Scott Pratt

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Scott Pratt is an American physicist.

After completing a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at the University of Kansas in 1980, Pratt pursued a doctorate in the subject at the University of Minnesota, which he earned in 1985. [1] He began working at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in 1992. [2] Pratt was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011, "[f]or seminal contributions to the theory of pion interferometry and the phenomenology of heavy ion collisions." [3]

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References

  1. "Scott Pratt". Michigan State University. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. "Scott Pratt". National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  3. "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 22 May 2022.