APS Announces Spring 2008 Prize and Award Recipients
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APS Announces Spring 2008 Prize and Award Recipients Thirty-five prizes and awards will be Tom W. Bonner Prize He served as staff sci- Murray Hill, NJ. In 1990 presented during special sessions at three in Nuclear Physics entist at the Rowland he was appointed profes- Institute for Science in sor at the University of spring meetings of the Society: the 2008 March Arthur M. Poskanzer Cambridge, and Lecturer California at Berkeley, Meeting, March 10-14, in New Orleans, LA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at Harvard University where he has served up the 2008 April Meeting, April 12-15, in St. Citation: “In recognition of his pioneering role in (1987-1993), then Profes- to the present. Through- Louis, MO, and the 2008 Atomic, Molecular the experimental studies of flow in Relativistic Heavy sor of molecular biology out his career, Orenstein and Optical Physics Meeting, May 27-31, in Ion Collisions.” at Princeton University has used optical methods (1994-1999), before join- State College, PA. Arthur Poskanzer to explore the properties ing Stanford University is Distinguished Senior of exotic excitations in Citations and biographical information (1999-present). Block’s Scientist Emeritus with novel materials. Since then he has used a wide vari- for each recipient follow. The Apker Award research lies at the interface of physics and biology, the Lawrence Berkeley ety of time-resolved optical techniques to investigate particularly in the study of molecular motors, such as recipients appeared in the December 2007 issue National Laboratory. kinesin and RNA polymerase. His laboratory has pio- solitons, polarons, and triplet excitons in conducting of APS News (http://www.aps.org/programs/ Poskanzer is a pioneer in polymers, d-wave quasiparticles in high-T supercon- neered the use of laser-based optical traps, also called c honors/awards/apker.cfm). the field of relativistic nu- “optical tweezers,” to study the nanoscale motions of ductors, and spin polarization waves in semiconduc- clear collisions and a co- Additional biographical information and individual biomolecules. tors. Currently his research focuses on electric field appropriate web links can be found at the discoverer of collective control of electron spin in semiconductors and mul- flow, the phenomenon tiferroic materials. APS website (http://www.aps.org/programs/ in which nuclear matter, honors/index.cfm). Nominations for most of Fluid Dynamics Prize (2007) Zeev Valentine Vardeny is Distinguished Pro- compressed to a state of high temperature and den- fessor of Physics at the next year’s prizes and awards are now being sity, exhibits a fluidic motion. Poskanzer earned his Guenter Ahlers University of Utah. He accepted. For details, see page 8 of this in- PhD in physical chemistry from MIT. After working University of California, Santa Barbara received his B.S. (1969) for nine years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he sert. Citation: “For pioneering experimental work and PhD (1979) in phys- joined the Berkeley Lab staff in 1966. Poskanzer was on fluid instabilities, low-dimensional chaos, ics from the Technion, the first scientific director of the Bevalac accelerator, pattern formation, and turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Haifa, Israel. His re- PRIZES one of the leading organizers behind SPS heavy ion convection.” search interests include program at CERN, and the co-founder of the STAR optical, electrical and Guenter Ahlers re- Will Allis Prize for the collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider magnetic properties of ceived his PhD. in physi- Study of Ionized Gases (RHIC). He was also a co-discoverer of elliptic flow organic semiconductors; cal chemistry from the at RHIC, which has proved to be major experimental fabrication of organic optoelectronic and spintronics Kenneth Kulander University of California evidence for the existence of the quark-gluon plasma. devices; laser action and transient spectroscopy of at Berkeley in 1963 and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory He continues today as a member of the STAR col- organic semiconductors, amorphous semiconductors, then became a member of laboration working on methods of data analysis for nanotubes, and fullerenes; fabrication and properties Citation: “For the development of time-dependent the technical staff at Bell elliptic flow. of 2D and 3D dielectric, metallo-dielectric and metal- methods and models that have advanced our Laboratories. Then he lic photonic crystals and plasmonic lattices. understanding of strong field ionization processes in worked on critical phe- rapidly ionizing gases.” Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter nomena and on superfluid Kenneth Kulander Physics Prize hydrodynamics. In 1970 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize received his PhD in he began research on Rayleigh-Benard convection in Mildred Dresselhaus H. Eugene Stanley physical chemistry from liquid helium that led to the experimental observation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston University the University of Min- of chaos in a fluid-mechanical system. In 1979 Ahl- nesota in 1972. In 1978 Citation: “For pioneering contributions to the ers became a Professor of Physics at UCSB where he Citation: “For contributions to the deeper Kulander joined the understanding of electronic properties of materials, studied pattern formation in convection and Taylor- understanding of phase transitions and critical Theoretical Atomic and especially novel forms of carbon.” vortex flow, and turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convec- phenomena in complex systems; and for excellence Molecular Group at the Mildred Dresselhaus has a PhD from the Uni- tion. in communicating the excitement of interdisciplinary Lawrence Livermore versity of Chicago research to a wide range of audiences.” National Laboratory. He (1958). After an NSF H. Eugene Stanley was awarded a PhD in phys- became the leader of that Dannie Heineman Prize for postdoctoral fellowship ics at Harvard in 1967. group in 1986, and remained so until his retirement in Mathematical Physics at Cornell University, she Stanley was a Miller 2001. Kulander’s research has focused on developing became a staff member at Mitchell Feigenbaum Fellow at Berkeley with and exploiting methods to study the time-dependent the MIT Lincoln Labora- Rockefeller University C. Kittel from 1968 quantum dynamics of atoms and molecules, either tory (1960). In 1968 she to1969. From 1969 to during collision processes or when subjected to ultra- Citation: “For developing the theory of became an MIT faculty 1976 he was a professor short, intense laser pulses. Among the processes stud- deterministic chaos, especially the universal character member. While at Lincoln in the physics depart- ied have been electron-atom and ion-atom collisions, of period doubling, and for the profound influence of Laboratory she studied ment at MIT. In 1976 molecular photodissociation, collision induced dis- these discoveries on our understanding of nonlinear the electronic properties Stanley joined Boston sociation, and dissociative recombination. Recently phenomena in physics.” of semiconductors and extended magneto-optic tech- University as a professor Kulander has pursued a variety of strong field, mul- niques to study the electronic structure of a variety Mitchell Feigenbaum received a PhD in theoret- in the physics department and the School of Medi- tiphoton processes in atoms and molecules. of semimetals. Her success with Gene Dresselhaus ical high energy physics cine’s physiology department. In 2007 he was given in illuminating the electronic structure and Fermi at MIT in 1970. He was joint appointments with the chemistry and biomedical Hans A. Bethe Prize surface of graphite led to explorations of graphite a research associate at engineering departments. Stanley’s main focus is un- intercalation compounds where single graphene lay- Cornell, 1970-72, and at derstanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water in Friedrich K. Thielemann ers sandwiched between guest species could be ex- Virginia Polytechnic In- University of Basel bulk, nanoconfined, and biological environments. He plored within the context of low dimensional physics. stitute, 1972-74; a staff has also worked on a range of other topics in complex Citation: “For his many outstanding theoretical Further study of carbon fibers and liquid carbon led member at Los Alamos, systems, such as quantifying correlations among the contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, her early entry into studies on fullerenes and carbon 1974-82; Professor of constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying stellar evolution and stellar explosions through nanotubes as these fields were emerging. Her studies Physics at Cornell, 1982- fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequenc- applications to individual objects and to cosmic illuminated the unique electronic structure of carbon 86; and Toyota Professor es, and interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased chemical evolution.” nanotubes and the use of spectroscopy to probe the at Rockefeller Universi- heart. geometric structure of individual nanotubes. ty 1986-present, and since 1996, Director of the Cen- Friedrich-Karl (Friedel) Thielemann, received ter for Studies in Physics and Biology. Feigenbaum’s his PhD for nuclear reaction rate studies and their most widely known work is in nonlinear dynamics. James Clerk Maxwell Prize Davisson-Germer Prize in astrophysical applica- His unanticipated discovery of the scaling theory of for Plasma Physics (2007) tion in explosive burn- Atomic or Surface Physics the “onset of chaos” spawned new