Henry Vernon Wong |
Henry Vernon Wong
Plasma Theory
In 1967, Henry Vernon Wong joined the Fusion Research Center. Vernon, born in Jamaica in 1938, he attended Cornwall College (a premier high school in Montego Bay) where he graduated at the top of his class. He earned a B. Sc. degree from University College of the West Indies in 1961. In his senior year, he was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and attended Wadham College at Oxford, earning a PhD in nuclear physics in 1964. He remained there during 1964–65 as a post-doctoral student. He was awarded a CIBA Fellowship to continue his research at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. He next joined the Laboratoria Gas Ionizzati in Rome before coming to The University of Texas in 1967.
In 1988, Vernon was selected for fellowship in the American Physical Society. His citation read, " For formal and applied application of Hamiltonian stability techniques to numerous complex plasma systems including tandem mirrors, EBT, and free electron lasers."
Vernon and his wife, Dorit, have one son who is a physician.
Vernon retired in 2006
ROSE HALL, St James — Dr Cecil Aird was inducted into the Cornwall College ‘Men of Might’ Hall of Fame during a glitzy dinner and awards function hosted by the school’s old boys’ association at the elegant Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall on Saturday night.
Dr Aird, who is internationally recognised as a specialist in the surgery of the hand and microsurgery, joins the late Professor Rex Nettleford; nuclear physicist Dr Vernon Wong; late Professor Aggrey Brown; Dr Constantine Campbell, a research agronomist; and Dr Kenneth Baugh, a former deputy prime minister of Jamaica, as inductees.
In 2013,Vernon was inducted into the Cornwall College ‘Men of Might’ Hall of Fame. He joined Dr. Cecil Aird, an internationally recognised specialist in the surgery of the hand and microsurgery, the late Professor Rex Nettleford; late Professor Aggrey Brown; Dr. Constantine Campbell, a research agronomist; and Dr Kenneth Baugh, a former deputy prime minister of Jamaica, as inductees.
Vernon Wong Photo and Document Album |
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Vernon's retirement party, February 2006. |
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Vernon Wong fourth from right on back row. |
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UT Physics Faculty 1970 Fourth Row:(L to R), Eric Sheldon( glasses), Arno Bohm, Claude W. Horton, Sr., Alan B. MacMahon, Roger Bengtson, C. Wendall Horton, Masao Yamada, William Rienstra (moustached), Linda E. Reichl, L. Mike Simmons (bearded in profile), John Rae (glasses), Austin M. Gleeson (obscured), Henry “Hank” Strauss (with pipe) Third Row: (L to R), John David Gavenda, Rui Vilela Mendes, Manfred Fink, Henry Vernon Wong, Arnold B. Lopez-Cepero, John Sheffied, Ken W. Gentle, Rüdiger Göbel (white shirt), M. G. Velarde (glasses) Second Row: (L to R), A. Wilson Nolle (obscured), Peter J. Riley, James Norman Bardsley, David W. Ross, Philip F. Little, Patrick Richard, Thomas A Griffy, Peter R. Antoniewicz, Guiseppe Maiella (bearded) Front Row: (L to R), Frederik W. “Frits” DeWette (Chair), Cary Davids, Robert J. Moore, Alfred Schild, E. George Sudarshan, Dieter Brill, Robert J. Yaes, Michael G. Gundzik, Ronald G. Parsons |
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