page_title: Melvin B. Gottlieb
section_title: Early physics
hierarchical_section_title: Melvin B. Gottlieb / Early physics
context_page_description: Melvin Burt Gottlieb was a high-energy physicist and director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. With Van Allen he did the early studies of the magnetosphere, and he later led US fusion research.
context_section_description: During World War II Gottlieb worked on radar counter-measures and with Van Allen on early cosmic ray studies.
  In 1950 Gottlieb accepted an appointment as assistant professor at the State University of Iowa where he continued to work with Van Allen.  Starting in 1952 he went on several expeditions to the Arctic on behalf of the Office of Naval Research, where balloons, attached to ion chambers, and launched from rockets were used to study the magnetosphere.
caption: A model Deacon rocket with payload, representative of those used to test the ionosphere. Left to right, standing: Melvin B. Gottlieb, Lee Blodgett, Robert Ellis, Jr., and James Van Allen, and in front, Leslie H. Meredith.
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