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APS Announces 2015 Prize & Award Recipients Thirty-Eight prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring meetings of the Society: the March Meeting 2015, March 2-6, in San Antonio, TX, the April Meeting 2015, April 11-14, in Baltimore, MD, and the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting 2015, June 8-12, in Columbus, OH. Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients appeared in the December 2014 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. 2015 HERBERT P. BROIDA PRIZE ARTHUR F. HEBARD received his B.A. Prizes Michael Ashfold, University of Bristol in physics from Yale University in 1962 For his innovative work on molecular photodynamics, especially in combining and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2015 HANS A. BETHE PRIZE multiwavelength experiments on small molecules, high quality electronic 1971. His thesis work focused on an ex- James Lattimer, State University of New York, Stony Brook structure calculations, and physical organic chemistry concepts into a perimental search for free quarks residing For outstanding theoretical work connecting observations of supernovae “bigger picture” for broad understanding of experimental photodynamics on magnetically suspended superconduct- and neutron stars with neutrino emission and the equation of state of matter of systems of increasing complexity. ing spheres. In 1972 Hebard became a beyond nuclear density. MICHAEL ASHFOLD received his B.Sc. member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell JAMES LATTIMER received his B.S. in 1975 and Ph.D. degree in 1978 from Telephone Laboratories, where he special- in physics from Notre Dame in 1972 and the University of Birmingham, prior to ized in research on thin-film superconduc- his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at postdoctoral research at Oxford Univer- tors. This research included the discovery Austin in 1976. His thesis explored black sity and appointment as a Lecturer, Reader of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped carbon sixty (C60). In 1996 hole—neutron star collisions, and he pro- and, since 1992, professor of physical Hebard moved to the University of Florida, where he is currently a dis- posed that decompression of neutron star chemistry at the University of Bristol. His tinguished professor of physics specializing in the study of magnetism in matter could be the source of r-process research interests include molecular pho- graphene, semiconductors, thin films, and at thin film interfaces of com- elements. Since 1979 he has been on the tochemistry, diamond growth by chemical plex oxides. He is co-author on more than 260 peer-reviewed papers, faculty in the earth and space sciences and vapor deposition methods, and the physics holds 10 patents, and currently serves as an associate editor for Reviews the physics and astronomy departments at and application of pulsed laser ablation of Modern Physics. Hebard is a fellow of APS and the American Asso- Stony Brook University. He was appointed processes. His recent activities seek to ex- ciation for the Advancement of Science, and is a recipient of the APS a Distinguished Professor in 2013. His ear- plore the extent to which knowledge gained from studying prototypical ly work also concerned gravitational collapse supernovae, and he helped small molecules can inform our understanding of the photochemistry of James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. develop an equation of state for hot, dense matter. His 1986 simulations, larger, more complex systems, and the extent to which understanding with A. Burrows, of newly-formed neutron stars, or proto-neutron stars, derived from gas phase studies can inform our understanding of solu- AHARON KAPITULNIK is the Theo- closely matched neutrino observations from SN 1987A. Lattimer is a tion-phase photochemistry. His research has been recognized by vari- dore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor fellow of APS and a member of the American Astronomical Society, ous awards including the Marlow Award, Corday-Morgan Prize, Tilden in Applied Physics at Stanford Univer- the International Astronomical Union, and the American Geophysical Prize, and Liversidge Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, an sity. He received both his undergraduate Union. He has received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, the Ernest Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Senior Research degree, in 1978, and his Ph.D., in 1983, F. Fullam Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Yukawa Fellowship, Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research fellow- from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Shortly Visiting Professorship. ships, and a Daiwa-Adrian Prize. He was elected to fellowship of the thereafter he joined the applied physics Royal Society in 2009. department at Stanford, and since 1993 he 2015 TOM W. BONNER PRIZE has held a joint appointment in the applied 2015 OLIVER E. BUCKLEY CONDENSED physics and physics departments. Kapitul- IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS (2) nik’s research focuses on phenomena as- Miklos Gyulassy, Columbia University MATTER PHYSICS PRIZE (4) sociated with the behavior of correlated and disordered electron systems, Howard Wieman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara particularly in reduced dimensions, and the development of precision For developing foundational experimental and theoretical tools to enable Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota detection instrumentation. In particular he developed the Sagnac Inter- and guide generations of experiments in relativistic heavy ion physics. The Arthur F. Hebard, University of Florida ferometer for sensitive detection of time-reversal symmetrybreaking ef- combination of experiment and theory led to the initial discoveries at RHIC, Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University fects in solids, and novel, cantilever-based instrumentation for testing ongoing precision studies of the properties of hot nuclear matter, and to For discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductorinsulator the inverse square law of gravity at sub-mm distances. He has also been exploration of the nuclear matter phase diagram. transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions. engaged in scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies of MIKLOS GYULASSY received his B.A. MATTHEW FISHER obtained a bache- correlated electron systems. Among other recognitions, he was awarded and Ph.D. from the University of Califor- lor’s degree in engineering physics from an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, nia, Berkeley. Between 1974 and 1976 he Cornell University in 1981, and a Ph.D. in and the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize. He is a fellow of APS and the Ameri- was a postdoctoral fellow with W. Greiner theoretical physics from the University of can Academy of Arts and Sciences. in Frankfurt, where his interests turned to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. He the theory of high density nuclear mat- was a visiting scientist and then research ter and the phenomenology of relativistic staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Re- 2015 DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE IN ATOMIC heavy ion reactions. He moved to Colum- search Center from 1986 to 1993, before OR SURFACE PHYSICS (2) bia University in 1992 as a professor of joining the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Tai-Chang Chiang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign physics. In 2004, he proposed with Larry Physics in Santa Barbara. In 2007 Fisher For his elegant demonstration of multiple quantum well resonances in McLerran an interpretation of the first joined Microsoft Research Station Q as a metallic thin films achieved by growing films of unprecedented uniformity, three years of RHIC data that pointed to research physicist, and was on the Caltech and his demonstration and use of quantum effects to understand and control the discovery at RHIC of two new forms of ultra-dense QCD matter: the faculty from 2009 to 2010. Since 2010 Fisher has been in the University the stability of thin films. strongly-interacting quarkgluon plasma and its color glass condensate of California, Santa Barbara physics department. Fisher’s research has nuclear initial state. Gyulassy is a fellow of APS and a foreign member of focused broadly on theories of strongly interacting quantum many-body TAI-CHANG CHIANG received a B.S. in the Hungarian Academy of Science. He has received the Alexander von systems, especially those which exhibit exotic behavior. Fisher received physics from the National Taiwan Univer- Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists and the Ernest Or- the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, as sity in 1971 and a Ph.D. in physics from lando Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy (DOE). He par- well as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award for Initiatives in the University of California, Berkeley in ticipated in the 1983 and 1996 DOE nuclear science long-range planning Research (1997). He was elected as a member of the American Academy 1978. After working for two years as a committees and has served on several national lab advisory committees. of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and to the NAS in 2012. postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined the Department HOWARD WIEMAN received his B.S. ALLEN GOLDMAN was born in the of Physics at the University of Illinois at from Oregon State University and com- Bronx and attended the Bronx High Urbana-Champaign in 1980. There he pleted his Ph.D. under Isaac Halpern at School of Science. He received his A.B. served as the associate director of the Fred- the University of Washington, Seattle in in physics and chemistry from Harvard 1975. After a postdoc at the University in 1958 and his Ph.D. in physics from erick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of Colorado, he started at the Lawrence Stanford in 1965.