Jerry Paul Draayer is the Roy P. Daniels Professor of Physics at
Louisiana State University. He was elected as a fellow of the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
,
for "enhancing our understanding of collective phenomena in
atomic nuclei
The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment. After the discovery of the neutron ...
through algebraic shell-model analyses, statistical
spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...
studies of strength distributions, explorations involving pseudo-spin symmetry, and the application of nonlinear methods."
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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