Biography:Patrick H. Diamond

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Patrick H. Diamond
Born
Patrick Henry Diamond
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Awards
  • Sloan Fellowship (1988)
  • Hannes Alfvén Prize (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
ThesisTheory of Phase Space Density Granulation in Magnetoplasma (1979)

Patrick Henry Diamond is an American theoretical plasma physicist. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego,[1] and a director of the Fusion Theory Institute at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea, where the KSTAR Tokamak is operated.[2]

In 2011, Diamond was jointly awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize with Akira Hasegawa and Kunioki Mima for important contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas.[3][4] In addition to applications in controlled nuclear fusion, he also specializes in astrophysical plasmas.[5]

Early life and career

Diamond received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]

Patrick Diamond is very fond of cats, and currently has one cat, Geronimo.

Honors and awards

In 1986, he was inducted a fellow of the American Physical Society.[7] In 1988, he became a Sloan Research Fellow.[1]

In 2011, Diamond was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize by the European Physical Society for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".[3]

Publications

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Patrick H. Diamond — UC San Diego Fusion and Astrophysical Plasma Physics Group". https://fapp.ucsd.edu/memberprofile_diamondph.html. 
  2. "UC San Diego | Professor Patrick Diamond named Director of New Fusion Theory Institute - Daejeon, Korea". https://physics.ucsd.edu/News/Story/92. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Stroth, U; Hidalgo, C (2011). "38th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53 (12): 120201. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/120201. ISSN 0741-3335. 
  4. "UC San Diego | Patrick Diamond shares Hannes Alfvén Prize". https://physics.ucsd.edu/News/Story/174. 
  5. Vishniac, Ethan T.; Jin, Liping; Diamond, P. H. (1991). "Dynamos and angular momentum transport in accretion disks". Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics 3 (8): 2374–2378. doi:10.1063/1.859606. ISSN 0899-8221. Bibcode1991PhFlB...3.2374V. 
  6. Diamond, Patrick Henry (1979). "Theory of Phase Space Density Granulation in Magnetoplasma." (in en). PHDT. Bibcode1979PhDT........63D. 
  7. "APS Fellow Archive" (in en). https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1986&unit_id=DPP&institution=University+of+California%2C+San+Diego.