Archive (1995-present)

Akerib, Daniel
Case Western Reserve University
Citation: For significant contributions to direct Dark Matter detection experiments, in particular for his work on the CDMS experiment.
Nominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)

Alam, Muhammad
Purdue University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to and innovative computational models for Electronic Transport in Spatially and Temporally Random Systems.
Nominated by: Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP)

Albers, Robert C.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering work on the theory of f-electron elements and materials, and its implementation of into robust computational methods for use by experimentalists to interpret Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectra.
Nominated by: Computational Physics (DCOMP)

Aleiner, Igor
Columbia University
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of low-dimensional and mesoscopic conductors.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Alexandrov, Alexandre
Loughborough University
Citation: For important and broad-ranging contributions to the theory of correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Anders, Andre
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the physics and technology of cathodic arc plasmas and their applications.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Antiochos, Spiro
NASA/GSFC
Citation: In recognition of his far-reaching scientific contributions to solar astrophysics, among them several compelling models explaining a variety of phenomena originating in the interactions between magnetic fields and plasmas, and his service to the international solar and space physics communities.
Nominated by: Plasma Astrophysics (GPAP)

Argyriou, Dimitri
Hahn-Meitner Inst Berlin
Citation: For important applications of neutron and x-ray scattering which reveal the relationships between crystal and magnetic structure and physical properties in perovskite-based CMR.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Baksay, Laszlo
Florida Institute of Technology
Citation: For his contributions to high energy physics, leadership of international collaborations especially in bringing the Hungarian physics community into the international enterprise, innovations and activities in science education and many efforts for the APS international program and the Forum on International Physics.
Nominated by: International Physics (FIP)

Baldwin, Kenneth
Australian National University
Citation: For seminal contributions to quantum-atom optics and precision laser spectroscopy, organization of major international efforts to study these problems, and outstanding professional leadership.
Nominated by: International Physics (FIP)

Barkley, Dwight
University of Warwick
Citation: For combining computation and dynamical systems analyses to obtain remarkable insights into hydrodynamic instabilities and patterns in diverse systems, including flow past a cylinder, channel flow, laminar-turbulent bands, and thermal convection.
Nominated by: Fluid Dynamics (DFD)

Basaran, Osman A.
Purdue University
Citation: For computational, theoretical, and experimental work on improving fundamental understanding of pinch-off singularities, drop formation, and electrohydrodynamics, and for development of nonstandard inkjet printing applications.
Nominated by: Fluid Dynamics (DFD)

Batelaan, Herman
University of Nebraska
Citation: For outstanding contributions to electron matter optics, in particular the measurements of the Kapitza-Dirac effect and elucidation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
Nominated by: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics (DAMOP)

Baur, Ulrich
SUNY-Buffalo
Citation: For contributions to precision electroweak physics, especially the phenomenology of electroweak gauge bosons at hadron colliders.
Nominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)

Beaucage, Gregory
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For development of the unified scattering function and related work in small angle scattering from disordered materials and polymers.
Nominated by: Polymer Physics (DPOLY)

Belcher, John
Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy
Citation: For developing 3D electromagnetic field visualization tools and for the creation and large-scale implementation of a studio-based, active learning version of introductory physics, TEAL.
Nominated by: Education (FEd)

Beltram, Fabio
Scuola Normale Superiore
Citation: For major contributions to nanophysics, including studies of semiconductor nanostructures and in molecular biophysics, and for leadership in promoting the international reach of Italian research.
Nominated by: International Physics (FIP)

Ben-Naim, Eli
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For broad contributions to granular physics, traffic flows, and non-equilibrium statistical physics.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Benz, Samuel
NIST
Citation: For inventing and developing the first Josephson junction array arbitrary waveform synthesizer and using it as a practical quantum-based ac voltage standard.
Nominated by: Instrument & Measurement Science (GIMS)

Berman, Michael
Air Force Office of Science Research
Citation: For his outstanding leadership, advocacy, and support of physical science research and for fostering and developing innovative and visionary multidisciplinary partnerships.
Nominated by: Physics and Society (FPS)

Biferale, Luca
University Tor Vergata
Citation: For his original applications of multifractal concepts, numerical simulations, and models to obtain insight into the dynamics of fully developed turbulence.
Nominated by: Statistical & Nonlinear Physics (GSNP)

Blaum, Klaus
Max Planck Inst Kernphys
Citation: For contribution to high-precision experiments with cooled and stored ions, especially high-precision mass spectrometry on highly-charged ions and short-lived radio-nuclides, and laser spectroscopy and magnetic moment measurements for fundamental studies.
Nominated by: Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC)

Bless, Stephen
Institute of Advance Technology
Citation: For experimental and analytical studies of dynamic failure in poly-crystalline ceramics, glasses, and heavy metals, and the application of those results to improved understanding of armor/anti-armor phenomena.
Nominated by: Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM)

