Edward A. Frieman

Edward Allan Frieman ( born January 19, 1926 in New York City; † April 11, 2013 in La Jolla ) was an American physicist who mainly worked on plasma physics.

Frieman studied at Columbia University ( bachelor's degree in 1946 ) and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University ( Brooklyn Polytechnic ) in 1948 where he made ​​his master's degree in physics in 1951 and his doctorate. From 1945 he was instructor in physics at Princeton University. In 1952 he was a scientist at the Matterhorn project (nuclear fusion experiments with magnetic confinement ) of Princeton University, whose theory group he headed from 1954. In 1961 he became head of the theory group at the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University in the port. 1964 to 1979 he was its deputy director.

In 1961 he became professor of astrophysics at Princeton University. 1979 to 1981 he was Assistant Secretary and Director of Energy Research at the DOE. 1981 to 1986 he was Executive Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation, its Senior Vice President, he was from 1996.

1986 to 1996 he was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and at the same time Vice Chancellor Marine Science, University of California, San Diego, where he was also a professor since 1996.

He was from 1953 to 1964 Advisor to the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was from 1960 to 1979 member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. From 1987 he was the selection committee of the Superconducting Super Collider site for. 1981 to 1989 he was Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the U.S. President ( White House Science Council ).

In 1981 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, the Richtmyer Award he received. He received the Distinguished Service Medal of the DOE and in 2002 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for contributions to the theory of magnetic eingeschlossenener plasmas, including basic work on the formulation of the MHD energy principle and linear and nonlinear gyrokinetische theory as essential basis for the analysis of micro- instabilities and transport in plasmas.