APS Announces 2016 Prize and Award Recipients The APS would like to congratulate the recipients of these 42 prizes and awards. They will be presented during APS award ceremonies throughout the year. Both March and April meeting award ceremonies are open to all APS members and their guests. The APS March Meeting Honors Ceremony will be held Monday, March 14, 5:45 - 6:45 p.m. at the Hilton Baltimore, 401 W. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD, and the APS April Meeting Honors Ceremony will be held Sunday, April 17, 5:45-6:45 p.m. at the Salt Palace Convention Center 100 West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT. In addition to the award ceremonies, most prize and award recipients will give invited talks during the meeting. Some recipients of prizes, awards and newly elected fellows are recognized at APS unit meetings. For the schedule of APS meetings, please visit http://www.aps.org/meetings/calendar.cfm.

Nominations are now open for most of next year’s prizes, awards and fellows. We encourage members to nominate their highly-qualified peers, and to consider broadening the diversity and depth of the nomination pool from which honorees are selected. For nomination submission instructions, please visit the APS web site (http://www.aps.org/programs/ honors/index.cfm).

Prizes

2016 Herman Feshbach Prize 2016 APS Medal for Exceptional in Theoretical Nuclear Physics Achievement in Research Xiangdong Ji Edward Witten University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Study Citation: For pioneering work in developing tools to characterize the structure of the nucleon within QCD and for showing how its Citation: For discoveries in the mathematical structure of quantum properties can be probed through experiments; this work not only field theory that have opened new paths in all areas of quantum illuminates the nucleon theoretically but also acts as a driver of physics. experimental programs worldwide.

2016 Will Allis Prize for the 2015 Fluid Dynamics Prize Study of Ionized Gases Morteza Gharib Klaus Bartschat California Institute of Technology Drake University Citation: In recognition of his seminal contributions to measurement techniques in experimental fluid mechanics, elucidation of governing Citation: For fundamental theoretical and computational physical principles in flow-structure interactions and vortex contributions to the understanding of charged-particle and photon dynamics, and creative application of these concepts to a variety of collisions with atoms and molecules and for providing critical data important problems in biological fluid dynamics and beyond. and insight to the plasma modeling community.

2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize Vassiliki Kalogera Northwestern University Citation: For key contributions to the study of the electromagnetic 2016 Dannie Heineman Prize and gravitational wave radiation from binary compact objects, for Mathematical Physics including the now-verified prediction that neutron star mergers Cumrun Vafa (top) produce short gamma-ray bursts that will be found in all galaxy types. Harvard University

Andrew E.Strominger (bottom) 2016 Tom W. Bonner Prize Harvard University in Nuclear Physics Citation: For leadership in numerous central developments in string I-Yang Lee theory, quantum field theory, and quantum geometry; including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the interplay between string theory and Calabi-Yau geometry and Citation: For seminal contributions to the field of nuclear structure especially for their elucidation of the origin of black hole entropy through the development of advanced gamma-ray detectors as from microscopic states. realized in the Gammasphere device, and for pioneering work on gamma-ray energy tracking detectors demonstrated by the Gamma- ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETINA).

2016 Frank Isakson Prize for 2016 Oliver E. Buckley Optical Effects in Solids David Tanner (top) Condensed Matter Prize University of Florida Eli Yablonovitch Dirk van der Marel (bottom) University of California, Berkeley University of Geneva Citation: For seminal achievements in solar cells and strained quantum well lasers, and especially for creating the field of Citation: For insightful experiments and analyses on a wide variety photonic crystals, spanning both fundamental science and practical of quantum solids with strong electronic correlations in general, and applications of that science. cuprate superconductors in particular, using optical spectroscopy.

2016 Davisson-Germer Prize in 2016 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Atomic or Surface Physics David Pines University of California, Davis Randall G. Hulet Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of emergent Rice University behavior in quantum matter-plasmons, nuclear, celestial and Citation: For pioneering investigations of quantum degenerate unconventional superfluidity, heavy electron emergence-and for gases and how they are affected by atomic interactions. his effectiveness in communicating these discoveries and a new “emergent” paradigm to the broader scientific community.

