At the White House in July, President Bush honored the 60 recipients of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. He delivered an address at the ceremony, marking the first time a US president has attended the presentation. The PECASE awards are the nation’s highest honor for young researchers at the outset of their professional careers.

Among the winners, the following 26 are involved in physics or physics-related work: Douglas E. Adams of Purdue University, Ian M. Anderson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Philip J. Bart of Louisiana State University, James J. Bock of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Steven Brown of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Aeronomy Laboratory and the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and Vince Cianciolo of ORNL.

Also honored were Stephane Coutu of Pennsylvania State University, James H. Crawford of NASA’s Langley Research Center, Steven A. Cummer of...

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