New Prize and Award Recipients
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Gerald Holton
Harvard University
For his pioneering work in the history of physics, especially on Einstein and relativity. His writing, lecturing, and leadership of major educational projects introduced history of physics to a mass audience.
Andrei Sakharov Prize
Liangying Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
For a lifetime’s advocacy of truth, democracy and human rights -- despite surveillance and house arrest, harassment and threats, even banishment -- through his writings, and publicly speaking his mind.
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Gary S. Grest
Sandia National Laboratories
For his ground-breaking development of computational methods and their application to the study of soft materials, including polymers, colloids, and granular systems.
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
James Bergquist
NIST
For his contributions to laser science and tests of fundamental physical principles, in particular the application of ultra-stable lasers to tests of quantum measurement theory and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Rockefeller University
For developing the theory of deterministic chaos, especially the universal character of period doubling, and for the profound influence of these discoveries on our understanding of nonlinear phenomena in physics.
David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Karin Rabe
Rutgers University
For research, writings and presentations on the theory of structural phase transitions and for the application of first-principles electronic structure methods to the understanding of technologically important phenomena in ferroelectrics.
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Horst Schmidt-Böcking
University of Frankfurt
For the invention of the COLTRIMS technique and his many contributions to AMO physics.
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Deepshikha Choudhury
Ohio University
Investigating neutron polarizabilities and NN scattering in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory.
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Nikolai Tolich
Stanford University
Experimental study of terrestrial electron anti-neutrinos with KamLAND.
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy
Steven G. Boxer
Stanford University
For his creation of the new spectroscopic technique of vibrational Stark spectroscopy, and its insightful applications to a variety of condensed phase systems, including the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center.
Edward A. Bouchet Award
Ronald E. Mickens
Clark Atlanta University
For contributions to the understanding of nonlinear oscillations, the creation of novel numerical techniques for differential equations and his motivational lectures and writings about the history of African American physicists.
Excellence in Physics Education Award
University of Washington Physics Education Group
For leadership in advancing research methods in physics education, promoting the importance of physics education research as a subdiscipline of physics, and developing research-based curricula that have improved students' learning of physics from kindergarten to graduate school.
Fluid Dynamics Prize
Julio M. Ottino
Northwestern University
For outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of chaotic mixing in laminar flows, to mixing and segregation in granular flows and for ground-breaking experimental work that has led to the broad application of these concepts.
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Zeev Valentine Vardeny
University of Utah
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of optical phenomena in complex materials including conducting polymers, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors.
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Joseph Orenstein
University of California, Berkeley
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of optical phenomena in complex materials including conducting polymers, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors.
George E. Pake Prize
Julia M. Phillips
Sandia National Laboratories
For her leadership and pioneering research in materials physics for industrial and national security applications.
Hans A. Bethe Prize
Friedrich K. Thielemann
University of Basel
For his many outstanding theoretical contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution and stellar explosions through applications to individual objects and to cosmic chemical evolution.
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Alexei Smirnov
The Abdus Salam ICTP
For pioneering and influential work on the enhancement of neutrino oscillations in matter, which is essential to a quantitative understanding of the solar neutrino flux.
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Stanislav Mikheyev
Russian Academy of Sciences
For pioneering and influential work on the enhancement of neutrino oscillations in matter, which is essential to a quantitative understanding of the solar neutrino flux.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Arthur F. Hebard
University of Florida
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Robert C. Haddon
University of California, Riverside
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Jun Akimitsu
Aoyama-Gakuin University
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
Ronald C. Davidson
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
For pioneering contributions to the physics of one-component non-neutral plasmas, intense charge particle beams, and collective nonlinear interaction processes in high-temperature plasmas.
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Stewart C. Prager
University of Wisconsin
For demonstrating that the parallel Ohm's law in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas with impurities is governed by Coulomb collision processes, including neoclassical resistivity and the bootstrap current.
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Michael C. Zarsnorff
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
For demonstrating that the parellel Ohm's law in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas with impurities is governed by Coulomb collision processes, including neoclassical resistivity and the bootstrap current.
