At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, we develop scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as a safe and economic energy source for the world. All employees at PPPL play a crucial role in this grand challenge of the 21st century working in close collaboration with world class physicists and attacking difficult scie
A Collaborative National Center for Fusion & Plasma Research
Employees are our most valuable — and valued — resource. Joining the PPPL community offers a host of unique possibilities. In an atmosphere of academic excellence, alongside SUSTAINED EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION efforts, our employees have opportunities for professional achievement and personal growth. When you become a staff member, you join a c
Lab Director Steve Cowley
A Collaborative National Center for Fusion & Plasma Research
PPPL physicist Kyle Caspary tending to the Magnetorotational Instability Experiment
Employees are our most valuable — and valued — resource. Joining the PPPL community offers a host of unique possibilities. In an atmosphere of academic excellence, alongside SUSTAINED EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION efforts, our employees have opportunities for professional achievement and personal growth. When you become a staff member, you join a c
Graduate summer school students present research in a poster session. (Photo by PPPL Office of Communications)
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PPPL engineers build mirror mechanism using 3D-printer and off-the-shelf parts
Employees are our most valuable — and valued — resource. Joining the PPPL community offers a host of unique possibilities. In an atmosphere of academic excellence, alongside SUSTAINED EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION efforts, our employees have opportunities for professional achievement and personal growth. When you become a staff member, you join a c
Experts assemble at PPPL to discuss mitigation of tokamak disruptions; Amitava Bhattacharjee, left, and John Mandrekas, a program manager in the U.S. Department of Energy’s office of Fusion Energy Sciences.
A Collaborative National Center for Fusion & Plasma Research
A Collaborative National Center for Fusion & Plasma Research
Lab Director Steve Cowley
Magnetic fusion research at Princeton began in 1951 under the code name Project Matterhorn. Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, had for many years been involved in the study of very hot rarefied gases in interstellar space. Inspired by the fascinating but highly exaggerated claims of fusion researchers in Argentina, Professor Spitzer conceived of a plasma being confined in a figure-eight-shaped tube by an externally generated magnetic field. He called this concept the "stellarator," and took this design before the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington.
