Marlene Rosenberg
Marlene Rosenberg is an American plasma physicist known for her work on cosmic and interplanetary dusty plasma.
Education and career[edit]
Rosenberg earned a Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University in 1976, under the supervision of Gabor J. Kalman;[1] her dissertation was Waves and instabilities in plasmas in pulsar atmospheres.[2]
After working on nuclear fusion in industry at General Atomics and Jaycor, in San Diego, California, she became a research scientist in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in the early 1990s,[3] affiliated with the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.[4]
Research contributions and recognition[edit]
In 2000, Rosenberg was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Plasma Physics, "for pioneering contributions to the theory of dusty plasmas, especially related to strong coupling effects and the role of instabilities".[5]
A 2003 paper by Rosenberg in the New Journal of Physics, "Plasma interaction with microbes" with Mounir Laroussi and D. A. Mendis, concerned "the germ-killing potential of cold plasmas"; in 2007 it was named one of the most significant articles from the journal over the previous decade.[6]
She has also been one of the researchers on the Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4) plasma experiment, carried out beginning in 2017 on the International Space Station.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Astronomy Alumni, Harvard Astronomy, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ "75: Plasma Physics", Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, 15 (21), NASA: 2868–2869, November 8, 1977
- ^ Applied Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy Seminar Series, Fall 2002, UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ Marlene Rosenberg, UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2000 by the Division of Plasma Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ "Laroussi paper named one of most significant", News @ ODU, Old Dominion University, November 2007, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ "CASPER proposal team awarded NASA/NSF grant for on-orbit dusty plasma research aboard the International Space Station" (PDF), CASPER News, vol. 17, Baylor University, p. 1, 2017