Marshall Rosenbluth

Marshall Rosenbluth
Rosenbluth in 1994
Born	(1927-02-05)February 5, 1927 Albany, New York, US
Died	September 28, 2003(2003-09-28) (aged 76) San Diego, California, US
Alma mater	Harvard University (BS) University of Chicago (PhD)
Known for	Plasma Physics Rosenbluth potentials Metropolis algorithm Rosenbluth formula
Spouse(s)	Arianna Rosenbluth Sara Rosenbluth
Awards	E.O. Lawrence Prize (1964) Albert Einstein Award (1967) James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1976) Enrico Fermi Award (1985) Hannes Alfvén Prize (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	General Atomics UC San Diego Princeton University University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor	Edward Teller

Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February 1927 – 28 September 2003) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences,^[1] and member of the American Philosophical Society.^[2] In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. He was also a recipient of the E.O. Lawrence Prize (1964), the Albert Einstein Award (1967), the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1976), the Enrico Fermi Award (1985), and the Hannes Alfvén Prize (2002).