Gary S. Grest is an American computational

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. He was awarded a B.Sc in physics (1971), an M.S in physics (1973) and a Ph.D in physics (1974) by the

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. His interest is the theory and simulation of nanoscale phenomena. Since 1998 he has been a member of the technical staff of Sandia Laboratories, since 2009 an adjunct professor in department of chemistry,

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and since 2013 a Distinguished Sandia National Laboratories Professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering,

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...

. He was elected a

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in 1989 ''"for contributions to the understanding of the kinetics of domain growth, amorphous glasses, disordered magnets, and polymer dynamics"'' He was elected to the

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in 2008. He received the

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from the

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in 2008 for his work in computational

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and the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize in 2011.

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