At its annual meeting in Washington, DC, this past October, the National Academy of Engineering awarded this year’s Arthur M. Bueche Award to Ian M. Ross in honor of “his contributions to semiconductor development, his leadership of engineering for communications networks and the Apollo program, and his role in shaping national policies affecting the semiconductor industry.” Ross, the president of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, from 1979 to 1991, retired from Bell Labs in 1992.
Also at its annual meeting, the NAE presented this year’s NAE Founders Award to Chang-Lin Tien, university professor emeritus and NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recognized for “his pioneering contributions in gas thermal radiation, thermal insulation, and microscale heat transfer, as well as his leadership in education for youth around the world.”
In August, David W. Tank accepted a joint appointment as a professor in the departments of physics and molecular biology at Princeton University. He previously was the director of the biological computation research department at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
At a ceremony in his home on the Stanford University campus this past summer, Edward Teller was honored with the Hungarian Corvin Medal, which was revived this year, having been last awarded in 1930. Teller is a director emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a senior research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. The Hungarian government, which bestowed the award, recognized him for having “helped end the Cold War without bloodshed.” Teller, a native of Hungary who has won numerous awards, said that he believes this to be his greatest achievement. He also was cited for his accomplishments as a poet and pianist.
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (National Academy of Lincei) in Rome presented Morton Gurtin with this year’s Cataldo e Angiola Agostinelli International Prize in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at the academy’s annual meeting this past June. Gurtin, Alumni Professor of Mathematical Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was recognized for his work as an active collaborator with the Italian school of continuum mechanics. His main contributions have been in the field of crystalline plasticity. The prize included a cash award of 30 million liras (about $14 000).
In August, Ann F. Whitaker was named the new director of the science directorate at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Whitaker replaces M. Franklin Rose, who is now vice president for research at Radiance Technologies in Huntsville.
Next April, the American Chemical Society will present the 2002 Award in Analytical Chemistry to Alan G. Marshall at the society’s national meeting to be held in Orlando, Florida. Marshall is being recognized for his “pioneering comprehensive development of theory, instrumentation, and analytical applications of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry.” He is the Kasha Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University and director of the ion cyclotron resonance program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee.
The 2001 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society was awarded to Jean M. J. Frechet at the society’s national meeting in Chicago, in August. A professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Frechet was honored for his “design of functional polymer materials and his creative work in organic polymer synthesis.” The award included a $5000 cash prize and a $40 000 research grant.
The American Society for Engineering Education, at its annual conference and exposition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this past June, presented the 2001 Glenn Murphy Award to Yassin A. Hassan, a professor of nuclear engineering and coordinator of the nuclear engineering graduate program at Texas A&M University. Hassan was honored in part for being “an effective mentor of students and for his emphasis on the professional development of students through invaluable international experiences.” The award is given annually to a distinguished nuclear educator to recognize notable professional contributions to the teaching of undergraduate or graduate nuclear engineering students.
Fusion Power Associates has named the recipients of its 2001 awards. The winners of the 2001 Leadership Awards are Robert J. Goldston, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, and Ron Parker, a professor in the electrical and nuclear engineering departments at MIT. FPA’s Distinguished Career Award winners are Roger O. Bangerter and Edward A. Frieman. Bangerter recently retired as the director of the Heavy-Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory, a collaborative venture of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Frieman is a director emeritus of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Lance L. Snead was named by Fusion Power Associates as the winner of this year’s Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award. Snead is a senior research scientist with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Mark Haynes is the recipient of a Special Award. He is the vice president of Washington Operations at General Atomics in San Diego, California.
