Biographical Data

Rostoker, Norman

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Title Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
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Birth 16/08/1925 Death 25/12/2014
Place Toronto Place Irvine
Area ON Area CA
Country Canada Country USA
 
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Honours
Awards DSc;
Qualifications BASc; MA;
 
Biography
He earned a master’s degree at the University of Toronto in 1947. He received a D.Sc. in 1950 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and was on the scientific staff there until 1953. He subsequently worked at the Armour Research Foundation at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at General Atomics before joining the faculty at UC San Diego in 1962. Rostoker moved to Cornell University in 1967 as the IBM Professor of Engineering and in 1972 joined the faculty at UCI, where he chaired the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1973 to 1976. He served as Chairman - Applied Physics Department - Cornell University. He was appointed as Professor Emeritus - Physics and Astronomy - University of California, Irvine. Rostoker co-founded Tri Alpha Energy with prominent physicists, including Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg, to implement his ideas to develop a clean source of fusion-based energy.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1943. In 1943 he served in HMCS York for UNTD. (He was demobilized.)
 
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Named Features Norman Rostoker Chair in Applied Physics - University of California, Irvine
 
Anecdotes
He was honored with the American Physical Society’s James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, the UCI Medal and membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Arno Penzias, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics and whose research helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology, said, “In my mind – as well as a global plasma physics elite that includes Russia’s Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics – this is the most fruitful scientific endeavor in fusion research anywhere in the world.”
 
References
Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD); http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/uci-nuclear-fusion-pioneer-norman-rostoker-dies-at-89/;
Last update
2015-07-28 00:00:00

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