Biographical Sketch

George F. Bertsch

Education and Training

Swarthmore College, B.A. with highest honors in Physics, 1962

Princeton University, NSF Predoctoral Fellow in Physics, Ph.D. 1965.

Niels Bohr Institute, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Physics 1965-66

Research and Professional Experience

Professor of Physics and Senior Fellow, Institute for Nuclear Theory,

University of Washington, 1992-2015

Hannah Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 1985-1992

Professor of Physics, University of Tennessee, 1984-1985, and

Distinguished Scientist, ORNL, 1984-1985.

Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 1973-1984.

Associate Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 1971-1973

Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1968-1971

Instructor in Physics, Princeton University, 1966-1968

Distinctions and Professional Service

Hirsch citation index 90+

Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society, 2004

Alexander Humboldt Prize, 1986

Guggenheim Fellow, 2001-2002

Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics, 1996-2005

Co-coordinator, Computational Materials Science Network, 2002-2006

Scientific Director, SciDAC project, "Building a universal nuclear energy density functional", 2006-2008

Co-chair, French-US Theory Institute for Exotic Nuclei, 2010-2015