APS Announces Spring 2005 Prize and Award Recipients Numerous APS prizes and awards pioneering role in experimental studies of and a Max Planck Research Award in 1994. resolved spati otemporal spectroscopies and will be presented during special the structure of the deuteron and especially In 2002 she was appointed as the first micromagnetic sensing techniques aimed at sessions at three spring meetings of the for his innovative use of polarization holder of the Women in Science and exploring charge and spin motion in the Society: the 2005 March Meeting, techniques in these experiments .” Engineering Gabilan Chair. quantum domain. 21-25 March, in Los Angeles, Califor- Holt received his BS degree (1969) from nia; the 2005 April Meeting, OLIVER BUCKLEY PRIZE Sarachik earned a BA cum laude from 16-19 April, in Tampa, Florida; and the Southern Methodist University and his Gabriel Aeppli Barnard College in 1954, and a MS and 2005 meeting of the APS Division of MPh (1971) and PhD (1972) degrees from Yale University. He served on the research University College, London PhD in 1957 and 1960, respectively, from Atomic, Molecular and Optical Phys- Columbia University. Following research staff at Yale University until 1974, when David Awschalom ics, 17-21 May in Lincoln, Nebraska. associate positions at IBM Watson Citations and biographical infor- he joined the staff of the Physics Division University of California – Santa Barbara at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1994 Laboratories at Columbia University mation for each recipient follow. This Myriam Sarachik (1961-1962) and at Bell Laboratories (1962- year’s Apker Award recipients he became a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- City College of New York 1964), she joined the faculty of City College appeared in the December 2004 issue of New York as an of APS News [www.aps.org]. Champaign, where he also assistant professor Additional biographical information Citation: “For fundamental contri- of physics, where and appropriate web links can be served as a butions to experimental studies of quantum Director of the she was promoted found at the APS web site (http:// spin dynamics and spin coherence in through the ranks www.aps.org/praw/index.cfm). Nuclear Physics condensed matter systems.” Laboratory and to Distinguished Nominations for most prizes and Professor in 1995. awards are now being accepted. continued Aeppli is the Quain Professor of experiments at Physics and head of the Condensed Sarachik has For details, please see pages 7 and 8 served the physic of this insert. Jefferson Lab, Matter and Materials Physics Group at DESY-Hamburg University College London (UCL), as well community in PRIZES (HERMES experiment) and IUCF. He as director of the many ways, including as a member (and returned to Argonne in 2000, where he London Centre for chair) of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the NRC, the Human HANS BETHE PRIZE serves as chief of the Medium Energy Nanotechnology, Physics group in the Physics Division. His a joint venture Rights Committee of the New York Stanford E. Woosley present research interests include the between Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Board of UCSC structure of the nucleon and nucleus as College and UCL. the Committee of Concerned Scientists. Citation: “For his significant and wide well as a search for a non-zero electric Prior to taking up She served as APS president in 2003. An ranging contributions in the areas of stellar dipole moment in 225Ra. He has served these posts in the experimentalist working at low evolution, element synthesis, the theory of on program advisory committees for autumn of 2002, temperatures, Sarachik has investigated core collapse and type Ia supernovae, and the several accelerator facilities, NSAC he was a senior superconductors, disordered metallic interpretation of gamma-ray bursts—most subcommittees, panels for DOE and research scientist for NEC (Princeton), a alloys, metal-insulator transitions in notably, the collapsar model of gamma-ray NSF, and editorial boards of Physical Distinguished Member of Technical Staff doped semiconductors, hopping bursts.” Review C, Nuclear Physics A and the at Bell Laboratories, a research assistant transport in solids, strongly interacting Journal of Physics G. at MIT, and an industrial co-op student at electrons in two dimensions, and spin Woosley received his BA in physics in IBM. He obtained a BSc. in Mathematics tunneling in nanomagnets. 