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Bruno Coppi
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Bruno Coppi (born 19 November 1935 in Gonzaga, Lombardy, Italy) is an Italian-American physicist
specializing in plasma physics.

In 1959 Coppi attained an Italian doctoral degree at the Milan Polytechnic Institute and was subsequently a
docent and research scientist at the Polytechnic Institute and the University of Milan. In 1961 he was a scientist
at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. From 1964 to 1967 he was an assistant professor at the University
of California, San Diego, from 1967 to 1969 at the Institute for Advanced Study, and from 1968 professor at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1980s Coppi was a member of the science team in the
Voyager 2 space probe.

Coppi works on theoretical plasma physics, space plasmas and magnetic fusion. At MIT he initiated the Alcator
Program, which led to the Russian-American Ignitor program, that aims at building near Moscow a fusion
reactor with Coppi as the principal investigator for the project.[1] In addition Coppi is taking a leading role in
the Frascati Torus Program in Italy.

In 1987 Coppi received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics and also the Award of Excellence in
Plasma Physics from the American Physical Society. He is a member of American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (since 1976) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the
American Physical Society. He received the American Dante Alighieri Prize, the Science Prize of the Italian
government, the science and technology prize from Italgas, and the gold medal of the Milan Polytechnic
Institute. He was knighted Great Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.

References
1. MIT News 2010 on the Ignitor Program (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/fusion-ignition-0510.html)

External links
Biography from the APS (http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?coppib)
Website for Coppi at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/coppi_bruno.html)
Bruno Coppi (https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=62619) at the Mathematics
Genealogy Project

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