Richard J. Temkin (born 8 January 1945) is a plasma physicist and researcher on plasma-heating gyrotrons and other electromagnetic devices involving high-powered microwaves or terahertz radiation.Richard Temkin, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, mit.edu

Education and career Temkin received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1966 and a Ph.D.from MIT in 1971, supervised by Benjamin Lax and Paul M. Raccah with thesis Experimental charge density of copper.

Dr. Temkin has served as a senior research scientist in the MIT Physics Department since 1985,Richard Temkin, Academic Staff, MIT Department of Physics and as the associate director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) since 1998.Richard J. Temkin | People | MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center He is also the division head for the PSFC's Waves and Beams Division. Awards received include the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award (2013);Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society | Plasma Science and Applications Exceptional Service Award of the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (2011);Society Prizes | Irmmw-thz the Robert L. Woods Award of the U. S. Department of Defense for Vacuum Electronics, the Certificate of Recognition from the IEEE Electron Device Society, and the Kenneth J. Button Prize and Medal from the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE, and the Institute of Physics.

Selected publications with Bruce Gordon Danly: with Lino R. Becerra, Gary J. Gerfen, David J. Singel, & Robert G. Griffin: with Kevin L. Felch, Bruce Danly, Hopward R. Jory, Kenneth E. Kreischer, Wes Lawson, & Baruch Levush: with Melanie Rosay, Jonathan C. Lansing, Kristin C. Haddad, William W. Bachovchin, Judith Herzfeld, R. G. Griffin: with Thorsten Maly, Galia T. Debelouchina, Vikram S. Bajaj, Kan-Nian Hu, Chan-Gyu Joo, Melody L. Mak–Jurkauskas, Jagadishwar R. Sirigiri, P. C. van der Wel, J. Herzfeld, & R. G. Griffin: with John H. Booske, Richard J. Dobbs, Colin D. Joye, Carol L. Kory, George R. Neil, Gun-Sik Park, & Jaehun Park:

See also ITER

References

External links Dr. Richard Temkin: High Powered Microwaves & Nuclear Fusion Energy, YouTube, 16 December 2014 Prof. Richard J. Temkin, "High Frequency Gyrotrons and Their Applications", 22 January 2014, Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering