David H. Munro

David Herbert Munro
Born	April 29, 1955 Oakland, California
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (1976 BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980 Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	Plasma physics
Institutions	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thesis	The Production of Sound by Moving Objects (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Dr. K. Uno Ingard

David Herbert Munro (born April 29, 1955 in Oakland, California) is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who created the programming language Yorick as well as the scientific graphics library Gist.

Munro earned his BS at Caltech (1976) and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980). He joined LLNL in 1980 and has primarily focused his research on laser fusion.

He received the Excellence in Plasma Physics award of the American Physical Society in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 "For his seminal contributions to the design of laser-driven Rayleigh-Taylor experiments, and to the analysis and design of shock-timing experiments for cryogenic inertial confinement fusion targets".

References

• "David Herbert Munro." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2009. Fee (via Fairfax County Public Library). Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Accessed 2009-10-22. Document Number: K2015715582.

External links

• RPM shipped by David H. Munro -- yorick-1.4-15.i386 (downloadable free software for Linux, listing as of Wednesday, March 29, 2006 16:05:02)