Spring 2012 Prizes and Awards APS Announces Spring 2012 Prize and Award Recipients Thirty-four prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring meetings of the Society: the 2012 March Meeting, February 27-March 2, in Boston, MA, the 2012 April Meeting, March 31-April 3, in Atlanta, GA, and the 2012 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting, June 4-8, in Orange County, CA. Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients appeared in the December 2011 issue of APS News (http://www.aps.org/programs/ honors/awards/apker.cfm). Additional biographical information and appropriate web links can be found at the APS website (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm). Nominations for most of next year’s prizes and awards are now being accepted. For details, see pages 8 of this insert. 2012 Prizes, Awards and Dissertations Will Allis Prize for the framework for the physics of exotic nuclei.” and a Research Staff Member fluid dynamics, including stratified and rotating Study of Ionized Gases Witold Nazarewicz is a pro- at the IBM Almaden Research flow phenomena, gravity currents, and convective processes.” fessor of physics at the Depart- Center from 1989 to 1993. He Philip G. Burke joined the faculty at Stanford in Queen’s University Belfast ment of Physics, University of Tony Maxworthy is Smith Tennessee and University of 1993. He is a condensed matter International Professor of Me- Citation: “For pioneering and sustained Warsaw, Poland, and Distin- theorist known for his work on chanical Engineering and Pro- theoretical development of R-Matrix computational guished R&D Staff at the Phys- topological insulators, spintron- fessor of Aerospace Engineer- methods for electron-atom and electron-molecule ics Division, Oak Ridge Na- ics and high temperature super- ing at the University of Southern collisions important in modeling ionized gases and tional Laboratory. His broad conductivity. He received the Guggenheim fellow- California. He received his B.Sc plasmas.” expertise is in nuclear physics, interdisciplinary ship in 2007, the Alexander von Humboldt research (with 1st Class Honours) from Emeritus professor Phil many-body science, and computational physics. prize in 2009 and the Europhysics prize in 2010 for Imperial College, London in Burke obtained his B.Sc in His research has made important contributions to his theoretical prediction of the quantum spin Hall 1954, an M.S. degree in 1955 from Princeton Uni- physics from University Col- nuclear structure and reaction physics, especially effect and topological insulators. versity and a Ph.D. in 1960 from Harvard Univer- lege Exeter in 1953 and his in the areas of rare isotopes and nuclear dynamics sity, all in Mechanical Engineering. His primary Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear at the extremes of isospin, mass, and angular mo- Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or research interests are in the areas of environmental physics at University College mentum. He has served on three committees of the Surface Physics and geophysical fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, London in 1956 under the su- National Research Council of the National Acad- turbulence, solidification, convection and bio-fluid pervision of Sir Harrie Massey. emies. He serves as a Co-Director of the UNEDF Jean Dalibard mechanics. He has received the G. I. Taylor Award He was appointed assistant lecturer in the Univer- SciDAC Program; Associate Editor in Nuclear Laboratoire Kastler Brossel of the Society of Engineering Science, a von Hum- sity of London Computer Centre in 1957. In 1959 Physics, Reviews of Modern Physics; Editor with Citation: “For the development of soft x-ray based boldt Senior Scientist Award and the Otto Laporte Burke took up an appointment at the Lawrence Ra- Computer Physics Communications; member of spectroscopy and microscopy leading to fundamental Award of the American Physical Society among diation Laboratory Berkeley where he carried out FRIB Science Advisory Committee; member of the contributions to the understanding of chemical several. He has been a Visiting Professor and Fel- research in Luis Alvarez’s Bubble Chamber group steering committees of JUSTIPEN and FUSTIPEN. bonding, magnetism and dynamics at surfaces and lowship holder at a number of universities and re- and in Ken Watson’s theory group. He returned to interfaces.” search centres across the world as well as a consul- the UK in 1962 to take up an appointment at the tant to several industrial concerns. Oliver E. Buckley Jean Dalibard is director of Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell. In Condensed Matter Physics Prize research at CNRS and works in 1967 he was appointed professor of mathematical the Kastler Brossel laboratory Dannie Heineman Prize physics in Sir David Bates’s department at Queen’s Charles L. Kane at Ecole normale supérieure for Mathematical Physics University Belfast where he established his group University of Pennsylvania (ENS). He is also professor at which uses R-matrix computational methods in the Giovanni Jona-Lasinio Laurens W. Molenkamp Ecole polytechnique. After an study of collision processes in