The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, presented the Wolfgang Paul Award—only this once—to 14 top-ranked scientists and scholars at a ceremony in Berlin last November. The objective of the award, said the foundation, is to offer the winners ideal working conditions at a research institute in Germany so they may pursue their research projects “free from red tape, while building up their own working groups with highly qualified younger academics in Germany.” Of the recipients, the following work in a physicsrelated field: Ataç Imamoglu, Josef Käs, Alexei Khokhlov, Roberto Ragazzoni, Alexander V. Sobolev, and Andrew Webb.
Imamoglu’s research focuses on investigating the optical properties of nanostructures and their applications in quantum information science. The goal of his research, noted the foundation, is to control and manipulate spin degrees of freedom of an electron confined inside a quantum dot. A professor in both the physics and the...
