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Spring 2004 Prizes and Awards APS Announces Spring 2004 Prize and Award Recipients Forty-three APS prizes and awards professor of physics and adjunct professor became group leader of the Quantum 2004 OLIVER E. BUCKLEY PRIZE will be presented during special of astronomy. Processes Group in the Atomic Physics sessions at three spring meetings of the He has directed the Department of Tom Lubensky Division of the NIST Physics Laboratory. Society: the 2004 March Meeting, 22- Energy’s Institute for Nuclear Theory since University of Pennsylvania His research interests are in theoretical 26 March, in Montréal, Quebec, 1991. His research interests include David R. Nelson atomic and molecular physics. Since Canada; the 2004 April Meeting, May neutrino and nuclear astrophysics, tests Harvard University 1986, his research has centered on cold 1-4, in Denver, CO. ; and the 2004 meet- atom collisions. of symmetries and fundamental Citation: “For seminal contributions to ing of the APS Division of Atomic, interactions, and techniques for solving the theory of condensed matter systems Molecular and Optical Physics, May manybody problems. He is a member of including the prediction and elucidation of 2004 DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE 25-29, 2004, in Tucson, AZ. the collaboration seeking to establish a the properties of new, partially ordered phases Gabriele Veneziano Citations and biographical informa- National Underground Science and of complex materials.” CERN tion for each recipient follow. The Engineering Laboratory. Citation: “For his pioneering discoveries Apker Award recipients appeared in Lubensky received his PhD in physics in dual resonance models which, partly the December 2003 issue of APS News BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS PRIZE from Harvard University in 1969. He was through his own efforts, have developed into (http://www.aps.org/apsnews/ postdoctoral fellow at the Universiti de Peter Wolynes string theory and a basis for the quantum 1203/120302.html). Paris Sud in Orsay University of California, San Diego theory of gravity.” Additional biographical informa- (1969-70) and a Citation: “For his conceptual tion and appropriate web links can be postdoctoral Born in Florence, Italy, Veneziano found at the APS web site (http:// breakthroughs in protein dynamics and Research Associate at protein folding, and his critical insights pursued his graduate studies at the www.aps.org). Nominations for most Brown University Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, of next year’s prizes and awards are toward the understanding of how proteins (1970-71). In 1971, he work at the most fundamental level.” Israel, where he received a PhD in now being accepted. For details, see joined the University physics in 1967. pages 7 and 8 of this of this insert. Wolynes received his PhD in chemical of Pennsylvania, He was research physics from Harvard University in 1976. where he is now the associate and then PRIZES After a postdoc at MIT, he returned to the Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics visiting professor faculty at Harvard. and chair of the Department of Physics at MIT from 1968 and Astronomy. His early research dealt 2004 WILL ALLIS PRIZE In 1980 he joined to 1972. In 1972, he the faculty at the with thermal critical phenomen. A major returned to the John McConkey University of focus of his work has been soft materials, Weizmann University of Windsor, Canada Illinois, moving to especially liquid crystals. Institute as fuIl Citation: “For his innovative the University of professor. Since experimental studies of electron collisions California, San Nelson received his PhD in 1975 in 1978 he has been a with atoms and molecules which have Diego in 2000, theoretical condensed matter physics permanent member of the Theoretical significantly advanced our understanding where he holds the from Cornell University. His research Physics Division at CERN, Geneva, of collisional and radiative processes in Francis Crick Chair focuses on collective which he headed from 1994 to 1997. His ionized gases at the microscopic level.” and is a member of the departments of effects in physics, early research was on dual resonance chemistry and biochemistry and of models, the precursor of string theory. McConkey received his PhD in 1963 materials science and physics. His research has ranged widely Since 1986 he has returned to string from Queen’s University, Belfast. chemistry. He has over many areas of theoretical chemistry, theory and, in particuIar, to its Following a year in been interested, in physics and biology including theories of cosmological implications. Paris, he returned to a particular, in the chemical reactions and quantum many- faculty position at interplay between body phenomena in liquids and Queen’s. In 1970 he fluctuations, 2004 FRANK ISAKSON PRIZE biomolecules and