Spring 2011 Prizes and Awards
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Spring 2011 Prizes and Awards APS Announces Spring 2011 Prize and Award Recipients Forty-three prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring meetings of the Society: the 2011 March Meeting, March 21-25, in Dallas, TX, the 2011 April Meeting, April 30-May 3, in Anaheim, CA, and the 2011 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting, June 13-14, in Atlanta, GA. Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients appeared in the December 2010 issue of APS News (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/ awards/apker.cfm). Additional biographical information and appropriate web links can be found at the APS website (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm). Nominations for most of next year’s prizes and awards are now being accepted. For details, see page 8 of this insert. Will Allis Prize for the joined the University of Illinois at Hughes Medical Institute. Her Physik Department of the Technical University at Study of Ionized Gases Chicago, and Argonne National lab develops advanced optical Munchen. Herbert Spohn is most widely known Laboratory in 1987. Research imaging techniques, in particular through his work on interacting stochastic particle Frank Isakson Prize for contributions include the observa- single-molecule and super-reso- systems. He strived for a deeper understanding of Optical Effects in Solids tion of conformal invariance at the lution imaging methods, to study how macroscopic laws emerge from the underly- Ising critical point, the Luttinger problems of biomedical interest. ing motion of atoms. Andrei Sakharov Prize scaling of the Fermi volume in Zhuang received her B.S. in Phys- NOT AWARDED IN 2011 high temperature superconductors, the observation ics from the University of Science and Technology of an extended singularity in their energy spec- of China, and her Ph.D. in Physics from University Irving Langmuir Prize trum, momentum distribution sum rules in pho- of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Stephen Leone Hans A. Bethe Prize toemission, the spectral function interpretation of Y. R. Shen. From 1997 to 2001, she performed University of California, Berkeley Christopher J. Pethick the photoemission lineshape, the pseudogap in the postdoctoral research in biophysics in Steven Citation: “For his pioneering use of soft x-rays in Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics energy spectrum of underdoped superconductors, Chu’s laboratory at Stanford University. In 2001, probing ultrafast dynamics in atomic and molecular Fermi arcs and their scaling and the observation of she joined the faculty of Harvard University. systems.” Citation: “For fundamental contributions to spontaneous time reversal symmetry breaking in the understanding of nuclear matter at very high Stephen Leone is a profes- high temperature superconductors. densities, the structure of neutron stars, their cooling, Einstein Prize sor at the University of Califor- and the related neutrino processes and astrophysical Peter D. Johnson obtained nia, Berkeley and director of the phenomena.” a B.Sc from Imperial College, Ezra Ted Newman Chemical Dynamics Beamline London in 1972 and a Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh at Lawrence Berkeley National Christopher Pethick re- Warwick University in 1978. Af- ceived his B. A. degree in 1962 Citation: “For outstanding contributions to Laboratory. Leone received his ter a period as a research associate theoretical relativity, including the Newman-Penrose B.A. in Chemistry at Northwest- and his D. Phil degree in 1965, at Warwick University, he joined formalism, Kerr-Newman solution, Heaven, and null both from the University of Ox- ern University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in chemistry Bell Laboratories in 1981. In 1983 foliation theory. For his intellectual passion, generosity at the University of California at Berkeley in 1974. ford. After postdoctoral positions and honesty, which have inspired and represented a he joined the Physics Department at Brookhaven He was at the University of Southern California at Magdalen College, Oxford National Laboratory and continued the develop- model for generations of relativists.” and the University of Illinois, he from 1974 to 1976. He assumed a position with ments of the inverse photoemission technique, Ezra Ted Newman received joined the Illinois faculty in 1970. In 1973 he be- NIST and the University of Colorado in 1976 until spin polarized photoemission and more recently his B.A. from New York Uni- came professor at NORDITA, and for many years moving to Berkeley in 2002. His research inter- high resolution photoemission. Key discoveries versity in 1961, and his M.A and following that he divided his time between NOR- ests include ultrafast laser