R. Michael Barnett

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R. Michael Barnett, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after being nominated by the laboratory's Division of Particles and Fields in 1993. [3] His award was for contributions to phenomenological analyses of the Standard Model and its extensions, including studies of the nature and validity of Quantum Chromodynamics, analyses of neutral current couplings, calculations of the production of heavy quarks, and predictions of the properties and decays of supersymmetric particles.

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References

  1. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  3. "APS Fellows 1993". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.