Draft:Scott C. Wilks
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Scott C. Wilks is an American physicist and senior scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA.[1] Among his contributions is that he is author of the most cited inertial confinement fusion paper in history.[2] Dr. Wilks also discovered the ponderomotive scaling of the hot electron temperature in short-pulse ultra-intense laser interactions with matter, elucidating fundamental mechanisms in the high energy density science field.[3] He is the principal inventor of proton acceleration through the TNSA mechanism which is widely used by practitioners today and has applications, e.g., in medicine.[4]
Dr. Wilks has won many significant awards and is currently Chair of the SimNet Simulation committee for LaserNetUS.[5] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[6] Dr. Wilks is also winner of the APS 2006 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Award which is among the most prestigious in plasma physics.[7]
He graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA and received a PhD from UCLA, under the supervision of John M. Dawson, the inventor of modern particle-in-cell simulations.
References
[edit]- ^ "Scott Wilks | LaserNetUS". lasernetus.org. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ Tabak, Max; Hammer, James; Glinsky, Michael E.; Kruer, William L.; Wilks, Scott C.; Woodworth, John; Campbell, E. Michael; Perry, Michael D.; Mason, Rodney J. (1994-05-01). "Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers*". Physics of Plasmas. 1 (5): 1626–1634. doi:10.1063/1.870664. ISSN 1070-664X.
- ^ Wilks, S. C.; Kruer, W. L.; Tabak, M.; Langdon, A. B. (1992-08-31). "Absorption of ultra-intense laser pulses". Physical Review Letters. 69 (9): 1383–1386. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1383.
- ^ Wilks, S. C.; Langdon, A. B.; Cowan, T. E.; Roth, M.; Singh, M.; Hatchett, S.; Key, M. H.; Pennington, D.; MacKinnon, A.; Snavely, R. A. (2001-02-01). "Energetic proton generation in ultra-intense laser–solid interactions". Physics of Plasmas. 8 (2): 542–549. doi:10.1063/1.1333697. ISSN 1070-664X.
- ^ "Scott Wilks | LaserNetUS". lasernetus.org. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ "Five LLNL researchers named APS fellows | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory". www.llnl.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ "John Dawson Award in Plasma Physics". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2024-07-27.