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Richard F. Post

Richard F. Post (1918-2015) was a physicist and the head of the magnetic mirror program in controlled thermonuclear research at what was then the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California. He was noted for his work in nuclear fusion, plasma physics, magnetic levitation, and direct energy conversion.