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New Prize and Award Recipients

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Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Stephen G. Brush
University of Maryland 
For his pioneering, in-depth studies in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century physics.

Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics
Xiaoyi Li
United Technologies Research Center 
Computational study of fluid particles: dynamics of drops, rheology of emulsions and mechanics of biological cells

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
A.P. Young
University of California, Santa Cruz 
For his innovative and definitive numerical studies of spin glasses and the vortex glass state of High Temperature superconductors.

Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
Robert E. Field
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
For pioneering development and application of multiple resonance laser spectroscopy and effective Hamiltonian models, that reveal fundamental mechanisms of chemical bond breaking, electronic rearrangement, intramolecular vibrational redistribution, and unimolecular isomerization.

Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics
Jeffrey R. Moffitt
University of California, Berkeley 
Viral DNA Packaging at Base-Pair Resolution


Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics
Felix Campelo Aubarell
University of Barcelona 
 Shapes in Cells. Dynamic Instabilities, Morphology, and Curvature in Biological Membranes

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Igor Tyutin
Lebedev Physical Institute 
For discovery and exploitation of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments.

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Alain Rouet
 
For discovery and exploitation of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments.

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Carlo Becchi
University of Genoa 
For discovery and exploitation of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments.

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Raymond Stora
LAPTH 
For discovery and exploitation of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments.

David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Salvatore Torquato
Princeton University 
For his highly original and deep studies of n-point correlation functions in heterogeneous materials and his outstanding communication of these results through publication and public presentation.

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Krishnan Raghavachari
Indiana University 
For the individual development and collaborative application of fundamental surface infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemical methods to silicon surface reactions important in microelectronics.

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Yves Chabal
University of Texas, Dallas 
For the individual development and collaborative application of fundamental surface infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemical methods to silicon surface reactions important in microelectronics.

Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Steven M. Clayton
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
For measurement of the rate of muon capture in hydrogen gas and determination of the proton's pseudoscalar coupling.

Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Thomas I. Banks
University of California, Berkeley 
For measurement of the rate of muon capture in hydrogen gas and determination of the proton's pseudoscalar coupling.

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy
Terry A. Miller
Ohio State University 
For his pioneering spectroscopic investigations of complex molecules, free radicals, and ions – especially for the development of a quantitative understanding of the Jahn-Teller effect in organic molecules.

Edward A. Bouchet Award
Gaston R. Gutierrez
Fermilab 
or contributions to the D-Zero collaboration, in particular the "matrix-element" method of extracting precise measurements of standard-model parameters, as well as his outstanding mentorship of young scientists.

Einstein Prize
James Hartle
University of California, Santa Barbara 
For a broad range of fundamental contributions to relativistic stars, quantum fields in curved spacetime, and especially quantum cosmology.

Excellence in Physics Education Award
Two Year College Workshop Team
 
For leadership in introducing physicists in two-year colleges to new instructional methods, in developing new materials based on physics education research, and in fostering faculty networking, particularly in two-year colleges.

Fluid Dynamics Prize
Stephen B. Pope
Cornell University 
For seminal contributions to the understanding and prediction of turbulent phenomena, especially the development of the PDF approach for turbulent flows.

Francis M. Pipkin Award
Zheng-Tian Lu
Argonne National Laboratory 
For development of techniques to laser cool and trap rare and radioactive atomic species; and for applications of these techniques ranging from trace isotope analysis to tests of fundamental symmetries.

George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award
Donald Curran
SRI International 
For his pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of dynamic failure of materials and the incorporation of this understanding into successful theories and models of material response.

George E. Pake Prize
David J. Bishop
LGS 
For his effective leadership of AT&T/Lucent/Bell Labs research during an especially turbulent time in the telecommunications industry, and for his seminal contributions to low-temperature physics research.

Hans A. Bethe Prize
David Arnett
University of Arizona 
For his outstanding and fundamental work on how nuclear reactions shape multi-dimensional and partly out-of-equilibrium evolution of stars and supernova explosions and their yields of new isotopes.

Herbert P. Broida Prize
Gustav Gerber
Universitat Wurzburg 
For the pioneering experimental realization of coherent control of molecular dynamics and chemical reactions with feedback-optimized laser pulses.

