Editing Harold Furth (section)

==Career==
Furth worked at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] from 1956 to 1967 before going in 1967 to [[Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory]] (PPPL)<ref name=nas/> where he would spend the rest of his career working in [[plasma (physics)|plasma physics]] and [[nuclear fusion]]. He was also a professor of [[astrophysics]] at [[Princeton University]].<ref name="furth_1995">Furth, Harold (1995) ''Fusion'', [[Scientific American]] '''273'''(3), 174-176.</ref>

In the late 1960s, Furth contributed some important theoretical work on resistive [[magnetohydrodynamics]] instabilities in a slightly resistive plasma.

In 1981 Furth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until 1990 during record setting [[Magnetic confinement fusion|magnetic fusion energy]] experiments on the largest [[tokamak]] in the country, the [[Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor]] (TFTR).