Background
Furth, Harold Paul was born on January 13, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Otto and Gertrude (Harteck) Furth. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1947.
Astronomer physicist university professor
Furth, Harold Paul was born on January 13, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Otto and Gertrude (Harteck) Furth. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1947.
Graduate, Hill School, 1947; Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1960; postgraduate, Cornell Univercity, 1951-1952.
Furth emigrated to the United States in 1941. Furth worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for several years before going to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) where he would spend the rest of his career working in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. He was also a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University.
In the late 1960s Furth contributed some important theoretical work on resistive magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma.
In 1981 Furth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until 1990 during record setting magnetic fusion energy experiments on the largest tokamak in the country, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).
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Furth was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and died of a heart ailment.
Married Alice May Lander, June 19, 1959(divorced December 1977). 1 son, John Frederick.