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Thirty-seven APS prizes and 1980’s he elaborated with his grenoble 2001 OLIVER E. BUCKLEY PRIZE 2001 DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE awards will be presented during spe- group the prototypes of ECR Sources (ECRIS) for highly charge gaseous and cial sessions at three spring meetings Alan Harold Luther Vladimir Igorevich Arnol’d metallic , and advocated their utiliza- of the Society: the 2001 March Meet- NORDITA Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Russia) ing, 12-16 March, in Seattle, WA; the tion for new accelerator projects as well 2001 April Meeting, April 28 - May 1, as for the existing cyclotrons, linacs and Citation: “For his fundamental contribu- synchotrons. After retiring from CEA in Victor John Emery in Washington, DC; and the 2001 meet- Brookhaven National Laboratory tions to our understanding of dynamics 1992, he joined the Institut des Sciences and of singularities of maps with profound ing of the APS Division of Atomic, Nucliaires, Grenoble. Molecular and Optical , May Citation: “For their fundamental contribu- consequences for mechanics, astrophysics, 15-19, in London, Ontario, Canada. Ci- Lyneis received his tion to the theory of interacting electrons , hydrodynamics and optics.” tations and biographical information PhD in physics from in one dimension.” Stanford University for each recipient follow. Additional Alan Harold Luther re- Arnold received his in 1974 and went on biographical information and appro- ceived his PhD (Physics), PhD from the Keldysh to in the High in 1967 from the Univer- Institute of Applied priate Web links can be found at the Physics Labo- sity of Maryland. Mathematics (Moscow) APS Web site (http:/www.aps.org). ratory at Stanford to Employment includes in 1963. He taught at the Nominations for most of next year’s work on the Super- stints at the Technical Moscow State Univer- prizes and awards are now being ac- conducting University of Munich, sity until 1986, and then cepted. For details, see pages 7 and 8 Accelerator (SCA). In 1981 he moved to Brookhaven National at the Steklov Math- of this insert. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Laboratory, Harvard ematical Institute of the to become Director of Operations and University, and Nordic Institute for Theo- Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Development at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. PRIZES retical Physics (Nordita) Copenhagen, Since 1993 he has also been a professor at He also leads the development of Elec- Denmark. His research has focused on in- CEREMADE, Universite Paris-IX. Among tron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion teracting electrons in one dimension, and his main scientific results are the sources for use with heavy-ion accelera- 2001 HANS A. BETHE PRIZE techniques which enable calculation of cor- of the Hilbert’s problem 13 (on represen- tors. Lyneis is currently working on a relation functions and other observables as tation of functions), the solution of the next generation superconducting ECR Gerald E. Brown well as extension of these techniques to Birkhoff problem of stability of fixed points source for the 88-Inch Cyclotron. State University of NewYork, higher dimensions using "Tomographic" of symplectic mappings, and the discov- Stonybrook quantization and applications to strongly ery of the instability of Hamiltonian 2001 HERBERT P. BROIDA PRIZE correlated electrons in two dimensions, systems. Arnold is the President of the Citation: “For his insightful analyses of the and high Tc superconductivity. Moscow Mathematical Society. effects of various nuclear constituents on David W. Chandler nucleon interactions and nucleon struc- Emery received his Sandia National Laboratory ture, and his contributions to new PhD in theoretical 2001 PHYSICS PRIZE viewpoints on supernovae, neutron stars, physics from the Uni- and black hole formation.” Paul Houston versity of Manchester, Masao Doi England, in 1957, and Nagoya University Brown received his held stints as a research Citation: “For their critical contributions PhD in physics from associate at Cambridge Citation:”For pioneering contributions to to the investigation of vibrationally- and in University’s Cavendish the theory of dynamics and rheology of rotationally-resolved molecular photodis- 1950 and DSc from Laboratory and A.E.R.E. entangled and complex fluids.” sociation and reaction dynamics, in the University of Bir- in Harwell, England. In 1960 he joined the fac- particular for the invention and develop- Doi graduated from the Department of Ap- mingham, England in ulty of the University of Birmingham, ment of the photofragment ion imaging plied Physics of 1957. He was on the leaving three years later to take on a one- method.” in faculty of Birming- year visiting professorship at the University ham University from 1970. In 1976 he re- Chandler received of California, Berkeley. He joined the tech- 1950-1960, professor at NORDITA, Den- ceived his Doctoral his PhD from Indiana nical staff at Brookhaven National mark, 1960-85, at Princeton University Degree in Engineering University in 1980 Laboratory in 1964, where he presently 1964-68, and at Stony Brook 1968- at the University of To- and held a leads the State Theory Group. present. Brown did fundamental work kyo and began his postdoctoral position in atomic physics. In twenty-some pa- academic career as an at Stanford Univer- pers with Hans Bethe he worked out the 2001 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE Assistant Professor of sity before joining collapse of large stars, evolution of com- IN ATOMIC OR SURFACE physics at the Tokyo Metropolitan Univer- Combustion Re- pact binaries and, most recently, the PHYSICS sity. He moved to Nagoya University in search Facility at evolution of black holes in the Galaxy. 1989 where he is currently Professor of Sandia National Laboratories in 1982. Brown has also been awarded the APS Donald M. Eigler Computational Science and Engineering. His research interests include vibra- Tom W. Bonner Prize. IBM Almaden Research Center His early research was concerned with the tional and rotational energy transfer, dynamics and rheology of flexible poly- unimolecular dissociation dynamics and Citation: “For his seminal contribution to mers. More recently, his research has 2001 TOM W. BONNER PRIZE bimolecular reaction dynamics. Recent nanotechnology and for pioneering a new focused on the dynamics of soft materials, work involves the study of unimolecular methodology for probing matter at the and its computational modeling. and bimolecular using posi- Richard Geller atomic scale.” Continued on next page Institut de Science Nucleaire, Grenoble tion sensitive ion detectors to obtain three-dimensional velocity, alignment Eigler attended the University of Califor- Claude Lyneis and orientation information about reac- tion products. nia San Diego where Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory he received a PhD in Table of Contents Houston received his Physics in 1984. He Citation: “For their critical leadership in PhD from MIT in was a Postdoctoral conceiving and developing the electron 1973. Following Member of the Techni- cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source and Prize and Award postdoctoral work at cal Staff at AT&T Bell advanced ECR source, which have opened the University of Laboratories in 1984- Recipients a new era in heavy ion studies of nuclear California at Berke- 86. He joined IBM as a Research Staff 1 phenomena” ley, he joined the Member in Physical Sciences in 1986 and Geller received his faculty at Cornell was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1993. He New APS Fellows Doctorat en Sciences University. He is also was awarded the 1995 Dannie-Heineman from Sorbonne Uni- a member of the Cornell Center for Ma- Prize by the Goetingen Academy of Sci- versity, Paris, in 1954. terials Research and the Field of Applied ences for his work on the quantum 4 He was hired in 1948 Physics. He has served as Chair of the mechanical behavior of atomic scale de- Nominations for by F. Joliot Curie at APS Division of Laser Physics (1997-98), vices. His area of research is experimental Commisariat l’Energie and has authored or co-authored ap- , specializing in 2002 Prizes and Atomique (CEA) proximately 130 publications in the field the physics of surfaces at low tempera- 7 Awards where he built several plasma devices of and a textbook on tures and the physics of nano-scale based on ECR. Throughout the 1970’s and chemical kinetics. structures. low-dimensional structures. He was co-re- Brook, with guest appointments at quantum theory of molecular . He did 2001 PRIZE cipient (with Horst Stormer and Daniel Fermilab, CERN, the Rutherford Labora- his postdoctoral research at Northwestern IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS Tsui) of the 1983 APS Oliver Buckley Con- tory, and University College London. His University, and then spent an IBM Fellow- densed Matter Physics prize. primary past research was conducted at ship at the University of California, Berkeley. Louis E. Brus the Brookhaven AGS and the CERN ISR When the Federal Government established and LEP colliders. In 1983, he was asked a National Laboratory in Colorado in 1978, 2001 LARS ONSAGER PRIZE Citation: “For establishing the field of semi- to form a collaboration to design and build Zunger was asked to head the Solid State a collider detector at the D0 intersection Theory effort there, a position he still holds conductor nanocrystals through innovative Bertrand I. Halperin synthesis, spectroscopy and theory.” region of the Fermilab proton-antiproton today. At the National Renewable Energy Harvard University collider, complementary to the planned Laboratory (NREL), he was appointed in Brus earned a PhD in CDF detector. Grannis led the D0 experi- 1984 as Principal Scientist, and in 1991 as Citation: “For his wide-ranging contribu- chemical physics from ment from its inception through the end an Institute Research Fellow. Zunger devel- tions to statistical physics and quantum Columbia University of Tevatron Run I. oped in 1977 the first-principles density fluids, especially the elucidation of the in 1969. As a lieuten- functional pseudopotentials. Recently, he quantum and other low-dimen- ant in the US Navy, he developed methods for calculating the elec- sional electronic phenomena; and for his worked in the solid 2001 EARL K. PLYLER PRIZE tronic properties of semiconductor quantum exemplary leadership in bringing theory state and chemistry di- nanostructures. to bear on the understanding of experi- visions of the Naval W. E. Moerner ments.