Steven Clayton shares 2009 APS Dissertation Award

10/21/2008

Illinois graduate student Steven Clayton will share the American Physical Society's 2009 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics.

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Steven M. Clayton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will share the American Physical Society's 2009 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics with Thomas I. Banks of the University of California, Berkeley. Clayton was cited "for measurement of the rate of muon capture in hydrogen gas and determination of the proton's pseudoscalar coupling."  He works on the MuCap experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute; his thesis advisers were Peter Kammel and David Hertzog.  Clayton graduated in Summer 2007 and is now working as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.



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This story was published October 21, 2008.