At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last month, the Archaeological Institute of America, located in Boston, presented the 2002 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology to Garman Harbottle. He was recognized for his “contributions in the development of the archaeological sciences and being at the forefront of applying nuclear sciences to problems in archaeology, especially in the fields of proveniencing, radiocarbon dating, and archaeometallurgy.” Harbottle is a senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
Last month at the 91st session of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research scientific council in Dubna, Russia, the JINR presented the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize to Nicholas Samios, Distinguished Senior Scientist with Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and former director of BNL. The JINR recognized Samios for his “outstanding contribution to particle physics.”
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan joined the University of Maryland, College Park, in January as a Distinguished University...
