Robert Ellis (physicist)
African American physicist known for work in plasma physics / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Anderson Ellis Jr. (1927 – 15 December 1989) was an American physicist and head of experimental projects at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.[1]
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Robert A. Ellis | |
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Born | Robert Anderson Ellis Jr. 1927 (1927) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | (aged 62) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | Fisk University Yale University University of Iowa |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plasma physics |
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Thesis | Low momentum end of the spectrum of heavy primary cosmic rays (1954) |
Doctoral advisor | James Van Allen |
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