APS Announces Spring 2006 Prize and Award Recipients

Forty-one APS prizes and awards develop the theory of nucleosynthesis, and He spent 1965-1970 as C o c k e re c e i v e d will be presented during special ses- made important contributions to the study a research officer in his Ph.D. in nuclear sions at three spring meetings of the of supernova explosions, neutron stars, the Nuclear Physics physics from Caltech Society: the 2006 March Meeting, planet formation, stellar evolution, and the Laboratory of the in 1967. After two years physics of planetary atmospheres. Shortly University of Oxford. as a research associate March 13-17, in Baltimore, MD; the after being named winner of the Bethe Prize, In 1970, Towner joined a t t h e C e n t re d e 2006 April Meeting, April 22-25, in Cameron died of heart failure in Tucson, the theoretical physics Recherches Nucléaires Dallas, TX: and the 2006 Atomic, Mo- Arizona. He was 80 years old. branch of the Chalk in Strasbourg, France lecular and Optical Physics Meeting, River Laboratories he moved to atomic May 16-20, 2006 in Knoxville, TN. of AECL, where he physics and joined the Citations and biographical infor- BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS PRIZE worked for 27 years. He left AECL in 1997 physics faculty at Kansas State University. mation for each recipient follow. The Alfred G. Redfield to become an adjunct professor of physics at His atomic physics work has been in the Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His areas of energetic ion-atom collisions, Apker Award recipients appeared Brandeis University in the December 2005 issue of APS current research interests are in radiative especially involving highly-charged ions, News (http://www.aps.org/praw/ and isospin-symmetry breaking corrections recoil ion production, momentum imaging, Citation: “For his seminal contributions 06winners.cfm). in superallowed Fermi beta decay. His past and the interaction of synchrotron radiation to the theory and technical development of interests include shell-model calculations of and short intense laser pulses with atoms Additional biographical informa- nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear structure, meson-exchange currents, and light molecules. tion and appropriate web links can and for pioneering applications of this magnetic moments, axial-vector couplings be found at the APS web site (http:// technique to the study of biological in beta decay and transfer reactions. www.aps.org/praw/index.cfm). molecules.” DANNIE HEINEMAN PRIZE Nominations for most of next year’s Sergio Ferrara prizes and awards are now being ac- Redfield received a OLIVER E. BUCKLEY PRIZE CERN cepted. For details, see pages 7 and 8 PhD from the University Noel A. Clark of Illinois in 1953. His Daniel Freedman of this of this insert. University of Colorado postdoc at Harvard Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006 PRIZES AND AWARDS resulted in his first Robert Meyer Peter van Nieuwenhuizen NMR papers on spin Brandeis University WILL ALLIS PRIZE thermodynamics in the SUNY, Stony Brook rotating frame, and on Michael Lieberman Citation: “For groundbreaking perturbation theory of Citation: “For constructing University of California – Berkeley relaxation. He joined experimental and theoretical contributions supergravity, the first supersymmetric the late IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia to the fundamental science and applications extension of Einstein’s theory of general Citation: “For his ground-breaking University in 1955 where he studied of liquid crystals, particularly their relativity, and for their central role in its and insightful experimental and primarily normal and superconducting ferroelectric and chiral properties.” subsequent development.” theoretical work on the physics of electrical metals using field-cycling NMR. In 1969 Clark received his discharges and their applications to plasma he shifted to work on biological NMR. Ferrara graduated Ph.D. from MIT in 1970. He moved to Brandeis in 1972, where his from the University of processing.” He then spent seven early work included demonstration and Rome in 1968. Since years at Harvard, and L i e b e r m a n utilization of pulsed FT NMR using soft then he has worked in 1977 he joined the received his Ph.D. and composite pulses in, especially, transfer as a researcher at faculty of the University from Massachusetts RNA. During his recent retirement he has the Frascati National of Colorado, Boulder, Institute of Technology demonstrated the feasibility of building Laboratories; as a w h e re h e i s n o w in 1966. He joined a device to perform high-resolution field- CNRS Visiting Scientist professor of physics and the Department of cycling NMR in a shared commercial (500 at the Laboratoire de director of the Liquid Electrical Engineering MHz) instrument. Physique Theorique, Crystal Materials Research Center. In 1984 and Computer Sciences Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and at he co-founded Displaytech, Inc., currently (EECS) at Berkeley in the Theoretical Studies Division at CERN, the world’s largest producer of ferroelectric 1966. His research TOM W. BONNER PRIZE Geneva. He became a staff member of liquid crystal devices and materials. Clark interests are plasma CERN in 1981 and a professor of physics at John C. Hardy has worked in many areas in soft