APS Announces Spring 2010 Prize and Award Recipients
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Spring 2010 APS Announces Spring 2010 Prize and Award Recipients Thirty-four prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring meetings of the Society: the 2010 March Meeting, March 15-19, in Portland, OR, the 2010 “April” Meeting, February 13-16, in Washington, DC, and the 2010 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting, May 25-29, in Houston, TX. Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients appeared in the December 2009 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 web site (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm). Nominations for most of next year’s prizes and awards are now being accepted. For details, see page 8 of this insert. 2010 Prizes, Awards and Dissertations Will Allis Prize for the liquid helium as warm-up calculations before doing concepts of traditional crystallography, especially the has developed a number of dimension reduction and Study of Ionized Gases nuclei. They made variational Monte Carlo calcula- appearance of quasi-crystals, and the applications of tabulation methodologies. His textbook “Turbulent tions of 16O in the early 1990s, and in 1995 he inher- electron microscopy. Flows” was published in 2000. Mark J. Kushner ited the Green’s function Monte Carlo program that University of Michigan Brian Pudliner had developed with Pandharipande Paul J. Steinhardt, the Albert Dannie Heineman Prize and Joseph Carlson. With Ewing Lusk and Ralph Citation: “For ground-breaking contributions to Einstein Professor in Science and for Mathematical Physics developing and applying hybrid plasma models that Butler it has just been adapted to computers with Director of the Princeton Center have advanced the fundamental understanding of the more than 30,000 processors. It was used to develop for Theoretical Science, is in the Michael Aizenman chemistry, surface kinetics, and energy transport in the Illinois three-nucleon potentials, which currently Department of Physics and the Princeton University low temperature plasmas.” reproduce nuclear states up to 12C very well. Department of Astrophysical Citation: “For his development of the random Sciences at Princeton University. Mark J. Kushner received the current approach to correlations which has had an Robert Bruce Wiringa was He received his B.S. in physics at BS in Nuclear Engineering and impact on a wide variety of problems, especially his born in Houston, Texas in 1950 Caltech in 1974, his physics M.A. in 1975 and phys- the BA in Astronomy from the rigorous non-perturbative proof of the triviality of φ4 and graduated from Darien High ics Ph.D. in 1978 at Harvard University. He was a University of California at Los field theory.” Angeles in 1976; and the MS and School, Darien, Connecticut in Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from Ph.D. in Applied Physics from 1968. He attended Rensselaer 1978 to 1981 and on the faculty of the Department of Michael Aizenman is a math- the California Institute of Tech- Polytechnic Institute in Troy, Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsyl- ematical physicist at Princeton nology in 1977 and 1979. He New York, earning his B.S. in vania from 1981 to 1998, where he was Mary Aman- University. Recently he has been served on the technical staffs of Sandia National Lab- 1972, and the University of Il- da Wood Professor between 1989 and 1998. working on quantum effects of oratory and Lawrence Livermore National Labora- linois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received an His current research is on inflationary cosmology quenched disorder. tory before joining Spectra Technology where he was M.S. degree in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1978, working and an alternative, known as the ‘cyclic universe.” He He received his undergradu- Director of Electron, Atomic, and Molecular Physics. with Vijay Pandharipande on nuclear matter. He was also studies the properties of synthetic quasicrystal ate education at the Hebrew Uni- In 1986, Dr. Kushner joined the faculty at the Univer- a Research Associate at Los Alamos Scientific Labo- and disordered dielectric structures with application versity of Jerusalem, and PhD de- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was ratory for two years before joining the Physics Divi- to photonics while searching for natural geological gree in 1975 at Yeshiva University (Belfer Graduate the Founder Professor of Engineering in the Depart- sion at Argonne National Laboratory in 1981, where sources of quasicrystals and theories to explain quasi- School of Science), New York, advised by Joel Leb- ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering while he became a Senior Physicist in 2000. At Argonne he crystal growth and