Norman Rostoker of Tri Alpha - died
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:10 am
ps.uci.edu/memorial/rostoker
UC Irvine professor Norman Rostoker, the father of breakthrough clean nuclear fusion energy techniques via plasma-based accelerators, died on Christmas Day [2014] in Irvine, Calif. He was 89.
In addition to serving on UCI’s faculty, Rostoker co-founded Tri Alpha Energy with prominent physicists, including Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg, to implement his ideas to develop a clean source of fusion-based energy
....A memorial service is being planned for Saturday, January 24, 2015 in Irvine, California.