Henry Vernon Wong

Henry Vernon Wong is a Jamaican-American physicist known for his work in Plasma physics. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin.

Henry Vernon Wong
Born	December 4, 1938 Montego Bay, Jamaica
Nationality	Jamaica
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of the West Indies (B.S.) Oxford University (D.Phil.)
Known for	Plasma physics
Spouse(s)	Dorit Wong (née Stebbing)
Awards	Fellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Texas, Austin
Thesis	(1964)

Career

Wong's early education was at Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He won a Jamaica Scholarship to the University of the West Indies, graduating with a B.Sc. in physics in 1961.[1] He obtained his D.Phil. in Nuclear physics from Wadham College, Oxford in 1964. Wong remained at Oxford during 1964-1965 as a postdoctoral scholar. In 1965, he was the recipient of a CIBA Fellowship to continue his research at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The following year he joined the Laboratoria Gas Ionizzati in Rome. In 1967, Wong joined the Fusion Research Center (FRC) of the University of Texas at Austin as a Research Scientist.[2]

Awards and honors

• In 1961, Wong was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford[3][4]
• In 1988, He was elected fellow of the American Physical Society.[5]

Selected publications

• Wong, H. Vernon. "Stability of Bernstein‐Greene‐Kruskal Wave with Small Fraction of Trapped Electrons" The Physics of Fluids 15, 632 (1972); DOI:10.1063/1.1693958
• Wong, H. Vernon. "Sideband instabilities in free electron lasers" Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, 2 1635 (1990). DOI:10.1063/1.859489
• Wong, H. Vernon. "Particle canonical variables and guiding center Hamiltonian up to second order in the Larmor radius" Physics of Plasmas 7, 73 (2000). DOI:10.1063/1.873782
• Wong, H. Vernon. "Nonlinear finite-Larmor-radius drift-kinetic equation" Physics of Plasmas 12, 112305 (2005). DOI:10.1063/1.2116867

References

1. "History of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
2. "University of Texas Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS)". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
3. "University of the West Indies Rhodes Scholars". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
4. "Rhodes Scholar Database". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.
5. "Fellows of the American Physical Society". Retrieved Aug 20, 2020.