stability. owitz. After postdoctoral appointments at Courant also serving in many administrative roles. In January began a long-term collaboration with Steven Pieper, Institute of NYU, 1974–75, and Princeton University 1975–77 with Elliott Lieb, he was Assistant Professor 2005, Dr. Kushner became Dean of Engineering and as well as continuing to work with groups at Urbana, Davisson-Germer Prize the Melsa Professor of Engineering at Iowa State Los Alamos, and later at Jefferson Laboratory. at Princeton. In 1982 he moved to Rutgers Univer- University. He then joined the University of Michi- His work has focused on the nucleon-nucleon in Atomic or Surface Physics sity as Associate Professor and then full Professor. In gan as founding director of the Michigan Institute for and three-nucleon interactions, quantum Monte Carlo Chris H. Greene 1987 he moved to the Courant Institute and in 1990 Plasma Science and Engineering and George I. Had- calculations of nuclear structure and reactions, and JILA, University of Colorado returned to Princeton as Professor of Mathematics dad Collegiate Professor in September 2008. variational studies of dense nucleon matter and neu- and Physics. tron stars. Citation: “For seminal contributions to theoretical AMO physics, including dissociative recombination, Frank Isakson Prize for Hans A. Bethe Prize ultracold matter, and high-harmonic generation, and Oliver E. Buckley Prize for the prediction of ‘trilobite’ long-range molecules.” Optical Effects in Solids Claus Rolfs Duncan Steel Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Emeritus Dov Levine Chris Greene has been a Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Fellow of JILA and Professor University of Michigan Citation: “For seminal contributions to the of Physics at the University of Citation: “For seminal contributions to nonlinear experimental determination of nuclear cross-sections Alan Mackay Colorado at Boulder since 1989. optical spectroscopy and coherent control of in stars, including the first direct measurement of the Birbeck College, Emeritus He earned his doctorate in theo- semiconductor heterostructures.” key 3He fusion reaction at solar conditions.” retical atomic physics from the Paul Steinhardt Duncan Steel received his Claus Rolfs received his University of Chicago in 1980, Princeton University undergraduate degree in phys- vordiplom in physics from the under his advisor Ugo Fano. His ics from the UNC-Chapel Hill Universität Freiburg in 1962. He Citation: “For pioneering contributions to the undergraduate degree was in math and physics from in 1972 and his Ph.D. with Da- went on to receive his diplom in theory of quasicrystals, including the prediction of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976, with an vid Bach and James Duderstandt physics in 1966 and his promo- their diffraction pattern.” honors thesis supervised by Donal Burns. A one-year from the U. Mi. in 1976. Prior to tion to doctorate in physics in postdoctoral stint in Richard Zare’s group at Stanford Dov Levine is Professor in joining the faculty at Michigan in 1967 from the same university. was then followed by over seven years on the faculty the Department of Physics at 1985, he was a Senior Staff Phys- After serving as a postdoctoral at Louisiana State University. the Technion–Israel Institute of icist at the Hughes Research Laboratory in Malibu. fellow at the Universität Freiburg and later at the Dr. Greene’s theoretical research interests cover Technology. He received his B.S. It was at HRL, he began to understand the power of University of Toronto, he took a position as a phys- much of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, in Physics from S.U.N.Y. Stony- probing the nonlinear optical response to study the ics professor at the Universität Munster in 1974. In notably few-body processes in ultracold gases, dis- brook in 1979, and his Ph.D. in quantum behavior in these systems. When he started 1990 he accepted the chairmanship of experimental sociative recombination in electron collisions with Physics from the University of research at Michigan, he initiated experiments in sol- physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he stayed molecular ions, photon-atom and photon-molecule Pennsylvania in 1986. He was a ids, eventually focusing on understanding the nonlin- until retiring in 2007. interactions, and molecular Rydberg state behavior. postdoctoral member of the Institute for Theoretical ear optical response of the exciton in GaAs. Hailin During his career, Rolfs focused on nuclear astro- Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara Wang in his group showed that the leading term in the physics. He also contributed greatly to finding ways (now KITP) from 1986 to 1988, when he became a Fluid Dynamics Prize (2009) nonlinear optical response was due to physics