ATHENS, OHIO, January 12, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ — Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to honor Steven Grimes with inclusion in Who’s Who in the World. An accomplished listee, Steven Grimes celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
An accomplished educator and researcher with considerable expertise in nuclear astrophysics, Dr. Grimes’s interest in physics started as a child, when he helped his father, an engineer, design the family home. While talking with his father about heating, cooling, and electrical connections, he became intrigued by physics and engineering, culminating in his current role as a distinguished professor emeritus at Ohio University. Drawing on decades of professional experience, Dr. Grimes also serves as a consultant with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Before obtaining emeritus status at Ohio University, Dr. Grimes taught astronomy and nuclear and particle physics through Ohio University’s Edwards Accelerator Lab, where he also served as director and conducted his own research. During the early stages of his career, he honed his teaching and research skills as a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky and Ohio University and as a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Basel in Switzerland. Throughout his career, he has leveraged his expertise as an editor for “Neutron-Nucleus Collisions” and “Moment Methods.” Likewise, Dr. Grimes has contributed to numerous articles as an author and co-author, including “Rotational Enhancement Factor for Nuclear Level Density,” “Mechanism of Fission Neutron Emission: New Experimental Arguments,” and “Systematic Distortion Factor and Unrecognized Source of Uncertainties in Nuclear Data Measurements and Evaluations.”
Before starting his professional journey, Dr. Grimes earned a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University in 1963. Subsequently, he pursued higher education, completing a Master of Science and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1964 and 1968 respectively. To remain abreast of changes in the ever-evolving field of physics, he aligns himself with the American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. Grimes has been honored many times for his outstanding work, earning inclusion in Who’s Who in America’s 72nd edition, the Marquis Who’s Who Humanitarian Award, and the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Similarly, he was named a Marquis Who’s Who Industry Leader and recognized as an Outstanding Referee for his work on several publications. While his career has been filled with highlights, Dr. Grimes is most proud to be named a distinguished professor at Ohio University.
Though hard work and dedication have brought him far in his career, Dr. Grimes credits his success to the mentors he has had throughout his life: Heinz Barschall, his thesis adviser, John Anderson, a supervisor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Marvin Fridley, his high school physics teacher, and William Schuyler Grimes and Fern Schuyler, his father, and mother. Looking ahead, Dr. Grimes intends to continue his emeritus role at Ohio University.
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