Patrick L. McGaughey from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 1998,[3] for his contributions to experimental high-energy nuclear physics; including his leadership of Fermilab E866, his penetrating contributions to the understanding of J/y production in nuclear collisions, and his insight and leadership in helping formulate the conceptual design of the PHENIX detector at RHIC.