atomic, molecular University of Rome internship in Alain Aspect’s and optical physics of importance in many appli- University of Wuerzburg team on the violation of Bell’s Citation: “For contributions to the interaction cations including the analysis of astronomical ob- Shoucheng Zhang inequality (1982), Dalibard earned his doctorate between statistical mechanics, field theory and the servations and the modeling of ionized gases and Stanford University in Physics at ENS in 1986 under the supervision theory of elementary particles, including spontaneous plasmas. of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. In 1991 he was an symmetry breaking, critical phenomena and a general Citation: “For the prediction and subsequent theory of dissipative systems.” discovery of the new phase of matter known as invited scientist at NIST in the group of Bill Phil- Hans A. Bethe Prize topological insulators in two dimensions, also known lips. Dalibard has been involved in the develop- Giovanni Jona-Lasinio Sylvia Torres-Peimbert as quantum spin Hall insulators, which lead to its ments of methods for cooling and trapping atoms graduated in physics at the Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM generalization and prediction in three dimensional with light, with contributions from experimental University of Rome in 1956. system.” and theoretical sides. His recent interests deal with He then became a researcher at Manuel Peimbert Charles Kane received an the physics of quantum gases, such as the dynamics the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM undergraduate degree in physics of vortices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. Nucleare and an assistant pro- He is also interested in low-dimensional aspects of fessor in the physics department Citation: “For outstanding work on the primordial from the University of Chicago many-body physics, in particular the Berezinskii- of the University of Rome. He helium abundance as well as abundances of other in 1985 and a Ph.D. in physics elements and their implications for cosmology and from MIT in 1989. After a two- Kosterlitz-Thouless superfluid transition that shows was nominated to be full professor at the University for the chemical evolution of galaxies and stars. This year postdoc at IBM T.J. Wat- up in 2D atomic quantum gases. of Padua in 1970 and he returned to the University work is fundamental as a critical test for cosmological son Research Center he joined of Rome in 1974 where he is currently professor theories and the baryonic content of the Universe.” the faculty at the University Max Delbruck Prize in emeritus. He has spent several years abroad visiting the University of Chicago, CERN, MIT, IHES and Sylvia Torres-Peimbert of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Professor Biological Physics (2011) of Physics and Astronomy. Kane is known for his the Universite’ Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. received her BA in physics William A. Eaton theoretical work on the quantum Hall effect, Lut- He is most widely known for having constructed from the Universidad Nacional NIDDK, National Institutes of Health with Yoichiro Nambu the first model in elementary Autónoma de México, UNAM, tinger liquids and carbon nanotubes. Recently his research has focused on the theory of topological Citation: “In recognition of his contributions to particle physics with spontaneous symmetry break- in 1964 and her Ph.D. in As- ing (NJL model), for the early introduction with tronomy from the University of phenomena in insulators, superconductors and the understanding of protein folding, dynamics, and strongly correlated electronic materials. Kane is a function. Eaton’s innovative experiments provided a Carlo Di Castro of the field-theoretic renormaliza- California, Berkeley, in 1969. tion group in the study of critical phenomena and She has worked at the Instituto Fellow of the APS and shared the 2010 Europhysics detailed characterization of the energy landscape of prize, awarded by the European Physical Society. proteins.” for having developed recently a theory of stationary de Astronomía UNAM, since 1969, where she be- states far from equilibrium, going for the first time William Eaton is Distin- came Professor in 1973. She was director of the beyond the near equilibrium theory of Onsager. same institution from 1998 to 2002. Laurens Molenkamp re- guished Investigator at the Na- ceived undergraduate in 1980 tional Institutes of Health in Manuel Peimbert received and graduate degree in 1985 Bethesda, Maryland. Eaton is Frank Isakson Prize his BA in physics from the Uni- in physical chemistry from the a leading expert on the physics for Optical Effects in Solids versidad Nacional Autónoma University of Groningen, the of proteins. His lab introduced Dimitri Basov de México, UNAM, in 1962 Netherlands, specializing in optical triggering methods to University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. in Astronomy coherent optical spectroscopy. dramatically increase the time from the University of Califor- After completing his Ph.D., he resolution in kinetic studies of protein folding, Citation: “For innovative and insightful use of nia, Berkeley, in 1967.