Mikhail Ioffe
Mikhail Ioffe · Science & Medicine
Soviet plasma physicist (Ioffe bars); forced by the USSR to decline the Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
1917, Russia — 1996
Soviet Union / Russia
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Mikhail Solomonovich Ioffe was a Soviet plasma physicist whose 1961 magnetic-mirror device demonstrated that plasma could be confined in a stable magnetic configuration, using field-shaping conductors known ever since as 'Ioffe bars' — a key step toward magnetic-confinement fusion. He was selected for the 1969 Atoms for Peace Award but was reportedly prevented by Soviet authorities from accepting it. He was of Jewish descent.
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Soviet plasma physicist (Ioffe bars); forced by the USSR to decline the Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Atoms for Peace Award
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