condensed processing of materials and plasma modeling the University of California, Los Angeles, Texas A&M University matter and complex fluid physics, including and diagnostics. He has also collaborated on in 1985. Since 1986 he has been a senior liquid crystals, colloidal liquids and crystals, research in nonlinear dynamics. His latest Ian S. Towner staff member at CERN. Ferrara has written liquid structure and melting, and biophysics. book, co-authored with A.J. Lichtenberg, papers in the field of theoretical elementary Queen’s University His current interests are in liquid crystals of Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials particle physics and mathematical physics. Processing, was published in 1994, with nucleic acids. Citation: “In recognition of ultra-high an expanded second edition appearing in precision measurements and extraordinarily F r e e d m a n w a s 2005. M e y e r re c e i v e d detailed analyses of 0+0+ nuclear beta decay born in Hartford, his Ph.D. in applied rates to explore the unitarity of the Cabibbo- Connecticut in 1939. physics from Harvard Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix as a He received his PhD HANS BETHE PRIZE in 1970. He continued as test of the electroweak Standard Model.” from the University a postdoc and Assistant Alastair G.W. Cameron of Wisconsin in 1964. Professor in Applied Harvard University After postdoctoral Hardy received his Physics at Harvard, fellowships at Imperial PhD in nuclear physics and was promoted to C o l l e g e , L o n d o n , Citation: “For his pioneering work in from McGill University associate professor in University of California, developing the fundamental concepts of nuclear in 1965. He spent the 1974. After a year at Chalmers University Berkeley, and the astrophysics. These basic ideas, laid out almost next two years at the in Goteborg, and at the Ecole Superieure de Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, 50 years ago, are still the basis of current research Oxford University Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris, Freedman joined the faculty of the (C. N. in this field.” (England) Nuclear he joined the faculty at Brandeis University Yang) Institute for Theoretical Physics at Physics Laboratory, in 1978. Meyer’s research has addressed a Cameron earned his and then went to the wide range of topics involving the physics of PhD in nuclear physics Lawrence Radiation liquid crystals and the exploration of novel Table of Contents from University of Laboratory at the University of California, soft materials based on them. Saskatchewan and Berkeley. He returned in 1970 to Canada, Prize and Award taught at Iowa State joining the staff at the Chalk River Nuclear 1 Recipients College until 1959, Laboratories of AECL. He left AECL in 1997 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE to join the Cyclotron Institute of Texas A&M when he moved to C. Lewis Cocke CalTech. In 1966 he University. His current research interests are Kansas State University New APS Fellows moved to Yeshiva in nuclear tests of the weak interaction via 4 University in New superallowed beta-decay and of internal York, and seven years later settled in at conversion. Citation: “For a sustained record of Nominations for 2007 novel experimental developments and new Harvard University. His research included 8 Prizes and Awards astrophysics, planetary sciences and A native of England, Towner received insights into interactions of ion and photon meteoritics. He was among the first to his Ph.D from Battersea College in 1966. beams with atoms and molecules.” State University of New York, Stony Brook decays and discovered a novel mechanism, career. His specialty is University of California in 1968. In 1980 he became a faculty member now known as the “penquin mechanism”. the technical aspects at Berkeley, receiving at the Massachussetts Institute of In 1990 he accepted a professorship at the of science, as well as his PhD in 1975. He Technology. Freedman is an elementary University of Minnesota. its social, political, and then joined the Mark I particle theorist who concentrates on institutional contexts Collaboration at SLAC. supersymmetric field theories, including over the ages. His books He has remained at SLAC supergravity. In addition to the first JAMES C. MCGRODDY PRIZE on the history of physics ever since. Jaros’ physics construction of supergravity in 1976, he Hongjie Dai include biographies of interests have centered contributed such developments as gauged Henry Moseley and on “vertex physics”: Stanford University supergravity and has extensively studied Ernest Rutherford, as measuring heavy quark applications of supergravity to the AdS/ Alex Zettl well as studies of Max Planck’s morality, and lepton lifetimes and mixing, and CFT correspondence. University of California, Berkeley Ernest O. Lawrence’s laboratory, and the tagging quark flavor and charge. At PEP, he [Photo and Biographical information use of churches in early modern Europe as led the Mark II Secondary Vertex Detector Van Nieuwenhuizen unavailable at press time.] solar observatories. For the past 25 years he project and measured the tau, charm, was born in Utrecht, has edited Historical Studies in the Physical and b lifetimes. Jaros’ current interests Sciences. center on the physics and detectors for the the Netherlands, and Citation: “For developing