Barry Ralph Holstein (born 1943) is an American physicist. He is an elected Fellow of the

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, recipient of the 2019 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and current

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of the peer-reviewed journal the ''

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''.

Early life and education

Barry R. Holstein was born in 1943 in

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to parents Eleanor and Edgar R. Holstein. Holstein attended

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for his bachelor's degree (1965), master's degree (1967), and PhD (1969). In 1966, Holstein married Carolyn Morrow.

Career

After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Holstein became an instructor at

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. In 1971, he left Princeton and taught at

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. He described his research interests as including

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, nuclear

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, and

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. He officially retired in 2008. In 2009, he became the

of the ''

'', a position he holds as of 2020.

Awards and honors

In 1989, Holstein was elected a Fellow of the

on the basis of "his work on the phenomenology of

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s, specifically in the areas of CP violation and on the particle/nuclear physics interface". In 2019, Holstein won the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.

References

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