John Bryan Taylor

John Bryan Taylor
John Bryan Taylor
Born	26 December 1928; Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Awards	James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize (1971); Max Born Medal and Prize (1979); James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1999); Hannes Alfvén Prize (2004);
	Scientific career
Fields	Plasma physics

John Bryan Taylor (born 26 December 1928) is a British physicist known for his contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity. Another development was his work on the ballooning transformation, which describes the motion of plasma in toroidal (donut) configurations, which are used in the fusion field. Taylor has also made contributions to the theory of the Earth's Dynamo, including the Taylor constraint.

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