novel synthesis International Linear Collider. studied physics and pathways for preparing carbon and boron nitride mathematics at the nanotubes and for pioneering applications of these GEORGE E. PAKE PRIZE University of Utrecht. for sensing, electronics and nanomechanics.” A native of Scotland, Lockyer earned his After his studies in Charles B. Duke PhD in 1980 from Ohio State University. He Utrecht he went to spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow B o r n i n t h e Xerox Innovation Group C E R N ( G e n e v a ) , at SLAC before joining the faculty of the Shaoyang, Hunan, the Ecole Normale University of Pennsylvania. His research has province of China, Dai Citation: “For groundbreaking theoretical Supérieure, and Brandeis University, each focused on high energy particle experiments received his Ph.D. from contributions to the understanding of tunneling for two years periods. In 1975 he joined the at the energy frontier, with a keen interest Harvard University in in solids, and inelastic scattering of low-energy faculty of the (now C.N.Yang-) Institute for in testing symmetries and the study of the 1994. After postdoctoral electrons in solids, and for his outstanding Theoretical Physics of the State University heaviest quarks. He also collaborated for work with Richard contributions to Xerox Corporate Research of New York at Stony Brook, NY. He several years on proton therapy applications E. Smalley at Rice both as an intellectual leader and research became a distinguished professor, and and medical physics detectors. His current University, in 1997, he manager.” succeeded C. N. Yang in 1999 as Director. research includes contributing to accelerator joined the faculty of Van Nieuwenhuizen has written over 300 advances and the challenges associated Stanford University. Dai’s research group articles on subjects in quantum field theory, D u k e i s v i c e with the next generation of high energy has developed chemical vapor deposition quantum gravity, supergravity, conformal president and senior accelerators. synthesis methods for carbon nanotubes, field theories, anomalies, Kaluza-Klein research fellow in including deterministic synthesis of reductions, path integrals, W gravities, the Xerox Innovation nanotube arrays useful for integration into nonlinear sigma models, solitons, instantons, Group. Prior to holding EARLE K. PLYLER PRIZE various devices for quantum transport and string theory. this position, he was and other mesoscopic physics studies. The deputy director and Mark Johnson group’s latest research includes interfacing chief scientist of the Yale University carbon nanotubes with biological systems FRANK ISAKSON PRIZE P a c i f i c N o r t h w e s t for novel nanobiotechnology applications, Division of the Battelle Citation: “For the applications Roberto Merlin and using nanotubes as novel near infrared Memorial Institute and affiliate professor of spectroscopic methods towards the University of Michigan antennas for nucleic acid delivery and of physics at the University of Washington. understanding of solvation on the cancer cell destruction. From 1972 to 1988 he held various technical microscopic scale, especially the solvation Citation: “For original contributions and management positions at the Xerox of protons and hydroxide anions by to spontaneous Raman and ultrafast Research Laboratories in Webster, NY LARS ONSAGER PRIZE water.” spectroscopy of fundamental excitations and was an adjunct professor of physics in solids.” Rodney Baxter at the University of Rochester. During J o h n s o n e a r n e d Australian National University 1969-1972, he was a professor of physics his PhD in 1983 from Merlin received the at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, Stanford University. Licenciado en Ciencias following six years at General Electric in Citation: “For his original and H e i s p re s e n t l y a Fisicas (M.S.) degree Schenectady, NY. He received his Ph.D. in professor of chemistry groundbreaking contributions to the field from the University physics from Princeton University in 1963. at Yale University. o f B u e n o s A i r e s , of exactly solved models in statistical He served as president of the American His research interests Argentina, in 1973 and mechanics, which continue to inspire Vacuum Society in 1979. He currently is the include spectroscopic the Dr. rer. nat. (Ph. profound developments in statistical chair of a National Research Council study a n d p u m p - p r o b e D.) degree fron the physics and related fields.” of Network Science. k i n e t i c s t u d i e s o f Univesity of Stuttgart, molecular clusters as B a x t e r re c e i v e d Germany, in 1978. He model systems with which to expose his PhD from the was a postdoctoral W.K.H. PANOFSKY PRIZE fundamental, molecular level paradigms Australian National research associate at the University of Illinois underlying condensed phase behavior. He University in 1964, and William Ford at Urbana-Champaign. In 1980, he joined the has served on the executive committee of earned his ScD from University of Colorado faculty of the University of Michigan. Since the APS Division of Laser Science, and in the Cambridge University 2000, he has held a joint appointment in the John Jaros physical chemistry division of the American in 1984. After stints Department of Electrical Engineering and SLAC Chemical Society. Computer