Thomas Marbory Antonsen (born 7 December 1950) is an American physicist, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, Potomac, MD

He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1973, an M.S. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1977.[1]

He was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1976-77 and a research scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1977 to 1980. He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 1980 as a research assistant, where his research interests include nonlinear dynamics and chaos and plasma theory.[2] He was appointed professor at Maryland in 1989.

He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[3] for contributions to the theory of magnetically confined plasmas, laser-plasma interactions and high power coherent radiation sources and then a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986 for contributions to the theory of the stability of high temperature plasmas and the theory of the production of intense ion beams".[4]

He is the 2016 recipient of the John Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics[5] and the 2023 recipient of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.[6]

He is married with 3 children.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Antonsen, Thomas". University of Maryland. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Antonsen, Thomas M., Jr". University of Maryland. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.
  4. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "John Pierce Awards". IEEE. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "2023 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Maryland. Retrieved 22 September 2020.


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