APS Announces Spring 2000 Prize and Award Recipients
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Spring 2000 APS AnnouncesPrizes Spring 2000and Prize andAwards Award Recipients wenty-nine APS prizes and awards collaborates with many biologists, espe- was a postdoctoral fel- 2000 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE will be presented during special cially his wife of 30 years, Helen, a low at Cambridge T IN ATOMIC OR SURFACE biochemist. His group now has prototypes University (England) sessions at three spring meetings of the PHYSICS Society: the 2000 March Meeting, for a new generation of AFMs that can use in 1959-60, joined the cantilevers on order of magnitude smaller technical staff of the March 20-24, in Minneapolis, MN; the William Happer than used in current commercial AFMs. Bell Telephone Labora- 2000 April Meeting, April 29 - May 2, Princeton University tories in 1960, and the in Long Beach, CA; and the spring Citation: “For his research leading to fun- physics faculty at Ber- meeting of the APS Division of 2000 OLIVER E. BUCKLEY PRIZE keley in 1966. He has been a visiting Atomic, Molecular and Optical Phys- damental understanding and applications of atomic processes on spin or excitation scientist at Cambridge University, the Max ics, June 14 - 17, in Storrs, CT. Citations Gerald J. Dolan transfer through atomic collisions.” Planck Institutes for Solid State Physics at and biographical information for each Private Consultant Stuttgart and Radio Astronomy at Bonn, recipient follow. Additional biographi- Happer received his the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the cal information and appropriate Web Theodore A. Fulton PhD degree in physics Paris Observatory, and the University of links can be found at the APS Web site Lucent Technologies from Princeton Uni- Rome. With students and collaborators, he (http://www.aps.org). Nominations versity in 1964. He was has published more than 300 papers on far a member of the Phys- for most of next year’s prizes and Marc A. Kastner infrared and millimeter wave physics, in- ics Department of cluding the development of measurement awards are now being accepted. For Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University techniques. details, see pages 7 and 8 of this insert. Citation: “For pioneering contributions to from 1964 until 1980, single electron effects in mesoscopic sys- when he joined the fac- tems.” ulty at Princeton University. From 1991 2000 LILIENFELD PRIZE PRIZES until 1993 he served as Director of Energy Dolan received his Research in the Department of Energy, Robert J. Birgeneau PhD in physics from where he oversaw a basic research budget Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cornell University in 2000 WILL ALLIS PRIZE of some $3 billion. He returned to 1973. He undertook a Citation: “For using neutron and x-ray Princeton University in 1993, and was post-doctoral position scattering to elucidate the structure, John Francis Waymouth awarded the APS Herbert P. Broida Prize at SUNY, Stony Brook, phase transitions, and excitations of Retired in 1997. His current research interests are NY in 1973 and then materials that are paradigms of impor- focused on how on various gas-phase col- moved to AT&T Bell tant statistical mechanical models, and Citation: “For his important contributions lisional interactions and wall interactions Laboratories, where he for his ability to convey the excitement to the quantitative understanding and de- limit the large spin polarization produced worked until 1987. He then worked at the of physics to a broad range of audi- velopment of gas discharge light sources by optical pumping of the magnetic reso- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for two ences.” and for his leadership at the interface be- nance imaging isotopes, 3He and 129Xe. years, after which he moved on to the Uni- tween the basic science and the industrial Happer’s group at Princeton has designed versity of Pennsylvania. Currently, Dolan Birgeneau received applications of plasmas.” and built MRI equipment using hyperpo- is working as a consultant for Immunicon his PhD in physics larized gases. Waymouth received a Corporation in Pennsylvania. This recent from Yale University PhD degree in physics work involves physics for medical im- in 1966. He was on from MIT in 1950, and provements, although his primary work in the faculty of Yale for 2000 HIGH POLYMER PHYSICS immediately joined the physics has been on low temperature phys- one year and then PRIZE Lighting Division ics and electron beam lithography and spent one year at Ox- Laboratories of microscopy. ford University. He Sylvania Electric Prod- Lewis J. Fetters was at Bell Laborato- ucts, Inc. He remained Fulton received his Exxon Research and Engineering ries from 1968 to 1975 and then came to in this organization for PhD in experimental Company MIT in September 1975 as Professor