The following awards were presented at the AAPT 2013 Summer Meeting in Portland
The Robert A. Millikan Medal for 2013 was presented to Harvey Gould for his notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics. Gould has been a pioneer in computational and statistical physics education. Throughout his career, he has worked to develop collaboration and communication among his colleagues while supporting the common good, making unique and important contributions to the community of physicists and physics educators. The title of his talk was “New Challenges for Old Physics Departments.“
He earned his AB and PhD in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and did postdoctoral work at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST). After four years at the University of Michigan, he began teaching at Clark University, Worcester, MA, in 1971. In the early 1980s he made important contributions in the development of computer simulations for...