January : Nobel Lecture of Hannes Alfvén:
Plasma Physics, Space Research and the Origin of the Solar System,
from 1970
February : Discovery of high confinement mode
(H-mode) in plasma discharges in the ASDEX Tokamak, first published in
Physical Review Letters in
1982
March : US scientist Irving Langmuir coins the term "plasma"
April : Lecture of I.V. Kurchatov at Harwell in 1956
May : Growth of European fusion collaboration
June : Discovery of D-D fusion
July : The ITER Initiative
August : Discovery of the energy source in stars
September : Discovery of E=mc2
October : JET demonstrates alpha particle heating in the D-T experiments of 1997
November : Success of T-3 - breakthrough for tokamaks (1968/9)
December : Last in the series, celebrating 50 years
of the Lawson Criteria, includes an interview with JD Lawson
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