The American Physical Society will honor 12 individuals and one collaboration at its meeting this month in Tampa, Florida.
Stan Woosley is receiving the Hans A. Bethe Prize for “his significant and wide-ranging contributions in the areas of stellar evolution, element synthesis, the theory of core collapse and type Ia supernovae, and the interpretation of gamma-ray bursts— most notably, the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts,” according to the citation. He is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is going to Roy J. Holt, senior physicist and chief of the medium-energy physics group at Argonne National Laboratory. He is being recognized for “his pioneering role in experimental studies of the structure of the deuteron and especially for his innovative use of polarization techniques in these experiments.”
Bryce S. DeWitt is being honored posthumously with the...
