James Paul Miller from the
Boston University
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, was awarded the status of
Fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
in the
American Physical Society
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, after they were nominated by their Division of
Nuclear Physics
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Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...
in 1995,
for ''the development of a high resolution NaI detector and the performance of pioneering experiments on nuclear Compton scattering and radiative
kaon
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capture utilizing this device which paved the way for the design and construction of other high resolution
calorimeter
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s.''
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century American physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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