Henry Vernon Wong

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Henry Vernon Wong is a Jamaican-American physicist known for his work in plasma physics. He was born on December 4, 1938, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He studied at Cornwall College and won a Jamaica Scholarship to the University of the West Indies, where he earned a B.S. in physics in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1964 and stayed at Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher through 1965. In 1965 he received a CIBA Fellowship to work at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The next year he worked at Laboratori Gas Ionizzati in Rome. In 1967 he joined the Fusion Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin as a research scientist, and he is now a professor emeritus there. He is married to Dorit Wong (née Stebbing) and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.