Grad Students Receive Newson and Gordy Fellowships

Students Forrest Friesen and Xuefei Yan, who are 4th year graduate physics students, have been awarded the Henry W. Newson Fellowship in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the nuclear physics research program at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL).

Prof. Henry Newson, James B. Duke Professor of Physics, was a pioneer in experimental nuclear physics and a member of the Duke University faculty from 1948 until his death in 1978. He was the founding director of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL).

Student Kevin Claytor, a 6th year graduate physics student, is the recipient of the Walter Gordy Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship, in memory of Walter Gordy (1909 – 1985), a member of the Duke University faculty from 1946 until his retirement in 1979, recognizes Kevin’s excellence in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and techniques for finding long-lived nuclear spin states using natural abundance samples and generalizing these methods to spin-1 states.

The announcement of these awards was made at the beginning of the Physics Department Colloquium on Wednesday, September 24, 2014.