'''Harold P. Furth''' ([[January 13]], [[1930]], [[Vienna]] - [[February 21]], [[2002]], [[Philadelphia]]) was an [[Austria]]n-American [[physicist]].
Furth emigrated to the [[United States]] in [[1941]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] with a Bachelor's degree in [[1951]] and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in [[1960]]. Furth worked at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] for several years before going to [[Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory]] where he would spend the rest of his career working in [[plasma physics]] and [[nuclear fusion]]. He was also a professor of [[astrophysics]] at [[Princeton University]].
In the late [[1960]]'s Furth contributed some important theoretical work on resistive [[magnetohydrodynamics]] instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma.
In [[1981]] Furth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until [[1990]] during record setting [[magnetic fusion energy]] experiments on the largest [[tokamak]] in the country, the [[Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor]] (TFTR).
Furth was a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and died of a heart ailment.
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