Eight winners of the US Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award have been named. They were honored during a March ceremony in Washington, DC, for exceptional contributions to R&D that support DOE and its mission to advance the US's national, economic, and energy security. The award in each of the seven categories carries a gold medal and a $50 000 purse.
Paul Alivisatos and Moungi Bawendi jointly received the award in the materials research category “for chemical synthesis and characterization of functional semiconducting nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots.” Alivisatos is the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also is a chemistry and materials science professor; he is the associate laboratory director for physical sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Bawendi is a chemistry professor at MIT.
Malcolm J. Andrews took the honor in the national security category “for pioneering...
