仿星器的概念最早在1951年,由当时在美国普林斯顿大学工作的著名物理学家莱曼·斯皮策(Lyman Spitzer)提出。但在当时,人们普遍认为这种设计太过复杂,利用20世纪中期的材料技术难以克服这些困难。而现在,随着超导材料和其他新型材料的出现,研究人员相信他们现在终于能够把当年斯皮策的天才设想变为现实。2015年11月,科学家们把由德国建造的世界 The concept of stellarator was first proposed in 1951 by Lyman Spitzer, a famous physicist then working at Princeton University in the United States. At the time, however, it was widely assumed that the design was too complex and difficult to overcome with the material techniques of the mid-twentieth century. Now, with the advent of superconducting and other new materials, researchers believe they are now finally able to turn Spitzer’s genius into reality. In November 2015, scientists put the world built by Germany