John H. Dillon Medal
Kari Dalnoki-Veress
McMaster University
For significant and innovative experiments in glass formation and polymer crystallization at the nanoscale.
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
Pierre Goldschmidt
International Atomic Energy Agency (retired)
For transforming the safeguards culture and procedures of the IAEA, greatly strengthening its ability to detect nuclear proliferation activities, and for his courage and integrity, especially in the period 2002 - 2003.
Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science
Bjorn Wannberg
Gammadata Scienta AB
For advances in the development of angle-resolved electron analyzers for photoelectron spectroscopy.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
H. Eugene Stanley
Boston University
For contributions to the deeper understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena in complex systems; and for excellence in communicating the excitement of interdisciplinary research to a wide range of audiences.
Lars Onsager Prize
Christopher Pethick
NORDITA
For fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing a conceptual unity to these areas.
Lars Onsager Prize
Tin-Lun Ho
Ohio State University
For his contributions to quantum liquids and dilute quantum gases, both multi-component and rapidly rotating, and for his leadership in unifying condensed matter and atomic physics research in this area.
Lars Onsager Prize
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois
For fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing a conceptual unity to these areas.
LeRoy Apker Award
Matthew Becker
University of Michigan
The Velocity Structure of MAXBCG Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
LeRoy Apker Award
Bryce Gadway
Colgate University
Creation and Measurement of a Single-Proton Two-Qubit State to Test a Bell-Kochen-Specker Inequality.
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Pavel Podvig
Stanford University
For establishing a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia.
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Anatoli Diyakov
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
For establishing a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia.
M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship
Janice Wynn Guikema
Johns Hopkins University
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Vassiliki Kalogera
Northwestern University
For her fundamental contributions to the study of the evolution and fate of compact objects in binary systems, focusing on their observations via X-rays and on their importance for gravitational wave detectors.
Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Yang Ren
University of Wisconsin
For experimental characterization of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma, including the out-of-plane Hall effect magnetic field and the diffusive electron out-of-flow channel.
Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
Steven M. Block
Stanford University
For his originality in the direct measurement of forces and motions in single biomolecular complexes undergoing the nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis reactions that drive intracellular transport, cell motility, and DNA and RNA replication.
Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
Jedrzej Biesiada
Princeton University
Thesis title: Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0->K^0K^0bar and B^+->K^0barK+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment
Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics
Soon Yong Chang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For so productively bringing state-of-the-art computational methods, developed in nuclear matter theory, to condensed matter many-body problems, especially ultracold trapped atomic Fermi systems.
Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach
David P. Landau
University of Georgia
For his work in computational physics recognized internationally, and his creation and leadership of the Center for Simulational Physics that has had great success in educating young scientists from many countries in computer simulations.
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Mildred Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of materials, especially novel forms of carbon.
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics
David Moehring
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Polymer Physics Prize
Kenneth S. Schweizer
University of Illinois
For outstanding theoretical contributions to the fundamental understanding of structure and dynamics in polymer melts, polymer blends, polymer-particle composites, and glasses.
Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
Michael R. Brown
Swarthmore College
For his outstanding contributions to plasma physics made possible by his development of a world-class spheromak laboratory at Swarthmore College, and for his energetic mentoring of undergraduate students.
Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Lyndon R. Evans
CERN
For a sustained career of technical innovation and leadership in the SPS proton-antiproton collider, culminating in the construction and commissioning of the LHC.
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Arthur M. Poskanzer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In recognition of his pioneering role in the experimental studies of flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions.
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Pierre Sokolsky
University of Utah
For the pioneering development of the atmospheric fluorescence technique as a method for exploring the highest energy cosmic rays.
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
George Cassiday
For the pioneering development of the atmospheric fluorescence technique as a method for exploring the highest energy cosmic rays.
Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases
Kenneth Kulander
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
For the development of time-dependent methods and models that have advanced our understanding of strong field ionization processes in rapidly ionizing gases.
