Education
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1924, Stix graduated from John Burroughs School and served in the United States. Army as a radio expert in the Pacific theater during and after World World War World War II
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1924, Stix graduated from John Burroughs School and served in the United States. Army as a radio expert in the Pacific theater during and after World World War World War II
Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics, and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962"s The Theory of Plasma Waves. After the war, he obtained his bachelor"s degree from Caltech and, in 1953, his doctorate from Princeton. He worked for Project Matterhorn, the secret United States. study of nuclear fusion, and developed the Stix coil to contain gases that were heated to solar temperatures with electromagnetic waves.
Stix taught astrophysical sciences at Princeton, and did much of his research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
He died April 16, 2001, of leukemia. His obituary in the New York Times read, in part, that Stix"s "elegant mastery of the literally infinite complexities of waves in electrified gases helped create a new field of science.".
