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==== William Raphael Hix ====

Research Staff, Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & \\
Joint Faculty Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee

**Address:** \\
ORNL \\
P.O. Box 2008 \\
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6354

**Phone:** 865.574.4716

**E-mail:** raph atsymbol utk dot edu 

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**Biographical Sketch:**\\
William Raphael (Raph) Hix earned his undergraduate degrees, a B.S. in [[http://umdphysics.umd.edu/|Physics]] and [[http://www.astro.umd.edu/|Astronomy]] and a B.S. in [[http://www.math.umd.edu/|Mathematics]], from the [[http://www.umd.edu/|University of Maryland]] at College Park in 1989.  He attended [[http://www.harvard.edu/|Harvard University]] for graduate school, earning an A.M. in [[http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ast/|Astronomy]] in 1991 and a Ph.D in 1995, studying with [[http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Friedrich%20K%2E%20Thielemann&year=2008|Friederich-Karl Thielemann]] and [[http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18092|Alastair G. W. Cameron]].  From 1995 to 1997, he was a post-doctoral research associate in [[http://www.as.utexas.edu/|Astronomy]] at the [[http://www.utexas.edu/|University of Texas]] at Austin, working with [[http://www.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/|J. Craig Wheeler]].  Beginning in 1997, he was a post-doctoral research associate and later research assistant professor in the UT/ORNL [[:|theoretical astrophysics]] group, before joining the staff of the [[http://www.phy.ornl.gov/|Physics Division]] at [[www.ornl.gov|Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] in 2004.  Since 2010 Raph has been a Joint Faculty member in the [[www.phys.utk.edu|Physics Department]] at the [[www.utk.edu|University of Tennessee]].  He was the 2006 recipient of the [[http://www.sigmaxi.org/index.shtml|Sigma Xi]] [[http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes/young.shtml|Young Invetigator Award]].  His research interests encompass the full range of [[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/fusion/index.html|nuclear astrophysics]], stellar evolution and stellar explosions.   Raph and his wife, Dacia, are the proud parents of Ronan and Lorelei.

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