Gerald Holton
Harvard University
For his pioneering work in the history of physics, especially on Einstein and relativity. His writing, lecturing, and leadership of major educational projects introduced history of physics to a mass audience.
Andrei Sakharov Prize
Liangying Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
For a lifetime’s advocacy of truth, democracy and human rights -- despite surveillance and house arrest, harassment and threats, even banishment -- through his writings, and publicly speaking his mind.
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Gary S. Grest
Sandia National Laboratories
For his ground-breaking development of computational methods and their application to the study of soft materials, including polymers, colloids, and granular systems.
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
James Bergquist
NIST
For his contributions to laser science and tests of fundamental physical principles, in particular the application of ultra-stable lasers to tests of quantum measurement theory and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Rockefeller University
For developing the theory of deterministic chaos, especially the universal character of period doubling, and for the profound influence of these discoveries on our understanding of nonlinear phenomena in physics.
David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Karin Rabe
Rutgers University
For research, writings and presentations on the theory of structural phase transitions and for the application of first-principles electronic structure methods to the understanding of technologically important phenomena in ferroelectrics.
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Horst Schmidt-Böcking
University of Frankfurt
For the invention of the COLTRIMS technique and his many contributions to AMO physics.
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Deepshikha Choudhury
Ohio University
Investigating neutron polarizabilities and NN scattering in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory.
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Nikolai Tolich
Stanford University
Experimental study of terrestrial electron anti-neutrinos with KamLAND.
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy
Steven G. Boxer
Stanford University
For his creation of the new spectroscopic technique of vibrational Stark spectroscopy, and its insightful applications to a variety of condensed phase systems, including the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center.
Edward A. Bouchet Award
Ronald E. Mickens
Clark Atlanta University
For contributions to the understanding of nonlinear oscillations, the creation of novel numerical techniques for differential equations and his motivational lectures and writings about the history of African American physicists.
Excellence in Physics Education Award
University of Washington Physics Education Group
For leadership in advancing research methods in physics education, promoting the importance of physics education research as a subdiscipline of physics, and developing research-based curricula that have improved students' learning of physics from kindergarten to graduate school.
Fluid Dynamics Prize
Julio M. Ottino
Northwestern University
For outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of chaotic mixing in laminar flows, to mixing and segregation in granular flows and for ground-breaking experimental work that has led to the broad application of these concepts.
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Zeev Valentine Vardeny
University of Utah
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of optical phenomena in complex materials including conducting polymers, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors.
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Joseph Orenstein
University of California, Berkeley
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of optical phenomena in complex materials including conducting polymers, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors.
George E. Pake Prize
Julia M. Phillips
Sandia National Laboratories
For her leadership and pioneering research in materials physics for industrial and national security applications.
Hans A. Bethe Prize
Friedrich K. Thielemann
University of Basel
For his many outstanding theoretical contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution and stellar explosions through applications to individual objects and to cosmic chemical evolution.
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Alexei Smirnov
The Abdus Salam ICTP
For pioneering and influential work on the enhancement of neutrino oscillations in matter, which is essential to a quantitative understanding of the solar neutrino flux.
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Stanislav Mikheyev
Russian Academy of Sciences
For pioneering and influential work on the enhancement of neutrino oscillations in matter, which is essential to a quantitative understanding of the solar neutrino flux.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Arthur F. Hebard
University of Florida
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Robert C. Haddon
University of California, Riverside
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Jun Akimitsu
Aoyama-Gakuin University
For the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.
James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
Ronald C. Davidson
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
For pioneering contributions to the physics of one-component non-neutral plasmas, intense charge particle beams, and collective nonlinear interaction processes in high-temperature plasmas.
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Stewart C. Prager
University of Wisconsin
For demonstrating that the parallel Ohm's law in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas with impurities is governed by Coulomb collision processes, including neoclassical resistivity and the bootstrap current.
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Michael C. Zarsnorff
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
For demonstrating that the parellel Ohm's law in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas with impurities is governed by Coulomb collision processes, including neoclassical resistivity and the bootstrap current.
