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1980's Laureates

Gene H. McCall, 1988

National Security: For his pioneering work in the field of laser-driven inertial fusion and its application to nuclear weapon design and diagnostics, for his early, independent work on laser-plasma interactions and the role of electron heating, and for his work on hypervelocity particles and shockless acceleration to enable development of a new class of directed energy weapons.

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