the theory of glasses. was appointed full geometry and sta- James Wolfe professor of physics at tistical mechanics. University of Illinois at the University of 2004 TOM W. BONNER PRIZE His research includes work on helium Urbana-Champaign films and two dimensional melting. His Windsor where he George Bertsch Citation: “For contributions to the current interests include vortex physics, later became a univer- University of Washington fundamental understanding of excitonic the statistical mechanics of polymers, sity professor. His research interests have matter and ballistic phonons in Citation: “For his many varied topological defects on frozen topo- covered a wide range of topics, semiconductors, made possible by contributions to nuclear-structure and graphics and biophysics. particularly involving the collisions of reaction theory, which have guided and pioneering development of graphic electrons, ions, photons, atoms, molecules illuminated experiments for four decades.” imaging techniques.” and clusters. He has been a major player 2004 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE Wolfe is a professor of physics at the in the establishment of our current data Bertsch did graduate studies in physics Paul Julienne University of Illinois at Urbana- bank of absolute electron-impact cross- at Princeton University. He completed a National Institute of Standards and Champaign and a member of the sections. thesis in nuclear theory and obtained a Technology Frederick Seitz Materials Research PhD in 1965. He held academic positions Citation: “For his pioneering studies of Laboratory. He received his PhD in 2004 HANS A. BETHE PRIZE at Princeton, MIT, and Michigan the theory of ultracold atomic collisions, and State University, where he became physics in 1972 from the University of Wick Haxton its applications to precision metrology and professor in 1973 and Hannah Professor California at Berkeley. He joined the University of Washington quantum gas dynamics.” in 1985. He is Physics Department at Illinois in 1976. Citation: “For his noteworthy presently pro- Julienne earned a PhD in chemical contributions and scientific leadership in the fessor of physics at physics from the University of North field of neutrino astrophysics, in particular the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. He Table of Contents for his success in merging nuclear theory with Washington. His worked as a postdoctoral research experiments and observations in nuclear research in nuclear associate at the Prize and Award physics and astrophysics.” theory began with National Bureau of Recipients Haxton received spectroscopy and Standards (NBS) his PhD from particularly giant from 1969-1971. He 1 Stanford University resonances and worked with the New APS went on to the properties of high density Plasma Physics in 1976. He spent a Fellows postdoctoral year at matter and their experimental Division of the Mainz, then seven implications. Most recently he has been Naval Research 4 years in the theory pursuing the connections between Laboratory from Nominations for division at Los theoretical techniques used in different 1972-1974. He returned to NBS (now Alamos. In 1984 he disciplines. the National Institute of Standards and 2005 Prizes and joined the faculty at the University of Technology) in 1974 as a member of the Awards Quantum Chemistry Group, and later 8 Washington, where he is currently Wolfe’s group at fellow at All Souls College and a professor contributions in the fields of Surface to the fields of CP and heavy flavor physics.” Illinois figured out of physics. His research interests include Enhanced Raman Scattering and Bigi has studied at the Munich, Oxford, how to image applying methods of quantum field Nanoparticle Optics.” Pavia and Stanford with scholarships diffuse clouds of theory and the renormalization group to Van Duyne received his PhD in analytical from the Maximilianeum Foundation and electron-hole condensed matter, especially to critical chemistry from the University of North the Scholarship droplets and dis- phenomena in both pure and disordered Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. He then joined Foundation of the covered striking equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems. the faculty of the Department of Chemistry German People. anisotropies in at Northwestern University. In 1986, he was He received his droplet transport 2004 GEORGE E. PAKE PRIZE named the Charles E. and Emma H. diploma and PhD due to a ‘phonon wind’. Robert M. White Morrison Professor of Chemistry. Van in 1973 and 1977, Carnegie Mellon University Duyne is best known respectively, from 2004 JULIUS EDGAR Citation: “For his visionary leadership for his discovery of the University of LILIENFELD PRIZE as the first Under Secretary of Commerce for Surface-Enhanced Munich and his H. Jeff Kimble Technology, for his outstanding
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