of the balance of his working career, although physics from Cornell Physics. He has been at MIT since then. it experienced numerous changes of cor- University in 1966. Citation: “For transforming the art of an- In 1988 he became head of the depart- porate identity. His early career was spent Hen then joined Bell ionic polymerization into a powerful tool ment and in 1991 became Dean of as an individual investigator studying the Laboratories where he of polymer physics, creating and using Science. Prof. Birgeneau’s research is physics and chemistry of electric discharge ultimately became a polymers with precisely defined molecu- primarily concerned with the phases lamps. He also made major contributions Distinguished Mem- lar architectures to advance our and phase transition behavior of novel to the development of metal halide arch ber of the Technical understanding of entanglement, miscibil- states of matter. Birgeneau has also been lamps, and holds many important patents Staff. There he has worked closely with ity, and microphase separation.” honored by the APS Oliver E. Buckley many valued colleagues, at first on Joseph- Prize. on these devices. In 1969 he was promoted Fetters received his son-junctions and recently on to be Director of R&D for the Lighting PhD in Chemistry single-electron phenomena. He retired Group, a position he held until his retire- from the University of from Bell Laboratories in 1996, but has re- 2000 JAMES C. MCGRODDY ment from GTE in 1988. He is presently Akron in 1962. He then mained involved there as a consultant. PRIZE active as a consultant in the area of dis- completed a Currently he is a part of an ongoing col- charge lamps. postdoctoral program laboration that employs a scanning M. Brian Maple at the Polymer Divi- electrometer based on the single-electron University of California, San Diego sion of the National transistor to obtain sub-micron images of 2000 BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS Bureau of Standards Citation: “For the synthesis of novel d and surface electric fields. PRIZE (now NIST) from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 f electron materials and for the study of Kastner received his to 1967, he worked as a chemist in the same their physics.” Paul K. Hansma PhD in physics in 1972 division at the National Bureau of Stan- Continued on next page University of California, Santa Barbara from the University of dards. In 1967 he joined the faculty at the Chicago. He joined the University of Akron, Department of Poly- Citation: “For pioneering contributions to MIT Department of mer Science as a Professor where he the development of biological scanning Physics in 1973, and remained until 1983 when he became as- Table of Contents probe microscopy and for the molecular became Donner Pro- sociated with the Exxon Research and resolution imaging of biological molecules fessor in 1989. Kastner Engineering Company. He has made many in aqueous solutions.” currently studies semi- technological and scientific contributions Prize and Award Hansma received his conductor nanostructures and the to the study of polymer science. Recipients PhD in physics from magnetic and electronic properties of high the University of Cali- temperature superconductors. Using 2000 FRANK ISAKSON PRIZE fornia at Berkeley. He nanostructures, with colleagues at IBM, the 1 New APS Fellows then became an Assis- Weizmann Institute and MIT, he has shown tant Professor, to the that a droplet of electrons confined in a small Paul Linford Richards University of Califor- region behaves like an artificial atom, in that University of California, Berkeley nia at Santa Barbara, both the charge and energy are quantized. Citation: “For his development of innova- where his research A transistor containing such a droplet turns Nominations for tive infrared techniques and pioneering 4 evolved through inelastic electron tunnel- on and off every time an electron is added research in far-infrared spectroscopy.” 2001 Prizes and ing and Scanning Tunneling Microscopes and is therefore called a single electron tran- to Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) for sistor (SET). In 1995 he received the APS Richards received his PhD from the Uni- Awards applications in biology and medicine. He David Adler Lectureship Award. versity of California at Berkeley in 1960, 7 Continued from page 1 Starr was the founding fundamental connection of nuclear 2000 ANEESUR RAHMAN PRIZE President, and later physics to Quantum Chromodynamics Maple is the Bernd T. Vice Chairman of the and motivated new experimental Michael J. Creutz Matthias Professor of Electric Power Re- programs.” Physics at the Univer- search Institute. After Brookhaven National Laboratory Arnold received his sity of California, San serving for more than PhD in physics from Citation: “For first demonstrating that Diego (UCSD). He re- a decade, he was ap- Boston University