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2026-10-04 Google web search (Chrome) - Trichel

Run: STEP I, first run (no earlier sites.md). Browsing clock: start 1791146153 (date +%s), stop at about 365 s by the shell clock.

Queries and what they returned

  1. "Trichel" "Mechanism of the Negative Point-to-Plane Corona" 1938 Physical Review: G. W. Trichel, "The Mechanism of the Negative Point to Plane Corona Near Onset", Phys. Rev. 54, 1078-1084, 15 Dec 1938, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley [web] https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.54.1078
  2. Trichel "Phys. Rev." 55 382 1939 positive point-to-plane corona: Phys. Rev. 55, 382 (15 Feb 1939) is Trichel's paper on the POSITIVE corona in air, "The Mechanism of the Positive Point-to-Plane Corona in Air at Atmospheric Pressure" [web] https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.55.382. Bearing: the ESA 2010 paper's ref. [2] (Phys. Rev. 55, 382-390, 1938) is the positive-corona paper, with the wrong year. The negative-corona (Trichel pulse) paper is Phys. Rev. 54, 1078. Sattari's 2011 thesis ref. [16] cites the same positive-corona paper.
  3. "George W. Trichel" OR "George Trichel" physics Berkeley Loeb thesis: no results (the first name is not George).
  4. "G. W. Trichel" Trichel physicist biography 1938 Berkeley Ph.D.: hits showing "G. W. Trichel, chief of the ordnance rocket branch" (JPL history) and "G. W. Trichel, Chrysler Corporation" (large-rocket symposium). That suggested the physicist and the Army officer were the same person; confirmed below (archive.org).
  5. "Gervais W. Trichel" OR "Gervais Trichel" physics Berkeley corona: Col. Gervais W. Trichel, assistant to the Chief of Army Ordnance / Rocket Research Branch (GALCIT/JPL, V-2 histories).
  6. "Trichel" colonel ordnance "Ph.D." physics "University of California" 1938: Redmond & Smith, Project Whirlwind (1975), archive.org: Trichel's MIT M.S. and 1938 University of California Ph.D. (see archive-org note). Also a Library of Congress finding aid for the Vannevar Bush Papers lists "Trichel, Gervais W., 1949" correspondence [web] https://tile.loc.gov (finding-aid PDF; not opened).
  7. "Gervais William Trichel": Find a Grave memorial (1898-1990, born Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, per snippet); Military Times Hall of Valor (Legion of Merit, Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps); Prabook biography; NASA history "Power to Explore" (chief of the Rocket Branch, U.S. Army Ordnance, thought ahead about German rocket material); Congressional Record 1935 promotion to first lieutenant, Coast Artillery Corps. None opened except Prabook.
  8. Sattari Castle Adamiak Trichel pulses thesis OR "IEEE Transactions" FEM-FCT: Sattari 2011 PhD thesis (Western, open access); IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 46(5) 1699-1706 (2010) "FEM-FCT-Based Dynamic Simulation of Corona Discharge in Point-Plane Configuration" (DOI 10.1109/TIA.2010.2057493); journal version of the ESA paper, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 47(4) 2011; Dordizadeh Basirabad 2016 PhD thesis (Western, CORE PDF).
  9. Dordizadeh Basirabad "Trichel pulses" thesis Western experimental needle: thesis citation; Friebe et al. 2021 MDPI "Trichel Pulse Analysis: Physical Calculation and Validation"; AIP 2022 open-access paper comparing two 2D axisymmetric models.
  10. Lama Gallo 1974 "Systematic study of the electrical characteristics of the Trichel current pulses": Zhang et al. 2017 Sci. Rep. (PMC5579005); Soria-Hoyo 2007; Dordizadeh 2017 J. Electrostatics.
  11. Akishev Grushin Deryugin TRINITI ABB 1997 Trichel report "two-dimensional model": only a ResearchGate citation stub. The contractor report itself is not online.
  12. "11.93" "449.3" ionization corona: negative (unrelated chemistry hits). The formula's origin in open literature was not found.
  13. Trichel 1938 dissertation "University of California" corona "Thesis (Ph. D.)" OR worldcat: no catalogue record. Related: Eindhoven 1987 thesis "Negative corona discharges: a fundamental study" (pure.tue.nl).
  14. Gallo Trichel pulse "ionization channel" negative needle tip microscope OR "field emission" onset -2.3 kV: no Gallo publication of the narrow-channel observation found. Hits on related modelling: Kokovin 2021 (Trichel-to-stationary mode transition), Shaygani & Adamiak 2023, Ferreira 2025.
  15. Shaygani Adamiak 2023 "Numerical approaches in simulating Trichel pulse": J. Phys. D 56 (2023) 385202, DOI 10.1088/1361-6463/acdd0f.
  16. Dordizadeh 2017 "Experimental study of the characteristics of Trichel pulses": ScienceDirect abstract (see sciencedirect note).
  17. "G. W. Trichel" "Phys. Rev." -1078 -382 1939 OR 1940 OR 1937: Amin, J. Appl. Phys. 1954, snippet: (pre-onset streamers) "sought in vain by G. W. Trichel in 1937" [web] https://pubs.aip.org (snippet only); Oravec 1975 cites "Trichel, Phys. Rev. 55 (1939) p. 328" (probably a misprint of 382). No third Trichel paper found.
  18. Loeb "Trichel" "Army" OR "Captain" OR "Lieutenant" corona Berkeley 1937 student: snippet of Loeb's 1939 book preface thanking "Dr. G. W. Trichel (Captain, Ordnance Corps, U. S. Army)". It came from a shadow-library site, which was NOT opened; the text was then confirmed in the archive.org copy (see archive-org note).
  19. site:archive.org Loeb "Fundamental processes of electrical discharge in gases" Trichel: led to the archive.org advanced search.
  20. Lama Gallo "Trichel" J. Appl. Phys. 45 103 1974 pubs.aip.org abstract: only the volume link. Abstract not reached (time budget).