“ Research Laboratory Stanford University until 1973, when he joined Bell Laborato- Halperin received his 2001 PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN Citation: “For the development of single ries. He worked at first in the internal PhD in physics from AN UNDERGRADUATE molecule optical detection methods that dynamics of small molecules in rare gas the University of Cali- INSTITUTION remove ensemble averaging from spectro- solids. After 1987 he increasingly focused fornia, Berkeley, in scopic measurements, thereby revealing on nanocrystals made by chemical synthe- 1965. Following a Paul DeYoung the behavior of individual molecules; for sis and novel materials incorporating postdoctoral fellow- Hope College the application of these methods to the nanocrytals. He joined the Columbia Uni- ship at the Ecole study of spectral , photon anti- Citation: “For his research on reaction pro- versity faculty as a professor of chemistry Normale Superieure in bunching, photon hole burning and cesses using short-lived nuclear beams and in 1996. Paris, he was a mem- intermittent fluorescence in solids, pro- for his outstanding leadership, both in his ber of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories teins and .” research group and his institution, in cre- from 1966 to 1976. He has been a member 2001 LILIENFELD PRIZE ating an undergraduate research of faculty of the physics department of Moerner received his community. “ Harvard University since 1976. He is also PhD in Physics in 1982 Lawrence M. Krauss Scientific Director of the Harvard Center from Cornell Univer- DeYoung earned his Case Western Reserve University for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures. sity, and then spent PhD in nuclear phys- Citation: “For outstanding contributions to Halperin’s research interests include vari- thirteen years at the ics in 1982 from the the understanding of the early universe, ous aspects of the theory of condensed IBM Almaden Research University of Notre and extraordinary achievement in commu- matter systems and statistical physics es- Center. He became Dis- Dame and spent the nicating the essence of physical science to pecially quantum Hall systems and tinguished Chair in next three years as a the general public.” electronic properties of mesoscopic sys- Physical Chemistry in postdoctoral re- tems. He also received the APS Oliver E. the Department of Chemistry and Biochem- searcher at the Krauss is Ambrose Buckley Prize in 1982. istry at the University of California, San Nuclear Structure Swasey Professor of Diego in 1995, and Professor of Chemistry Laboratory at the State University of Physics, Professor of at Stanford University in 1998. Moerner’s New York at Stony Brook. Since 1985 he Astronomy, and Chair 2001 GEORGE E. PAKE PRIZE early research at IBM focused on spectral has been a member of the faculty at of the Physics Depart- hole-burning optical storage, and in 1989 Hope College, where he has chaired the ment at Case Western Lewis S. Edelheit he was the first to perform optical detec- Department of Physics and Engineering Reserve University. General Electric tion and spectroscopy of a single molecule since 1995. The initial focus of the re- His research has fo- in a condensed phase system. In addition, search he has conducted with Citation: “For outstanding technical con- cused primarily on the he led the IBM team which invented the undergraduates was to study the space- tributions to fluoroscopic X-ray systems interface between elementary particle first photorefractive polymer. time size of excited nuclei with and fast scan, ‘fan-beam’ computed X-ray physics and cosmology, where his studies small-angle correlation techniques at tomography systems, and for leadership include the early universe, dark matter, Argonne, Notre Dame, and the National in managing the development, engineer- general relativity and quantum gravity, 2001 I. I. RABI PRIZE IN ATOMIC, Superconducting Cyclotron. More recent ing, and marketing of world-leading stellar evolution, and neutrino astrophys- MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL research topics deal with the structure commercial medical imaging systems.” ics. He received his PhD in physics from PHYSICS of radioactive nuclei. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edelheit is Senior Re- in 1982, then joined the Harvard Society search and Technology Christopher Monroe of Fellows. In 1985 he joined the physics Advisor, working closely University of Michigan 2001 J. J. SAKURAI PRIZE faculty of at Yale University. Krauss is the with GE’s diverse global Citation: “For his pivotal experiments that author of six books — including bestsellers businesses to advance Nathan Isgur implemented quantum logic using trapped The Physics of Star Trek and Beyond Star Trek their technology and Jefferson Laboratory atomic ions, and for his fundamental stud- — as well as over 180 scientific publica- product plans. He as- ies of coherence and decoherence in tions and numerous popular articles. He sumed this position on Mikhail Voloshin entangled quantum systems. “ appears frequently on radio and television August 1, 2000, fol- University of Minnesota discussing issues related to physics, sci- lowing eight years as Senior Vice Monroe received his ence, and society. President, Corporate R&D. Under his PhD from the Univer- Mark Wise leadership, GE introduced many new sity of Colorado in California Institute of Technology products, including digital x-ray medical 1992. His doctoral re- 2001 JAMES C. MCGRODDY imagers, high-efficiency turbines for search under Carl Citation: “For the construction of the heavy PRIZE power generation, advanced electronics- Wieman was on trap- quark mass expansion and the discovery based lighting systems and appliances, ping and cooling of of the heavy quark symmetry in quantum Arthur Charles Gossard and weatherable plastics, to name a few, neutral atoms, using chromodynamics, which led to a quanti- University of California, SantaBarbara and made significant advances in high- an approach that even- tative theory of the decays of c and b flavored hadrons. “ Citation: “For more than twenty-five years technology services and Internet tually led to the first of major and continuing contributions to applications. His organization also vastly observation of Bose-Einstein condensation Isgur, Jefferson Lab's the science and technology of molecular expanded, opening new technology cen- in a vapor. He switched to ions in 1992, as Chief Scientist, re- beam epitaxy, and for the growth of het- ters in India, Mexico, and China. Edelheit a postdoctoral fellow at the NIST-Boulder ceived his PhD in erogeneous compound semiconductor holds a PhD in physics from the Univer- Ion Storage Group, and in 1995 became a Physics from the Uni- structures that have furthered both device sity of Illinois. staff scientist in the same group. He is cur- versity of Toronto. He applications and physical understanding rently an Associate Professor at the served as a Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. of low dimensional structures. “ 2001 W. K. H. PANOFSKY PRIZE of Physics at Toronto Monroe’s current research centers on ex- from 1974 until 1990 Gossard received his periments in quantum information science when he joined the PhD in physics from Paul Grannis and quantum computing involving faculty of the College of William and University of Califor- State University of NewYork at Stony Brook trapped atomic ions. Mary and became Head of the Theory nia, Berkeley, in 1960. Citation: “For his distinguished leader- Group at Jefferson Lab. He has pub- He was Distinguished ship and vision in the conception, lished over 100 papers on the quark Member of the Techni- 2001 ANEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE design, construction, and execution of structure of matter and is best known cal Staff of AT&T Bell the D0 experiment at the Fermilab for his work on the excited states of the Laboratories between Alex Zunger Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. His proton and for his role in the discovery 1960 to 1987 and has National Renewable Energy Laboratory many contributions have been decisive of a new symmetry of nature which de- been professor of materials and electrical in all aspects of the experiment.” Citation: “For his pioneering work on the scribes the behavior of heavy quarks. and computer engineering at the Univer- computational basis sity of California, Santa Barbara since 1987. Grannis received his Voloshin received his for first-principles His research involves the growth of artifi- PhD from the Univer- PhD in 1977 at the In- electronic structure cially structured materials by molecular sity of California at stitute of Theoretical theory of solids. “ beam epitaxy. His special interests are mo- Berkeley in 1965. and Experimental lecular beam epitaxy, the growth of Since 1966, he has Zunger received his Physics (ITEP) in Mos- quantum wells and superlattices and their been on the faculty at PhD from Tel-Aviv Uni- cow. He has been a applications to high performance electri- the State University versity, Israel, in 1976, researcher at ITEP since cal and optical devices, and the physics of of New York at Stony where he worked on 1976, he has been a 2 APS Honors and Awards professor of physics and a member of the Princeton University and has also been a Canada in Thailand in 1971-72, where his 2001 JOSEPH A. BURTON FORUM Institute at the Univer- faculty member at Wesleyan University. connections with Thailand, AWARD sity of Minnesota since 1990, while His research interests include geophysics, Chulalongkorn University began. In 1975, continuing his affiliation with ITEP as a experimental relativity, fundamental con- he moved to the University of Ottawa Lisbeth D. Gronlund leading science researcher. His research stants, and precision measurement and where a formal link with Chulalongkorn topics over the years included quantum Union of Concerned Scientists/MIT null experiments designed to look for pos- University was established in 1979. He be- properties of semiclassical field configura- sible invalidations of accepted physical came Chair and Professor of Physics at the tions. His most recent work is a George Lewis laws at some extreme of magnitude. University of Delaware in 1982, where he continuation of the studies of the proper- MIT has been at Delaware ever since. ties of hadrons containing heavy quarks. 2001 MARIA GOEPPERT-MAYER David C. Wright LECTURESHIPS Wise received his PhD Union of Concerned Scientists/MIT AWARD from Stanford Univer- sity in 1980. He was a Janet M. Conrad Citation: “For creative and sustained lead- 2001 DAVID ADLER Junior Fellow in the Columbia University ership in building an international LECTURESHIP AWARD Harvard Society of Fel- arms-control-physics community and for their lows from 1980 to Citation: “For her leadership in experimen- own excellence in arms-control physics.” Ellen D. Williams 1983, after which he tal neutrino physics, particularly for joined the faculty of Gronlund received her initiating and leading the NuTeV decay University of Maryland the California Insti- PhD in theoretical channel experiment and the Mini-BooNE Citation: “For her elegant experimental ex- tute of Technology. Wise’s research physics from Cornell neutrino oscillations experiment, which ploration of the structures and phase interests include particle physics, University in 1989. She are noted for their timeliness and signifi- transitions of surfaces and for her effective nuclear physics and cosmology. He has was a postdoctoral fel- cance in resolving frontier issues in communication on this subject in lectures written numerous scientific publications low at the MIT Defense neutrino physics.” and publications.” and coauthored a book entitled Heavy and Arms Control Conrad received her Quark Physics. Much of his research has Studies Program and Williams received her PhD from Harvard in focused on the nature and implications then spent two years at PhD in Chemistry 1993. Since that time, of the symmetries of the strong and the University of Maryland Center for In- from Caltech in 1981. she has pursued re- weak interactions. ternational Security Studies. Since 1992, She began as a post- search in neutrino she has been a Senior Staff Scientist at the doctoral fellow in physics. As a postdoc, Union of Concerned Scientists and a Re- Physics at the Univer- she joined the NuTeV 2001 ROBERT R. WILSON PRIZE search Fellow in the MIT Security Studies sity of Maryland in (E815) deep inelastic Program. Her recent research has focused 1981, and has risen neutrino scattering ex- Claudio Pellegrini on the vulnerability of ballistic missile de- through the ranks to periment at Fermilab. She became an University of California, Los Angeles fenses to countermeasures, and the potential become Distinguished University Profes- assistant professor at Columbia University security costs of deployment of a US na- sor of Physics. She is the Director of the Citation: “For his pioneering work in the in 1996 and an associate professor in 1999. tional missile defense. Along with George Materials Science and Engineering Center analysis of instabilities in electron storage She is presently the co-spokeperson of the Lewis and David Wright, she helped estab- at the University of Maryland. Williams’s rings, and his seminal and comprehensive MiniBooNE (E898) neutrino oscillation lish and is a primary organizer of the research is in surface physics. The objec- development of the theory of free electron experiment at Fermilab. International Summer Symposiums on Sci- tive of her research group is to develop lasers.