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Marshall N. Rosenbluth ’46, a leading physicist in the field of nuclear fusion and plasmas who contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb, died on Sunday from pancreatic cancer...
...Teller, considered the father of the hydrogen bomb, recruited Rosenbluth to work in Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Rosenbluth maintained this position until 1956. The research he conducted at Los Alamos led to the development of the H-bomb. Rosenbluth later headed the effort to find peaceful uses for nuclear fusion as an unlimited source of energy...
That year, Rosenbluth became professor and director at the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas at Austin...
Despite the accolades, Rosenbluth was modest about his accomplishments. His self-authored faculty profile on the UCSD website says simply, “I am a theoretical plasma physicist with a particular interest in the physics of magnetic confinement fusion devices...
Within each chapter of Terror in the Name of God, Stern delves into the fusion of religion and terrorism in the modern world...