I.I. Rabi Prize
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University 
For pioneering theoretical and experimental work at the interface between quantum optics, quantum information processing, and the quantum many body problem.

Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics
W.E. Moerner
Stanford University 
For making major contributions to the chemical physics of biological systems and non-biological materials through the application of single molecule spectroscopy.

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
R. Keith Ellis
Fermilab 
For work in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high energy particle collisions.

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Davison E. Soper
University of Oregon 
For work in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high energy particle collisions.

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
John C. Collins
Pennsylvania State University 
For work in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high energy particle collisions.

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
William L. Johnson
Caltech 
For the development of slow cooling methods for the fabrication of bulk metallic glasses with remarkable mechanical properties and the characterization and application of these materials.

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Akihisa Inoue
Institute for Materials Research 
For the development of slow cooling methods for the fabrication of bulk metallic glasses with remarkable mechanical properties and the characterization and application of these materials.

James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
Miklos Porkolab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
For pioneering investigations of linear and nonlinear plasma waves and wave-particle interactions; fundamental contributions to the development of plasma heating, current drive and diagnostics; and leadership in promoting plasma science education and domestic and international collaborations.

John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Yitzhak Maron
Weizmann Institute of Science 
For revolutionary, non-invasive spectroscopic techniques to measure magnetic fields in dense plasmas and for resolving in detail in space and time the implosion phase of the Z pinch.

John H. Dillon Medal
Venkat Ganesan
University of Texas 
For exceptional contributions to innovative computer simulation approaches and analysis of equilibrium and dynamic properties of multicomponent polymetric materials and nanocomposites.

John Wheatley Award
Carlos R. Ordonez
University of Houston 
For his extensive contributions to developing physics throughout Latin America, and especially for his work with the World Laboratory to expand its efforts on US-Latin American exchange and cooperation.

Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
Patricia Lewis
 
For her contributions to arms control and international security, through experiments to demonstrate verifiability of arms control treaties and through her leadership of two international institutes, VERTIC and UNIDIR.

Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science
Robert Schoelkopf
Yale University 
For development of techniques for high frequency measurements of mesoscopic physics and quantum noise, including the radio-frequency single-electron transistor and absolute thermometry based on electron shot-noise.

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
Ramamurti Shankar
Yale University 
For his innovative applications of field theoretic techniques to quantum condensed matter systems, and his marvelous presentations of the story of physics through teaching, lectures, textbooks, and public talks.

Lars Onsager Prize
B. Sriram Shastry
University of California, Santa Cruz 
For pioneering work in developing and solving models of strongly correlated systems and for wide-ranging contributions to phenomenological many-body theory, which have advanced the analysis of experiments on strongly correlated materials.

LeRoy Apker Award
Bilin Zhuang
Wellesley College 
Thermodynamics of Ising Systems of the Triangular Kagome Lattice and Small-Model Approximations to Geometrically Frustrated Systems


LeRoy Apker Award
Sujit S. Datta
University of Pennsylvania 
Surface Potentials and Layer Charge Distributions in Few-Layer Graphene Films.

LeRoy Apker Award
Byron C. Drury
Haverford College 
Factoring Quantum Logic Gates with Cartan Involutions.

LeRoy Apker Award
Kathryn Greenberg
Mount Holyoke College 
Thermal Coupling and Lensing in Arrays of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers


Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Raymond Jeanloz
University of California, Berkeley 
For contributions to development of sound public policy for nuclear weapons management and nuclear non-proliferation.

Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Saskia Mioduszewski
Cyclotron Institute 
For her pioneering contributions to the observation of jet quenching and her continuing efforts to understand high- p_T phenomena in relativistic heavy- ion collisions.

Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Anne White
General Atomics 

 For the first simultaneous measurements of long-wavelength electron temperature and density fluctuations in the core of a high-performance tokamak plasma, demonstrating larger than expected temperature fluctuations; and for comparison of this data with nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations.



