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Carl Weggel

Senior Engineer

Carl Weggel has led a charmed life starting with his summertime magnet design and analysis career at MIT in the summer of his sophomore year at Harvard. He worked for D. Bruce Montgomery. In 1973 Bruce entrusted Carl with the design, analysis, and expediting of the TF and PF coils of Alcator “C,” the second in MIT’s daring series of ultra-high-field, record setting tokamaks. At 14+ teslas, it still holds the world’s record for central field of tokamaks. Carl subsequently designed a 16-teslas Alcator “D” and a 30-tesla OH coil for the INESCO Riggatrons, using his patented internal, reinforcing hub. Carl discovered the first new analytic formula for axisymmetric geometries since Professor Snow at MIT in 1930!
During his career, Carl has designed: Tokamaks; Reverse-Field Pinches; Beamlines; Railguns; Electrostatic Wells; NMR devices; MRI devices; MRM devices; and Magnetic Shielding systems.

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