English: ON 9/27/10 SEC. OF ENERGY STEVEN CHU RECEIVES AN EXPLANATION OF THE COMPONENETS OF PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LAB NATL'S COMPACT STELLARATOR EXPERIMENT DURING A LAB TOUR WITH SCIENTISTS HUTCH NEILSON & DIR. STEWART PRAGER. Princeton University has managed PPPL since its origins in 1951, when Professor Lyman Spitzer, a founder of the field of plasma physics, initiated the study of fusion at the University. The facility, which was officially named Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 1961, performs advanced research on fusion energy, an environmentally benign and abundant energy source.