Thomas H. Stix

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 12, 1924, Stix grew up near Washington University. The Stix family owned Rice-Stix Inc., a dry goods firm that was among the city's largest businesses at the turn of the 20th century. He worked for Project Matterhorn, In 1978, Stix was appointed associate director for academic affairs at PPPL. He pioneered and for many years served as director of Princeton's Program in Plasma Physics, the first graduate-level program of its kind. In 1991, Princeton awarded its inaugural "University Award for Distinguished Teaching” to Stix for his contributions as a teacher and educator. Stix and his wife, Hazel Sherwin, were married for 51 years and together had two children, Susan Stix Fisher of New York City and Dr. Michael Sherwin Stix of Lexington, Massachusetts. They lived their last decades in Princeton. Stix died on April 16, 2001, of leukemia. ==Honors and awards==

In 1962, Stix was elected chair of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society. for his pioneering role in developing and formalizing the theory of wave propagation and wave heating in plasmas. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by Fusion Power Associates. ==Legacy==

Stix's 1962 book, The Theory of Plasma Waves, His obituary in The New York Times said that Stix's "elegant mastery of the literally infinite complexities of waves in electrified gases helped create a new field of science." In 2013, the American Physical Society created the Thomas H. Stix Award, presented annually to a plasma physics researcher with outstanding contributions early in their career. ==Bibliography==