At its annual March Meeting, which is being held this year in Los Angeles (see the meeting preview on page 55), the American Physical Society is giving out numerous awards, medals, and prizes.
The David Adler Lectureship Award is being presented to Ramamoorthy Ramesh, professor in the physics department and the materials science and engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. The society cites his “contributions to materials physics that have enabled a deeper understanding of ferroelectric materials, the discovery of colossal magnetoresistance, and leadership in communicating the excitement of materials physics to a broad audience.”
Nathan Hodas, currently a PhD student at Caltech, is receiving the LeRoy Apker Award for undergraduate research done at a non-PhD-granting institution for his thesis entitled “Oligo–RNA Optimal Binding Calculation,” which he wrote under the supervision of Daniel P. Aalberts at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
The Edward A. Bouchet Award is...
