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.
Barry R. Holstein was born in 1943 in Youngstown, Ohio to parents Eleanor and Edgar R.
[3] He described his research interests as including high energy physics, nuclear phenomenology, and effective field theory.
[3] In 2009, he became the editor of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, a position he holds as of 2020.
[7] In 2019, Holstein won the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics.