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Spitzer proposes the stellarator; Project Matterhorn begins at Princeton

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Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed confining a fusion plasma in a figure-eight magnetic configuration produced entirely by external coils, in a paper titled 'A Proposed Stellarator'. Magnetic fusion research at Princeton began the same year under the code name Project Matterhorn, which became the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 1961. This is the starting point from which the 'thirty years away' clock is usually implicitly run.

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  1. Story
  2. Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed confining a fusion plasma in a figure-eight magnetic configuration produced entirely by external coils, in a paper titled 'A Proposed Stellarator'. Magnetic fusion research at Princeton began the same year under the code name Project Matterhorn, which became the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 1961. This is the starting point from which the 'thirty years away' clock is usually implicitly run.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Stellarator
  5. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
  6. Spitzer proposes the stellarator; Project Matterhorn begins at Princeton
  7. Connections
  8. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
  9. Stellarator
  10. Stellarator
  11. Spitzer proposes the stellarator; Project Matterhorn begins at Princeton
  12. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
  13. Tokamak (toroidal magnetic confinement)
  14. Wendelstein 7-X
  15. Spitzer proposes the stellarator; Project Matterhorn begins at Princeton
  16. Wendelstein 7-X sets a triple product record for long-duration plasmas
  17. Evidence
  18. The stellarator concept and the beginning of organised US magnetic fusion research are both dated to 1951 at Princeton
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