Brown, Michael R.
Swarthmore College
Citation: For experimental studies of magnetic reconnection and for unusual mentoring skills, especially training undergraduates to be skilled researchers in plasma physics.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Brunger, Michael
Flinders University
Citation: For benchmark measurements of electron scattering from molecules, specifically concerning absolute collision cross sections and electron momentum spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics (DAMOP)

Bruschweiler, Rafael
Florida State University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to methodology and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in combination with novel computational approaches for the dynamic characterization of proteins in solution.
Nominated by: Biological Physics (DBP)

Burrows, Philip
University of London
Citation: For his leading contributions to precision studies of quantum chromodynamics in the light and heavy quark sectors, based on polarized Z0 decays recorded with the SLD experiment at SLAC.
Nominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)

Caldwell, Robert
Dartmouth College
Citation: For his numerous contributions to theoretical cosmology, particularly those on pioneering ideas for dark energy.
Nominated by: Astrophysics (DAP)

Carlip, Steven
University of California, Davis
Citation: For contributions to black hole physics and to gravity in 2+1 dimensions.
Nominated by: Gravitation (GGR)

Cebe, Peggy
Tufts University
Citation: For use of heat capacity, dielectric relaxation, and X-ray scattering to study semicrystalline polymer and biopolymer materials, and for work with Deaf and hard of hearing students.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Chakraborty, Bulbul
Brandeis University
Citation: For important theoretical contributions to diverse areas of condensed matter physics, including frustrated magnets, diffusion of light particles in metals, the glass transition, and jamming in granular systems.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Chamon, Claudio
Boston University
Citation: For his important theoretical work on the probing of fractional charge and statistics in strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Chandrasekhar, Venkat
Northwestern University
Citation: For significant contributions to transport in mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Chang, Zenghu
Kansas State University
Citation: For contributions to the development of femtosecond x-ray streak cameras, to the stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of high-power lasers, and to the generation of high-order harmonics and attosecond pulses.
Nominated by: Laser Science (DLS)

Chen, Jian-Ping
Thomas Jefferson National Accl Fac
Citation: For his contributions to understanding the spin structure of the neutron, through the use of a polarized Helium-3 target.
Nominated by: Hadronic Physics (GHP)

Chen, Long-Qing
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the field of computational materials physics in developing models for mesocale microstructure evolution during solid-state phase transformations.
Nominated by: Materials Physics (DMP)

Cheshnovsky, Ori
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For establishing negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy as a central tool for the investigation of electronic states in mass-selected clusters.
Nominated by: Laser Science (DLS)

Childress, William S.
New York University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to dynamo theory, geophysical fluid dynamics and biological fluid mechanics including locomotion.
Nominated by: Fluid Dynamics (DFD)

Ching, Wai-Yim
University of Missouri
Citation: For his contributions to the theory and methods of electronic structure and spectroscopic properties of materials, especially in complex ceramic crystals and their microstructures including grain boundaries, interfaces and defects.
Nominated by: Materials Physics (DMP)

Chu, Paul K.
City University of Hong Kong
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of plasma - materials interactions as well as development and applications of innovative plasma-based surface modification and materials synthesis technologies and instrumentation.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Coe, James V.
Ohio State University, Columbus
Citation: For his pioneering work in the study of hydrated electron clusters, ion solvation, ion absorption spectroscopy, cation/anion recombination, doubly-charged fullerene anions, and surface-plasmon mediated transmission of metal microarrays.
Nominated by: Chemical Physics (DCP)

Conway, John S.
University of California, Davis
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the search for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model at high energy particle accelerators.
Nominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)

Costley, Alan
ITER Organization
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the physics understanding of electron cyclotron emission in fusion plasmas, and his outstanding leadership in developing the plasma diagnostic systems for ITER.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Covello, Aldo
Univ. di Napoli Federico II
Citation: For perfecting the theory of pairing correlations, for showing that the nucleon-nucleon potential lead to predictions for nuclei far from stability, and for his outstanding contributions to the international nuclear physics community by providing, for over two decades, a venue for theorists and experimentalists to share their latest ideas.
Nominated by: International Physics (FIP)

Coverdale, Christine
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For exceptional experimental achievements in both laser and z-pinch plasma physics, dedicated service to the professional community, and leadership in promoting laboratory and university collaborations.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Crowell, Paul
University of Minnesota
Citation: For the application of elegant optical and transport techniques to the study of spin dynamics and transport in metals and semiconductors and experiments probing the excitation spectra of inhomogeneously magnetized systems, particularly magnetic vortices.
Nominated by: Magnetism & Its Applications (GMAG)

Dahl, Jens
Technical University of Denmark
Citation: For his pioneering work on quantum chemistry and its interplay with Wigner phase-space including fundamental questions of quantum mechanics such as the spinning electron.
Nominated by: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics (DAMOP)

Dai, Pengcheng
University of Tennessee
Citation: For his contribution to understand fundamental properties of magnetic excitations in high-transition temperature superconductors, f-electron heavy Fermions, and colossal magneto-resistance manganites.
Nominated by: Magnetism & Its Applications (GMAG)

