William L. Kruer (born 20 April 1942,
Louisville,
Kentucky) is an American physicist, specializing in
plasma physics.
Kruer studied at the
University of Louisville (Master's degree, 1965) and received his Ph.D. in 1969 from
Princeton University. Afterwards, he was a research associate scientist at the
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 1970 a full member of the research staff. Starting in 1972, he was a group leader for theoretical plasma physics and simulation at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...
and from 1993 a chief scientist in plasma physics there. He wrote an important book on laser plasma interactions.
In 1990, he received the
James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
References
External links
Biography from the APS
21st-century American physicists
1942 births
Living people
University of Louisville alumni
Princeton University alumni
Scientists from Louisville, Kentucky
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