James F. Drake

For other persons named James Drake, see James Drake (disambiguation)
James F. Drake
Born (1947-06-26) June 26, 1947 (age 77)
Pasadena, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Known forFast magnetic reconnection
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland
Websiteterpconnect.umd.edu/~drake/

James F. Drake (born June 26, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in plasma physics.[1] He is known for his studies on plasma instabilities[2][3] and magnetic reconnection[4][5] for which he was awarded the 2010 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society.[6]

  1. ^ "Drake, James (James F.)". history.aip.org. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Drake, J. F.; Kaw, P. K.; Lee, Y. C.; Schmid, G.; Liu, C. S.; Rosenbluth, Marshall N. (1974). "Parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves in plasmas". The Physics of Fluids. 17 (4): 778–785. Bibcode:1974PhFl...17..778D. doi:10.1063/1.1694789. ISSN 0031-9171.
  3. ^ Drake, J. F.; Lee, Y. C. (1977). "Kinetic theory of tearing instabilities". The Physics of Fluids. 20 (8): 1341–1353. Bibcode:1977PhFl...20.1341D. doi:10.1063/1.862017. ISSN 0031-9171.
  4. ^ Birn, J.; Drake, J. F.; Shay, M. A.; Rogers, B. N.; Denton, R. E.; Hesse, M.; Kuznetsova, M.; Ma, Z. W.; Bhattacharjee, A.; Otto, A.; Pritchett, P. L. (2001). "Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Magnetic Reconnection Challenge". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 106 (A3): 3715–3719. Bibcode:2001JGR...106.3715B. doi:10.1029/1999JA900449. ISSN 2156-2202.
  5. ^ Drake, J. F.; Swisdak, M.; Che, H.; Shay, M. A. (2006). "Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection". Nature. 443 (7111): 553–556. Bibcode:2006Natur.443..553D. doi:10.1038/nature05116. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 17024088. S2CID 4427833.
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