Awards and honors
• Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1972–1973 (spent at the University of Paris and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) • Fellow of the American Physical Society and chairman of the Society's Division of Plasma Physics in 1978 • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Plasma Science and Applications Prize in 1989 • Gold Honorary Medal for Merit in the field of Physics Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1993 • Free-Electron Laser Award by the American Physical Society in 1995 ==Selected publications==