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Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Fusion Energy Scientists
A complete alphabetical index of the physicists, engineers and program leaders advancing fusion energy — from the theorists who invented the tokamak and stellarator to today's principal investigators at ITER, NIF, KSTAR, EAST and the commercial primes.
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33 profiles · sorted A–Z by surname.
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Yutaka Kamada
Burning Plasma Physics & Project Leadership · National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
Prof. Thomas Klinger
Member, Academia EuropaeaErwin Schrödinger Prize (2016, W7-X team)Experimental Plasma Physics · Optimised Stellarators · {"Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Greifswald","University of Greifswald"}
Gerald Kulcinski
National Academy of Engineering (1993)Aneutronic Fusion & Inertial Electrostatic Confinement · University of Wisconsin-Madison Fusion Technology Institute
Russell M. Kulsrud
Maxwell Prize (1993)Plasma Theory & Magnetic Reconnection · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)