Minority Scholarship
Maudi Martinez
 


Minority Scholarship
Andrew Aponte
 


Minority Scholarship
Chris Quintana
 


Minority Scholarship
Verida Leandre
 


Minority Scholarship
Christina Lee
 


Minority Scholarship
Guy Geyer
 


Minority Scholarship
Johari Frasier
 


Minority Scholarship
Jordan Sorokin
 


Minority Scholarship
Julia Gonzalez
 


Minority Scholarship
Thomas Catanach
 


Minority Scholarship
Julian Okuyiga
 


Minority Scholarship
Justin Easley
 


Minority Scholarship
Kevin Galiano
 


Minority Scholarship
Eric Seabron
 


Minority Scholarship
Maya Ortega
 


Minority Scholarship
Dana Lewis
 


Minority Scholarship
Sarah Kostinski
 


Minority Scholarship
Steven Ojeda
 


Minority Scholarship
Richard Wood
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


Minority Scholarship
Larry Marek
Arizona State University 


Minority Scholarship
Mallory Molina
 


Minority Scholarship
Jasmine Oliver
 


Minority Scholarship
Christine Jones
South Carolina State University 


Minority Scholarship
Shaun Pacheco
Harvey Mudd College 


Minority Scholarship
John Bardeen
 


Minority Scholarship
Luis Leal
 


Minority Scholarship
Maritza Reyna-Liriano
 


Minority Scholarship
Mark Gragston
 


Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
Ryan Patterson
California Institute of Technology 
A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino > Oscillations at Δ m2 > 0.1 ev2

Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics
Chao Cao
University of Florida 
First-Principles and Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-Scale Systems.

Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach
Marcia C.B. Barbosa
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 
For her leadership of the first International Conference on Women in Physics, that changed the visibility of women in physics, and her personal commitment to supporting and encouraging women in physics around the world

Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach
Katepalli Sreenivasan
ICTP 
For his commitment to mentoring students and junior colleagues and his significant contributions to fostering international collaborations and promoting the advancement and education of early career scientists from the developing world.

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Robert Meservey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
To Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki, Jagadeesh Moodera and Paul Tedrow for pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Terunobu Miyazaki
Tohoku University 
To Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki, Jagadeesh Moodera and Paul Tedrow for pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Jagadeesh Moodera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
To Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki, Jagadeesh Moodera and Paul Tedrow for pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Paul Tedrow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
To Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki, Jagadeesh Moodera and Paul Tedrow for pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics
Andrew Ludlow
NIST-Boulder 
The Strontium Optical Lattice Clock: Optical Spectroscopy with sub-Hertz Accuracy.


Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics
Javier von Stecher
University of Colorado and JILA, Boulder 
Trapped Ultracold Atoms with Tunable Interactions.


Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award
Ryoichi Miyamoto
University of Texas, Austin 
Diagnostics of the Fermilab Tevatron using an AC Dipole


Polymer Physics Prize
Steve Granick
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
For pathbreaking and elegant experiment that elucidate the structure and dynamics of polymers and liquids confined by surfaces.

Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics
Philip J. Wyatt
Wyatt Technology Corporation 
For pioneering developments in the physics of the inverse scattering problem: new applications of laser light scattering and the successful sustained commercialization of new related analytical methods and instrumentation.

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
James C. Eckert
Harvey Mudd College 
For the significant contributions he has made to the understanding of the complex exchange biasing mechanism crucial to spin-valve sensors used in the read-write heads of hard disks and for his skilled and enthusiastic inclusion of undergraduates in physics research.

Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Satoshi Ozaki
Brookhaven National Laboratory 
For his outstanding contribution to the design and construction of accelerators that has led to the realization of major machines for fundamental science on two continents, and his promotion of international collaboration.

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Robert D. McKeown
Caltech 
For his pioneering work on studying nucleon structure using parity-violating electron scattering, in particular for the first measurement of the strange quark contribution to the electromagnetic structure of the proton.

W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Luciano Ristori
INFN 
For their leading role in the establishment and use of precision silicon tracking detectors at hadron colliders, enabling broad advances in knowledge of the top quark, b-hadrons, and charm-hadrons.

W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Aldo Menzione
INFN, Pisa 
For their leading role in the establishment and use of precision silicon tracking detectors at hadron colliders, enabling broad advances in knowledge of the top quark, b-hadrons, and charm-hadrons.

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