Spring 2006 Prizes and Awards

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.

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