The LARISSA working group is very happy and proud to announce that Peter Mueller, who graduated as Diploma and PhD student in the Larissa group in 1996 and 2003, has won one of the most respectable Presidential Early Career Awards. He will visit Washington DC this week for a handshake with both, Secretary Prof. Dr. Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Winner of 1997, and President Barack Obama. The Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) is the American national highest honor for researchers in the beginning stages of their independent research careers; it has been donated to Peter Müller, presently at Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, for his ground breaking laser spectroscopic research on the nuclear structure of Helium-6 and Helium-8, which gives insight into nuclear theory and the study of neutron stars. The trophy varies but consists of considerable research grants of up to 5 years duration.
Read more:
http://www.anl.gov/articles/two-argonne-physicists-win-presidential-early-career-awards?
http://www.anl.gov/articles/helium-8-study-gives-insight-nuclear-theory-neutron-stars