2016 Max Delbruck Prize 2015 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Biological Physics for Plasma Physics Stephen R. Quake Masaaki Yamada Stanford University Princeton Plasma Citation: For invention of large-scale microfluidic integration Citation: For fundamental experimental studies of magnetic and its use to gain new insights into protein crystallography, reconnection relevant to space, astrophysical and fusion plasmas, transcription factor binding, and microbial ecology, and for seminal and for pioneering contributions to the field of laboratory plasma discoveries in single cell and single molecule genome analysis. astrophysics.

APS Prizes and Awards 1 2016 Earle K. Plyler Prize for 2016 James C. McGroddy Prize Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics for New Materials Donald G. Truhlar Mercouri G. Kanatzidis University of Minnesota Northwestern University Citation: For extraordinarily broad and seminal advances in Citation: For seminal contributions to the discovery of new families chemical kinetics, dynamics, and spectroscopy through pioneering of thermoelectric materials with the highest known figure of merit and incisive work in the development and application of variational transition state theory, electronic structure calculations, and quantum mechanical scattering methods.

2016 Lars Onsager Prize Marc Mezard (left) 2016 Polymer Physics Prize École normale supérieure (ENS) Anna Balazs Giorgio Parisi (middle) University of Pittsburgh Sapienza Università di Roma Citation: For imaginative and insightful use of theory to understand Riccardo Zecchina (right) multi-component polymeric systems Politecnico di Torino Citation: For groundbreaking work applying spin glass ideas to ensembles of computational problems, yielding both new classes of efficient algorithms and new perspectives on phase transitions in their structure and complexity.

2016 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics Matthias Troyer ETH Zürich Citation: For pioneering numerical work in many seemingly intractable areas of quantum many body physics and for providing efficient sophisticated computer codes to the community.

2016 Andrei Sakharov Prize 2016 Abraham Pais Prize Zafra Lerman for History of Physics Malta Conferences Foundation Allan Franklin Citation: For life-long devotion to the scientific freedom and University of Colorado human rights of scientists throughout the world and for compelling Citation: For path-breaking historical analyses of the roles of leadership in using science as a bridge to peace in the Middle East. experiment in physics and for explicating the nature of evidence and error in scientific argument.

2016 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics 2016 George E. Pake Prize G. Peter Lepage Robert Doering Cornell University Texas Instruments Citation: For inventive applications of quantum field theory to particle physics, particularly in establishing the theory of hadronic Citation: For outstanding leadership in research and development exclusive processes, developing nonrelativistic effective field of semiconductor manufacturing technology and integrated circuit theories, and determining standard-model parameters with lattice device scaling. gauge theory.

2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize Experimental Particle Physics in Laser Science Jonathan Dorfan (top left) Robert W. Boyd Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology University of Ottawa David Hitlin (top right) Citation: For fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear California Institute of Technology optics, including the development of approaches for controlling the Stephen Olsen (bottom left) velocity of light, of quantum imaging methods, and of composite nonlinear optical materials. Center for Underground Physics Institute of Basic Science FumihikoTakasaki (bottom right) High Energy Physics Laboratory (KEK) 2016 Prize for a Citation: For leadership in the BABAR and Belle experiments, which established the violation of Faculty Member for Research CP symmetry in B meson decay, and furthered our understanding of quark mixing and quantum in an Undergraduate Institution chromodynamics. Gregory S. Adkins Franklin & Marshall College Citation: For highly significant and sustained contributions to quantum electrodynamics calculations, including the physical properties of positronium, and for tireless and profound commitment to involving undergraduates in theoretical physics research.

2016 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Vasily Parkhomchuk Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Citation: For crucial contributions in the proof of principle of electron cooling, for leading contribution to the experimental and theoretical development of electron cooling, and for achievement of the planned parameters of coolers for facilities in laboratories around the world.

