While working for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Glasser was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, "[f]or contributions to the theory of toroidal ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and their applications to plasma confinement for magnetic fusion energy research.
"[1] Dr. Glasser was born in New York City on September 8, 1943, and grew up on Long Island, graduating from Lawrence High School in 1961.
Glasser's research has focused on theoretical and computational plasma physics applied to magnetic fusion energy.
His principal contributions have been to ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities of tokamaks and stellarators; extended MHD simulation of fusion plasmas; and Hamiltonian particle orbit simulation in electromagnetic fields.
They have two grown children, Russell and Keryn, who live in Austin, Texas.