honor in the plasma physics field, the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, 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, has been translated into Japanese, Russian, and other languages. It received a paperback reprint in 2012 and still sells and is taught at universities around the world. 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 Notes Further reading (Session A-6, Experimental Aspects of Plasma Physics) (showing what would be called the Stix coil) External links Physicist Thomas Howard Stix dies 1924 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American physicists Scientists from Missouri Physicists from Missouri Scientists from St. Louis American nuclear physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society