Patrick L. McGaughey from the
Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow in the
American Physical Society
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, after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 1998,
for ''his contributions to experimental high-energy nuclear physics; including his leadership of Fermilab E866, his penetrating contributions to the understanding of J/y production in nuclear collisions, and his insight and leadership in helping formulate the conceptual design of the PHENIX detector at RHIC.''
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Fellows of the American Physical Society
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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