J._P._Freidberg

Jeffrey P. Freidberg

Jeffrey P. Freidberg

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Jeffrey P. Freidberg was head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2003.[1][2][3] He is currently Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Emeritus) at MIT,[4] and a collaborator at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.[5] He retired as associate director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and from his academic duties in 2011.[6] He remained involved in the research activities of the PSFC Theory Group and wrote a new textbook on magnetohydrodynamics theory called Ideal MHD that was published in 2014 (a successor to his 1987 book Ideal Magnetohydronamics).[6][7] He is also author of a book titled Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy first published in 2007, that was based on a series of course notes from MIT graduate courses on plasma physics and fusion energy.[8]

He attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) earning a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1961, a M.S. in electrophysics in 1962 and a Ph.D. in electrophysics in 1964.[4]

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    Freidberg, Jeffrey P. (1987). Ideal magnetohydrodynamics. Plenum Publishing Corporation. ISBN 9780306425127 – via Google Books.
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    Freidberg, Jeffrey P. (2014-06-26). Ideal MHD. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107006256 – via Google Books.
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    Freidberg, Jeffrey P. (2007-02-08). Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511755705. ISBN 9780521851077.; Freidberg, Jeffrey P. (2008-07-10). Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139462150 – via Google Books.
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