Barry Holstein

Barry Ralph Holstein (born 1943) is an American physicist. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, recipient of the 2019 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and current editor of the peer-reviewed journal the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.

Early life and education Barry R. Holstein was born in 1943 in Youngstown, Ohio to parents Eleanor and Edgar R. Holstein. Holstein attended Carnegie Mellon University for his bachelor's degree (1965), master's degree (1967), and PhD (1969). He officially retired in 2008.

Awards and honors In 1989, Holstein was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society on the basis of "his work on the phenomenology of weak interactions, specifically in the areas of CP violation and on the particle/nuclear physics interface". In 2019, Holstein won the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.