In memoriam: Bill Hogan.(William J. Hogan)(In memoriam)

Fusion Power Report, November, 2006

William J. Hogan, a pioneer and leader in the field of inertial fusion energy, passed away on 19 October at the age of 66, after a heroic but short battle with pancreatic cancer. Bill had a distinguished career of 37 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where he led the development of the concept of inertial fusion for energy applications (IFE) and led several of the seminal system studies which showed that laser inertial fusion could be an attractive source of energy.

Bill received a B.S. with honors in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and earned a Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics in 1966 from Princeton University. He joined LLNL in 1966, working on a number of energy and defense programs. In 1983 he was named...

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