The American Physical Society will present a number of awards and prizes at this month’s meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC.
APS will give the Hans A. Bethe Prize to Gerald E. Brown for his “insightful analyses of the effects of various nuclear constituents on nucleon interactions and nucleon structure” and his “contributions to new viewpoints on supernovae, neutron stars, and black hole formation,” according to the citation. Brown is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics and astronomy department at SUNY Stony Brook.
The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics will be shared by Claude Lyneis and Richard Geller. The two are praised by APS for their “critical leadership in conceiving and developing the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source and advanced ECR source, which have opened a new era in heavy ion studies of nuclear phenomena.” Lyneis is the director of the 88-inch cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Geller is a science adviser with the Institute of Nuclear Science in Grenoble, France.
Jorge Pullin, a professor of physics and director of the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University, is this year’s recipient of the Edward A. Bouchet Award. Pullin is being recognized for his “contributions to the study of gravitational wave propagation and quantum theory of gravity” and also for his “effort to increase diversity in the field of physics as a founding member of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.”
Lisbeth D. Gronlund, George N. Lewis, and David C. Wright will share the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award for their “creative and sustained leadership in building an international arms control physics community and for their own excellence in arms control physics.” Gronlund and Wright are both senior staff scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists and research scientists with MIT’s security studies program. Lewis is a principal research scientist and associate director of MIT’s security studies program.
The Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize will go to Lawrence M. Krauss, Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, chairman of the department of physics, and professor of astronomy at Case Western Reserve University. Krauss is being honored for his “outstanding contributions to the understanding of the early universe” and his “extraordinary achievement in communicating the essence of physical science to the general public.”
Janet M. Conrad will receive the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for her “leadership in experimental neutrino physics, particularly for initiating and leading the NuTeV decay channel experiment and the Mini-BooNE neutrino oscillations experiment,” which are noted for their “timeliness and significance in resolving frontier issues in neutrino physics.” Conrad is an associate professor of physics at Columbia University.
The 2001 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award goes to Daniel Bardayan for his “innovative experimental development and measurement of the P(17F, p)17F elastic scattering reaction at the Oak Ridge Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility in order to find the key low-energy s-wave resonance for the 17F(p, γ)18Ne reaction.” Bardayan’s doctoral work was performed at Yale University under the supervision of Peter Parker. He is currently a Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Paul D. Grannis will receive the W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for his “distinguished leadership and vision in the conception, design, construction, and execution of the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron proton– antiproton collider.” Grannis is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at SUNY Stony Brook.
The Francis M. Pipkin Award will go to Jens H. Gundlach for “identifying, and providing a solution to an unrecognized weakness in the Cavendish technique for measuring the gravitational constant G; [and] improving the accuracy of G by an order of magnitude.” Gundlach is a research associate professor of physics at the University of Washington.
The recipient of the Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institute is Paul DeYoung, chairman of the department of physics and engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. DeYoung is being honored for “his research on reaction processes using short-lived nuclear beams and for his outstanding leadership, both in his research group and his institution, in creating an undergraduate research community.”
The winners of the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics are Nathan Isgur, chief scientist at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Mikhail Voloshin, a professor of physics at the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota and a researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow, and Mark Wise, John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech. They are being recognized for “the construction of the heavy quark mass expansion and the discovery of the heavy quark symmetry in quantum chromodynamics, which led to a quantitative theory of the decays of c and b flavored hadrons.”
The Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics will go to Sunil Golwala for his “versatile and extensive contributions to the detectors, hardware, electronics, software, and analysis of the results of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, which provided the most sensitive upper limits for elastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles on nucleons.” Golwala, who performed his doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Bernard Sadoulet, is currently a Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech.
The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award goes to John Harte who is being cited for his “diverse and incisive efforts utilizing physical reasoning and analytical tools for understanding environmental processes and for his teaching and writing to encourage this approach among students and colleagues.” Harte is Class of 1935 Distinguished Professorship Chair and a joint professor in the energy and resources group and the environmental science, policy, and management department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Claudio Pellegrini, a professor of physics at UCLA, will receive the Robert R. Wilson Prize for his “pioneering work in the analysis of instabilities in electron storage rings, and his seminal and comprehensive development of the theory of free electron lasers.”
The Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics award will go to Shyam Prabhakar for his “development of beam instability formalisms and diagnostics based on transient-domain beam measurements.” His doctoral research was performed at Stanford University and his dissertation adviser was John D. Fox. Prabhakar is currently a postdoctoral research scientist in the Stanford mathematics department.
