Donald Geesaman, Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Donald Geesaman, Argonne Distinguished Fellow and former director of the Physics Division, will be honored at the upcoming 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP). Geesaman will receive the Distinguished Service Award for his substantial contributions to the DNP, sustained from the 1980s to the present, culminating with his leadership role in the formulation of the 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science. He will be recognized during the 2016 DNP annual fall meeting on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, at 4 p.m. in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For more information, visit the meeting website.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1976, Geesaman joined Argonne and was promoted to senior physicist in 1991 and Argonne Distinguished Fellow in 2008.
His recent research focuses on understanding the implications of nucleon substructure in nuclear physics and on understanding the structure of nuclei. This includes measurements of deep inelastic muon scattering at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), measurements of the anti-quark distributions of the proton in Drell-Yan experiments at FNAL and experiments at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) to examine the structure of the proton and its meson fields in the nuclear medium. The nuclear structure work includes electron scattering studies.
Geesaman was elected the DNP Chair for 2004-2005. He has served on the board of directors of users groups at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Bates Research and Engineering Center (MIT Bates), Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility and Jefferson Lab and on program advisory committees at IUCF, MIT Bates, Jefferson Lab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and GSI. Geesaman has been the chair of the Board of Directors of the Jefferson Lab Users Group and chair of the Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee.
He has also served on the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), numerous NSAC subcommittees and long-range plan working groups, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Global Science Forum Working Group for Nuclear Physics. Geesaman was an associate editor of Physical Review C and is currently an editor of Physics Letters B.
He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications.