Hans Rudolf Griem (October 7, 1928 – October 2, 2019)[2] was a German-American physicist who specialized in experimental plasma physics and spectroscopy.
[3][4][5][6] Griem received his doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1954 and in the same year accepted a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Maryland to work on the physics of the upper atmosphere.
He then returned to the University of Kiel for a two-year appointment dealing with high temperature physics.
[7] From 1976 to 1994, Griem was a consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[2] In 1967, Griem was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.