Background
Hammett, Gregory Wayne was born on July 23, 1958 in Itazuke, Japan. Son of Wilford G. and Mary Ann Hammett. parents United States citizens.
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Gregory Wayne Hammett
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Gregory Wayne Hammett, Japanese, American Physicist. Achievements include research focus on computer simulations of plasmaturbulence, with the ultimate goal of developing a practical fusion energy source; developed fluid models of Landau damping which have been cited in over 100 published papers with diverse applications in ionospheric turbulence, quantum plasmas, laser filamentation and magnetohydrodynanics instabilities.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Harvard University, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1986.
Career
Research physicist, Princeton (New Jersey) Plasma Physics Laboratory, since 1986. Visiting scientist Joint European Torus, Oxfordshire, England, 1987-1991. Various review and selection committees Department Energy, Washington, since 1994.
National.exec. committee Numerical Tokamak Turbulence project, since 1994. Lecturer Princeton University since 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Study group and workshop organizer Kenedy Institute Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976-1980. Coordinator Loaves and Fishes group New Covenant Church, Princeton, 1984-1988. Member American Physical Society (commission on minorities 1993).
Connections
Married Kathryn Irwin, October 15, 1988.