2 APS Prizes and Awards Awards 2015 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Hyun-Kyung Chung (top) 2016 David Adler Lectureship Award International Atomic Energy Agency in the Field of Materials Physics Orlando Ciricosta (2nd from top) Harry A. Atwater University of Oxford California Institute of Technology Roger Falcone (3rd from top) Citation: For pioneering work in photonics, plasmonics, optical University of California, Berkeley metamaterials, and photovoltaics, and for his outstanding presentations and outreach to the general audience. Philip Heimann (4th from top) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Richard Lee (bottom left) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Bob Nagler (2nd from left bottom) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2015 LeRoy Apker Award Sam M Vinko (3rd from left bottom) Benjamin Augenbraun (left) University of Oxford Williams College Justin Wark (right bottom) Citation: For high-precision measurement of the DC Stark shift in the two-step 5P1/2 —> 6S1/2 University of Oxford →6P1/2 transition in atomic indium. Citation: For creative and novel use of the hard x-ray free electron laser to isochorically create high density plasmas and accurately Adam Jermyn (right) measure the ionization potential depression, and for new theory that California Institute of Technology addresses discrepancies with long standing models and provides Citation: For original contributions to understanding how the atmospheres of pulsar stimulus for continued developments. companions are heated and for elucidating the observational consequences.

2015 Distinguished Lectureship Award on the Applications of Physics 2016 John H. Dillon Medal Thomas Epps James J. Wynne University of Delaware IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Citation: For significant advancement in the control, Citation: For discovering excimer laser surgery, laying the characterization, and understanding of polymer nanoscale-structure foundation for laser refractive surgery and leading to a paradigm and energetics. shift in how necrotic tissue is debrided.

2016 Excellence in Physics Education Award Robert J. Beichner 2016 Edward A. Bouchet Award North Carolina State University Pablo Laguna Citation: For leadership in research and dissemination of SCALE- UP teaching tools, providing an effective approach to learning Georgia Institute of Technology physics with attention to conceptual understanding and participation Citation: For contributions to numerical relativity and astrophysics; of all students; and for editorial leadership in the establishment in particular, on the simulation of colliding black holes. of PRST-PER, allowing broad dissemination of research-based educational practices.

2016 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award 2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Ernest Moniz Advances in Measurement Science U.S. Department of Energy Albert Migliori Citation: For outstanding contributions in government service to Los Alamos National Laboratory advancing national energy and science policy over two decades Citation: For the development of Resonant Ultrasound and to reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation through key Spectroscopy, used to study lattice and electronic phenomena in roles in disposition of Russian nuclear materials in the 1990s and condensed matter physics, solving problems as diverse as the elastic negotiation of the nuclear agreement with Iran in 2015. properties of plutonium, to finding that the pseudogap state of cuprates is indeed a thermodynamic phase.

2015 Stanley Corrsin Award 2016 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Michael D. Graham Henriette Elvang Citation: For novel research that provided fresh perspectives University of Michigan and laid the groundwork for the nonlinear dynamics of complex Citation: For discovering new types of black holes in higher and multiphase fluids, including the interaction between polymer dimensions, and giving us a deeper understanding of scattering dynamics and turbulence, and the microhydrodynamics of complex amplitudes in quantum field theory. and biological fluids.

