Miklos Porkolab was born on March 24,1939 and is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics.
11 Facts About Miklos Porkolab
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Miklos Porkolab obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of British Columbia in 1963 and then his master's degree and Ph.
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Miklos Porkolab moved to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he worked as a senior research physicist until 1975.
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Between 1991 and 2001, Miklos Porkolab served as editor of Physics Letters A, in the Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics subsection.
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Whilst at Princeton, Miklos Porkolab concentrated on dispersive properties of plasma waves and instabilities in magnetized plasmas.
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Miklos Porkolab's work provided experimental verifications of Landau damping, nonlinear resonant wave-wave scattering and parametric instabilities, predicting upper hybrid solitons.
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From 1977, whilst at the MIT Physics Department, Miklos Porkolab joined the newly established MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he began experiments on lower hybrid current drive in tokamak plasmas.
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Miklos Porkolab carried out investigations on ion cyclotron heating and mode conversion processes in multi-ion species fusion plasmas.
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In 2009, Miklos Porkolab was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society for.
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Miklos Porkolab was awarded the Karoly Simony Memorial Plaque and Prize by the Hungarian Nuclear Society in 2007 and a Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award in 2010.
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In 2016, Miklos Porkolab was elected an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.