<p>More great news…physics at FSU - from undergraduate to graduate.</p>
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Recent graduate has nation’s top dissertation on nuclear physics</p>
<p>A recent doctoral graduate of The Florida State University has earned top honors in his discipline as the author of the nation’s best doctoral dissertation in nuclear physics.</p>
<p>Calem R. Hoffman, who received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Florida State in April 2009, has been named the winner of the 2010 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award, presented by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (APS).</p>
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<p>“I simply had fun every day doing nuclear physics research at Florida State, and this honor was made possible by the opportunities Professor (Samuel L.) Tabor, the physics department and The Florida State University as a whole provided,” Hoffman said.</p>
<p>Hoffman now is a postdoctoral research fellow at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, one of the leading nuclear physics laboratories in the United States. His long-term goal, he said, is "to continue on with fundamental nuclear structure research at the highest level. I hope to continue the advancement of knowledge as it pertains to the structure of nuclei and the fundamental nuclear force.</p>
<p>“Being given the chance to view and participate in top-level nuclear research, especially as an undergraduate, paved the way to my current research position,” Hoffman said. “The knowledge and support I received from the physics department and the entire FSU faculty was truly wonderful.”</p>
<p>At Florida State, Hoffman conducted research under the direction of Tabor, with whom he worked as both an undergraduate and graduate student.
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<p>That is a terrific accomplishment! Go Noles!</p>
<p>I think so, too - this student from FSU beat out grad students from Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley…all great schools for physics. </p>
<p>And he started as an undergraduate 'Nole.</p>