The American Physical Society has named several recipients of its awards for 2003.
The Fluid Dynamics Prize went to Jerry Gollub for his “elucidation of chaos, instabilities, mixing and pattern formation in various contexts including fluid convection,” and for his contributions to our understanding of surface waves, film, and granular flows “through his clever experiments, lucid papers, and lively lectures.” Gollub is a professor in the natural sciences and a professor of physics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eugene Parker won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for his “seminal contributions in plasma astrophysics, including predicting the solar wind, explaining the solar dynamo, and formulating the theory of magnetic re-connection, and the instability which predicts the escape of the magnetic fields from the galaxy.” Parker is the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the department of physics,...
