Bradley Marc Sherrill (born June 15, 1958) is a Distinguished Professor of

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Education and career

Sherrill obtained his B.A. from Coe College in 1980 and following it earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from

in 1982 and 1985, respectively. After graduation, he joined the

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), located on the campus of Michigan State University was a isotope, rare isotope research facility in the United States.Bruns, Adam (January 2009How Are You Helping Companies Grow?''Site Sel ...

and in 1991 became assistant professor of

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at MSU. He is a director of the NSCL and scientific director at the

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams The Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams (FRIB) is a scientific user facility for nuclear science, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), Michigan State University (MSU), and the State of Michigan. Michigan State Unive ...

Awards and recognitions

Since 2011, Sherrill is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2018, he was awarded the status of Fellow in the

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, after he was nominated by their Division of

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in 1998, for ''his contributions to the field of radioactive beams, especially for development of innovative ion-optical techniques, and for their use in the measurement of breakup momentum distributions and obtaining their relation to the momentum wavefunctions of weakly bound nuclei''. The same year, he also was awarded with the

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $10,000 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memor ...

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