“ ence and World Affairs, which bring practical capabilities for characterizing and Pellegrini received the together some 40 young scientists working 2001 FRANCIS M. PIPKIN AWARD predicting the evolution of materials struc- “Libera Docenza” in on international security issues from differ- tures on nanometer to micron length 1965 from the Univer- ent countries. Jens H Gundlach scales. She was the recipient of the Maria sity of Rome. In Lewis is Associate Di- University of Washington Goeppert-Mayer Award of the APS in 1990. 1958-1978 he was at rector of the Security the Frascati National Studies Program at the Citation: “For identifying, and providing Laboratory. In 1978 he a solution to, an unrecognized weakness 2001 LEO SZILARD Massachusetts Insti- LECTURESHIP AWARDS joined Brookhaven, tute of Technology. He in the Cavendish technique for measuring where he was Associate Chairman of the the gravitational constant G; improving the received a BA in phys- John Harte Light Source and Co-chairman of the accuracy of G by an order of magnitude, ics and mathematics University of California, Berkeley Center for Accelerator Physics. He from the University of representing one of the largest incremen- moved to UCLA in 1989 as a professor tal increases in accuracy ever obtained in Virginia in 1977, a PhD Citation: “For his diverse and incisive ef- of physics, and has chaired the APS Di- the history of such measurements. “ in experimental solid state physics from forts utilizing physical reasoning and vision of Physics of Beams. His work on Cornell University in 1983, and was then a Gundlach received his analytical tools for understanding environ- electron-positron colliders led to the dis- research associate in Cornell’s Department BS in physics from the mental processes and for his teaching and covery and explanations of a new of Applied Physics, working on ion beam University of Wash- writing to encourage this approach among collective instability in electron beams, technology, for five years. For the last 12 ington, Seattle, in 1983, students and colleagues.“ called the Head-Tail Effect, which can years, his research has focused on techni- and his Diplom in strongly limit the beam intensity and the Harte is the Class of cal analyses of arms control and Physik from Johannes collider luminosity. His later studies of 1935 Distinguished international security issues. Gutenberg FELs in the high gain regime led to the Professor of Energy Universitat, , in development of IV generation light Wright received his and Resources at the West Germany in 1986. sources. PhD in theoretical con- University of Califor- He went on to earn his PhD in Physics from densed matter physics nia, Berkeley. He the University of Washington in, Seattle, from Cornell Univer- received a PhD in theo- 1990, where he has been a faculty member AWARDS sity in 1983 and held retical physics from the ever, currently as a research associate pro- physics post-docs at University of Wiscon- fessor. His recent scientific endeavors Ohio State University sin in 1965, and spent the following year 2001 EDWARD A. BOUCHET include equivalence principle tests and and the University of as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CERN, AWARD searches for fundamentally new interac- Pennsylvania. He Geneva, followed by a second postdoc at tions; precision measurement of Newton’s worked full-time on technical aspects of in- the University of California, Lawrence Ber- Jorge Pullin constant; and a test of the inverse square ternational security issues, first at the keley Laboratory. He then became an law of gravity below 1mm. Pennsylvania State University Center for Science and International Affairs assistant professor of physics at Yale Uni- at Harvard University and then the Fed- Citation: “For his contributions to the study versity, joining the faculty at UC-Berkeley eration of American Scientists. Since 1992, of gravitational wave propagation and 2001 JOHN WHEATLEY AWARD in 1973. He has authored over 150 scien- he has held joint positions as a Senior Staff quantum theory of gravity and for his ef- tific publications on topics including particle Scientist with the Union of Concerned Sci- fort to increase diversity in the field of Henry R. Glyde physics, causes and consequences of cli- entists and a Research Fellow in the physics as a founding member of the Na- University of Deleware mate change, biodiversity and Security Studies Program at MIT. His cur- tional Society of Hispanic Physicists.” conservation biology, biogeochemistry, rent research includes technical analysis of Citation: “For his enduring commitment and energy and water resources. ballistic missile proliferation and ballistic and multifaceted contributions to the de- Pullin, professor of missile defenses. velopment of physics in Thailand, which physics and associate MEDALS include innovative creation of scientific director of Penn State’s links between North American research Center for Gravita- 2001 JOSEPH KEITHLEY AWARD universities and Chulalongkorn Univer- tional Physics and 2001 JOHN H. DILLON MEDAL sity, inspiring collaboration with leading Geometry, obtained James E. Faller Thai physicists, and the marshaling of fi- his PhD from the Klaus Schmidt-Rohr nancial and intellectual resources to Instituto Balseiro in National Institute of Standards and Iowa State University establish new regional research centers.” 1989. He joined Syra- Technology cuse University and the University of Utah Citation: “For his creative development of Citation: “For the development of sensitive Glyde received his as a postdoctoral researcher and the fac- new NMR methods and their insightful gravitational detectors and their success- DPhil in Physics at ulty at Penn State in 1993. He is a member use to elucidate polymer structure and dy- ful application to the Oxford, England as a of the executive board of the LIGO research namics.” study of physics and Rhodes Scholar in community. His research has covered geophysics.” 1964. After five years Schmidt-Rohr received many aspects of gravitational physics, con- of post doctoral re- a PhD in 1991 from the centrating recently on two main problems: Faller is chief of NIST’s search in , he University of Mainz, the quantization of general relativity us- Quantum Physics Divi- joined Atomic Energy Germany. He became a ing canonical methods and the study of the sion, and a fellow of of Canada Ltd. He staff scientist at the Max gravitational waves produced in the colli- JILA. He received his served as a project officer with the Inter- Planck Institute for sion of two black holes. PhD in 1963 from national Development Research Centre of Polymer Research in APS Honors and Awards 3 1992. He then spent two years at UC Berke- macroscopic enough for eventual fusion re- 2001 DISSERTATION IN 2001 TANAKA DISSERTATION ley. He joined the faculty of the Department actor designs. A highlight in his life was NUCLEAR PHYSICS AWARD of Polymer Science & Engineering at the participation in the early days of the Inter- University of Massachusetts at Amherst in national Center at Trieste, where he became Daniel Bardayan Sunil Golwala 1995 and was promoted to Associate Pro- familiar with the seminal thinking of the fessor in 1997. In 2000, he moved to the Soviet scientists and had the opportunity Yale University California Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry at Iowa State Uni- to see the early stages of the European and Citation: “For his innovative experimental Citation: “For his versatile and extensive versity. His research is focussed on Japanese fusion programs. development and measurement of the contributions to the detectors, hardware, characterizing the dynamics and structure p(17F,p)17F elastic scattering reaction at electronics, software, and analysis of the of semicrystalline and glassy polymers by DISSERTATIONS the Oak Ridge Holifield Radioactive Ion results of the Cryogenic Dark Matter nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and the Beam Facility in order to find the key low- Search (CDMS) experiment, which pro- development of new solid-state NMR tech- energy s-wave resonance for the vided the most sensitive upper limits for niques for this purpose. 2001 DISSERTATION IN BEAM 17F(p,gamma)18Ne reaction. His mea- elastic scattering of Weakly Interacting PHYSICS AWARD surements of the properties of this Massive Particles (WIMP) on nucleons. 2000 NICHOLSON MEDAL resonance greatly reduce the uncertain- The result rules out a significant region of Shyam Prabhakar ties in the 17F(p,gamma)18Ne rate, parameter space for one of the major can- Marshall N. Rosenbluth Stanford University which is crucial to an understanding of didates for dark matter in the universe.” nucleosynthesis and gamma-ray pro- University of California, San Diego Golwala performed Citation: For his development of beam in- duction in novae as well as in the doctoral work at the Citation: “For inspirational leadership and stability formalisms and diagnostics based break-out to the rp-process in X-ray University of Califor- personal caring in the development of the on transient-domain beam measurements. bursts.” nia, Berkeley, on the skills and commitment of the succeeding Prabhakar received his Bardayan graduated Cryogenic Dark Mat- generation of scientific leaders in plasma BTech in Electronics from Tennessee ter Search (CDMS), physics and for many years of continual and Communications Technological Uni- receiving a PhD in successful promotion and participation in Engineering from the versity in May, 1993 Physics in December international scientific collaborations.” Indian Institute of with a BS in physics 2000. This experiment Rosenbluth received his Technology, Madras, and a minor in searches for direct interactions of Weakly PhD from the Univer- India in 1992. Follow- mathematics. He at- Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark sity of Chicago in 1949 ing this, he joined the tended graduate matter using cryogenic particle detectors and spent a year as an Applied Physics pro- school at Yale University. After work- capable of discriminating WIMP-induced instructor at Stanford. gram at Stanford ing on experiments at the A.W. Wright nuclear recoils from electron recoils via In 1950, moved to Los University. In 1993, he joined the research Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale measurement of and electron-hole Alamos, where he was group of Dr. John Fox at the Stanford University, he joined the Nuclear As- pair production. In July 2000, Golwala heavily involved in the Linear Accelerator Center to work on trophysics Group at the Holifield joined Caltech as a Millikan Postdoctoral early work on the phys- coupled-bunch instabilities and feed- Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) Scholar to work on BOLOCAM, a 144-pixel ics of thermonuclear explosions. In 1953, back control. He received his PhD in at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Af- millimeter-wave bolometer camera. This he decided on controlled fusion as a field 2000 for his dissertation on “New Diag- ter receiving his PhD from Yale in instrument will be used to observe the replete with fascinating physics. His work nostics and Cures for Coupled-Bunch 1999, he continued his stay at the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in distant galaxy of the last 45 years at UCSD, General Instabilities.” The thesis work demon- HRIBF as a postdoctoral associate. His clusters, and search for secondary anisot- Atomics, ITER, the Institute for Advanced strated a new cure for coupled-bunch current research focuses on the use of ropy of the cosmic microwave background Study in Princeton and at IFS at UT Aus- instabilities, based on uneven-fill effects. radioactive ion beams to measure re- radiation on arcminute scales. tin, has focused on understanding how Shyam is currently a postdoctoral re- action cross sections of importance to and to what extent the complexities of the searcher in Prof. ’s group understanding nucleosynthesis yields Editor’s Note: The 2001 Apker Award microscopic physics of magnetized plas- at Stanford, working in the field of com- in stellar explosions such as novae and winners were announced in the December mas can be incorporated into descriptions putational molecular biology. x-ray bursts. 