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AbstractImportant DatesOccupationPlacesSubjectsRelationships
PeopleInstitutionsSteven C. Pieper
Dates
April 25, 1943 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Pieper, Steven C.
Biography
Abstract
Steven Pieper is Senior Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory (1996-present). Other institutional affiliations include Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include the calculation of heavy-ion relations by distorted-wave born approximation and coupled channel techniques, variational Monte-Carlo calculations for finite many-body systems, and computer techniques for physics research.
Important Dates
April 25, 1943Birth, Oceanside (N.Y.).
1965Obtained BS, University of Rochester, Rochester (N.Y.).
1970Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign (Ill.).
1970 – 1972Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University.
1972 – presentResearch Associate (1972-1974); Assistant Physicist (1974-1978); Physicist (1978-1995); Chief, Theory Group, Physics Division (1987-1990); Member, Executive Committee, Energy Research Supercomputer Users' Group (1994-1999); and Senior Physicist (1996-present), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont (Ill.).
1988Visitor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1989Visitor, University of Pisa.
1996Fellow, American Physical Society.
2010Awarded Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society.
Occupation
Theoretical nuclear physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Subjects
Relationships
People
Colleagues
Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Bollinger, Lowell M. (Lowell Moyer)
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Both employed at Argonne National Laboratory.
Institutions
Major Positions
Research Associate; Assistant Physicist; Physicist; Senior Physicist; Chief, Theory Group, Physics Division; and Member, Executive Committee, Energy Research Supercomputer Users' Group.
Case Western Reserve University. Department of Physics
Research Associate.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Fellow and received 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.
Università di Pisa
Visitor.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics
Obtained PhD (1970). Visitor.
University of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Obtained BS (1965).