Hungarian Nuclear Society honors Miklos Porkolab.

Fusion Power Report, January, 2008

The Hungarian Nuclear Society awarded The Karoly Simony Memorial Plaque and Prize to Professor Miklos Porkolab at its annual meeting November 29 in Budapest. The award was given in recognition of "outstanding achievements and contributions to plasma physics and fusion research." This is a newly established award and Porkolab, who is director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the first recipient. The prize is in memory of Karoly Simony, who was the first Hungarian fusion research scientist, working in the 1950s at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Central Physics Research Institute in Budapest.

Prof. Porkolab was born in Budapest, immigrated to Canada in 1957, and received a bachelor's degree in...

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