Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors has selected the recipients of its Year 2000 Awards. The awards will be presented at FPA's annual meeting and symposium July 17 at the University of California at San Diego (FPN00-19). FPA Awards are given annually for Distinguished Career, for Leadership, and for Excellence in Fusion Engineering. This year a Special Award is also being given for Education and Outreach.
DISTINGUISHED CAREER awards have been presented annually since 1987 to those individuals, at or beyond retirement age, who have made distinguished lifelong career contributions that have benefited fusion development. This year's recipients are: Alan Gibson, Thomas Simonen, Ken Tomabechi and Alvin Trivelpiece.
Alan Gibson was a longtime scientific and managerial leader at the Culham and JET laboratories in the United Kingdom. In selecting him the Board recognizes his seminal research contributions to fusion and his technical and managerial contributions to the success of the JET project.
Tom Simonen has been a leader of experimental fusion research programs at both LLNL and General Atomics. The Board recognizes his many solid scientific contributions and leadership of major fusion research facilities over many decades.
Ken Tomabechi has been a leading fusion researcher and director of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. The Board recognizes his many years of leadership of the fusion program in Japan and his essential contributions to the ITER project and to fusion international collaboration.
Alvin W. Trivelpiece recently retired from his post as Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was a pioneering fusion researcher, university professor and top level manager in both the private and public sectors, including co-founder of Fusion Power Associates and member of its first Board of Directors. The Board recognizes his seminal research and educational contributions to fusion research, his government service to fusion and energy research, his role in founding Fusion Power Associates and his many other distinguished career accomplishments, including head of the AAAS and director of ORNL.
LEADERSHIP awards have been presented annually since 1980 to individuals who have shown outstanding leadership qualities in accelerating the development of fusion. This year's recipients are: Robert Aymar and John Lindl.
Robert Aymar is a leading European fusion researcher and has been director of the ITER project since 1994. The Board recognizes his dedication to the pursuit of an ambitious approach to the development of practical fusion power, as represented both by his early career accomplishments and his more recent outstanding leadership of the ITER international collaboration.
John Lindl is a leading inertial confinement fusion researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a member of the DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee and currently is chair of the Steering Committee for the US fusion Integrated Program Planning Activity. The Board recognizes the guidance and leadership he has provided over the years to the inertial confinement fusion program, in general, and especially the perspective he has provided the fusion community as a whole on the energy applications of inertial fusion.
EXCELLENCE IN FUSION ENGINEERING awards, in memory of MIT Professor David J. Rose, have been given annually since 1987 to individuals relatively early in their careers who have shown both outstanding technical accomplishment and potential to become exceptionally influential leaders in the fusion field. This year's recipients are Gianfranco Federici and Michael Mauel.
Gianfranco Federici, an engineer with the ITER project, based in Garching, Germany, is recognized for both his broad perspective and his many contributions to the ITER design, including his comprehensive model for predicting the behaviour of tritium in solid breeder ceramics and for calculating the tritium release rate and inventory.
Michael Mauel, Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University, is recognized for his technical leadership of the Levitated Dipole fusion concept, his programmatic leadership of the 1999 Fusion Summer Study, and his dedication to the education of graduate students in applied plasma physics.
A Special Award for EDUCATION AND OUTREACH is being given this year to recognize several individuals who have been energetically and creatively working for many years to educate the public on the benefits of fusion, with a special focus on teachers and students. The recipients are Diane Carroll (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Donald Correll (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Carol Danielson (General Atomics).
The Board is pleased to recognize them for their dedication and efforts to explain the fusion message to students, teachers and the general public, thereby providing a great service to the fusion community as a whole.
Previous Award recipients are posted on the web. (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fpa/Awards.htm)