Danielewicz, Pawel
Michigan State University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of quantum transport, particle production in nuclear collisions, the nuclear equation of state and the development of important new methods of analyzing experimental data.
Nominated by: Nuclear Physics (DNP)

Deen, M. Jamal
McMaster University
Citation: For significant contributions to noise and physics-based modeling of semiconductor devices and innovations in experiments.
Nominated by: Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP)

Derevianko, Andrei
University of Nevada
Citation: For elucidating the role of the Breit interaction in atomic parity non-conservation, demonstrating the importance of higher-order non-dipole corrections in low-energy photoionization, and for pioneering calculations of higher-order many-body corrections to atomic energies and matrix elements.
Nominated by: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics (DAMOP)

Devereaux, Thomas
Stanford University
Citation: For significant contributions to the theories of inelastic light scattering and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopies in strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Diddams, Scott
NIST
Citation: For major contributions to the development of optical frequency comb technology, and particularly for pioneering demonstrations of frequency combs in optical clocks, high resolution spectroscopy, and tests of basic physics.
Nominated by: Laser Science (DLS)

Domaradzki, Julian A.
University of Southern California
Citation: For insightful contributions to the development of subgrid-scale algorithms for computational fluid dynamics and for their use to illuminate the physics of the energy transfer between eddy scales in large eddy simulations of turbulent flow fields.
Nominated by: Fluid Dynamics (DFD)

Dowling, Jonathan P.
Louisiana State University
Citation: For major contributions to quantum optics as it pertains tot he development of the theory of atomic emission rates and nonlinear switching in photonic crystals, as well as seminal contributions to quantum metrology and imaging, especially the invention of quantum lithography.
Nominated by: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics (DAMOP)

Doyle, Mark D.
American Physical Society
Citation: In recognition of his distinguished and dedicated service to electronic access and communication of physics results to the community, and for his essential role in making the APS Journals from 1893 to the present available on our desktops.
Nominated by: APS

Elber, Ron
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to computational chemical physics, through the development and application of algorithms and theories for the static and dynamic behavior of macromolecules, including methods for the simulation of long time events in complex systems.
Nominated by: Chemical Physics (DCP)

Engheta, Nader
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For development of concepts of metamaterial-inspired optical lumped nanocircuits, and for ground breaking contributions to the fields of metamaterials, plasmonic nano-optics, biologically-inspired imaging, and electrodynamics.
Nominated by: Laser Science (DLS)

Fan, Shanhui
Stanford University
Citation: Contributions to the theory and applications of nanophotonic structures and devices, including photonic crystals, plasmonics and meta-materials.
Nominated by: Laser Science (DLS)

Fasoli, Ambrogio
EPFL-Lausanne
Citation: For fundamental experimental research on plasma wave phenomena including the dynamics of Alfven wave eignemodes in Tokamaks.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Forest, Cary
University of Wisconsin
Citation: For broad and fundamental advances in plasma physics, from electromagnetic wave propagation and transport processes in fusion plasmas to dynamo effects underlying geomagnetic and astrophysical magnetic field generation.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Forgacs, Gabor
University of Missouri
Citation: For his original contributions to the elucidation of physical mechanisms in early morphogenesis, intracellular signaling, establishment of the technology of organ printing, as well as for his synergistic and educational activity to bridge the gap between the physical and life sciences.
Nominated by: Biological Physics (DBP)

Forrest, James A.
University of Waterloo
Citation: For pioneering work in the dynamics of confined polymers and polymer surfaces.
Nominated by: Polymer Physics (DPOLY)

Forrest, Stephen
University of Michigan
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding of the thin film growth, and physics of excitons in organic materials, leading to the demonstration of high efficiency organic light emitting devices, organic photovoltaics and organic lasers.
Nominated by: Materials Physics (DMP)

Fox, John
SLAC
Citation: For leadership in developing instrumentation and instability control systems for colliders and light sources, for applying control formalism to accelerator problems, and for developing novel beam instruments and new formalisms.
Nominated by: Physics of Beams (DPB)

Fredrickson, Eric
Princeton University
Citation: For many contributions to the physics of MHD instabilities in tokamaks, including pioneering experimental studies of magnetic reconnection, ballooning modes, resistive instabilities, and fast-ion-driven Alfven instabilities.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)

Fryer, Chris
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in and contributions to theoretical and computational high energy astrophysics through multidimensional simulations that demonstrated the importance of three-dimensional convection and neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae explosions.
Nominated by: Astrophysics (DAP)

Fu, Chong Long
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of metallic and intermetallic systems based on accurate first-principles calculations and to the development of novel high temperature intermetallics and nanocluster strengthened alloys for structural applications.
Nominated by: Materials Physics (DMP)

Garfinkle, David
Oakland University
Citation: For his numerous contributions to a wide variety of topics