Four members of the FRIB user community have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS): Pierre Capel, Gail Dodge, Stefano Gandolfi, and Calvin Johnson.

APS is the major professional organization for physicists in the United States. It has over 50,000 members from academia, national laboratories, and industry. The mission of the APS is to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community.

Fellows are selected for their outstanding contributions to physics. Each year, the number of APS fellows elected is no more than one half of one percent of the membership.

Pierre Capel

Capel was elected as a Fellow for “careful and creative application of few-body methods to reactions involving nuclei near the drip lines, especially halo nuclei, through which key connections between reaction data and nuclear structure have been exposed.” He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Read the full Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz release.

Gail Dodge

Dodge was elected as a Fellow for “outstanding scientific leadership of the nuclear physics community in development of the 2023 Long Range Plan and for key contributions to experiments that revealed the spin structure of the nucleon.” She is the dean of the College of Sciences and professor of physics at Old Dominion University.

Stefano Gandolfi

Gandolfi was elected as a Fellow for “developing advanced Quantum Monte Carlo methods in nuclear physics, enabling a simultaneous understanding of nuclei and dense neutron star matter that has strengthened connections across nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics.” He is a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Read the full Los Alamos National Laboratory release.

Calvin Johnson

Johnson was elected as a Fellow for “seminal contributions to theoretical nuclear structure physics over a period of three decades, and for leadership and service contributions to nuclear physics.” He is a professor of physics at San Diego State University.

Read the full San Diego State University release.

Michigan State University (MSU) operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), with financial support from and furthering the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.

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