Edward Teller

Edward Teller

male, deceased (2003)
physicist, thermonuclear, theoretical physics, World War II, nuclearfusion, scientist…fusion, Nuclear physicist
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical...

Robert W. Bussard

male
physicist, American, energy, nuclearfusion, International Academy of Astronautics, Schreiber-Spence Achievement Award
Robert W. Bussard (born 1928) is an American physicist working primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. He is the recipient of the...
Philo Farnsworth

Philo Farnsworth

male, deceased (1971)
video camera tube, From Utah, Brigham Young University alumni, electronic, Television pioneer, American…fusion, nuclearfusion
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first completely electronic television. In particular, he was...

Llewellyn Smith

male
physicist, Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Experimental particle physics, nuclearfusion, Lebedev Physical Institute, Alumni of the University of Oxford…fusion, Nuclear physicist
Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith FRS completed his D.Phil. in theoretical physics at Oxford in 1967. Thereafter he worked at the Lebedev Physical...
Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer

male, deceased (1997)
theoretical physics, plasmas, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, tokamak, Project Matterhorn, stellarator…nuclearfusion
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 - March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Phillips...
Ouyang Ziyuan

Ouyang Ziyuan

male, 74 years old
mining, Ji'an, Helium-3, multi-stage cosmic ray radiation history, Chinese manned Mars exploration program, extraterrestrial material…underground nuclear test, nuclearfusion, nuclear physics
Ouyang Ziyuan, born in 1935, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China, is a cosmochemist and geochemist, Research professor, Institute...
Harold Furth

Harold Furth

male, deceased (2002)
Harvard University, Princeton University, physicist, Astrophysicist, lawrence livermore national laboratory, American…nuclearfusion, magnetic fusion energy, Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
Harold P. Furth (January 13, 1930, Vienna - February 21, 2002, Philadelphia) was an Austrian-American physicist. Furth emigrated to the United...
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

male, deceased (2007)
nuclear weapon in Germany, philosoph, From Kiel, physicist, philosopher, Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker…nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon, nuclearfusion, fusion
Carl Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which t...
Ronald Richter

Ronald Richter

male, deceased (1991)
German, scientist, Austrian, Science and technology in Argentina, nuclearfusion, Huemul Project
Ronald Richter was an Austrian, later Argentinian, scientist who became famous in connection with the Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy...
Franklin Chang-Diaz

Franklin Chang-Diaz

male, 59 years old (Houston, Texas, United States)
NASA, Costa Rican-American, Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket, space shuttle, astronaut, VASIMR…nuclearfusion, fusion, MIT Plasma Fusion Center
Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven...