof. Noah Hershkowitz

By Michael R Brown posted 11-16-2020 13:32

  

DPP and all of plasma physics mourns the loss of Professor Noah Hershkowitz of the University of Wisconsin, a distinguished contributor to and pioneer in the field of plasma physics, who passed away on November 13, 2020. Noah had a long and impactful career spanning many decades, and disciplines. He made groundbreaking contributions to nuclear physics, fusion energy research, foundational plasma physics, and low temperature plasmas. Noah received his bachelor's degree from Union College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1966. He served on the faculty of the University of Iowa before joining the University of Wisconsin in 1981, where he held the title of Irving Langmuir Professor of Engineering Physics. Noah was a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Vacuum Society, Institute of Physics, and the IEEE. In 2004, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics from the APS, and in 2015 the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from IEEE. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the influential journal Plasma Sources Science and Technology.  A full tribute appears on the MIPSE website: https://mipse.umich.edu/news.php#hershkowitz #FeaturedNews

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11-17-2020 12:53

RIP Professor Noah Hershkowitz.