Gregory Wayne Hammett is an American plasma physicist, who is a professor at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and a principal research scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Known for his computational and theoretical studies on plasma turbulence, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics alongside his former doctoral student Bill Dorland in 2024 "for pioneering work in kinetic plasma turbulence that revolutionizes turbulent transport calculations for magnetic confinement devices and inspires research in astrophysical plasma turbulence."
Hammett received B.A. degree in physics from Harvard University and Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997. He has been a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics since 2001 and has been an associate faculty member with the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics. In 2021, he was named as a Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the United States Department of Energy for his research on plasma turbulence in fusion and astrophysics.
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