The American Physical Society honors the recipients of several of its awards, prizes, and medals at the annual March meeting in Montreal this month from the 22nd to the 26th (see the meeting preview on page 65).
The Biological Physics Prize goes to Peter G. Wolynes, professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is being cited for his “conceptual breakthroughs in protein dynamics and protein folding” and his “critical insights toward the understanding of how proteins work at the most fundamental level.”
Tom C. Lubensky and David R. Nelson are corecipients of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics for 2004. They share the prize for their “seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including the prediction and elucidation of the properties of new, partially ordered phases of complex materials.” Lubensky is the Mary Amanda Wood Professor of...
