Scott Edward Pratt (born 1958) is an American theoretical physicist at the cyclotron laboratory of Michigan State University, known for his studies on pion interferometry and heavy ion collisions.
Early life and education The son of Edward and Patricia Pratt, Scott Pratt received his 1976 high school diploma at Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas.
After completing a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at the University of Kansas in 1980, Pratt earned a doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Minnesota. He completed his Ph.D. in 1985, with his dissertation, Pion Pictures of Heavy Ion Collisions, advised by Joseph Irving Kapusta.
Career Following his doctorate, from 1986–1988 Prat held research associate positions at five institutions: Texas A&M, University of Tennessee, Oregon State University, Lund University in Sweden, and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
From 1989 to 1992, he was a lecturer/assistant scientist at University of Wisconsin, followed by a position from 1992–1994 as a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. He then became a research assistant professor at Wayne State University, until February 1995. Since then, as a professor of physics, he has held a joint appointment as a theoretical nuclear physics faculty member of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, and also as director of graduate studies and associate chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
Prat has described his research:
Selected publications
Awards, recognition
Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011, "For seminal contributions to the theory of pion interferometry and the phenomenology of heavy ion collisions." Physics and Astronomy Department Tenured Faculty Teaching Award, 2009 Osgood Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction, 1998 Professor Emeritum, Department of Physics & Astronomy
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