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Dr. Raghavan Jayakumar is a retired physicist who worked and taught in Universities, National laboratories in US, Europe and India and in industry. Dr.Jayakumar worked as a plasma physicist on magnetic confinement devices at General Atomics, CA (as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee), in Cornell University, NY and at the Institute of Plasma Research, India. In his early career of 13 years Dr. Jayakumar worked on the development of plasma technology devices and on MHD power generation. At the High Voltage Lab in Cornell, Dr. Jayakumar did seminal research on compact toroids and high energy particle rings for plasma confinement. At the General Electric, Dr. Jayakumar designed and developed superconducting magnets for MRI. Several thousands of these magnets are still in service. As an accelerator physicist, Dr. Jayakumar was, at first, the leader of the Superconducting accelerator magnet development and then became the deputy leader of the $1 billion 2 Terra Electron Volt High Energy Booster at the Superconducting SuperCollider, TX, which was discontinued due to congressional budget cuts. . While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, he was the US magnet team leader on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and led the $150 million Central Solenoid Model Coil project (also as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee). At the General Atomics, Dr. Jayakumar worked on the fusion device tokamak and was an expert on plasma current profile measurement and control. During the last year of his employed work, he worked on Spheromak research and retired in protest when the project was unexpectedly terminated due to unfortunate management decision.
He continues to be active in science, as well as in causes linked to social justice, politics, climate change, and philanthropy.
Personal biography written by Sahana Mascarenhas:
Jay Jayakumar is a wonderful person ! we all LOVE him!i love him because he always ansers my questions and he is funny and he always plays nice music for me
HIS JOB he used to be a sientist. he worked for a few places like Cornell,SSC,LLNL
AFTER HE RETIRED he rote 2 books after he retired, they were called particle Accelerators Colliders, and the story of High Energy Physics, and Science for Living.
HIS FAMILY he has 4 grandchildren their names are Sahana,Lasya,Dhyana,Smaran. he has 2 daughters their names are Archana,Rani. Rani’s husband is Narayan Archana’s husband is brian. he has a wife named Suhasini. and a sister named Komala and a brother named Thilak. he has MANY beloved cousins nieses and nefuse