APS Prizes and Awards 3 Dissertations 2015 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach 2015 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award (top) Charles M. Falco in Fluid Dynamics University of Arizona Sujit Sankar Datta, California Institute of Technology Citation: For his award-winning "The Art of the Motorcycle" For an outstanding doctoral dissertation on the physics of flow through porous exhibition for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (co-curator), materials. and his work with the renowned artist David Hockney on the optical science utilized by the grand master artists; each unique project has made the public aware of the contributions of science to their daily 2015 Carl E. Anderson Division of lives. Laser Science (DLS) Dissertation Award David E. Kaplan (bottom) Yang Zhao, Stanford University Johns Hopkins University For her thesis entitled “Bio-Inspired Nanophotonics: Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonic Metamaterials.” Citation: For the production of "Particle Fever," an extraordinary documentary not just about science, but about the human dimension of the pursuit of scientific knowledge. 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Astrophysics Anne Archibald, McGill University For her thesis entitled “The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond 2016 Henry Primakoff Award for Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038.” Early-Career Particle Physics Stefan Hoeche 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics Norman Yao, Harvard University Citation: For innovative techniques of event simulation for high energy hadron colliders, enabling the comparison of theory and For his thesis entitled “Topology, Localization, and Quantum Information in experiment with high precision. Atomic, Molecular and Optical Systems.”

2015 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 2016 Jonathan F. Reichert and Research in Beam Physics Award Barbara Wolff-Reichert Agostino Marinelli, University of California, Los Angeles Award for Excellence In recognition of a definitive theoretical treatment of microscopic space-charge effects in particle beams, and accompanying innovative experimental tests in Advanced Laboratory Instruction involving the first use of coherent imaging in microbunched beams. Van Bistrow University of Chicago Citation: For persistent dedication to the improvement of advanced 2015 Award for Outstanding Doctoral undergraduate laboratories at the University of Chicago, the Thesis Research in Biological Physics consistent support of student success, and for promoting the national Quan Wang, Stanford University discourse on advanced laboratories. For his thesis entitled “Enabling multivariate investigation of single-molecule dynamics in solution by counteracting Brownian motion.” 2015 Thomas H. Stix Award 2016 Justin Jankunas Doctoral for Outstanding Early Career Dissertation Award in Chemical Physics Contributions to Peter Kraus, ETH Zürich Plasma Physics Research For his thesis entitled “Studies of Electronic and Nuclear Structure and Dynamics by High Harmonic Spectroscopy,” which he wrote under the Nuno F. G. Loureiro direction of Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner at ETH Zürich. Instituto Superior Tecnico Citation: For pioneering analytical and numerical studies of magnetic reconnection and especially for his contribution to 2016 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding the identification and understanding of the plasmoid-dominated Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics reconnection in high Lundquist-number plasmas. Rémi Lehe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory For the development, implementation, and application of new algorithms toward the improvement of laser-wakefield accelerators. 2016 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Joel Primack 2016 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in University of California, Santa Cruz Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics Citation: For a crucial role in establishing the Congressional Susanne Baumann, IBM Almaden Research Center Science and Technology Policy Fellowships. For outstanding work in measuring and controlling the spin properties of individual magnetic atoms on surfaces by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy.

2016 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Fellowships Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics Alexander Steppke, University of St Andrews 2015 M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship For thermodynamic study of quantum criticality in Yb(Rh0.93Co0.27)2 and YbNi4(P1-xAsx)2. Huey-We Lin, University of California, Berkeley (top) Nicole Lloyd-Ronning, Los Alamos National Laboratory (bottom left) 2016 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Monique Tirion, Clarkson University (center) Chun Shen, McGill University Ani Tshantshapanyan, North Carolina Central University For his successful prediction of anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at the (right) LHC, his elucidation of the `direct photon flow puzzle', and his contributions to the development of a computational tool of viscous fluid dynamics enabling precision studies of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

2015 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award* Cami Collins, University of California, Irvine For development of a novel means to generate a differentially rotating unmagnetized plasma using magnetic and electric fields applied at the plasma edge, providing access to previously inaccessible laboratory plasma regimes, and for unique measurements of the plasma viscosity.

2015 J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in 2015 Stanford R. Ovshinsky Theoretical Particle Physics* Sustainable Energy Fellowship Mikhail P. Solon, University of Chicago Richard R. Lunt, Michigan State University For the development of the heavy WIMP effective theory, which allows the most precise determination of WIMP nucleon scattering cross sections, essential for planning of future dark matter direct detection experiments.

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