At its annual March meeting, held this year in Indianapolis, Indiana, the American Physical Society will present 15 prizes and awards for distinguished research or service.
The occasion will be the debut of the George E. Valley Jr Prize, a biannual prize created at the bequest of its namesake to recognize one individual, under age 30, for his or her outstanding scientific contribution to the knowledge of physics. The inaugural recipient will be David Goldhaber-Gordon, an assistant professor in the department of physics and in the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Stanford University. He is being honored for “the discovery and elucidation of the physics of the Kondo effect in single electron transistors.”
APS will give its David Adler Lectureship Award to Chris G. Van de Walle, a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, for his “incisive theoretical contributions to the understanding of the...
