Editing Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (section)

== Timeline of major research projects and experiments ==
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  id:sphtok      value:rgb(0.58,0.90,0.98)     legend: Spherical_Tokamak
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  bar:dir        text: Directors
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  from:1951  till:1961  text: "[[Lyman Spitzer|Spitzer]]"
  from:1961  till:1980  color: dir2  text: "[[Melvin B. Gottlieb|Gottlieb]]"
  from:1981  till:1990  text: "[[Harold Fürth|Fürth]]"
  from:1991  till:1996  color: dir2  text: "[[Ronald C. Davidson|Davidson]]"
  from:1997  till:2008  text: "[[Robert J. Goldston|Goldston]]"
  from:2008  till:2016  color: dir2  text: "Prager"
  from:2018  till:end   text: "[[Steven Cowley|Cowley]]"

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  bar:fusion1  from:1953  till:1962  shift:(0,-4)  color:stella  text: "Model A/B stellarators" 
  bar:fusion2  from:1962  till:1969  shift:(0,-4)  color:stella  text: "[[Model C stellarator]]"
  bar:fusion1  from:1970  till:1974  shift:(0,-4)  color:tok  text: "Symmetric Tokamak"
  bar:fusion2  from:1975  till:1986  shift:(0,-4)  color:tok  text: "[[Princeton Large Torus]]"
  bar:fusion1  from:1982  till:1997  shift:(0,-4)  color:tok  text: "[[Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor]]"
  bar:fusion1  from:1999  till:end   shift:(0,-4)  color:sphtok  text: "[[National Spherical Torus Experiment]]"

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  bar:fusion3  from:1971  till:1976  shift:(0,-4)  color:sphe  text: "Floating Multipole-1"
  bar:fusion4  from:1972  till:1976  shift:(0,-4)  color:tok   text: "Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor"
  bar:fusion5  from:1978  till:1983  shift:(0,-4)  text: "Poloidal Divertor Experiment"
  bar:fusion6  from:1984  till:1992  shift:(0,-4)  text: "Princeton Beta Experiment"
  bar:fusion3  from:2005  till:2008  shift:(0,-4)  color:sphtok  text: "Current Drive Experiment"
  bar:fusion4  from:2008  till:end   shift:(0,-4)  color:sphtok  text: "[[Lithium Tokamak Experiment]]"
  bar:fusion5  from:1995  till:end   shift:(0,-4)  text: "Magnetic Reconnection Experiment"
  bar:fusion6  from:1999  till:end   shift:(0,-4)  text: "Hall Thruster Experiment"
  from:2008  till:end   shift:(0,-4)  text: "[[Princeton field-reversed configuration|Field Reversed Configuration]]"

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  from:1958  till:???   shift:(0,-4)  text: "L-1"
  from:1966  till:???   shift:(0,-4)  text: "Linear Multipole-1"
  from:1982  till:???   shift:(0,-4)  text: "Advanced Concepts Torus-1"
  from:1988  till:???   shift:(0,-4)  text: "Princeton Beta Experiment-Modification"
  source: http://www.firefusionpower.org/ASME_PPPL_Historical_DMM-4.pdf
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