Elizabeth McCutchan
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Elizabeth Anne "Libby" Ricard-McCutchan is an American low-energy nuclear physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory[1] whose research has included the use of gamma-ray spectroscopy to study shape changes in atomic nuclei.[2] She is editor-in-chief of the journal Nuclear Data Sheets,[3] and manages Brookhaven's Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File and eXperimental Unevaluated Nuclear Data List databases.[1]
McCutchan graduated from Wellesley College in 1999.[1] She has a Ph.D. from Yale University, completed in 2006; her dissertation, Critical phase/shape transitions in heavy nuclei, was supervised by Richard Casten.[2]
She joined the staff at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2011.[1]