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Career Highlights
1986 Ph.D., Yale University 1987 National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award 1992 FSU
Developing Scholar Award 2001 FSU University Teaching
Award 2002 George B. Pegram Award for Excellence in Teaching
(Southeastern Section of the American Physical
Society)
90 refereed articles in nuclear physics $29
million in grants as PI or co-PI 4 Ph.D. graduates in nuclear
physics 5 articles in science education
Research interests:
Nuclear structure physics in exotic
nuclei Much of the work of nuclear structure physics during
the last sixty years has focused on the shell structure of the
nucleus. However, our understanding of nuclear shell structure
has been built upon measurements of nuclei that are stable or nearly
stable. The technology for producing beams of nuclei that are
very unstable and are at or near the proton and neutron driplines
has made great advances during the last twenty years, as
demonstrated at the Coupled Cyclotrons Facility at the National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State
University.
Measurements of these near-dripline nuclei -
particularly neutron-rich nuclei near the neutron dripline - test
predictions that dramatic changes in shell structure occur in this
vicinity. Our paper in Nature on the neutron-rich
nucleus 42Si [J. Fridmann et al., Nature 435, 922 (2005)]
demonstrated that a proton subshell occurs at proton number 14 and
raised questions regarding the predicted collapse of the major shell
closure at neutron number 28.
Recent Publications
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Spin-orbit splitting in low-j neutron
orbits and proton densities in the nuclear interior,
B.G.Todd-Rutel, J.Piekarewicz, and P.D.Cottle, Phys. Rev. C 69,
021301 (2004).
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"Magic" nucleus 42Si, J.Fridmann,
I.Wiedenhover, A.Gade, L.T.Baby, D.Bazin, B.A.Brown, C.M.Campbell,
J.M.Cook, P.D.Cottle, E.Diffenderfer, D.-C.Dinca, T.Glasmacher,
P.G.Hansen, K.W.Kemper, J.L.Lecouey, W.F.Mueller, H.Olliver,
E.Rodriguez-Vieitez, J.R.Terry, J.A.Tostevin, K.Yoneda, Nature
435, 922 (2005).
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Shell structure at N = 28 near the dripline:
Spectroscopy of 42Si, 43P, and 44S, J.Fridmann, I.Wiedenhover,
A.Gade, L.T.Baby, D.Bazin, B.A.Brown, C.M.Campbell, J.M.Cook,
P.D.Cottle, E.Diffenderfer, D.-C.Dinca, T.Glasmacher, P.G.Hansen,
K.W.Kemper, J.L.Lecouey, W.F.Mueller, E.Rodriguez-Vieitez,
J.R.Terry, J.A.Tostevin, K.Yoneda, H.Zwahlen, Phys.Rev. C 74,
034313 (2006).
Teaching Interests: The Science Studio at Florida State
University
Based on a design developed by the Physics Education Research Group at North Carolina
State University and proven at a number of institutions, the FSU
Science Studio in the New Classroom Building is hosting its first
classes in the spring of 2007. The classroom is intended to
foster inquiry-based teaching and learning with a fiscally
sustainable class size of 72 students. In the spring of 2007,
the Studio is hosting two physics classes: The Physics of
Light and Sound (PHY 1075C), a course intended for students majoring
in a non-natural science field who have a professional interest in
light and sound; and Physical Science for Elementary Education
Majors (PSC 2801C), which uses a research-based hands-on curriculum
developed by the Physics Education Group at the University of
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