Marshall Rosenbluth
Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February 1927 – 28 September 2003) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, and member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. He was also a recipient of the E.O. Lawrence Prize (1964), the Albert Einstein Award (1967), the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1976), the Enrico Fermi Award (1985), and the Hannes Alfvén Prize (2002).
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Rosenbluth in 1994 | |
| Born | February 5, 1927 Albany, New York, US |
| Died | September 28, 2003 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | Stuyvesant High School University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Known for | Plasma Physics Rosenbluth potentials Metropolis algorithm Rosenbluth formula |
| Spouse(s) | Arianna Rosenbluth Sara Rosenbluth |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | General Atomics UC San Diego Princeton University University of Texas at Austin |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Teller |
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