Winston H.

Bostick
Winston H. Bostick (March 5, 1916 – January 19, 1991) was an
Winston H. Bostick
American physicist who discovered plasmoids, plasma focus, and
Born March 5, 1916
plasma vortex phenomena. He simulated cosmical astrophysics
with laboratory plasma experiments, and showed that Hubble Freeport, Illinois, US

expansion can be produced with repulsive mutual induction Died January 19, 1991
between neighboring galaxies acting as homopolar generators. His (aged 74)
work on plasmas was claimed to be evidence for finite-sized Tijuana, Mexico
elementary particles and the composition of strings, but this is not Alma mater University of
accepted by mainstream science. Chicago
Known for plasmoids
Biography plasma focus
Magnetic
Winston H. Bostick, born in Freeport, Illinois, received both his
explanation of
B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. His Ph.D.
Hubble expansion
thesis on cosmic rays was completed under the direction of Nobel
laureate Arthur Compton. While working at the MIT Radiation Scientific career

Laboratory from 1941 to 1948, he helped build a microwave linear Fields Physicist
electron accelerator. As an associate professor of Tufts University Institutions Massachusetts
from 1948 to 1954, he researched magnetic pinch effects, which Institute of
led to his later work on plasma pinch effects. His discoveries of Technology
plasmoids and other plasma-related effects began between 1954 Tufts University
and 1956 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where he Los Alamos National
continued to act as consultant. A 1956 New York Times front page Laboratory
story featured Bostick's "plasma gun".[1][2] He served as professor Lawrence Livermore
of physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology from 1956 until Laboratory
receiving professor emeritus status at his retirement in 1981, and as Stevens Institute of
head of the physics department from 1968. While visiting Tijuana, Technology
Mexico, in 1991, he died of lung cancer at age 74.[3] Doctoral Arthur Compton
advisor
Scientific contributions
In 1956 Bostick demonstrated the existence of "plasmoids", force-free, charge-carrying "strings".[4] Ten
years later he postulated an electron composed of helical plasmoids forming vortex "loops" around a "ring",
similar to the Parson Magneton.[5] Bostick maintained that this model could account for atomic structure,
strong and weak forces within the nucleus, and that it was a physical basis for string theory, but this view
received no support from the mainstream scientific community and is considered fringe science.

References
1. William L. Laurence, "Physicist 'Creates' Universe in a Test Tube; Atom Gun Produces
Galaxies and Gives Clues to Creation Cosmos 'Created' in a Test Tube (https://www.nytimes.
com/1956/12/12/archives/physicist-creates-universe-in-a-test-tube-atom-gun-produces.htm
l)", The New York Times, Wednesday, December 12, 1956.
 2. "Physicists Depict New Concepts Of Universe and Its Basic Laws (https://www.nytimes.com/
1957/02/03/archives/physicists-depict-new-concepts-of-universe-and-its-basic-laws.html)",
The New York Times, Sunday, February 3, 1957.
3. "Dr. Winston Bostick, Atomic Physicist, 74 (https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9
D0CE3DB1131F936A15752C0A967958260)", The New York Times, Friday, January 25,
1991.
4. Winston H. Bostick, "Experimental Study of Ionized Matter Projected across a Magnetic Field
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1956PhRv..104..292B&db_key=
PHY&data_type=HTML&format=)", Physical Review (http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v104/i
2/p292_1), V104, N2, pp. 292-299 (Oct 1956).
5. Winston H. Bostick, "Pair Production of Plasma Vortices", Physics of Fluids (http://scitation.ai
p.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=PHFLE6&ONLINE=YES&smode=strresults&sort=c
hron&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&possible1zone=article&possible4=bostick&possible4zone
=author&bool4=and&OUTLOG=NO&viewabs=PFLDAS&key=DISPLAY&docID=2&page=1
&chapter=0), V9, N10, pp. 2078-2080 (Oct 1966).

External links
Winston H. Bostick - Plasma Universe (http://www.plasma-universe.com/index.php/Winston_
H._Bostick)
Winston H. Bostick - Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Database (http://a
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