APS Announces Spring 2013 Prize and Award Recipients Thirty-nine prizes and awards will be presented during special sessions at three spring meetings of the Society: the 2013 March Meeting, March 18-22, in Baltimore, MD, the 2013 April Meeting, April 13-16, in Denver, CO, and the 2013 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting, June 3-7, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Citations and biographical information for each recipient follow. The Apker Award recipients appeared in the December 2012 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 pages 8 of this insert. 2013 Prizes, Awards and Dissertations 2013 PRIZES, AWARDS & Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Irwin Shapiro graduated in Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto Physics Prize 1950 from Cornell University University and joined the activity DISSERTATIONS with a BA in mathematics, and of the Sato school. He collaborat- Luc Berger in 1955 from Harvard with a ed with Mikio Sato and Michio Carnegie Mellon University Will Allis Prize for the PhD in physics. He worked at the Jimbo on the isomonodromic John Slonczewski MIT Lincoln Laboratory from deformation theory and its appli- Study of Ionized Gases Stanford University 1954 until 1970; from 1967 until cation to the 2-dimensional Ising (Not awarded in 2013) Citation: “For predicting spin-transfer torque 1985 he was professor of earth model. Miwa is widely recog- and opening the field of current-induced control over and planetary sciences and professor of physics at nized by his work on solitons and exactly solvable Hans A. Bethe Prize magnetic nanostructures.” MIT, becoming Schlumberger professor in 1980; he lattice models in connection with the representation became emeritus in 1985. Starting in 1982 until the theory of the affine Lie algebras, and on correlation George M. Fuller Luc Berger was born in 1933 present, he has been a professor of astronomy and a functions of quantum spin chains in connection with University of California, San Diego and is now an emeritus professor professor of physics at Harvard, and a senior scientist the representation theory of the quantum affine alge- Citation: “For outstanding contributions to of Physics at Carnegie Mellon. at the Smithsonian Institution. From 1983 through bras. These works are joint works with Jimbo, with nuclear astrophysics, especially his seminal work He received his BSc in Mathe- mid 2004, he was the director of the Harvard-Smith- whom he was awarded the Heineman prize. Since on weak interaction rates for stellar evolution and matical Sciences at the University sonian Center for Astrophysics. His research centered 1993 he is Professor at Kyoto University, in RIMS collapse and his pioneering research on neutrino of Lausanne in 1955 and his PhD on the use of radio and radar techniques for testing (~2000) and in Math Department (2000~). flavor-mixing in supernovae.” in 1960. He did his postdoctoral general relativity, and for studying the earth and plan- research fellowship with help George Fuller is Distin- ets, as well as stars and quasars. He has also been from the Swiss National Science Foundation at Carn- Frank Isakson Prize guished Professor of Physics deeply involved in pre-college science education. egie Mellon University from 1960 thorough 1961 and at the University of California, for Optical Effects in Solids was an instructor there until 1963. He was an assistant San Diego, and the Director of (Not awarded in 2013) professor of physics at CMU until 1967, then an asso- Fluid Dynamics Prize (2012) the Center for Astrophysics and ciate professor until 1973. He was a visiting associate Space Sciences (CASS) there. John F. Brady professor at UCLA in 1973 and 1974 before returning Irving Langmuir Prize Fuller’s work has revolved California Institute of Technology to CMU to become a Professor of Physics until 1995 Wilson Ho around the interplay of the weak Citation: “For his seminal contributions to when he became a professor emeritus. interaction, nuclei, and gravitation in the cosmos. The the rheology of “complex fluids”, for creating the University of California, Irvine recent focus of his work has been on neutrino phys- Stokesian Dynamics technique for predicting the Citation: “For his development and application ics, in particular the role of neutrino mass and flavor John Slonczewski received macroscopic properties of concentrated supensions of transformative experiments that have allowed the mixing in the early universe and in core collapse su- the Physics BS at Worcester under shear, and for his services to Fluid Dynamics visualization of physical and chemical phenomena pernovae, the synthesis of the light