Friedrich Wagner

For the footballer, see Friedrich Wagner (footballer).
Not to be confused with Erwin Friedrich Wagner, an Austrian biochemist.
Friedrich Wagner
Born
Friedrich E. Wagner

(1943-11-16) November 16, 1943 (age 80)
Bavaria, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationTechnical University of Munich (Ph.D.)
Known forH-mode in fusion plasmas
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Thesis (1972)
Websitewww.ipp.mpg.de/63699/wagner

Friedrich E. Wagner (born November 16, 1943, sometimes abbreviated as Fritz Wagner) is a German physicist and emeritus professor who specializes in plasma physics. He was known to have discovered the high-confinement mode (i.e. H-mode) of magnetic confinement in fusion plasmas while working at the ASDEX tokamak in 1982.[1][2] For this discovery and his subsequent contributions to fusion research, was awarded the John Dawson Award in 1987, the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2007 and the Stern–Gerlach Medal in 2009.

  1. ^ Wagner, F.; Becker, G.; Behringer, K.; Campbell, D.; Eberhagen, A.; Engelhardt, W.; Fussmann, G.; Gehre, O.; Gernhardt, J.; Gierke, G. v.; Haas, G. (1982). "Regime of Improved Confinement and High Beta in Neutral-Beam-Heated Divertor Discharges of the ASDEX Tokamak". Physical Review Letters. 49 (19): 1408–1412. Bibcode:1982PhRvL..49.1408W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1408. ISSN 0031-9007.
  2. ^ "How Fritz Wagner 'discovered' the H-Mode". ITER. Archived from the original on 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2020-06-13.