2000 issue of APS News. APS Council Announces 2000 APS Fellows The APS Council elected 193 Members as Fellows of the Society at its November 2000 his fundamental contributions solving the relativistic Caldwell, Allen C. meeting. The names and citations of the new APS fellows are listed below. Nominations Compton scattering kernel, and inventing innovative tech- Columbia University niques for simulating lasers and plasmas. Particles & Fields for fellowship are received by the APS headquarters throughout the year, and are In recognition of his contributions to elementary par- forwarded for review to the appropriate division or topical group fellowship commit- Berg, Mark Alan ticles, including the discovery of unanticipated tees. These, in turn, forward their recommendations to the APS Fellowship Committee, University of South Carolina properties of the proton from measurements made Chemical Physics under his leadership in the ZEUS collaboration. chaired in 2000 by APS Vice President William Brinkman (Lucent Technologies/Bell For the use of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy in explor- Laboratories). ing the molecular dynamics of liquids and other Cauble, Robert Craig disordered materials. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fellowship nomination forms may be obtained by writing to the APS Fellowship Plasma Physics Blatt, Rainer Office, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD, 20740-3844, by accessing the APS URL For important contributions to the understanding University of Innsbruck of the of dense, strongly coupled (http://www.aps.org), or by sending an email message to [email protected]. Deadlines DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) plasmas. for fellowship nominations in 2001 can be found on page 8 of this insert. For outstanding work in quantum optics and precision spectroscopy with laser cooled trapped ions. Cavagnero, Michael John Ahrenkiel, Richard K. Astumian, Raymond Dean University of Kentucky National Renewable Energy Laboratory University of Chicago Bodwin, Geoffrey Thomas DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics Biological Physics Argonne National Laboratory For creative analyses of atomic collisions, fragmen- For pioneering and innovative work in the techniques For fundamental contributions to understanding the ther- Particles & Fields tation and electron correlation, which incorporate and analysis of recombination/minority-carrier lifetime modynamics and mechanism of transduction of energy For definitive contributions to the systematic understand- keen insight into innovative mathematical formula- and transport in semiconductors and for outstanding from a non-equilibrium chemical reaction to drive directed ing of heavy quarkonia in terms of QCD, to the proof of tions; and for energizing many successful contributions to numerous areas of condensed matter transport by molecular motors and pumps. factorization in QCD, and to the understanding of chirality collaborations with experimental and theoretical col- physics. in lattice gauge theory. Aubrecht II, Gordon J. leagues. Anastasiadia, Spiros H. The Ohio State University Boghosian, Bruce Michael Cecil, Francis Edward F.O.R.T.H. Inst. For Elec. Struct & Lase Forum on Education Boston University Colorado School of Mines Polymer Physics For his many contributions to physics education over the Computational Physics Nuclear Physics For important contributions to the dynamics of block co- years, including his work with high school teachers in For contributions to mathematical and computational fluid For measurements of nuclear reactions among light polymers in the melt and in solution and on the structure PTRA, his work with the Contemporary Physics Educa- dynamics, lattice models of fluids and soft condensed ions at low and for the application of some an dynamics of polymer interfaces and thin films. tion Project (CPEC), and his book on Energy. matter, and leadership and service in the field of compu- of these reactions to the diagnostics of high tem- tational physics. Anderson, Dana Zachery Baldridge, Kim K. perature fusion plasmas. University of Colorado University of Calfornia, San Diego Braaten, Eric Alan Cederberg, James DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) Computational Physics The Ohio State University St. Olaf College For his theoretical and experimental contributions to non- For her development and application of methods for quan- Particles & Fields Forum on Education linear optics and atom optics and for creating a number tum calculations of molecular structure and reactivity, For his contributions to our understanding of finite tem- For his strong commitment to teaching, for his advo- of remarkable optical devices for information processing including her studies of aromaticity which continue the perature and heavy quark quantum chromodynamics, cacy and national promotion of undergraduate and pattern recognition. tradition of Maria Goeppert-Mayer. and in particular, for the development of hard thermal loop resummation techniques and NRQCD. research, and for his highly productive program of Aprile, Elena Balsara, Nitash P. faculty/student research in molecular beam spectros- Columbia University Polytechnic University Brau, James Edward copy at St. Olaf. Astrophysics Polymer Physics University of Oregon For her pioneering contributions to gamma-ray instru- For elegant experiments and definitive analysis clarify- Particles & Fields Chang, Yia-Chung mentation for astrophysics, particularly her successful ing the creation and development of structure in For contributions to the development of particle detec- University of Illinois development of a xenon time projection chamber multicomponent polymer liquids. tors, particularly calorimeters and vertex detectors, and Materials Physics as an innovative Compton Telescope. for studies of the properties of the Z boson with the SLD For calculations elucidating the transport, electronic, Bateman, Glenn detector. and optical, and vibrational properties of semicon- Aronson, Samuel Harry Lehigh University ductors, in the bulk and at surfaces, in Brookhaven National Laboratory Computational Physics Brown, Stanley G. heterostructures and in nanostructures. Nuclear Physics For his theoretical and computational research on MHD American Physical Society Editorial Off. For contributions to nuclear and particle physics, includ- instabilities and predictive transport modeling of toka- APS Chang, Albert M. ing the physics of neutral Kaons, and the leadership, mak plasmas, emphasizing detailed comparisons For his role as Editor in the success of Physical Review Purdue University design and construction of the major experiments, D0 at between theory-based simulations and experimental D and Physical Review Letters, and for his contributions DCMP (Condensed Matter) Fermilab and PHENIX at RHIC. data. as Administrative Editor and Editorial Director to policy For experimental studies of quantum Hall edge states and management of the APS journal operation. and Luttinger liquids. Aronson, Meigan Charlotte Beason, James Douglas University of Michigan Air Force Research Laboratory (DE) Bulaevskii, Lev Naumovich Cheong, Sang-Wook DCMP (Condensed Matter) APS Los Alamos National Laboratory Rutgers University For investigation of collective phenomena in strongly For his leadership advancing, advocating and formulat- DCMP (Condensed Matter) DCMP (Condensed Matter) correlated electron systems using neutron scattering and ing national science policy, in particular, for his impact For numerous significant contributions to condensed mat- For the synthesis and characterization of new oxide high techniques. throughout the government in basic research, and for ter theory, in particular in the area of layered superconductors. materials with unusual charge or spin order.

4 APS Honors and Awards Chhabildas, Lalit Chandra nonlinear optical processes, including superfluorescence, Haase, David Glen Keto, John W. Sandia National Laboratories optical bistability, parametric amplification and oscilla- North Carolina State University The University of Texas - Austin Shock Compression Topical Group tion, fiber-optical solitons, proposed tests of quantum Forum on Education DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) For pioneering contributions to the development and use correlations, and the positive-P representation. For his vision in creating Science House and in defining For studies of the energy in dense of advanced diagnostic tools for studying shock com- a model for how research universities and public schools gases and clusters excited by resonant photon pressed materials and for sustained service in advancing Duggan, Jerome Lewis can interact to provide quality science education for all the objectives of the American Physical Society. University of North Texas children. Khakoo, Murtadha A. Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics California State University - Fullerton Cho, Yanglai For outstanding contributions in the application of low Hammer, James Henry DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) Argonne National Laboratory energy nuclear technology for analysis in the semicon- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory For contributions to experimental electron scattering from Physics of Beams ductor, metals, and geophysics industries, and for Plasma Physics fundamental targets and for involvement of undergradu- For continuing excellent contributions to high energy initiating an international conference as a forum for the For his development of novel approaches to fusion and ate and high school students in front-line research. physics experiments and technology, and to the design interaction of industrial and academic physicists. high-energy-density plasma applications, and for his and commissioning of large accelerator facilities. extensive insights into the magnetohydrodynamic behav- Kinoshita, Kay Edwards, Mark Andrew ior of compact toroidal and z-pinch plasmas. University of Cincinnati Choi, Kwong Kit NIST Particles & Fields US Army Research Laboratory DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) Hartline, Beverly Karplus For innovative contributions to the study of b-quarks and Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics For application of first-principles theory to the understand- Los Alamos National Laboratory for leadership in accelerator searches for magnetic mono- For contributions to the foundation and development of ing of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases. Forum on Education poles. quantum well infrared technology, the discovery of new For creative leadership and drive to advance physics and quantum noise properties, and the pioneering applica- Efimov, Vitaly other science education at all levels from kindergarten Kotliar, B. Gabriel tion of excitation hot-electron spectroscopies in quantum University of Washington to graduate school, including outreach to teachers and Rutgers University well studies. Few Body Systems Topical Group the general public. DCMP (Condensed Matter) For the investigation of the Quantum three-body prob- For development of the dynamical mean field method Coey, Michael lem, and especially for his discovery of weakly bound Hertzog, David William and its application to strongly correlated electron sys- Trinity College states (called Efimov states) of three quantum particles. University of Illinois tems. Magnetism & Its Application Nuclear Physics For contributions to magnetism including discovery of Egami, Takeshi For the development of novel and creative instrumenta- Kox, Anne Jacob rare-earth iron nitrogen permanent magnets, classifica- University of Pennsylvania tion and for its use in pbar p-induced searches for exotic University of Amsterdam tion of magnetic order in amorphous solids and innovative Materials Physics mesons and in high-precision measurements of the muon Forum on History of Physics applications of permanent magnets. For pioneering work on local disorder in solids and its anomalous magnetic moment. For his original contributions to the history of physics, effect on properties, in particular the observation of especially in the Netherlands, and for his extraordinary Coleman, Piers charge inhomogeneity in magnetostrictive