and heavy nuclei, Polytechnic Institute in 1950 and as Associate Editor and Editor, respectively, of two top within molecules at the atomic scale.” journals.” and cosmology. the Physics PhD at Rutgers Uni- Wilson Ho received his BS versity in 1955. He pursued sol- John F. Brady is the Chevron and MS degrees in chemistry id-state theory as Research Staff Tom W. Bonner Prize Professor of Chemical Engineer- from the California Institute of Member in IBM from 1955 until ing and Professor of Mechanical Technology in 1975, and his PhD in Nuclear Physics retiring in 2002. Engineering at the California in physics from the University of Michael K. Moe His research in solids included fundamental Institute of Technology. He re- Pennsylvania in 1979. He spent University of California, Irvine theories of graphite bands, dynamic Jahn-Teller ef- ceived his BS in chemical en- a year at the AT&T Bell Labora- Citation: “For his leadership in the first observation fect, and structural phase transitions. But he mostly gineering from the University tories and was on the faculty at of the rare process of two neutrino double beta decay, concentrated on magnetism, including magnetic an- of Pennsylvania in 1975, which Cornell University prior to joining the University of where his creative contributions were instrumental to isotropy, dynamics of bubble domains, magnetore- was followed by a year at Cambridge University as a California, Irvine in 2000. Over the last 15 years, he its successful detection and transformed the field.” sistance and spin-transfer torque between magnetic Churchill Scholar. He received both an MS and PhD has used homemade scanning tunneling microscopes films separated by tunnel barriers or metallic spacers, Michael Moe received his in chemical engineering from Stanford University, (STM) to investigate single atoms, molecules, and ar- dynamics of magnetic vortices, and exchange interac- bachelor’s degree from Stanford the latter in 1981. Following a postdoctoral year in tificial nanostructures on solid surfaces. His key dis- tions between films. Some of this work contributes University in 1959. Graduate Paris at ESPCI, he joined the Chemical Engineer- coveries include the realization of inelastic electron critically to magnetic-memory initiatives. At times, work under Frederick Reines at ing department at MIT. Brady moved to Caltech in tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy of molecule he managed groups of general theorists and magne- Case Institute of Technology led 1985. Brady’s research interests are in the mechanical vibrations, spin excitations, and light emission in the tism experimentalists. His personal research today to a PhD in 1965. He spent a year and transport properties of two-phase materials, espe- interior of single molecules. Some of his research re- involves thermallly-driven spin transfer. as a postdoc at Caltech, doing cially complex fluids such as biological liquids, col- sults have appeared in textbooks. cloud-chamber studies of high- loid dispersions, suspensions, porous media, etc. His energy cosmic-ray interactions. research combines statistical and continuum mechan- Davisson-Germer Prize in ics to understand how macroscopic behavior emerges Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize In 1966 he moved to the University of Califor- Atomic or Surface Physics nia, Irvine, where he recognized that a cloud chamber from microscale physics. Margaret Geller would mitigate a troublesome 214Bi background. Geraldine L. Richmond Harvard-Smithsonian CFA Moe designed a TPC for double beta decay to finally University of Oregon Dannie Heineman Prize Citation: “For her pioneering work leading to the see the first solid evidence of two-neutrino decay in Citation: “For elegant elucidation of molecular for Mathematical Physics discovery of the large-scale structure of the universe structure and organization at liquid-liquid and liquid- and for her extraordinary contributions to science 82Se in 1987. Michio Jimbo air interfaces, using nonlinear optical spectroscopies.” education of diverse audiences around the world.” His group went on to measure this rare decay in Rikkyo University 48Ca, 100Mo, and 150Nd. In a 1991 paper outlined Geraldine (Geri) Richmond Margaret Geller received steps toward the vast increase in sensitivity needed is the Richard M. and Patricia H. Tetsuji Miwa her BA (physics) from UC Berke- for a serious search for neutrinoless decay. Noyes Professor in the Depart- Kyoto University ley in 1970 and her PhD from the Moe retired from UCI in 1997, but remains a ment of Chemistry at the Uni- Citation: “For profound developments in Princeton University physics de- member of EXO. versity of Oregon.