Science. His current research with the Iraq Petroleum interests focus on the generation and control Company in London, Nigel Lockyer and as an assistant of coherent vibrational and electronic fields University of Pennsylvania POLYMER PHYSICS PRIZE using ultrafast laser pulses. professor at MIT, he [Photo unavailable at press time.] returned to Australian National University Ludwik Leibler as a faculty member. In 1971 he used the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Citation: “For leading contributions JULIUS E. LILIENFELD PRIZE “star-triangle” relation to calculate the free Industrielles, Paris energy of the eight-vertex model, and went to the discovery of the long b-quark lifetime Mikhail Shifman with the MAC and Mark II experiments on to similarly solve the hard-hexagon C i t a t i o n : “For outstanding University of Minnesota and chiral Potts models. He developed at SLAC. The unexpectedly large value of theoretical contributions to the the “corner transfer matrix” method for the b-quark lifetime revealed the hierarchy fundamental understanding of self- Citation: “For contributions calculating the order parameters of the of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark assembly of diblock copolymers and gels, to theoretical high energy physics, in eight-vertex and similar models. In 2005 mixing matrix.” and wetting.” particular for the understanding of he applied the method of Jimbo, Miwa and Nakayashiki to verify Albertini, McCoy, Ford earned his PhD. strong interactions and dynamics of Leibler received Perk, and Tang’s conjecture for the order in physics at Princeton supersymmetric gauge theories, and for his PhD in 1976 in parameter of the chiral Potts model. In 1987 University in 1967. After Theoretical Physics communicating the excitement of science he was awarded the APS Dannie Heineman postdoctoral positions from Warsaw to the public.” Prize. a t P r i n c e t o n a n d Caltech, he joined the University, and then A native of Riga, faculty of the University spent two years as a L a t v i a ( f o r m e r l y post-doctoral fellow ABRAHAM PAIS PRIZE FOR of Pennsylvania. At a part of the USSR), at the College de HISTORY OF PHYSICS Fermilab he participated Shifman was educated in the early observations France in Paris and in Moscow. In 1966 he John Lewis Heilbron in neutrino interactions Saclay, France. He is was admitted to the Oxford University of weak neutral currents and the dimuon a researcher in Centre Moscow Institute of signature for charm production. Since National de Recherche Scientifique Physics (Dolgoprudny, Citation: “For his groundbreaking and 1976 he has been a member of the physics (CNRS). In 2001 he became an adjunct Moscow region). His professor of soft matter and chemistry at broad historical studies, ranging from the faculty at the University of Colorado. Most undergraduate studies of his research has been in electron-positron Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie were in physics with specialization in high use of Renaissance churches for astronomy, Industrielles in Paris where his research through 17th and 18th century electrical annihilation experiments. His current energy physics. In 1972 he was admitted for emphasis is in B meson decays, where his interests include influence of molecular science, to modern physics.” Ph.D. research by the Institute of Theoretical group has discovered a number of charmless disorder on mesoscopic structure and and Experimental Physics (ITEP, Moscow). properties of polymer materials, impact Heilbron is professor emeritus of history modes and measured their CP violation He was among the first to apply QCD to resistance, fracture and adhesion, design and history of science at the University parameters. the theory of hadrons and various hadronic of stimuli responsive materials and of California, Berkeley. He received his processes. Beginning in 1974 he concentrated supramolecular chemistry. PhD in history in 1964, also from Berkeley, on understanding weak flavor-changing Jaros did his graduate work in where he spent most of his academic experimental particle physics at the 2 APS Prizes and Awards Howard Georgi. Its main the operation of high luminosity electron policy journals, and has co-authored four ANEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE prediction, the existence and hadron colliders.” books. During his career, he has contracted David Vanderbilt of supersymmetric or consulted with many organizations, Lambertson received Rutgers University particles, will be tested including the Congressional Research at the Large Hadron an M.S. in engineering Service, the International Atomic Energy physics from the Citation: “For his conceptual Collider. He also Agency (IAEA), and Los Alamos National proposed the possible University of Colorado Laboratory. In June 1996, he was the first breakthroughs in his development of the in 1948, and an M.A. ultrasoft pseudopotential and the modern existence of large new non-governmental IAEA inspector of the dimensions with Nima in physics from the Iraqi nuclear program. Prior to founding theory of polarization, and their impact Arkani-Hamed and University of California, ISIS in 1993, he was a senior staff scientist on first-principles investigations of the Gia Dvali in 1998. Most Berkeley in 1951. He at the Federation of American Scientists properties of materials.” recently