manganities Hough, James contributions to the edition of Albert Einstein’s papers. Rutgers University and superconducting cuprates using neutron scattering. University of Glasgow DCMP (Condensed Matter) Gravitational Topical Group Krebs, Martha For innovative approaches to the theory of strongly cor- El-Sayed, Mostafa A. For his pivotal role in devising and developing the nec- Institute for Defense Analysis related electron systems. essary implementing technologies for gravitational wave APS Chemical Physics detection. For her contributions to the vitality and quality of the Coleman, James J. In recognition of extra-ordinary contribution to the many science research and development programs sup- University of Illinois spectroscopies of complex molecular systems. Hsieh, Ke-Chiang ported by the Department of Energy for the benefit Laser Science University of Arizona of the nation. For outstanding contributions to the functionality, perfor- Eremenko, Victor Valentine Astrophysics mance and reliability of semiconductor lasers through Inst. For Low Physics For pioneering the measurement of energetic neutral Kumar, Prem innovative epitaxial growth techniques and device de- Forum on International Physics particles in space plasma, thereby opening the door to a Northwestern University signs. For pioneering works in magneto-optics of antiferromag- new frontier of space research. DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) nets, discovery of the “mixed” and “intermediate” states For pioneering experimental contributions to the genera- Continetti, Robert E. of antiferromagnets near magnetic phase transitions, Hsiung, Yee Bob tion, detection, and application of the twin-beam quantum University of California, San Diego photoinduced persistent phenomena in magnetic insu- Fermilab state produced by means of pulsed parametric amplifi- Chemical Physics lators & high-Tc superconductors; and his international Particles & Fields cation. For fundamental contributions to the study of activities as the editor of “Low Temperature” journal of For his key role in the Fermilab neutral kaon decay pro- Kurokawa, Shin-ichi photodetachment and photodissociation processes in AIP, an affiliated scholar of ISU, and co-director of IITAP gram, particularly his leadership that resulted in the recent neutral and ionic molecules and clusters. program. evidence for direct CP-violation. High Energy Accelerator Resch Org. Physics of Beams Coriell, Sam R. Feldman, Uri Hynes, James (Casey) T. For major contributions to accelerator development, NIST Naval Research Laboratory University of Colorado including synchrotrons and colliders; for his leader- Fluid Dynamics Plasma Physics Chemical Physics ship of the Japanese B-Factory; for fostering For fundamental contributions to the theory of the inter- For original contributions to the study of the atomic For his original contributions to the theory of reactions in accelerator education; and for promotion of interna- action between hydrodynamics and morphological structure of highly excited elements, both the devel- and on surfaces. tional collaboration in accelerator science. instabilities during solidification. opment of advanced tools to conduct observations and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting Iijima, Sumio Lankford, Andrew J. Craxton, R. Stephen data; and for the application of the physics of highly NEC Corporation () University of California, Irvine Laboratory for Laser Energetics excited elements to the study of energetic processes Materials Physics Particles & Fields Plasma Physics in the sun’s atmosphere. For the discovery of carbon nanotube and promotion of For the development of electronics, triggering and data For numerous original contributions to laser-driven iner- its research and development. acquisition systems used at major collider facilities, as tial confinement fusion including two-dimensional Foiles, Stephen M. the SDC at the SSC, ATLAS at CERN, and BABAR at hydrodynamic simulations, uniformity modeling in tetra- Sandia National Laboratories Isaacs, Eric D. SLAC. hedral hohlraums, and the ubiquitously used third Computational Physics Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies harmonic conversion of ICF glass laser systems. For significant advances in the computational simulation DCMP (Condensed Matter) Lasheras, Juan C. of materials including pioneering work on the embed- For pioneering work in the application of synchrotron- University of California, San Diego Dalal, Nar S. ded atom method and demonstrating the power of based magnetic X-ray scattering to condensed matter Fluid Dynamics State University simulations to determine important properties. physics. For landmark contributions to the fundamental under- Chemical Physics standing of combustion, free shear flows, particle/fluid For his development of electron and nuclear multiple reso- Gad-el-Hak, Mohamed Isenberg, James Allen interaction, and turbulence induced atomization of nance methods with much enhanced time scales and University of Notre Dame University of Oregon imiscible fluids. spectral resolution, and especially for their application to Fluid Dynamics Gravitational Topical Group measure molecular dynamics and to elucidate mecha- For his original contributions to reactive controls of tur- For his pioneering work on global issues in general rela- Lattimer, James Michael nisms of ferroelectric phase transitions. bulent flows, pioneering work in developing laser-induced tivity and for his contributions to the field. SUNY, Stony Brook Astrophysics fluorescence techniques, and definitive experiments de- Jackson, Howard E. Daw, Murray S. tailing fluid-compliant surface interactions. For construction of models of neutron stars, in quantita- Motorola University of Cincinnati tive detail, for prediction of how they are formed in the Materials Physics Ginsparg, Paul DCMP (Condensed Matter) collapse of large stars and for quantitative theory of the For his original contributions to the atomic scale model- Los Alamos National Laboratory For innovative light scattering studies combining high mergers of black holes and neutron stars. ing of the properties of solids, surface, interfaces and APS spectral and spatial resolution. Leitch, Michael J. defects. For his work relating to chiral symmetry on the lattice, for James, Ralph Boyd fundamental contributions to string theory, and for es- Los Alamos National Laboratory de Ruyter van Steven, Robert Raimond Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Physics tablishment and development of the revolutionary “Los Materials Physics NEC Research Institute Alamos E-Print Archive.” For his contributions to experimental medium-energy Biological Physics For outstanding contributions and leadership in materi- and high-energy nuclear physics, in particular for his For contributions to understanding the physical principles Gluskin, Efim als science leading to the development of wide bandgap lead role in measurements of pion double-charge of neural computation and coding through his elegant Argonne National Laboratory compound semiconductor devices for detecting and im- exchange at low energies, and his leadership in the quantitative measurement and analysis of signals, noise, Physics of Beams aging X- and gamma-ray radiation. measurement of nuclear dependencies of J/psi pro- and information flow in the fly visual system. For his contributions to the development, construction Jensen, Roderick V. duction and of open charm production. and characterization of insertion devices for 3rd genera- Deans, Stanley Roderick Wesleyan University Lesko, Kevin Thomas tion synchrotron radiation sources and free-electron DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) University of South Florida lasers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Physics For pioneering contributions to the understanding of Nuclear Physics For helping reveal the beauty and power of the Radon Gordon, Mark S. strongly perturbed quantum systems that are classically For outstanding experimental contributions to the study transform. Iowa State University chaotic, like Rydberg atoms in strong fields, and for the of neutrino properties - searches for neutrino oscillations Chemical Physics extension of the methods of nonlinear dynamics across - and their application to the solar neutrino problem. DeVore, Carl Richard For the development of methods that extend the size of many disciplines, from atomic physics and mesoscopic Naval Research Laboratory chemical systems that can be treated using ab initio elec- solid-state physics to biophysics and neuroscience. Lockyer, Nigel Stuart Computational Physics University of Pennsylvania tronic structure theory and methods that interface Ji, Xiangdon For his development of a new class of numerical algo- quantum chemistry with dynamics. Particles & Fields rithms for magnetohydrodynamic simulations, their University of Maryland For fundamental contributions to the understanding of B wide dissemination in software, and their applications Gordon, II, Joseph Grover Nuclear Physics mesons, including measurements of lifetimes and de- to physics. IBM Almaden Research Center For fundamental contributions to the understanding of cay modes and studies of CP violation in the B system. Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics the structure of the nucleon and the process of deeply Doyle, Barney L. For his pioneering contributions to the study of elec- virtual Compton scattering. Lohse, David John Sandia National Laboratories trified interfaces through the development and Exxon Research & Engineering Company Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics Jolivette, Peter Lauson Polymer Physics application of techniques for in-situ vibrational spec- Hope College For the invention of numerous Micro-Ion Bean Analysis troscopy and structural characterization. For important contributions to the fundamental science techniques and their innovative application to solid state Forum on Education underlying phase behavior and compatibility in polymeric physics, fusion energy, materials science and radiation Gösele, Ulrich Michael In recognition of leadership and development of under- mixture. effects of semiconductors. Max Planck Institute of Microstructure P graduate research in nuclear physics. Materials Physics Jones, Jr., Robert Rivers Loss, Daniel Draayer, Jerry Paul For important contributions to our understanding of University of Virginia University of Basel Louisiana State University phase formation in thin films, diffusion processes in DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) DCMP (Condensed Matter) Nuclear Physics semiconductors, quantum effects in porous silicon For the development of experimental probes of Rydberg For theoretical studies of quantum effects in mesoscopic For enhancing our understanding of collective phenom- formation, semiconductor wafer bonding and mate- atoms and for providing new insighes about their behavior. magnets. ena in atomic nuclei through algebraic shell-model rials integration. analyses, statistical spectroscopy studies of strength dis- Kay, Bruce David Lubin, Philip I. tributions, explorations involving pseudo-spin symmetry, Greenwald, Martin J. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara and the application of nonlinear methods. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemical Physics Astrophysics Plasma Physics For his innovative use of molecular beams and laser For pioneering studies of the cosmic background radia- Drummond, Peter David For his insightful experimental contributions and scien- spectroscopy to elucidate chemical kinetics and dynam- tion in various experiments both from the ground and in University of Queenland tific leadership in plasma transport research, and his ics of sorption, diffusion, phase transformation, and space that have given us new understanding of the ear- Forum on International Physics formulation of the empirical tokamak density limit as a solvation at environmentally-relevant aqueous and ox- liest moments of the universe and the origin of its large For pioneering theoretical studies of quantum noise in consequence of underlying transport processes. ide interfaces. scale structure that we see today.

