Since 2003, he has focused his efforts on innovative nuclear physics research.
SUN CITY, AZ, April 03, 2023 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Birger B. Back, PhD, FAPS, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Leveraging more than five decades of excellence in physics research, Dr. Back has earned distinction as a senior physicist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Since 2003, he has focused his efforts on innovative nuclear physics research, having overseen three large projects of instrument development, including a spectrometer based on a large MRI magnet. Among his professional accomplishments, he is proud to have been named an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society in 2008 and was admitted as a fellow in 2003.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Back began his career as an assistant physicist with the Argonne National Laboratory in 1977, earning a promotion to physicist in 1982 and to group leader in 2007. He served as a senior physicist there from 2003 until his retirement in 2020. Over the course of his career, he has contributed over 400 research publications to the field for professional journals, including co-authoring "Fission of Doubly Even Actinide Nuclei Induced by Direct Reactions" for Physical Review C in 1974, "Observation of Anisotropy in the Fission Decay of Nuclei with Vanishing Fission Barrier" for Physical Review Letters in 1981, "Quasi-Fission: The Mass Drift Mode in Heavy Ion Reactions" for Nuclear Physics A in 1985 and "Charged particle multiplicity near mid-rapidity in central Au+Au collisions at sNN1/2= 56 and 130 GeV" for Physical Review Letters, the first published result from the then new Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
Prior to embarking on his professional journey, Dr. Back earned a Master of Science in experimental nuclear physics in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974, both from the University of Copenhagen. He then completed post-doctorate work with the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark in 1976 and with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1977. Within the coming years, Dr. Back intends to continue serving on a program advisory committee in India while continuing to publish papers on his research.
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