he put forward the theory of split was a senior scientist and a member of the research staff of supersymmetry with Nima Arkani-Hamed. at Lawrence Berkeley Princeton University’s Center for Energy Vanderbilt received National Laboratory and Environmental Studies. Albright his PhD in physics from 1951 to 1991, and served as a consultant received a masters of science in physics from from the Massachusetts ARTHUR L. SCHAWLOW PRIZE to Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory Indiana University in 1980, and a masters of Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1998. He holds several patents, science in mathematics from Wright State in 1981. He spent three Paul B. Corkum including ones for magnetic extractors for University in 1977. years as a postdoctoral National Research Council of Canada high energy particles; a focusing magnet with fellow at the University [Photo and Biographical information narrow septum; and printed-circuit steering of California at Berkeley unavailable at press time.] coils. He also worked on system design and JOHN H. DILLON MEDAL before joining the fabrication of equipment for the stochastic physics faculty of Kenji Urayama Citation: “For seminal contributions cooling of antiprotons for proton-antiproton Harvard University collisions in the TEV I ring at Fermilab. He Kyoto University in 1984. He has been a professor in the to the development of ultrashort, intense laser-field science, including served as leader for the analysis and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at hardware design for the feedback control of Citation: “For insightful experiments Rutgers University since 1991. Vanderbilt his development of the recollision model space-charge instabilities in the Advanced that probe the nature of polymer is an expert in the development of methods for laser-matter interactions, and his Light Source; and provided beam electrodes networks.” for electronic structure calculations and leadership in the emerging field of and lead the system design for control of the application of such methods for attosecond laser science.” beam instabilities in the PEP II electron- Urayama is currently computational materials theory. His current proton collider. an associate professor research interests include the development UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH in the department of of methods for treating insulators in finite INSTITUTE PRIZE materials chemistry electric fields, advancing the theory and AWARDS at Kyoto University. applicability of Wannier functions, and Rainer Grobe He joined Institute for applying Berry-phase methods to study Illinois State University DAVID ADLER LECTURESHIP Chemical Research, magnetic systems. Q. Charles Su AWARD Kyoto University as an Illinois State University James Chelikowsky assistant professor in University of Texas 1994, with bachelor’s ANDREI SAKHAROV PRIZE and master’s degrees Citation: “For outstanding effort Yuri F. Orlov from Kyoto University. In 1996 he received at creating a successful and renowned Citation: “For his creative and Cornell University a PhD from Kyoto University. He did optical theory research program at Illinois outstanding research in computational postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck State University, and for their exemplary materials physics and for his effectiveness Institute for Polymer Research in 1998. Citation: “For his distinction as a involvement of undergraduates in this in communicating research results through In 2003 he moved to the Department creative physicist and as a life-long, ardent research.” lectures and publications.” of Materials Chemistry at Kyoto U leader in the defense and development of niversity. His main interest focuses on the international human rights, justice and the Grobe is Distin- C h e l i k o w s k y stimuli-response relationships of polymer freedom of expression for scientists.” guished Professor holds the W.A.“Tex” networks and gels. of Physics at Illinois Moncrief Jr. Chair in Born in Moscow, State University. After Computational Materials Orlov studied physics completing his Ph.D. at within the Institute JOSEPH F. KEITHLEY AWARD at the Physico-Technical the University of Essen f o r C o m p u t a t i o n a l Institute. In 1952, he in 1989, he worked six Engineering and Sciences Frances Hellman joined the Institute years at the University of at the University of Texas University of California, Berkeley for Theoretical and Rochester before coming at Austin. He received Experimental Physics. to Illinois State in 1995. his PhD in condensed Citation: “In recognition of using Fired for a pro- He holds a patent in matter physics from the emerging micromachining techniques democracy speech in optical pulse propagation and has published University of California at Berkeley in to significantly extend the range of 1956, he worked on about 120 peer-reviewed papers – 31 with 1975. He worked at Bell Labs as a calorimetry into the realm of nano-scale accelerator physics in undergraduate coauthors. Together with Su, postdoctoral fellow, at the University of science, by construction of Si based Yerevan and Novosibirsk. He joined the he has supervised the research work of about Oregon as an assistant professor and at microcalorimeters capable of operating in Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1972 35 undergraduate