APS Honors and Awards 5 Lundstrom, Mark Steven theoretical physics including supersymmetry, charged macromolecules, and permanent and revers- spectroscopy and outstanding achievements in detec- Purdue University supergravity, and superstrings, and for his professorial ible polymer networks. tor reconstruction software and detector construction. Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics expertise in educating his colleagues in these areas. For insights into the physics of carrier transport in small Sakaki, Hiroyuki Smith, Darryl Lyle semiconductor devices and the development of simple, Perlmutter, Saul University of Tokyo Los Alamos National Laboratory conceptual models for nanoscale transistors. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DCMP (Condensed Matter) Materials Physics Astrophysics For invention, fabrication, and analysis of important low- For his contribution to materials physics including to the Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Ann For pioneering contributions to cosmology, including dimensional semiconductor materials and devices. understanding of the electronic and optical properties of University of Illinois development of new search techniques that led to dis- semiconductor heterostructures and organic electronic Biological Physics covery of numerous distant supernovae and strong Salin, Dominique materials and of devices fabricated from these materials. For her contributions to the field of protein folding including evidence for the accelerated expansion of the universe. Laboratoire FAST elucidating its basic mechanism and developing optimized Forum on International Physics Spano, Mark L. energy functions for protein structure prediction. Pichler, Goran For significant contributions in the development of ex- Naval Surface Warfare Center University of Zagreb perimental methods and lattice gas simulations that led Biological Physics Machleidt, Ruprecht Forum on International Physics to improved understanding of flows in Hele-Shaw cells For achievements in experimental nonlinear dynamics, University of Idaho For pioneering studies of atomic line broadening and in- and porous media and of suspensions. especially as applied to biological systems such as the Nuclear Physics termetallic molecules while fostering international ties heart and the brain. For making significant contributions to the meson-exchange through an extensive collaborative network. Sanford, Thomas W. L. description of the nuclear force through development of the Sandia National Laboratories Spry, Robert James Bonn potential and the theory of nuclear matter using rela- Pisarski, Robert D. Plasma Physics Air Force Research Laboratory tivistic versions of Brueckner theory. Brookhaven National Laboratory For fundamental advances in understanding of wire ar- Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics Particles & Fields ray z-pinches, which led to improved load symmetry and For important contributions to semiconductor defect spec- Mahdavi, Mohamad Ali For important contributions to the study of QCD at high greatly increased radiative power, and opened up the troscopy, analysis of nonlinear optical devices, and General Atomics . possibility of using wire arrays as drivers for inertial con- polymer conductivity and optical properties. Plasma Physics finement fusion. For original and longstanding contributions to the develop- Piston, David William Synakowski, Edmund J. ment and understanding of poloidal divertor for particle and Vanderbilt University Sanford, James R. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory impurity control, flux dissipation, and confinement en- Biological Physics Retired Plasma Physics hancement in toroidal plasma confinement devices. For outstanding contributions to the development, appli- Particles & Fields For innovative experimental studies of local particle and cation, and dissemination of quantitative spectroscopic For outstanding service and leadership to the physics com- heat transport in tokamaks, which discriminate between Marchetti, M. Cristina methods to the imaging of proteins and small molecules, munity in the design, construction and implementation of alternative theories and approaches to suppression of Syracuse University their environment, and their interactions within single liv- major US high energy physics facilities, especially the RHIC. turbulent transport. DCMP (Condensed Matter) ing cells. For contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex Sankey, Otto F. Szalewicz, Krzysztof matter and charge-density waves. Prieto, Pedro Antonio Arizona State University University of Deleware Universidad del Valle Materials Physics DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) Meger, Robert Alfred Forum on International Physics For developing real-space first-principles electronic struc- For definitive contributions to the theory and calculation Naval Research Laboratory For forefront research in the in high ture methods with broad applications to materials problems. of intermolecular forces, electron correlation, exotic mo- Plasma Physics temperature superconductors and outstanding contribu- lecular phenomena, and neutrino mass experiments, For important contributions to the physics and technol- tions to the development of physics in Latin America. Sarantites, Demetrios G. using explicitly correlated basis functions. ogy of plasmas, pulsed power, and electron beams, their Washington University interaction and their applications. Protopopescu, Serban Nuclear Physics Takabe, Hideaki Brookhaven National Laboratory For his development of many innovative and powerful Osake University Mezei, Ferenc Particles & Fields detector systems for nuclear physics that have led to Plasma Astrophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory For his individual contributions and leadership in the dis- major discoveries in nuclear structure and reaction physics. For his theoretical and numerical investigations leading DCMP (Condensed Matter) covery of the top quark at the D0 Experiment and for to the universally used ablation-front Rayleigh-Taylor Satija, Sushil K. For his leadership in developing new techniques for neu- software simulation and algorithm development. despersion curve, and his visionary role in shepherding tron scattering studies of condensed matter, including NIST the emerging field of laser-astrophysics. Rainer, Dierk the invention of the neutron spin echo method. Polymer Physics Bayreuth University For significant contributions to the advancement of the Takami, Michio Mintmire, John Wallace DCMP (Condensed Matter) understanding of the physics of polymers at surfaces and University of Electrocommunications Naval Research Laboratory For contributions to the theory of strong-coupling effects interfaces through the development and innovative ap- Forum on International Physics Materials Physics in superconductors and in superfluid 3He. plication of neutron reflectometry. For the first demonstration of optically detected MW-IR For development and application of theoretical and com- double resonance and his beautiful and innovative uses putational techniques for the study of the electronic and Ramsey-Musolf, Michael Jeffrey Satpathy, Sashi Sekhar of lasers in the spectroscopy of atoms, molecules, and structural properties of materials with reduced dimen- University of Connecticut University of Missouri van der Waals molecules in free jets and in bulk liquid sionality including carbon nanotubes, surfaces, and Nuclear Physics DCMP (Condensed Matter) . polymeric materials. For his theoretical work on semileptonic weak interac- For contributions to the understanding of complex mate- tions, including weak radiative corrections, strangeness rials using first-principles electron structure calculations. Tamargo, Maria C. Moodera, Jagadeesh Subbaiah contributions, and parity violation, that have helped in- City College of CUNY Massachusetts Institute of Technology terpret experiments ranging from atomic scales, through Savas, Omer Materials Physics Magnetism & Its Application CEBAF energies, to the Z pole. University of California, Berkeley For significant original contributions to the development For pioneering and sustained contributions to the under- Fluid Dynamics and understanding of the growth and properties of novel standing of spin-polarized transport in solids, and for Raubenheimer, Tor O. For contributions to the understanding of fluid flows semiconductor materials and heterostructures, in par- inspiring mentorship of students at all levels. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center through innovative experimentation in boundary layers, ticular, in the field of wide bandgap II-VI compounds. Physics of Beams rotating flows, combustion, and vortex dynamics. Mountain, Raymond D. For significant contributions to understanding the phys- Tamor, Michael Alan National Institute of Standards and Tech ics of electron storage rings and linear accelerators and Schilling, James Stanford Ford Motor Company Chemical Physics leadership in the design and development of electron- Washington University Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics For his outstanding theoretical contributions towards an positron linear colliders. DCMP (Condensed Matter) For the application of physics in the automotive industry, improved understanding of structural and dynamic prop- For contributions to condensed matter physics through in particular development of diamond-like hard coatings erties of simple and complex liquids. Reichl, Linda Elizabeth the use of high pressure studies of magnetism and su- and hybrid electric vehicle energy management simula- The University of Texas - Austin perconductivity. tion tools. Nagler, Stephen Eric Statistical & Nonlinear Physics Oak Ridge National Laboratory For her original contributions to the field of quantum chaos. Schultz, David R. Teitel, Stephen Lewis DCMP (Condensed Matter) Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Rochester For neutron scattering studies of excitations in low di- Reynolds, Stephen P. DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) DCMP (Condensed Matter) mensional quantum magnets. North Carolina State University For development of novel lattice methods for solving the For contributions towards the understanding and numeri- Astrophysics time-dependent Schrödinger equation, providing funda- cal modeling of critical phenomena in Josephson junction Ng, Tai-Kai For contributions to high-energy astrophysics, including mental new insights in atomic collisions, and arrays and high-temperature superconductors. Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech. modeling relativistic jets in quasars, pulsar-driven super- disseminating AMO data to other research communities. Forum on International Physics nova remnants, and electron acceleration to synchrotron Tejada, Javier For his work on the Coulomb effects in a quantum dot, X-ray emitting energies in young shell supernova rem- Scranton, Robert A. Universidad de Barcelona leading to the prediction of conductance enhancement nants, and supporting observations. IBM Almaden Research Center Forum on International Physics due to the Kondo resonance. Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics For original experimental contributions to the studies of Riley, Mark Anthony For leadership in the development and commercialization macroscopic quantum tunneling in magnetic Nilsen, Joseph Florida State University of the magnetoresistive effect and the giant magnetoresistive Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nuclear Physics effect in hard disk drives, enabling unprecedented advances Thomas, John H. Plasma Physics For his many pioneering contributions to the exploration in the density of magnetic data storage. University of Rochester For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of atomic nuclei at high angular momentum values. Astrophysics and development of x-ray lasers. Seaman, Lynn For major contributions to solar magnetohydrody- Ritter, Hans Georg SRI International namics. Nordstrom, Dennis L Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shock Compression Topical Group American Physical Society Editorial Off. Nuclear Physics In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the Ting, Chin-Sen APS For his leading role in the discovery of the collective flow understanding of the microstructural processes that un- University of Houston For his professionalism, diplomacy, high standards, and of nuclear matter. derlie failure in solids and the general relations between DCMP (Condensed Matter) dedicated service as Editor of Physical Review D. microstructure and failure and shock wave physics. For contributions to transport theory in solid state sys- Rosenberg, Marlene tems including hot electrons in semiconductors, mixed Novotny, Mark Alan University of California, San Diego Segev, Mordechai states of superconductors, and tunneling junctions. Florida State University Plasma Physics Princeton University Computational Physics For pioneering contributions to the theory of dusty plas- Laser Science Tom, Harry W. K. For original algorithm development and applications of mas, especially related to strong coupling effects and For his contributions to the physics of spatial solitons University of California, Riverside computational statistical mechanics to equilibrium and the role of instabilities. and the discovery of the photorefractive soliton. Laser Science nonequilibrium problems in condensed-matter physics For pioneering contributions to our understanding of the and materials science. Rossing, Thomas D. Shaqfeh, Eric Stefan G. ultrafast dynamics of surface chemical and physical re- Northern Illinois University Stanford University actions, particularly femtosecond laser-induced Nusinovich, Gregory Semeon Forum on Education Fluid Dynamics nonequilibrium phase transitions and chemical reactions. University of Maryland For four decades of energetic contributions to education For applying statistical theories and numerical simulations Plasma Physics in physics throughout the world by developing and pro- to determine the averaged equations for fiber suspensions Tong, David S. Y. For fundamental contributions to the theory of gyrotron os- moting the rational approach to sound and light. and polymeric fluids and elucidating the physical mecha- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee cillators and amplifiers and cyclotron autoresonance masers. nism leading to hydrodynamic instabilities of complex fluids. DCMP (Condensed Matter) Roy, Rajarshi For development of multiple scattering theories for sur- O’Shea, Patrick G. University of Maryland Shigemitsu, Junko face diffraction and spectroscopy. University of Maryland Statistical & Nonlinear Physics The Ohio State University Physics of Beams For pioneering studies of nonlinear dynamics and noise Particles & Fields Totsuka, Yoji For pioneering experiments in the development of the in optical devices. For her contributions to determining properties of the Stan- University of Tokyo physics, technology, and applications of high-brightness dard Model using the methods of Lattice Gauge Theory. Rozmus, Wojciech Particles & Fields ion and electron beams, and free-electron lasers. University of Alberta Sirignano, William A. For his leadership in the Super-Kamiokande experiment Orel, Ann E. Forum on International Physics University of California, Irvine and his many contributions to particle physics including University of California, Davis For his outstanding research in the theory and modeling Fluid Dynamics decisive measurements on solar neutrinos and the re- DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) of laser-plasma ICF relevant interactions, in particular in For his pioneering efforts in combining modeling and cent strong evidence for neutrino oscillations. For pioneering the understanding and development of non-local transport, strongly-coupled plasmas, and non- simulation of complex multiphase flows, and for the un- Tryggvason, Gretar theoretical methods for studying excitation, ionization and linear interactions between laser-plasma instabilities. derstanding these models have provided for pool fires The University of Michigan dissociation of polyatomic molecules. and capillary instabilities. Rubinstein, Michael Fluid Dynamics Ovrut, Burt University of North Carolina Skwarnicki, Tomasz For pioneering the use of direct numerical simulations University of Pennsylvania Polymer Physics Syracuse University for the study of finite Reynolds number multiphase flows, Particles & Fields For outstanding contributions to polymer theory, espe- Particles & Fields including the development of computational methods and For his contributions to all aspects of mathematical and cially in understanding entangled polymer dynamics, For original work in the areas of rare b decays and Upsilon studies of bubbly flows. 6 APS Honors and Awards Tsai, Jaw-Shen Violini, Galileo density magnetic recording materials, including both For contributions to the understanding of physical mecha- NEC Fundamental Research Lab. UNESCO - Iran Office magneto-optical and longitudinal magnetic media. nisms governing the response of CMOS devices to DCMP (Condensed Matter) Forum on International Physics ionizing radiation and to the development of radiation- For his demonstration of quantum coherence of For his extensive contributions to physics especially Wells, Gene L. hardened Si gate CMOS technology. charge states in a superconducting mesoscopic sys- through developing new international programs, capac- American Physical Society Editorial Off. tem. ity building and vigorously promoting international APS Wiss, James E. cooperation between developed and developing countries. For leadership, excellent judgement and dedication in University of Illinois Turbiner, Alexander V. his role as Editor of Physical Review Letters for the broad Particles & Fields Nuclear Science Institute (ICE) Walmsley, Ian A. area of condensed matter physics. For his initial measurements of charmed particles and Forum on International Physics University of Rochester his continuing leadership in the study of heavy Welp, Ulrich For the discovery and analysis of quasi-exact solv- Laser Science Argonne National Laboratory Wong, Po-Zen able Schrödinger equations. For contributions to methods for quantum state measure- ment in matter and the characterization of wave fields in DCMP (Condensed Matter) University of Massachusetts Turner, Raymond Clyde general. For pioneering magnetic measurements of phase tran- DCMP (Condensed Matter) Clemson University sitions in superconducting and magnetic systems. For studies of disordered magnetic systems, porous Forum on Education Washburn, Sean media, and random interfaces. University of North Carolina Whelan, Colm Thomas For his leadership and national contributions in Yarkony, David Roy the popularization of physics through lecture- DCMP (Condensed Matter) For experimental studies of quantum transport. Few Body Systems Topical Group The demonstrations and teacher workshops on the For many significant contributions to atomic collision Chemical Physics physics of toys, and his demonstrated excellence Weihs, Daniel theory and most especially for original work on (e, 2e) For the development of algorithms to locate and character- in physics education. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and related processes. ize conical intersections and the demonstration of the Fluid Dynamics essential role these intersections play in non adiabatic phe- Unruh, William G. For outstanding contributions to aircraft performance, Wiesenfeld, Kurt Arn nomena. University of British Columbia animal locomotion and behavior, optimization of ener- Georgia Institute of Technology Gravitational Topical Group getics, fishing industry, and ecoenvironmental quality. Statistical & Nonlinear Physics Zigler, Arie For his contributions to the understanding of black For seminal theoretical contributions to nonlinear dynam- Hebrew University holes, their evaporation and other quantum effects Weinberg, David Hal ics and complex systems theory, including co-discovery Forum on International Physics associated with strong gravitational fields. The Ohio State University of self-organized criticality and for theories of stochastic In recognition of his fundamental experimental contributions Astrophysics resonance and Josephson-junction phase locking. to the field of ultra high intensity laser matter interactions. Van Zytveld, John Bos For outstanding research in studying the gravitational M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust instability theory of structure formation in the Universe Williams, Gwyn Philip Zisman, Michael S. Forum on Education and its confrontation with experimental data. Brookhaven National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory For leadership in involving undergraduates in re- DCMP (Condensed Matter) Physics of Beams search, for advancing our understanding of electronic Weisshaar, James C. For development of synchrotron radiation as a bright infra- For his key role in storage ring designs of synchrotron properties of liquid alloys, and for serving the sci- University of Wisconsin - Madison red source; for its application to studies of surface dynamics. radiation sources and electron-positron factories, ence community as program officer for funding Chemical Physics authoring the ZAP design code and in the design, con- agencies. For ground breaking applications of photoionization and Windle, Alan H. struction and commissioning of the PEP-II/LER. photoelectron spectroscopy to molecules and radicals University of Cambridge Viggiano, Albert Anthony and for incisive spectroscopic and dynamics studies of Polymer Physics Zwier, Timothy Scott Air Force Research Laboratory/VSBP complex chemical reactions. For fundamental studies elucidating structural order in Purdue University DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) liquid crystalline and noncrystalline polymers using x- Laser Science For studies of the kinetics of ion interactions with Weller, Dieter ray scattering and molecular modeling techniques. For significant contributions to the understanding of in- neutral molecules, especially for the elucidation of IBM Almaden Research Center tramolecular and intermolecular interactions, particularly effects and the influence of high tem- Magnetism & Its Application Winokur, Peter Stanley of hydrogen bonded species, by application of double peratures and , and atmospheric For contributions to the basic understanding of magnetic Sandia National Laboratories resonance laser spectroscopy to isolated molecules and implications. anisotropy, stability, and switching phenomena in high Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics molecular clusters. Nomination Announcements Call for Nominations for 2002 APS Prizes and Award The following prizes and awards will be bestowed by the Society in 2001. Members are invited to nominate candidates to the respective committees charged with recommending the recipients. A brief description of each prize and award is given below, along with the addresses of the selection committee chairs to whom nominations should be sent. For complete information regarding rules and eligibility requirements for individual prizes and awards, please refer to the Prize and Awards page on the APS Web site at http://www.aps.org. NOMINATION DEADLINE IS JULY 2, 2001, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.

PRIZES Purpose: To recognize outstanding publications DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE IN THE FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE in the field of . ATOMIC OR SURFACE PHYSICS Supported by friends of the Division of Fluid HANS A. BETHE PRIZE Send name of proposed candidate and Established by AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Dynamics and the American Institute of Phys- supporting information to: Jonathan Bagger; Endowed by contributions from the Division Lucent Technologies). ics journal Physics of Fluids. Dept of Phys & Astron; Johns Hopkins Univ; of Astrophysics, the Division of Nuclear Purpose: To recognize and encourage Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstand- 3400 N Charles St; MD 21218; Phone Physics and friends of Hans Bethe. outstanding work in atomic physics or surface ing achievement in fluid dynamics research. (410) 516-5419; Fax (410) 516-7239; Email Purpose: To recognize outstanding work in physics. [email protected] Send name of proposed candidate and sup- theory, experiment or observation in the areas Send name of proposed candidate and porting information to: Wei Shyy; Univ of of astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear POLYMER PHYSICS PRIZE supporting information to: John E. Thomas; Florida; 231 Aero Bldg; Gainesville FL 32611; astrophysics, or closely related fields. Dept of Phys; Duke Univ; Box 90305; Durham, Phone (352) 392-6416; Fax (352) 392-7303; Sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Send name of proposed candidate and NC 27708; Phone (919) 660-2508; Email Email [email protected] Purpose: To recognize outstanding supporting information to: Gerald Garvey; MS [email protected] accomplishment and excellence of contributions H846; Los Alamos National Lab; Los Alamos, in high polymer physics research. NM 87545; Phone (505) 667-9884; Fax (505) FRANK ISAKSON PRIZE FOR 665-7920; Email [email protected] THE WILL ALLIS PRIZE FOR OPTICAL EFFECTS IN SOLIDS Send name of proposed candidate and STUDY OF IONIZED GASES supporting information to: Scott Milner; Exxon