investigations of fem- include image states, a new class of surface elec- Ph.D from Syracuse University in DITA and the University of Illinois. He was direc- tosecond and attosecond processes, wave packet tronic state; spin polarized quantum well states in 1955 and 1956 respectively. He tor of NORDITA from 1989 to 1994. He has con- dynamics, soft x-ray probing of valence and core thin film and multilayer systems, mass renormal- started at the University of Pitts- tributed to the theory of diverse physical systems, levels, attosecond physics, state-resolved collision ization in the cuprate superconductors and a par- burgh as an instructor in 1956 un- including the helium liquids and superconductors, processes and kinetics investigations, heteroge- ticle-hole asymmetry in the underdoped cuprates. til becoming first an assistant professor in 1959, ultracold atomic gases, and dense matter in neu- neous aerosol reactions, nanoparticle and biomol- Dr. Shen received his Ph.D. associate professor in 1962, then a full professor in tron stars and supernovae. ecule spectroscopy, nanoparticle photodynamics in Applied Physics from Stanford 1966 until his retirement in 1996. and plasmonics. University in 1989, M.S. from The greatest scientific influences in his career Tom W. Bonner Prize Rutgers University in 1985, and were his interactions with his thesis advisor, Peter in Nuclear Physics B.S from Fudan University in Bergmann, and his friendship with Penrose. His Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize 1983. He is the Paul Pigott Pro- research has centered on the properties of ‘null ob- Richard F. Casten Gerald Gabrielse fessor in Physical Sciences of jects.’ His present interest lies in a strange relation- Harvard University Yale University Stanford University, and has been a professor of ship that exists between the asymptotic behavior Citation: “For novel methods that enable Citation: “For providing critical insight into the physics, applied physics, and SLAC photon sci- of the gravitational field and equations of motions. measurement of the electron magnetic moment and fine evolution of nuclear structure with varying proton ence since 2000, an associate professor from 1996 structure constant to unprecedented precision, and for and neutron numbers and the discovery of a variety of to 2000, and assistant professor from 1992 to exceptional skill in sharing the science with diverse dynamic symmetries in nuclei.” Fluid Dynamics Prize (2010) 1996. Dr. Shen’s research interest lies in the area audiences.” Rick Casten, D. Allan Brom- of condensed matter and materials physics, as well Stephen B. Pope Gerald Gabrielse, the Lev- ley Professor of Physics at Yale, as the energy applications of materials. His current Cornell University erett Professor of Physics at received his B.S from Holy Cross, research topics include: superconductivity and Citation: “For insightful contributions - including Harvard, chaired its physics de- and Ph.D from Yale in 1967. After electronic materials, nano-structured diamond, exact results, averaging methods, scaling arguments, partment from 2000-2003. He post-docs at the Niels Bohr In- and photon-enhanced thermionic emission for so- and approximate approaches - to suspension received his Ph.D. from the Uni- stitute and Los Alamos National lar concentrator systems. mechanics, free-surface flows, flow in porous media, versity of Chicago in 1980 fol- Laboratory, he went to Brookhav- evolution of polymers in flows, and other research lowed a B.S. from Calvin College en National Laboratory in 1971. He came to Yale topics in the flow of complex fluids.” in 1973. His research interests include measuring in 1995, as director of the Wright Nuclear Struc- Davisson-Germer Prize in John Hinch received his edu- the electron and positron magnetic moments, de- ture Laboratory from 1995-2008. His research Atomic or Surface Physics cation at Cambridge University, ducing the fine structure constant, and testing the focuses on collectivity in nuclei, including: dy- graduating with a B.A. in math- Joachim Stohr standard model and QED. His antimatter research namical symmetries of the IBA Model; structural ematics in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Stanford University compared the antiproton and proton magnetic mo- trajectories and regularities in the IBA symmetry 1972. After a post-doc at Caltech Citation: “For the development of soft x-ray based ments, and developed methods now making pos- triangle; quantum phase/shape transitions and crit- he returned to a faculty position at spectroscopy and microscopy leading to fundamental sible the work of four international collaborations ical point descriptions; and microscopic drivers of Cambridge University and since contributions to the understanding of chemical at a dedicated CERN storage ring. He also taught a collectivity. 1998 has been