students, some of whom Exxon Corporate Research Science Labs but was fired one year later for writing to have won national awards. His main research as a group leader in theoretical physics extreme environments with unprecedented Brezhnev in support of Andrei Sakharov interest is to use computer simulations to and chemistry. In 1987, he joined the sensitivity and accuracy.” and glasnost. He helped found the Soviet investigate a wide variety of areas including faculty at the University of Minnesota. Hellman received chapter of Amnesty International in 1973, nonlinear chaotic dynamics, optical pulse He left Minnesota for his position at Texas a P h D i n a p p l i e d founded the first Helsinki human rights propagation, relativistic atomic interactions, in January 2005. In 2001, he received the physics from Stanford monitoring group in 1976, and was arrested bio-optical imaging in turbid media, and David Turnbull Lectureship Award from University in 1985 and for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” computational quantum field theory. the Materials Research Society. spent the next two years in 1977. After seven years in prison and as a postdoc at AT&T strict-regime labor camp and more than Su received his Bell Laboratories before two years in Siberian exile, he was deported EDWARD A. BOUCHET AWARD PhD in 1991 from joining the faculty to New York City. Since 1987 he has been t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f of the University of a senior scientist at Cornell University’s Angel García Rochester. He was a California, San Diego. Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute research associate at the In 2004, Hellman joined and a consultant at Brookhaven National [Photo and Biographical information Max-Planck Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Laboratory. Orlov has continued his human unavailable at press time.] for Quantum Optics also became a physics faculty member at UC- rights activity, campaigning for Russian and ( G e r m a n y ) b e f o re Berkeley. Hellman’s research concerns the Chinese political prisoners, advising Russian joining Illinois State Citation: “For his contributions to the physics of novel magnetic, semiconducting, human rights organizations, and lobbying University in 1994. He understanding of the role of water in the and superconducting materials. Current for a Bosnian war crimes tribunal. became a professor in dynamics and folding of proteins through research includes effects of spin on transport 2002. Over a third of the more than 90 computer simulations.” and tunneling, finite size effects on magnetic peer-reviewed papers he has published J.J. SAKURAI PRIZE and thermodynamic properties; formation co-authored were with undergraduates JOSEPH BURTON FORUM AWARD of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Savas Dimopoulos coauthors. Su studies various aspects of in films and effects of vapor-deposition Stanford University laser-matter interactions ranging from laser David Albright growth on short and long range chemical fusion diagnosis to non-invasive imaging Institute for Science and and structural order in amorphous and Citation: “For his creative ideas for biological systems. International Security crystalline alloys. on dynamical symmetry breaking, [Photo unavailable at press time.] supersymmetry, and extra spatial ROBERT R. WILSON PRIZE MARIA GOEPPERT-MAYER AWARD dimensions, which have shaped theoretical Citation: “For his tireless and productive research on TeV-scale physics, thereby Glen Lambertson efforts to slow the transfer of nuclear weapons Hui Cao inspiring a wide range of experiments.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory technology. He brings a unique combination Northwestern University of deep understanding, objectivity, and Dimopoulos received his Ph.D. at the C i t a t i o n : “ F o r f u n d a m e n t a l effectiveness to this vexed area.” Citation: “For her groundbreaking University of Chicago in 1978. He joined contributions to accelerator science and contributions to the experimental the faculty at Stanford in 1979 and has Albright is founder and president technology particularly in the area of been spending most of his time searching of the non-profit Institute for Science studies of coherent light generation and for the theory of physics beyond the beam electrodynamics including the and International Security (ISIS) in transport in disordered media, including standard model. In 1981 he proposed the development of beam instrumentation for Washington, D.C. Albright has published her invention of microlasers based on supersymmetric standard model with the feedback systems that are essential for numerous assessments in technical and disordered media.”

