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Nov 17, 1930 93 years old
American physicist
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About John Nuckolls
- John Hopkin Nuckolls (born 17 November 1930) is an American physicist who worked his entire career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- He is best known for the development of inertial confinement fusion, which is a major branch of fusion power research to this day.
- He was also the lab's director from 1988 until 1994, when he resigned to become an Associate Director at Large.
- He was awarded the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1969, the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics in 1981 and the Edward Teller Medal in 2005.
