Alvin William Trivelpiece

An obituary for outstanding leader, physicist, and administrator Alvin William Trivelpiece who died on 7 August 2022 in Rancho Santa Margarita, Ca. is presented. Born on 15 March 1931 in Stockton, California, Al put himself through California Polytechnic State College and graduated in 1953 with a degree in electrical engineering. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering in 1958 from Caltech under the guidance of Roy Gould, His dissertation was titled "Space charge waves in cylindrical plasma columns." After spending a year in the Netherlands as a Fulbright scholar, Al became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966 he became a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he supervised 19 doctoral candidates and published more than 40 papers on plasma physics. Al also wrote, with Nicholas Krall, Principles of Plasma Physics, which remains a classic textbook 50 years after publication.