APS Prizes and Awards 3 Cao received her PhD of a five-year MacArthur model of a Photonic Band Gap accelerator at includes ion trapping and precision laser in applied physics from Fellowship from 1981 to 17 GHz. After graduating from MIT in 2005, spectroscopy to test the constancy of Stanford University in 1986, he also took two Evgenya accepted a Director’s Postdoctoral fundamental interactions. 1997. Since then she has periods of leave from Fellowship from Los Alamos National been on the faculty of Columbia (1984-1985 and Laboratory (LANL). Her work at LANL is Northwestern University 1993-1994) to serve as concentrated on the construction of a PBG MITSUYOSHI TANAKA in physics and astronomy. a visiting scholar at the travelling-wave tube at W-band. DISSERTATION AWARD Cao’s primary research U.S. Arms Control and Maria Florencia Canelli interests are in the areas Disarmament Agency, Fermilab of quantum optics and working on nuclear test NICHOLAS METROPOLIS AWARD mescopic physics. Among ban verification. He has Joseph A. Barranco the honors she has received are the Alfred served on several review panels for U.S. Air Citation: “For developing a new technique University of California, Berkeley P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, David and Force, and NAS/NRC committees. for extracting the maximum information in Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in top decay events in order to measure the W Science and Engineering, National Science Citation: “For the development of boson helicity.” Foundation CAREER Award, Overseas DISSERTATION AWARDS computational techniques to handle 3D Chinese Physics Association Outstanding Canelli graduated OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL compact vortices in rotating shear flows, in 1995 from the Young Researcher Award, and Alexander and for the application of these techniques von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich THESIS RESEARCH IN ATOMIC, Universidad Nacional de to solve longstanding problems in the Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. MOLECULAR, OR OPTICAL Asuncion, Paraguay. She PHYSICS AWARD theory of planet and star formation.” obtained her PhD from the University of Rochester Ana Maria Rey Barranco earned in 2003. Since 2003, she NICHOLSON MEDAL University of Maryland his B.A. in 1993 from has held a postdoctoral Harvard University. He Padma Kant Shukla appointment with UCLA attended the University Ruhr-Universität Bochum at the CDF experiment Citation: “Ultra-cold bosonic atoms of California, Berkeley for at Fermilab. Canelli’s in optical lattices.” graduate studies in the Citation: “For his prodigious and dissertation involved a novel technique to department of astronomy. A n a t i v e o f gain information about the properties of the successful efforts in encouraging young He worked in developing Colombia, Rey pursued top quark. The method, is based on a direct scientists from under-represented countries a new spectral code to her undergraduate comparison of all measured variables in throughout the world, by his regular visits study compact, three- studies in Bogotá at antitop-top events produced at the Fermilab to their universities and by facilitating their dimensional vortices in rotating, shearing, the Universidad de Tevatron with a leading matrix-element that participation in international meetings stratified systems such as protoplanetary los Andes. In 2000 Rey describes the entire production and decay disks. He graduated from Berkeley in May and workshops.” began her graduate process. In her dissertation, she examined studies at the University 2004 with a PhD in Astrophysics. He won an A native of India, the decays of W bosons in such events, in of Maryland at College NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Shukla earned his PhD order to establish how the spin of the W Park. Her doctoral work Fellowship, which he split between at the in physics from Banaras boson in top-quark decays correlates with was on ultracold bosonic Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Hindu University in its momentum vector. atoms loaded in optical lattices with special Barbara, CA, and the Harvard-Smithsonian 1972, and a second PhD focus on the superfluid to Mott insulator Center for Astrophysics. Currently in his first in theoretical plasma phase transition. She completed her PhD in year at Harvard, he is applying his new code physics from Umea MITSUYOSHI TANAKA 2004. In 2005 she was awarded the ITAMP to problems in planet formation. University in Sweden DISSERTATION AWARD postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard- in 1975. He has been a Alysia D. Marino Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where member of the physics DISSERTATION AWARD IN she does research in atomic physics. Fermilab and astronomy faculty NUCLEAR PHYSICS at Ruhr University in Germany since 1973, and a permanent visiting professor at Li-Bang Wang Citation: “For her contributions to OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL Umea University in Sweden since 1997. University of Illinois, the measurement of neutrino fluxes which THESIS RESEARCH IN BEAM His current work is primarily in the field of Urbana-Champaign conclusively support the hypothesis of flavor PHYSICS AWARD theoretical plasma physics. He also works oscillation of neutrinos produced in the sun as on geophysical flows, nonlinear optics, Evgenya I. Smirnova Citation: “For his outstanding and they travel toward the earth. The results further Bose-Einstein condensation, nonlinear Massachusetts Institute of Technology innovative experimental work to precisely suggest the most likely cause of the flavor physics of metamaterials, nonlinear neutrino measure the charge radius of the exotic and change to be matter-induced oscillation.” plasma physics, and nonlinear quantum Citation: “For the design, fabrication short-lived isotope 6He by laser spectroscopic electrodynamics. Alysia Marino and successful testing of a 17 GHz electron studies of single