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Spring 2009 Prizes & Awards APS Announces Spring 2009 Prize and Award Recipients Thirty-seven APS prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring appeared in the December 2008 issue of APS News (http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200812/ meetings of the Society: the 2009 March Meeting, March16-20, in Pittsburgh, PA; the 2009 April index.cfm). Meeting, May 2-5, in Denver, CO; and the 2009 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting, Additional biographical information and appropriate web links can be found at the APS website May 19-23, in Charlottesville, VA. (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm). Nominations for most of next year’s prizes and Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients awards are now being accepted. For details, see page 8 of this of this insert. 2009 PRIZES, AWARDS positions at the University been a scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, MIT, tronic embedding methods in quantum chemistry, AND DISSERTATIONS of Freiburg, the University where he is group leader of the Thin Film Magnetism, accurate models for theoretical thermochemistry, and of Kaiserslautern, and the Tunneling and Nano Spintronics group. His research on metal oxide clusters to explore their roles in cata- University of Würzburg. interest focuses on fundamental and applied physics lytic activity. Will Allis Prize for the His research interests in- that includes nanospintronics–spin polarized trans- Study of Ionized Gases clude femtosecond laser port and tunneling, thin film magnetism, supercon- spectroscopy, non-linear Max Delbruck Prize in ductivity and phase-change materials. He pioneered Biological Physics NEXT PRIZE AWARDED IN 2010 optics, ultrafast (femtosec- the study of ferromagnet-insulator-ferromagnet tun- ond and attosecond) lasers, nel junctions (MTJ). NEXT PRIZE TO BE AWARDED IN 2010 adaptive femtosecond pulse shaping, coherent control Hans A. Bethe Prize Paul Tedrow received of chemical reactions, soft-X-ray generation through a Ph.D. in physics from David Arnett high harmonic generation, and femtosecond quantum Cornell University in 1966. Einstein Prize University of Arizona control of molecular switches and bond-forming cata- After spending a year as a James B. Hartle lytic reactions. Citation: “For his outstanding and fundamental post-doc at Cornell, Tedrow University of California, Santa Barbara began working with Robert work on how nuclear reactions shape multi- Citation: “For a broad range of fundamental Meservey at MIT’s Francis dimensional and partly out-of-equilibrium evolution Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter contributions to relativistic stars, quantum fields Bitter National Magnet Lab- of stars and supernova explosions and their yields of Physics Prize in curved spacetime, and especially quantum oratory in July 1967. Their new isotopes.” cosmology.” Robert Meservey investigations of the effects of electron spin paramag- David Arnett received Massachusetts Institute of Technology netism on the critical field of high-field superconduc- James B. Hartle was a B.S. in physics from the tors led to the discovery in 1970 of the splitting of educated at Princeton Uni- Terunobu Miyazaki University of Kentucky in the quasiparticle density of states of superconductors versity (A.B., 1960), and 1961 and a Ph.D. in phys- Tohoku University in a magnetic field. The experiments were extended the California Institute of ics from Yale University in to include ferromagnets and other superconductors. Technology where he com- 1965. He has held positions Jagadeesh Moodera Massachusetts Institute of Technology With some diversion caused by the discovery of high- pleted a Ph.D. in 1964. He at Caltech, Rice University, has held positions at the In- Tc superconductivity, Tedrow’s career was spent fol- UT Austin, University of Il- Paul Tedrow lowing various paths implied by the initial findings. stitute for Advanced Study, linois, Champaign-Urbana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology He spent the summer of 1983 as a visiting scientist at Princeton University, and University of Chicago (En- Stanford University. He retired from MIT and physics the University of Chicago. Citation: “To Robert Meservey, Terunobu Miyazaki, rico Fermi Institute), University of Arizona (1988- in July 1998. He is currently Research Professor and Professor Jagadeesh Moodera and Paul Tedrow for pioneering present). Arnett performed the first radiation hydro- of Physics Emeritus at the University of California, work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for dynamic simulations of gravitational collapse and the Santa Barbara and an external faculty member of the the application of these phenomena to the field of first simulations of thermonuclear