Gary S. Grest

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Gary S. Grest is an American computational physicist at Sandia National Laboratories. [1]

He was awarded a B.Sc in physics (1971), an M.S in physics (1973) and a Ph.D in physics (1974) by the Louisiana State University. His interest is the theory and simulation of nanoscale phenomena. [2]

Since 1998 he has been a member of the technical staff of Sandia Laboratories, since 2009 an adjunct professor in department of chemistry, Clemson University and since 2013 a Distinguished Sandia National Laboratories Professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering, University of New Mexico. [2]

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 "for contributions to the understanding of the kinetics of domain growth, amorphous glasses, disordered magnets, and polymer dynamics" [3] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008. [4]

He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society in 2008 for his work in computational physics [5] and the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize in 2011. [2]

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References

  1. Singer, Neal (24 September 2010). "Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show". Sandia National Laboratories. Archived from the original on 14 October 2010.
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  3. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  4. "Dr. Gary S. Grest". National Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011.
  5. "2008 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011.