Background
Coppi, Bruno was born on November 19, 1935 in Gonzaga, Italy.
physicist university professor
Coppi, Bruno was born on November 19, 1935 in Gonzaga, Italy.
D, Milan Polytech Institute, 1959.
In 1961 he was a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. From 1964 to 1967 he was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, from 1967 to 1969 at the Institute for Advanced Study, and from 1968 professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Coppi works on theoretical plasma physics, space plasmas and magnetic fusion.
At MIT he initiated the Alcator Program, which led to the Russian-American Ignitor program, that aims at building near Moscow a fusion reactor with Coppi as the principal investigator for the project. In addition Coppi is taking a leading role in the Frascati Torus Program in Italy.
In the 1980s Coppi was a member of the science team in the Voyager 2 space probe. He is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1976) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
M. 1963; 3 children.
