John Rice (8)

[from Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology website]
Senior Research Scientist John Rice's career at MIT has spanned 50 years, beginning as an undergraduate and graduate student in Physics (S.B., '75, Sc.D, '79), and continuing as a research scientist working on MIT's “Alcator” series of tokamaks, all designed to use high-field magnets to create a compact device. Much of his focus has been devoted to how plasma moves within the doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, its transport and rotation. His expertise was awarded the 2010 Nuclear Fusion Journal Prize for his article “Inter-Machine Comparison of Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation in Tokamaks”. An APS Fellow since 2006, he is the former Chair of the US Transport Task Force, has served on the executive committees for Atomic Processes in Plasmas, and High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, and has been an official US member of the ITPA Transport and Confinement Group since 2001. His book Driven Rotation, Self-Generated Flow, and Momentum Transport consolidates an understanding of the topic gained from years of experience at MIT.