Cacuci receives 2011 ANS Arthur Holly Compton Award

Dr. Dan Gabriel Cacuci, professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University, has received the 2011 Arthur Holly Compton Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS). This award honors outstanding contributions to education in nuclear science and engineering.

ANS will provide a gift of $2,000 to both Cacuci and NC State, as well as an engraved plaque at the 2011 ANS Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Florida, in late June 2011.

ANS is an international non-profit scientific and educational organization that promotes the awareness and understanding of the application of nuclear science and technology. The award, which honors the late Arthur Holly Compton, who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics, is administered by the ANS Education and Training Division.

Cacuci’s current research interests focus on predictive best-estimate analysis of large-scale physical and engineering systems, including nuclear reactor multi-physics, dynamics and safety. He is the author of three books, seven book chapters, and some 190 peer-reviewed articles. He is the editor of a five-volume, 3,600-page comprehensive Handbook of Nuclear Engineering, which was published by Springer in 2010. He has received numerous other international awards, and held senior positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Research Center Karlsruhe in Germany, and the Nuclear Energy Directorate of the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in France.

Cacuci received his MS in nuclear science and engineering and his MPh and PhD degrees in applied physics and nuclear engineering from Columbia University, the last of which was awarded in 1978.