Sharon Gail Glendinning is an American experimental physicist.
Glendinning completed her bachelor degree in experimental physics at Middlebury College in 1973, and graduated from Duke University seven years later with a doctorate in the same field of study.[1] She published the dissertation Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Cross Sections for 10B, 11B, and 16O.[2] Glendinning remained at Duke to conduct postdoctoral research, and subsequently worked for General Electric within the nuclear fuels division.[1] In 1985, she joined the inertial confinement fusion program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).[1] Glendinning received the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society in 1995.[1] Three years later, the APS elected her a fellow, "[f]or clear and illuminating experimental investigations of ablation-front Rayleigh-Taylor instability, laser imprinting, and nonlinear hydrodynamic instabilities relevant to inertial confinement fusion, high energy-density physics and astrophysics."[3] Glendinning retired from LLNL after 2020.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "1995 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Sharon Gail Glendinning". Duke University. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ O'Brien, Nolan (24 June 2020). "Plasma science report highlights workforce gap, calls for increased national commitment to future experiments". Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
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