Donald William Kerst | Academic Influence

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Donald William Kerst

Physics

#1372

World Rank

#2125

Historical Rank

#598

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Donald William Kerst was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons.

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Donald William Kerst's Published Works

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FIXED FIELD ALTERNATING-GRADIENT PARTICLE ACCELERATORS (1956) (141)
The Acceleration of Electrons by Magnetic Induction (1940) (109)
The influence of errors on plasma-confining magnetic fields (1962) (55)
ATTAINMENT OF VERY HIGH ENERGY BY MEANS OF INTERSECTING BEAMS OF PARTICLES (1956) (46)
Plasma Motion and Confinement in a Toroidal Octupole Magnetic Field (1966) (43)
STABLE PLASMA CONFINEMENT BY MULTIPOLE FIELDS (1961) (39)
A 20‐Million Electron‐Volt Betatron or Induction Accelerator (1942) (37)
The Development and Performance of an Electrostatic Generator Operating Under High Air Pressure (1937) (30)
Electron Model of a Spiral Sector Accelerator (1960) (28)
Yields and Angular Distributions of Some Gamma-Neutron Processes (1950) (25)
Removal of the Electron Beam from the Betatron (1946) (21)
Operation of a 300-Mev Betatron (1950) (20)
Toroidal Discharge Experiments with Rapid Programming (1963) (20)
Historical Development of the Betatron (1946) (20)
A Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator Operating Under High Air Pressure (1935) (18)
ELECTRO- AND PHOTODISINTEGRATION CROSS SECTIONS OF Cu$sup 6$$sup 3$ (1955) (18)
Origin of synchrotron radiation (1975) (18)
A Process Aiding the Capture of Electrons Injected into a Betatron (1948) (17)
An 80‐Mev Model of a 300‐Mev Betatron (1950) (16)
The Determination of Photon Flux for Energies between 150 and 300 Mev (1953) (15)
Gamma-Rays from Light Elements Due to Proton Bombardment (1937) (12)
Experimental demonstration of E×B plasma divertor (1978) (10)
Method of Increasing Betatron Energy (1945) (9)
Operation of a Spiral Sector Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator (1957) (9)
Properties of an intersecting-beam accelerating system (1956) (9)
Yields of Photo-Neutrons with Calorimetrically Measured 320-Mev Bremsstrahlung (1950) (8)
Electrical circuit modeling of conductors with skin effect (1986) (8)
A FIXED FIELD-ALTERNATING GRADIENT ACCELERATOR WITH SPIRALLY RIDGED POLES (1954) (8)
Azimuthal Variation of Betatron Fields at Injection Time (1947) (7)
Note on Methods of Displacing the High Energy Beam in a Betatron (1947) (7)
PLASMA MEASUREMENTS IN A LEVITATED PULSED OCTUPOLE. (1970) (5)
A New Induction Accelerator Generating 20 Mev (1942) (4)
A High Resolving Power Tenfold Thyratron Counter (1938) (4)
Spiral sector magnets (1956) (3)
Yield of Alpha-Particles from Lithium Films Bombarded by Protons (1935) (3)
PLASMA CONFINEMENT IN A TOROIDAL OCTUPOLE MAGNETIC FIELD. (1969) (2)
Note on the electron capture process (1963) (2)
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF POSITION OF STRAIGHT SECTIONS WITH APPLICATION TO THE MARK V SPIRALLY RIDGED ACCELERATOR (1955) (1)
Plasma injection, heating, confinement, and losses in multipole structures (IAEA-CN-28/A-1) (1971) (1)
Pions to quarks: Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s (1989) (1)
Pions to quarks: Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s (1989) (1)
Toroidal magnetic fields for stable plasma confinement. (1968) (0)
The need for accelerating electrons (1987) (0)
Diffusion and fluctuation measurements in the trapped electron and trapped ion regimes (1976) (0)
The applications of high energy betatron radiations (1947) (0)
Experimental demonstration of vector E x vector B plasma divertor (1977) (0)
MURA: The Importance of Encouraging Scientific Enterprise (1964) (0)
SOME SCALING RELATIONS AND RESULTING LIMITATIONS ON BETATRONS (1981) (0)
Simple Sextant Calibration (1976) (0)
Erratum : Azimuthal Variation of Betatron Fields at Injection Time (1947) (0)
Paths of particles in circularly symmetric fringing fields, stormer method (1954) (0)
Development of betatron and applications of high-energy radiations. (1947) (0)
Locked modes and magnetic field errors in MST (1992) (0)
DETAILED CALCULATIONS OF A SMALL MODEL FFAG MARK Ib ACCELERATOR. PART A. PART B (1955) (0)
Elimination of field errors and rapid field programming for toroidal discharge apparatus (1963) (0)
Development of the Betatron (1942) (0)
Development of the betatron and applications of high energy betatron radiations. (1947) (0)
WEAK FOCUSSING WITH STRAIGHT SECTIONS, FORMULAS USEFUL FOR PARAMETER CHOICE (1981) (0)
Historical Review of the Betatron as a Source of Electrons (1968) (0)
11 – On the Course of Our Magnetic Fusion Energy Enterprise (1987) (0)
SPACE-CHARGE AND CURRENT FORCE CANCELLATION IN TOROIDAL GEOMETRY (1981) (0)
Related Techniques in Thermonuclear Research (1967) (0)
A FIXED FIELD ALTERNATING GRADIENT SYNCHROTRON WITH A SMALL CIRCUMFERENCE FACTOR (1954) (0)
APPLICATION OF FFAG PRINCIPLE TO BETATRON ACCELERATION (1954) (0)
MURA: The Importance of Encouraging Scientific Enterprise. (1964) (0)
The betatron and its medical application. (1946) (0)
The Development of Electrostatic Generators in Air Pressure and Applications to Excitation Functions of Nuclear Reactions. (1937) (0)
RELATEDTECHNIQUES INTHERMONUCLEAR RESEARCH (1967) (0)
Betatron-Quastler era at the University of Illinois. (1975) (0)
COMMENTS ON THE ACCELERATION OF ENERGETIC ELECTRONS (1969) (0)
Identification of Viton Gaskets (1965) (0)
General Equipment and Techniques. The Modulated Betatron. Modulation and Other Tendencies Used With Iron Accelerators (1947) (0)

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