Gary S. Grest is an American computational

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at Sandia National Laboratories. He was awarded a B.Sc in physics (1971), an M.S in physics (1973) and a Ph.D in physics (1974) by the

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. His interest is the theory and simulation of nanoscale phenomena. Since 1998 he has been a member of the technical staff of Sandia Laboratories, since 2009 an adjunct professor in department of chemistry, Clemson University and since 2013 a Distinguished Sandia National Laboratories Professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering,

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. He was elected a

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in 1989 ''"for contributions to the understanding of the kinetics of domain growth, amorphous glasses, disordered magnets, and polymer dynamics"'' He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008. He received the

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics The Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1993. The recipient is chosen for "''outstanding achievement in computational physics research''". The prize is nam ...

from the

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in 2008 for his work in computational

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and the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize in 2011.

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