Scott Crooker is a research scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory pulsed field facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.[1] He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his B.A. in physics from Cornell University.[2] He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America,[3] a fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory,[4] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[5] and a fellow of the American Physical Society.[6] He received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow's Prize in 2007[7] for his outstanding research in the development of novel magneto-optical spectroscopies and their application to problems in solid state and atomic physics systems. In 2007 he also received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Outstanding Innovation Technology Transfer Award[8] for a patent on multifunctional nanocrystals.[9]