Edward Allan Frieman | |
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| Born | January 19, 1926 New York City, US |
| Died | April 11, 2013 (aged 87) |
| Education | Columbia University (B.S.) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (M.S., Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | Los Alamos Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Thesis | The Proton-Proton Reaction and Energy Production in the Sun (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lloyd Motz |
| Doctoral students | Charles Kennel |
Edward Allan Frieman (January 19, 1926 – April 11, 2013) was an American physicist who worked on plasma physics and nuclear fusion.[1] He was the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 through 1996, and then the senior vice president of science and technology at the Science Applications International Corporation from 1996 on until his death in 2013.[2][3]