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Scientists bring the fusion energy that lights the sun and stars closer to reality on Earth

Proposing the source of sudden thermal quenches.

Jonathan Squire, a 2015 graduate of the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, wins the 2022 Thomas H. Stix early career award

Sept. 26, 2022

Jonathan Squire, a senior research fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand, who earned his Ph.D. as a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2015, has won the 2022 Thomas H. Stix Award for outstanding early career contributions to plasma physics research. The graduate program, a division of the Princeton…

New method for measuring high energy density plasmas and facilitating inertial confinement fusion

Sept. 19, 2022

A key step in designing lasers to ignite reactions

Renowned theorist Amitava Bhattacharjee wins James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

Sept. 9, 2022

Award honors wide-ranging work

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