Walter Gekelman
Walter Gekelman is a plasma physics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society. He is known to have developed and constructed numerous meter-long devices to study fundamental plasma processes under laboratory conditions, the largest of which is the Large Plasma Device. Early life Gekelman received a B.S. in physics from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in experimental plasma physics at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1972. Career Gekelman began working at UCLA in 1974. In 1991, he constructed the original 10 meter-long Large Plasma Device (LAPD) to study Alfvén waves in plasmas and was the director of the facility since then until he was succeeded by Troy Carter (physicist), Troy Carter in 2016. During his tenure as director, the LAPD was upgraded in 2001 to its current 20 meter-long version and became a designated national user facility for the study of basic plasma science, garnering funding ...
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Plasma Physics
Plasma ()πλάσμα
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