Origin of «Plasma», or The History of a Word
The material was received by the Editorial Board: 10.12.2007
The period of plasma physics formation as a science is mythologized. Even the birthday of plasma physics and the parentage of the word «plasma» are disputed. On the eve of 80th anniversary of the paper, where the electrically neutral region of the gas discharge has been named plasma for the first time, it is noteworthy separating the truth from archaeological stratifications. Keywords:
plasma, quasi-neutrality, Debye length, Coulomb logarithm, Langmuir.
УДК 533.9.01; 533.9.02; 001.4
Origin of «Plasma», or The History of a Word References: Kotelnikov I.A. Origin of «Plasma», or The History of a Word. Vestnik NSU. Series: Physics. 2008, vol. 3, no. 2. P. 108–117 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.54362/1818-7919-2008-3-2-108-117