Keith Burrell

Keith Howard Burrell (born April 13, 1947 in Santa Monica, California) is an American plasma physicist.[1]

Keith Howard Burrell
Born (1947-04-13) April 13, 1947
Santa Monica, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University (B.S.)
California Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Thesis (1975)

Early life and career

Burrell received bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University in 1968. He then received a master's degree and a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech in 1970 and 1975 respectively. He then worked at General Atomics in fusion research with tokamaks, in particular DIII-D tokamak from General Atomics. Before that, he did research at the ISX-A and ISA-B Tokamak of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[2]

He played an important role in the study of the H-mode (i.e. high-confinement mode) discovered in 1982 at the ASDEX tokamak in magnetically enclosed fusion plasmas and the underlying transport mechanisms, in particular the suppression of turbulence by the formation of shear currents.[3] Burrell was involved in the discovery of quiet H-mode (quiescent H-mode) at DIII-D in 1999, which has the advantages of H-modes but no edge instabilities (edge localized modes, ELM).[4][5] Burrell also developed methods for plasma diagnostics.[6][7]

Honors and awards

Burrell is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1985)[8] and the Institute of Physics.

In 2001, Burrell received the Excellence in Plasma Physics Award (now known as the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research) from the American Physical Society for "experiments that show that sheared ExB flows can suppress turbulence and transport in tokamak plasmas and that such flows can spontaneously arise at the edge and in the core of tokamak plasmas.".[9]

In 2018, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "pioneering research, including key experimental advances and diagnostic development, that established the links between sheared plasma flow and turbulent transport, leading to improved confinement regimes for magnetized plasmas through turbulent transport reduction by sheared flow".[2]

References
  1. Gale Group. (2004). American men & women of science. Gale. OCLC 1082415302.
  2. "2018 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  3. Burrell, K. H.; Doyle, E. J.; Gohil, P.; Groebner, R. J.; Kim, J.; La Haye, R. J.; Lao, L. L.; Moyer, R. A.; Osborne, T. H.; Peebles, W. A.; Rettig, C. L. (1994). "Role of the radial electric field in the transition from L (low) mode to H (high) mode to VH (very high) mode in the DIII‐D tokamak*". Physics of Plasmas. 1 (5): 1536–1544. Bibcode:1994PhPl....1.1536B. doi:10.1063/1.870705. ISSN 1070-664X.
  4. Burrell, K H; Austin, M E; Brennan, D P; DeBoo, J C; Doyle, E J; Gohil, P; Greenfield, C M; Groebner, R J; Lao, L L; Luce, T C; Makowski, M A (2002). "Quiescent H-mode plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 44 (5A): A253–A263. Bibcode:2002PPCF...44A.253B. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/44/5a/325. ISSN 0741-3335.
  5. Burrell, K. H.; Osborne, T. H.; Snyder, P. B.; West, W. P.; Fenstermacher, M. E.; Groebner, R. J.; Gohil, P.; Leonard, A. W.; Solomon, W. M. (2009). "Quiescent H-Mode Plasmas with Strong Edge Rotation in the Cocurrent Direction". Physical Review Letters. 102 (15): 155003. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.102o5003B. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.155003. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19518641.
  6. Burrell, Keith H.; Lietzke, Alan F.; Schaffer, Michael J. (1978). "A Diagnostic Method for Time Resolved Spatial Profile Measurements of Proton and Impurity Density and Temperature". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 6 (2): 107–120. Bibcode:1978ITPS....6..107B. doi:10.1109/TPS.1978.4317101. ISSN 1939-9375. S2CID 12422949.
  7. Chrystal, C.; Burrell, K. H.; Grierson, B. A.; Pace, D. C. (2015). "Spatial calibration of a tokamak neutral beam diagnostic using in situ neutral beam emission". Review of Scientific Instruments. 86 (10): 103509. Bibcode:2015RScI...86j3509C. doi:10.1063/1.4933337. ISSN 0034-6748. OSTI 1224227. PMID 26520957.
  8. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  9. "2001 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved February 28, 2020.

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