1966, and his PhD in space science in 1971, and PhD, MSc and BSc in Electrical both from Rice University. He spent three HERBERT P. BROIDA PRIZE Engineering from MIT. His research years as a post at Caltech’s Kellogg Radiation Hanna Reisler interests include magnetism, super- DAVISSON-GERMER PRIZE Laboratory, working on nuclear physics University of Southern California conductivity, quantum information issues related to the synthesis of heavy Citation: “For theoretical insights and Ernst G. Bauer processing, nanotechnology, and particle elements in stars. In carefully executed experiments on the Arizona State University accelerator-based probes of condensed particular, he detailed dynamics of small molecules.” matter. helped calculate the Citation: “For contributions to the Reisler obtained her BSc and MSc set of nuclear science of thin-film nucleation and growth, degrees from the Hebrew University of reaction rates used Awschalom received his BSc in physics and for the invention of Low Energy Jerusalem, Israel, in 1964 and 1966, for studies of from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Electron Microscope.” nuclear energy respectively, and a PhD in physical Champaign, and his PhD in experimental generation and chemistry from the Weizmann Institute physics from Cornell University. He was a Bauer received nucleosynthesis in 1972. She was awarded an Atomic research staff member and manager of the his MS (1953) and throughout the Energy Agency Fellowship to pursue Nonequilibrium PhD (1955), both in 1980s and most of the 1990s. From 1975 to postdoctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins Physics Depar- physics, from the present he has been on the faculty of University during 1972-1974. From 1974 tment at the IBM Munich University, UCSC’s Department of Astronomy and to 1977, she was a group leader of the Watson Research Germany. In 1958 Astrophysics, serving repeatedly as Chemical Laser Project at the Soreq Center in he moved to the department chair over the years. His Nuclear Research Center in Yavne, Israel. Yorktown Heights, Michelson Labor- research centers on nuclear astrophysics, She came to USC in 1977 and held research New York. In 1991 atory in China stellar evolution, supernova models, and positions in the Depart-ments of Electrical he joined the Lake, California, gamma-ray bursts. Most recently, he has Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. She University of where he became head of the Crystal been working on multi-dimensional models was appointed associate professor of California, Santa for supernovae and gamma-ray bursts and chemistry in 1987 Barbara as a professor of physics, and in Table of Contents invented the currently popular “collapsar” and professor in 2001 was additionally appointed as a model (aka, the hypernova) for bursts. 1991. Her research professor of electrical and computer Woosley is also a co-investigator for NASA’s interests are in the engineering. He is presently director of the Prize and Award High Energy Transient Explorer, dedicated area of reaction Center for Spintronics and Quantum Recipients to the study of gamma-ray bursts, and is dynamics, in Computation, and associate director of the 1 principal investigator and director of the particular photo- California Nanosystems Institute. His group Department of Energy’s SciDAC Supernova dissociation has research activities in optical and New APS Science Center, devoted to the study of dynamics and magnetic interactions in semiconductor Fellows supernovae by numerical simulation. unimolecular quantum structures, spin dynamics and 5 reactions of small gas-phase molecules coherence in condensed matter systems, TOM W. BONNER PRIZE and radicals studied by imaging macroscopic quantum phenomena in Nominations for techniques and interactions of molecules nanometer-scale magnets, and Roy Holt on thin films and on single crystal surfaces. implementations of quantum information 2005 Prizes and Argonne National Laboratory She has won the NSF Faculty Award for 8 processing in the solid state. He has Awards Citation: “In recognition of his Women Scientists and Engineers in 1991, developed a variety of femtosecond- Physics Branch and US citizen. In 1969 he of elementary particles, theory of phase Germany, and joined the faculty at “50 Most accepted the position of professor and transitions and statistical mechanics, Princeton in 1979. He was promoted to Important Women director of the Physics Institute at the mathematical physics and string theory, associate professor of physics in 1984 and in Science “ in 2002. Technical University Clausthal in disordered systems, neural networks to professor in 1989. In 2002 he was chair She first joined Bell Germany. In 1991 he was appointed theoretical immunology, computers and of the APS Division of Biological Physics of Labs in 1978 as a Distinguished Research Professor at the very large-scale simulations of QCD, non- the American Physical Society. Austin’s member of the Arizona State University. His classic early equilibrium statistical physics and research spans a number of different technical staff. She work on the classification of thin film optimization methods. However, his topics in biological physics including was pro-moted to a growth modes, which is used worldwide deepest contribution concerns the fractionation of DNA in microlithographic number of today, provided the theoretical solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick arrays, the study of energy flow in positions over the thermodynamic understanding of epitaxy. mean field model for spin glasses. Parisi biomolecules and the study of ultra-rapid years, including department head for low In 1962 he invented LEEM (Low Energy proposed his replica symmetry breaking diffusion mixing. temperature physics, department head for Electron Microscopy).