Dan Bardayan [2022]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For groundbreaking efforts to study explosive astrophysical events with exotic beam measurements and the development of unique experimental devices to perform such studies.
Nominated by: DNP
Carla Fröhlich [2022]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For seminal contributions to nuclear and neutrino astrophysics, in particular to the understanding of supernovae, their nucleosynthesis, and the neutrino-p process, and for developing predictive models of supernova messengers.
Nominated by: DNP
Dr. Michael Kohl [2022]
Hampton University
Citation: For elegant, innovative, and tenacious engagement in precision studies of nucleon structure, symmetry tests, and dark photon searches of physics beyond the Standard Model with diverse particle beam probes and leading roles in GEM detectors at facilities in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Nominated by: DNP
Huey-Wen Lin [2022]
Michigan State University
Citation: For pioneering lattice-QCD calculations of the Bjorken-x dependence of quark and gluon distributions in the nucleon and pion which have led to rapid developments in the field, and outstanding contributions to cross-community efforts to combine lattice inputs with experimental data to advance QCD.
Nominated by: DNP
Elizabeth McCutchan [2022]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative and distinguished contributions to understanding the evolution of collectivity in heavy nuclei, critical precision experiments to test ab initio methods in light nuclei, seminal analyses of antineutrino spectra, and the development of new database tools to understand nuclear data.
Nominated by: DNP
Claude A. Pruneau [2022]
Wayne State University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of heavy ion collisions, especially in correlations and fluctuations, both experimental measurements and techniques development, broad contributions to undergraduate education, and the publication of two books.
Nominated by: DNP
Björn Peter Schenke [2022]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the quantitative description of the spacetime evolution of the QCD matter formed in heavy-ion collisions.
Nominated by: DNP
Andrew Steiner [2022]
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Citation: For pioneering a data-driven approach to constraining neutron star properties and the dense matter equation of state that combines advanced statistical methods, state-of-the-art nuclear theory, experimental constraints on bulk nuclear properties, and astrophysical data.
Nominated by: DNP