Jiří Linhart

Jiří Linhart (13 April 1924 – 6 January 2011)[1] Nuclear fusion physicist and Czech Olympic swimmer.

He competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

[2] He stayed on in London[citation needed] after which he took his PhD under the supervision of Denis Gabor.

He was a pioneer of Nuclear Fusion, author of "Plasma Physics" (1960) - the first textbook on Plasma science, and many academic papers and early patents on nuclear reactors.

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