Dan Shapira

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Dan Shapira (born November 13, 1943) is an American physicist from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after he was nominated by the Division of Nuclear Physics in 2009, [3] for contributions to the study of nuclear collisions: the discovery of nuclear orbiting, pioneering measurements of the space-time extent of particle-emitting sources, [4] and seminal studies of fusion with n-rich exotic beams, and for development of innovative instrumentation to enable these studies.

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References

  1. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. "Four ORNL researchers named American Physical Society fellows | ORNL". www.ornl.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  3. "APS Fellows 2009". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  4. Saltmarsh, M. J.; Shapira, Dan (2002-09-06). "Questions Regarding Nuclear Emissions in Cavitation Experiments". Science. 297 (5587): 1603. doi: 10.1126/science.297.5587.1603a . ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   12215611.