James Paul Miller from the
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
, was awarded the status of
Fellow
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in the
American Physical Society
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, after they were nominated by their Division of
Nuclear Physics
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Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies th ...
in 1995,
for ''the development of a high resolution NaI detector and the performance of pioneering experiments on nuclear Compton scattering and radiative
kaon
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capture utilizing this device which paved the way for the design and construction of other high resolution
calorimeter
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s.''
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century American physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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