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Grisham, Larry Richard was born on February 2, 1949 in Henderson, Texas, United States. Son of James Marion and Eva Fay (Powell) Grisham.
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Larry Richard Grisham
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Larry Richard Grisham, American Physicist. Achievements include research in energy confinement properties of tokamak plasmas as a fuction of major and minor radius; physics and technology of high power neutral beam systems physics of excited nuclear states. Member New Jersey Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee, Morristown, since 1986. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, University Texas, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Oxford (England) University, 1974.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton (New Jersey) U., Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1974-1975; staff research physicist, Princeton (New Jersey) U., Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1975-1982; research physicist, Princeton (New Jersey) U., Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1982-1989; principal research physicist, Princeton (New Jersey) U., Plasma Physics Laboratory, since 1989; head beam physics, Princeton (New Jersey) U., Plasma Physics Laboratory, since 1988. Consultant Northrop Corporation, Los Angeles, 1985, Physical Dynamics, La Jolla, California, 1986-1988, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, Alabama, since 1989. Member various review panels United States Army Strategic Defense Command, since 1986.
Achievements
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Member New Jersey Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee, Morristown, since 1986. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Jacqueline Lea Criswell, June 24, 1972. Children: Austin Nathanial, Rachel Nicole, Hilary Jane.
