Italian-American physicist
Bruno Coppi OMRI Gonzaga, Lombardy , Italy ) is an Italian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics .
In 1959, Coppi attained an Italian doctoral degree at Polytechnic University of Milan and was subsequently a docent and research scientist at the Polytechnic Institute and the University of Milan . In 1961, he was a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory . From 1964 to 1967, he was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego , from 1967 to 1969 at the Institute for Advanced Study , and from 1968 professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In the 1980s, Coppi was a member of the science team in the Voyager 2 space probe.
Coppi works on theoretical plasma physics, space plasmas and magnetic fusion. At MIT, he initiated the Alcator Program , which led to the Russian-American Ignitor program , that aims at building near Moscow a fusion reactor with Coppi as the principal investigator for the project.[ 1]
Awards
In 1987, Coppi received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics [ 2] American Physical Society . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1976), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts [ 3] American Physical Society . He received the American Dante Alighieri Prize, the Science Prize of the Italian government, the science and technology prize from Italgas, and the gold medal of the Milan Polytechnic Institute.[citation needed
In 2000, he was knighted Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .[ 4]
In 2016, Coppi won the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Chemistry and Physics from the Accademia nazionale dei Lincei .[ 5]
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