The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a world-class fusion energy research laboratory managed by Princeton University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. PPPL is dedicated to developing the scientific and technological knowledge base for fusion energy. The Laboratory advances the fields of fusion energy and plasma physics research to develop the scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as an energy source for the world.   Dr. Robert A. Ellis, Jr. was born in 1927. He received his bachelor's degree in 1948 from Fisk University - a highly ranked historically black university, and received his master's degree in physics from Yale University in 1949. After receiv