John H. Dillon Medal
Kari Dalnoki-Veress
McMaster University
For significant and innovative experiments in glass formation and polymer crystallization at the nanoscale.
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
Pierre Goldschmidt
International Atomic Energy Agency (retired)
For transforming the safeguards culture and procedures of the IAEA, greatly strengthening its ability to detect nuclear proliferation activities, and for his courage and integrity, especially in the period 2002 - 2003.
Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science
Bjorn Wannberg
Gammadata Scienta AB
For advances in the development of angle-resolved electron analyzers for photoelectron spectroscopy.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
H. Eugene Stanley
Boston University
For contributions to the deeper understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena in complex systems; and for excellence in communicating the excitement of interdisciplinary research to a wide range of audiences.
Lars Onsager Prize
Christopher Pethick
NORDITA
For fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing a conceptual unity to these areas.
Lars Onsager Prize
Tin-Lun Ho
Ohio State University
For his contributions to quantum liquids and dilute quantum gases, both multi-component and rapidly rotating, and for his leadership in unifying condensed matter and atomic physics research in this area.
Lars Onsager Prize
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois
For fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing a conceptual unity to these areas.
LeRoy Apker Award
Matthew Becker
University of Michigan
The Velocity Structure of MAXBCG Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
LeRoy Apker Award
Bryce Gadway
Colgate University
Creation and Measurement of a Single-Proton Two-Qubit State to Test a Bell-Kochen-Specker Inequality.
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Pavel Podvig
Stanford University
For establishing a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia.
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Anatoli Diyakov
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
For establishing a center for scientific study of arms control, for landmark analyses, and for courage in supporting open discussion of international security in Russia.
M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship
Janice Wynn Guikema
Johns Hopkins University
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Vassiliki Kalogera
Northwestern University
For her fundamental contributions to the study of the evolution and fate of compact objects in binary systems, focusing on their observations via X-rays and on their importance for gravitational wave detectors.
Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
Yang Ren
University of Wisconsin
For experimental characterization of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma, including the out-of-plane Hall effect magnetic field and the diffusive electron out-of-flow channel.
Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
Steven M. Block
Stanford University
For his originality in the direct measurement of forces and motions in single biomolecular complexes undergoing the nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis reactions that drive intracellular transport, cell motility, and DNA and RNA replication.
Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
Jedrzej Biesiada
Princeton University
Thesis title: Measurement of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0->K^0K^0bar and B^+->K^0barK+ Decays at the BaBar Experiment
Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics
Soon Yong Chang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For so productively bringing state-of-the-art computational methods, developed in nuclear matter theory, to condensed matter many-body problems, especially ultracold trapped atomic Fermi systems.
Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach
David P. Landau
University of Georgia
For his work in computational physics recognized internationally, and his creation and leadership of the Center for Simulational Physics that has had great success in educating young scientists from many countries in computer simulations.
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Mildred Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of materials, especially novel forms of carbon.
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics
David Moehring
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Polymer Physics Prize
Kenneth S. Schweizer
University of Illinois
For outstanding theoretical contributions to the fundamental understanding of structure and dynamics in polymer melts, polymer blends, polymer-particle composites, and glasses.
Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
Michael R. Brown
Swarthmore College
For his outstanding contributions to plasma physics made possible by his development of a world-class spheromak laboratory at Swarthmore College, and for his energetic mentoring of undergraduate students.
Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Lyndon R. Evans
CERN
For a sustained career of technical innovation and leadership in the SPS proton-antiproton collider, culminating in the construction and commissioning of the LHC.
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Arthur M. Poskanzer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In recognition of his pioneering role in the experimental studies of flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions.
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Pierre Sokolsky
University of Utah
For the pioneering development of the atmospheric fluorescence technique as a method for exploring the highest energy cosmic rays.
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
George Cassiday
For the pioneering development of the atmospheric fluorescence technique as a method for exploring the highest energy cosmic rays.
Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases
Kenneth Kulander
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
For the development of time-dependent methods and models that have advanced our understanding of strong field ionization processes in rapidly ionizing gases.
