Bruno Coppi

Bruno Coppi ( born November 19, 1935 in Gonzaga, Italy) is an Italian- American physicist who is concerned with plasma physics.

Coppi in 1959 received his doctorate at the Milan Polytechnic and was then a lecturer and researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan and before he went in 1961 as a scientist to the Plasma Physics Laboratory of Princeton University. 1964 to 1967 he was Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, from 1967 to 1969 at the Institute for Advanced Study, and was from 1968 professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Coppi was concerned with theoretical plasma physics, space plasmas and magnetic fusion, where he developed the Alcator experiment at MIT and the resulting therefrom Russian- American Ignitor program to build a fusion reactor in Moscow. He is also leading in the Frascati Torus program participates in Italy.

In the 1980s he was involved in the Voyager space probes program.

In 1987 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics and also the Award of Excellence in Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976 ), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the American Dante Alighieri price, the Science Award of the Italian government and the Science and Technology Prize of Italgas and the Gold Medal of the Polytechnic in Milan. He is a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.