Supported by Solid State Communications Res & Engr Co; Rte 22E Clinton Twnshp; TOM W. BONNER PRIZE IN NUCLEAR (Elsevier Science Ltd). PHYSICS Sponsored by American Telephone and Tele- Annandale NJ 08801; Phone (908) 730-2309; graph, General Electric, General Telephone and Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstand- Fax (908) 730-2536; Email [email protected] Endowed by friends of Tom W. Bonner. Electronics, International Business Machines, ing contributions to the field of optical effects and Xerox Corporations in solids. Purpose: To recognize and encourage JAMES C. MCGRODDY PRIZE FOR outstanding experimental research in nuclear Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstand- Send name of proposed candidate and sup- NEW MATERIALS physics, including the development of a method, ing research into the microscopic or macroscopic porting information to: Duncan Steel; Dept of technique, or device that significantly behavior of ionized gases. Phys; Univ of Michigan; Randall Lab; Ann Ar- Endowed by IBM. contributes in a general way to nuclear physics bor MI 48109; Phone (313) 764-4469; Fax (313) Purpose: To recognize and encourage research. Send name of proposed candidate and sup- porting information to: Tom Rescigno; LLNL; 763-9694; Email [email protected] outstanding achievement in the science and Send name of proposed candidate and UCL; PO Box 808; Livermore CA 94551; Phone application of new materials. supporting information to: Peter Bond; Bldg (925) 422-6210; Fax (925) 424-4320; Email JAMES CLERK MAXWELL PRIZE Send name of proposed candidate and 460; Brookhaven Natl Lab; Upton, NY 11973; [email protected] supporting information to: Paul S Peercy; 2610 Phone (631) 344-4063; Fax (631) 344-5568; Supported by the Maxwell Technologies, Inc. Engineering Hall; Univ of Wisconsin; 1415 Email [email protected] BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS PRIZE Purpose: To recognize outstanding contribu- Engineering Dr; Madison, WI 53706; Phone tions to the field of plasma physics. (608) 262-3480; Fax (608) 262-6400; Email OLIVER E. BUCKLEY CONDENSED Sponsors include Abbott Labs, Bio-Rad [email protected] MATTER PHYSICS PRIZE Microscience Division, Candela Laser Corp., Send name of proposed candidate and sup- Coherent Laser Products Group, Eastman Kodak porting information to: Patrick Diamond; Dept Endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories. LARS ONSAGER PRIZE Co., Furumoto Research Foundation, Newport of Phys 0319; UCSD; 9500 Gilman Dr; La Jolla, Purpose: To recognize and encourage Corporation-Bio-Instruments Division, and Si- CA 92093; Phone (858) 534-4025; Fax (858) Endowed by Russell and Marion Donnelly. outstanding theoretical or experimental emens AG, Medical Engineering Group. 534-7697; Email [email protected] Purpose: To recognize outstanding research in contributions to condensed matter physics. Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstand- theoretical statistical physics including the Send name of proposed candidate and ing achievement in biological physics research. DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE FOR quantum fluids. supporting information to: Steve Girvin; Dept MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Send name of proposed candidate and sup- Send name of proposed candidate and of Phys 117 Swain Hall W.; Indiana Univ; porting information to: James J. Collins; Dept Sponsored by the Heineman Foundation for supporting information to: Alexander Fetter; Bloomington IN 47405; Phone (812) 855-3735; of Biomed Engineering; Boston Univ; 44 Research, Educational, Charitable and Scientific Stanford Univ Phys Dept; Stanford CA 94305; Fax (812) 855-5533; Email [email protected] Cummington St; Boston MA 02215; Phone Puruposes, Inc. Phone (650) 723-4230; email (617) 353-0390; Fax (617) 353-5462; Email [email protected] [email protected]

APS Honors and Awards 7 Eberly College of Science; Penn State University; Purpose: To recognize physicists who have been GEORGE E. PAKE PRIZE instrumental in the development of LEO SZILARD LECTURESHIP 517 Thomas Bldg; University Park, PA 16802; AWARD Deadline: April 2, 2001 Phone (814) 865-9591; Fax (814) 863-0491; measurement techniques or equipment that have impact on the physics community by Endowed by members of the Forum on Physics Endowed by the Xerox Corporation. Email [email protected] providing better measurements. and Society and the Packard, Mac Arthur, and Purpose: To recognize and encourage ROBERT R. WILSON PRIZE Send name of proposed candidate and Energy Foundations. outstanding work by physicists combining supporting information to: Marvin Cage; Div Purpose: To recognize outstanding original research accomplishments with Sponsored by friends of Robert Wilson. of Elec 220/B258; NIST; Rte 270 & Quince accomplishments by physicists in promoting leadership in the management of research or Purpose: To recognize and encourage Orchard Rd; Gaithersburg MD 20899; Phone the use of physics for the benefit of society in development in industry. outstanding achievement in the physics of (301) 975-4224; Fax (301) 926-3972; Email such areas as the environment, arms control, Send name of proposed candidate and particle accelerators. [email protected] and science policy. supporting information to: James Send name of proposed candidate and Send name of proposed candidate and McCambridge; DuPont Superconductivity; supporting information to: Pief Panofsky; Bin supporting information to: Robert J. Lempert; Experimental Station E304/C129; Wilmington, MEDALS AND LECTURESHIPS 76 SLAC; Stanford Univ; PO Box 4349; RAND; 1700 Main Street; Santa Monica, CA DE 19880; Phone (302) 695-2372; Fax (302) Stanford CA 94309; Phone (650) 926-3988; Fax 90407; Phone (310) 393-0411, Ext. 6217; Fax 695-2721; Email DAVID ADLER LECTURESHIP (650) 926-2395; Email [email protected] (310) 393-4818; Email [email protected] [email protected] AWARD Established by friends of David Adler. W.K.H. PANOFSKY PRIZE IN AWARDS DISSERTATION AWARDS EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS Purpose: To recognize an outstanding contributor to the field of materials physics, Endowed by the friends of W.K.H. Panofsky AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN who is noted for the quality of his/her research, OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL and the Division of Particles and Fields. PLASMA PHYSICS RESEARCH review articles and lecturing. THESIS IN PLASMA PHYSICS Purpose: To recognize and encourage AWARD Deadline: April 2, 2001 Send name of proposed candidate and outstanding achievements in Experimental supporting information to: Dennis McWhan; 8 Deadline: April 2, 2001 Particle Physics. Supported from friends of the Division of Gloucester St, Unit 14; Boston, MA 02115; Phone Plasma Physics. Endowed in by General Atomics Inc. Send name of proposed candidate and (617) 536-9610; Email [email protected] supporting information to: Marjorie Shapiro; Purpose: To recognize a particular recent Purpose: To provide recognition to exceptional Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 1 outstanding achievement in plasma physics EDWARD A. BOUCHET AWARD young scientists who have performed original Cyclotron Road; Berkeley, CA 94720; Phone research. thesis work of outstanding scientific quality Sponsored by the Research Corporation. (510) 486-4683; Email [email protected] and achievement in the area of plasma phys- Send name of proposed candidate and ics. supporting information to: Steven Cowley; Dept Purpose: To promote the participation of under- EARLE K. PLYLER PRIZE FOR of Phys; UCLA; 405 Hilgard Ave; Los Angeles represented minorities in physics by identifying Send name of proposed candidate and MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY CA 90024; Phone (310) 825-4770; Email and recognizing a distinguished minority supporting information to: Cary B For- physicist who has made significant est; Dept of Phys; Univ of Wisconsin; 1150 Sponsored by the George E. Crouch [email protected] contributions to physics research. University Ave; Madison, WI 53706; Foundation. LEROY APKER AWARD Send name of proposed candidate and Phone (608) 263-0486; Fax (608) 262- Purpose: To recognize and encourage notable supporting information to: Luz Martenez- 7205; Email [email protected] contributions to the field of molecular Deadline: June 15, 2001 Miranda; Dept of Mater & Nucl Engr; Univ of spectroscopy. Endowed by Jean Dickey Apker in memory of Maryland; College Park MD 20742; Phone (301) OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL THESIS Send name of proposed candidate and LeRoy Apker. 405-0253; Fax (301) 314-9467; Email RESEARCH IN BEAM PHYSICS supporting information to: Daniel Neumark; [email protected] AWARD Purpose: To recognize outstanding achievement Dept of Chem; University of California, in physics by undergraduate students, and Supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720; Phone (510) 642- JOHN H. DILLON MEDAL thereby provide encouragement to young Southwest Universities Research Association, 3502; Email [email protected] physicists who have demonstrated great Sponsored by Elsevier Science, Oxford, U.K., and Universities Research Association. potential for future scientific accomplishment. publishers of the journal, Polymer. Purpose: To recognize doctoral thesis research ANEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE FOR of outstanding quality and achievement in COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Send name of proposed candidate and Purpose: To recognize outstanding research supporting information to: Dr. Alan Chodos; accomplishments by young polymer physicists beam physics and engineering. Sponsored by the IBM Corporation and American Physical Society; One Physics Ellipse; who have demonstrated exceptional research Send name of proposed candidate and Argonne National Laboratory. College Park, MD 20740; Attn: Apker Award promise early in their careers. supporting information to: Robert Gluckstern; Purpose: To recognize and encourage Committee; Phone (301) 209-3233; Fax (301) 3117 Physics Bldg; Univ of Maryland; College 209-0865; Email [email protected] Send name of proposed candidate and outstanding achievement in computational supporting information to: Scott Milner; Exxon Park MD 20742; Phone (301) 405-6054; Fax physics research. Res & Engr Co; Rte 22E Clinton Twnshp; (301) 314-9525; Email [email protected] Send name of proposed candidate and THE OTTO LAPORTE AWARD Annandale NJ 08801; Phone (908) 730-2309; supporting information to: Tomas Diaz de la Fax (908) 730-3232; Email [email protected] TANAKA DISSERTATION AWARD IN Rubia; L-353; Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab; Endowed by the friends of Otto Laporte and EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS Livermore, CA 94550; Phone (925) 422-5714; the Division of Fluid Dynamics. NICHOLSON MEDAL FOR Established in 1999 in memory of Dr. Fax (925) 422-7300; Email [email protected] Purpose: To recognize outstanding research ac- Mitsuyoshi Tanaka provided by friends and HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE complishments pertaining to the physics of family. J. J. SAKURAI PRIZE FOR fluids. Deadline: April 2, 2001 Purpose: To provide recognition to exceptional THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS Send name of proposed candidate and sup- Sponsored by friends of Dwight Nicholson. young scientists who have performed original Endowed by the family and friends of J.J. porting information to: C. F. Chen; Aero & Mech doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific Sakurai. Engr Dept; Univ of Arizona; Tucson AZ 85721; Purpose: To recognize the humanitarian aspect quality and achievement in the area of Phone (602) 621-8199; Fax (602) 621-8191; of physics and physicists. experimental particle physics. Purpose: To recognize and encourage Email [email protected] outstanding achievement in particle theory. Send name of proposed candidate and sup- Send name of proposed candidate and porting information to: Harold Weitzner; supporting information to: Thomas Ferbel; Dept Send name of proposed candidate and JOSEPH A. BURTON FORUM AWARD Courant Inst Math Sci; NYU; 251 Mercer of Phys; Univ of Rochester; Rochester NY 14627; supporting information to: Elizabeth Simmons; St; New York NY 10012; Phone (212) 998- Phone (716) 275-4396; Fax (716) 275-8527; Dept of Phys; Boston Univ; 590 Commonwealth Endowed by Jean Dickey Apker. 3267; Fax (212) 995-4121; Email Email [email protected] Ave; Boston MA 02215; Phone (617) 353-4792; Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions [email protected] Fax (617) 353-6062; Email [email protected] to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and ARTHUR L. SCHAWLOW PRIZE IN society. 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