Education
Kruer studied at the University of Louisville (Master"s degree, 1965) and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 from Princeton University.
Kruer studied at the University of Louisville (Master"s degree, 1965) and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 from Princeton University.
Starting in 1972 he was a group leader for theoretical plasma physics and simulation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and from 1993 a chief scientist in plasma physics there. He wrote an important book on laser plasma interactions.
Afterwards he was a research associate scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 1970 a full member of the research staff