The US physics team achieved the top overall score of the 54 countries participating in the 34th International Physics Olympiad in Taipei, Taiwan, in August. The five high-school students won three gold and two silver medals and earned four special prizes. South Korea, with three gold and two silver medals, came in second, and Taiwan placed third.
Gold medalist Pavel Batrachenko of Rochester, Minnesota, was the overall winner at the Olympiad, and shared the prize for the best experimental score with a student from Thailand. Other US gold medal winners were Chintan Hossain of Wilmington, Delaware, and Daniel Gulotta of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Gulotta also won the prize for the best score on the theoretical portion of the Olympiad. Emily Russell of Yorktown Heights, New York, won a silver medal and took the prize for the best score among female participants. Immanuel Buder of Alexandria, Virginia, took home a silver medal....
