Ira B. Bernstein

Bernstein studied Chemical Engineering at the City University of New York ( BA 1944) and in 1950 received his doctorate at New York University. 1950-1954 he was. At the research laboratories of Westinghouse 1954 to 1964 he was a scientist at the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, where he was involved in the project Matterhorn (early, then still secret research for magnetic fusion) and was a Senior Scientist. He was since 1964 a professor of applied physics at Yale University, where he was Carl A. Morse Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Physics since 1994 and is emeritus since 2004. He was a research consultant at the research laboratories of United Technologies and RCA, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory. He was at the Fusion Policy Advisory Committee and the Advisory Board on Fusion Energy of the Department of Energy.

In 1958 he described the Bernstein wave in plasma physics.

In 1982 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984).

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