atoms stored in a magneto- received her A.B. accelerator utilizing a photonic crystal optical trap. The result helps to reveal the degree in physics from LEO SZILARD AWARD structure.” nature of weakly bound nuclei and serves as Princeton University a key benchmark for nuclear models.” in 1998. She pursued Evgenya Smirnova Paul G. Richards neutrino research in received her Bachelor’s Columbia University Wang received his B.S. graduate school at the Degree from Nizhny in physics from National University of California Novgorod State Citation: “For work applying his Taiwan University in at Berkeley, receiving University (Nizhny expertise in geophysics to seismic detection 1996. In 1999, he went to her PhD in 2004. The Novgorod, Russia) in the University of Illinois topic of her dissertation of nuclear explosions. His developments in 1999, and her Master’s at Urbana-Champaign was a measurement of the solar neutrino flux “forensic seismology” are at the heart of the Degree from the same to pursue a doctoral in the second phase of the SNO experiment. verification required for a test ban.” institution in 2002. degree. His thesis work The results of this measurement provided She was admitted to was a laser spectroscopic Born in Gloucester-shire, England, compelling model-independent evidence for Massachusetts Institute determination of the 6He Richards earned his PhD in geophysics from neutrino flavor changes. Since graduating, of Technology (MIT) in 2000, where she nuclear charge radius. the California Institute of Technology in 1970 Marino has shifted the focus of her research worked under the supervision of Dr. Richard He received his PhD in May 2005 and is and promptly joined the faculty of Columbia to accelerator-generated neutrinos. She is Temkin. As a part of her dissertation work, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos University, where he is presently the Mellon currently a postdoctoral researcher at Fermi she developed and tested the first working National Laboratory. His current work Professor of Natural Sciences. The recipient National Accelerator Laboratory. APS Council Announces 2005 APS Fellows

The APS Council elected the following as Fellows of the Society at its November 2005 analysis and the systematic development of quantum- Aspect Alain Jean meeting. Nominations for fellowship are received by the APS headquarters throughout mechanically complete descriptions. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, France DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) the year, and are forwarded for review to the appropriate division, topical group or Anderson Scott Law For his trailblazing experimental tests of Bell’s inequali- University of Utah forum fellowship committees. The deadlines for the various units appear on page 8 of ties, and seminal contributions to laser cooling and Chemical Physics this insert, and are posted on the web. atom optics. For contributions to understanding chemical dynam- Fellowship nomination forms may be obtained by accessing the APS URL (http:// ics of ion-molecule reactions, size-selected model Aubry Nadine N www.aps.org/fellowship/form.cfm), or by sending an email message to honors@aps. catalysts, and gas-phase clusters. New Jersey Institute of Technology Fluid Dynamics org or by writing to the APS Fellowship Office, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD Anderson, Jr. Charles E. For pioneering work on the derivation and analysis of 20740-3844 Southwest Research Institute reduced representations of turbulent and other complex Shock Compression Topical Group fluid flows, as well as recent contributions to micro For his leadership in combining numerical simulations 2005 Fellows (Alphabetical by Last Name) fluid dynamics. with experimental data to develop advanced models of the response of materials to shock, impact, and Balibar Sebastien Albright David For his leading contributions to quantum field theory in penetration. Ecole Normale Super. - Paris Institute for Science and International Security an inflationary universe, to our understanding of cosmic DCMP (Condensed Matter) Forum on Physics & Society strings, and to gravitational-wave phenomenology and Andreoni Wanda For the observation and analysis of the roughening For ground-breaking technical analysis of secret nucle- detection. IBM Zurich Research Laboratory transitions and quantum growth dynamics in helium ar weapons program in countries such as North Korea, Computational Physics Andersen Nils Overgaard crystals, and for the discoveries of quantum evapora- Iraq, and South Africa and for his definitive analysis of For important contributions to the development and Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark tion, quantum cavitation and acoustic crystallization. world-wide fissile material production. implementation of ab-initio computational methods, and DAMOP (Atomic, Molecular, Optical) for pioneering investigations that led to deep insights Bandyopadhyay Supriyo Allen Bruce For his contribution to the study of atomic collision into the behavior of diverse condensed matter, chemi- Virginia Commonwealth University University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee processes through electron and photon polarization Gravitational Topical Group cal, and biomolecular systems. Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics 4 APS Prizes and Awards