supernovae. With Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Santa Fe Institute. His scientific work is concerned magnetoelectronics.” collaborators and students, he showed that super- or Surface Physics with the application of general relativity to realistic novae yielded quantitative predictions of elemental Robert Meservey, re- astrophysical situations, especially cosmology. He Yves Chabal and isotopic abundances in agreement with data. He ceived a B.A. from Dart- has contributed to the understanding of gravitational University of Texas, Dallas predicted new types of supernovae (types Ib and Ic) mouth College in 1943. waves, relativistic stars, and black holes. He is cur- which were discovered a few years later. He and his In the army from 1943 to Krishnan Raghavachari rently interested in the quantum origin of the universe collaborators simulated stars in 2D and 3D, discov- 1946, he served in the Tenth Indiana University and the earliest moments of the big bang where the ering instabilities relevant to SN1987A and devising Mountain Division and subjects of quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, and analytic theory to capture the effects of turbulence. Citation: “For the individual development at the Engineer Research cosmology overlap. and collaborative application of fundamental and Development Labora- surface infrared spectroscopy an quantum chemical Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear tory (ERDL). He worked at methods to silicon surface reactions important in Fluid Dynamics Prize (2008) ERDL as a civilian physicist from 1951 to 1955. In Physics microelectronics.” Julio Maria Ottino 1961 he received a Ph.D. from Yale University. He Robert D. McKeown Yves Jean Chabal cur- Northwestern University California Institute of Technology joined the MIT research staff at the Lincoln Labora- tory in 1961, moving to the National Magnet Labora- rently holds the Texas In- Citation: “For outstanding contributions to the Citation: “For his pioneering work on studying tory in 1963. He retired and became a visiting sci- struments Distinguished fundamental understanding of chaotic mixing in nucleon structure using parity-violating electron entist in 1994. His research centered on tunneling Chair in Nanoelectronics at laminar flows, to mixing and segregation in granular scattering, in particular for the first measurement of studies of superconductors in magnetic fields. In 1970 the University of Texas at flows and for ground-breaking experimental work that the strange quark contribution to the electromagnetic Meservey and collaborators discoverd spin-polarized Dallas. He obtained his B.A. has led to the broad application of these concepts.” structure of the proton.” in physics from Princeton electron tunneling. In 1994 he helped analyze Mood- Julio M. Ottino is cur- Robert D. McKeown era’s successful tunneling experiment between ferro- University in 1974 and his rently Dean of the Robert received a B.S. in phys- magnetic metals at room temperature. Ph.D. in physics from Cor- R. McCormick School of ics in 1974 from Stony Terunobu Miyazaki nell University in 1980. He then spent 22 years at Bell Engineering and Applied Brook University in Stony received his B.S., M.S. and Laboratories, where he studied fundamental process- Sciences at Northwest- Brook, NY where he first Ph.D. in applied physics es relevant to the microelectronics industry, and de- ern University. He was the developed an interest in from Tohoku University in veloped with Krishnan Raghavachari a mechanistic founder and co-director of experimental nuclear phys- 1967, 1969 and 1972, re- understanding of hydrogen passivation and oxidation the Northwestern Institute ics. He continued his work spectively. From 1973 to of silicon surfaces. He was then a faculty member at on Complex Systems and in the subject as a graduate 1975 he was a research as- Rutgers University and the Director of the Laboratory was Chairman of the Depart- student at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. sociate and a Humboldt re- for Surface Modification, where he developed in-situ ment of Chemical and Biological Engineering during in physics in 1979. After one year on the scientific 1992-2000. Ottino’s research has impacted fields as search fellow at University methods to study atomic layer deposition and chemi- staff at Argonne National Laboratory, McKeown took diverse as fluid dynamics, granular dynamics, micro- of Regensburg, Germany. He worked as a professor cal functionalization of silicon surfaces. He joined a position at the California Institute of Technology. fluidics, geophysical sciences, and nonlinear dynam- at Tohoku University from 1991 until March 2007. UT Dallas in 2008 and works on hydrogen storage His research interests have included studies of weak and nanoelectronics. ics and chaos. He is an Advisor