Greg Hammett

Gregory Wayne Hammett is an American plasma physicist, who is a professor at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and a principal research scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Known for his computational and theoretical studies on plasma turbulence, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics alongside his former doctoral student Bill Dorland in 2024 "for pioneering work in kinetic plasma turbulence that revolutionizes turbulent transport calculations for magnetic confinement devices and inspires research in astrophysical plasma turbulence."