Noah Hershkowitz
Noah Hershkowitz | |
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| Born | August 16, 1941 New York City, New York |
| Died | November 13, 2020 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Union College (B.S.) Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Thesis | Mössbauer Effect of the Second Excited State of Fe57. (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Calvin Walker |
Noah Hershkowitz (August 16, 1941 – November 13, 2020) was an American experimental plasma physicist. He was known for his pioneering research on the understanding of plasma sheaths, solitons and double layers in plasmas, as well as the development of the emissive probe which measures the plasma potential (i.e. the electric potential within a plasma sheath).
In 2004, Hershkowitz was co-awarded the 2004 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for his contributions to the field of low-temperature plasmas. He was also awarded the 2015 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for his research and education of basic and applied plasma science.