Prize, Award, Medal, Lectureship & Dissertation Award Recipients
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Stephen G. Brush (2009)
Gerald Holton (2008)
Max Jammer (2007)
John L. Heilbron (2006)
Martin Klein (2005)
Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics
John R. Taylor (2008)
David Saintillan (2007)
Eric Lauga (2006)
Silas D. Alben (2005)
Jacqueline Ashmore (2004)
Prosenjit Bagchi (2003)
Wade Schoppa (2002)
Greg A. Voth (2001)
Vittorio Cristini (2000)
Andrei Sakharov Prize
Liangying Xu (2008)
Yuri Orlov (2006)
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
A.P. Young (2009)
Gary S. Grest (2008)
Daniel Frenkel (2007)
David Vanderbilt (2006)
Uzi Landman (2005)
Farid Abraham (2004)
Steven R. White (2003)
David P. Landau (2002)
Alex Zunger (2001)
Michael John Creutz (2000)
Michael L. Klein (1999)
David Matthew Ceperley (1998)
Donald H. Weingarten (1997)
Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (1996)
Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello (1995)
John M. Dawson (1994)
Kenneth G. Wilson (1993)
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
Robert E. Field (2009)
James Bergquist (2008)
Szymon Suckewer (2007)
Paul B. Corkum (2006)
Marlan O. Scully (2005)
Federico Capasso (2004)
David Pritchard (2003)
Stephen Harris (2002)
David J. Wineland (2001)
Richard Neil Zare (2000)
Carl E. Wieman (1999)
William D. Phillips (1998)
Charles V. Shank (1997)
Erich Peter Ippen (1997)
Theodor W. Hänsch (1996)
Richart E. Slusher (1995)
Steven Chu (1994)
John L. Hall (1993)
Yuen-Ron Shen (1992)
Peter P. Sorokin (1991)
Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Wilks, Scott (2006)
Tanaka, Kazuo (2006)
Tabak, Max (2006)
Norreys, Peter (2006)
Kodama, Ryosuke (2006)
Howard M. Milchberg (2005)
Liu Chen (2004)
Edward J. Strait (2004)
William Walter Heidbrink (2004)
King-Lap Wong (2004)
(Frank) Chio Zong Cheng (2004)
Siegfried Glenzer (2003)
Masaaki Yamada (2002)
Hantao Ji (2002)
Scott Hsu (2002)
Troy Carter (2002)
Edmund J. Synakowski (2001)
Richard Joseph Groebner (2001)
Edward Doyle (2001)
Keith H. Burrell (2001)
John J. Bollinger (2000)
Daniel H. E. Dubin (2000)
Raymond John Fonck (1999)
Luiz B. Da Silva (1998)
Gilbert Wilson Collins (1998)
Peter Martin Celliers (1998)
Robert C. Cauble (1998)
Fred Michael Levinton (1997)
Chandrashekhar Joshi (1996)
Christopher E. Clayton (1996)
James Philip Knauer (1995)
Joseph D. Kilkenny (1995)
Russell John Wallace (1995)
Steven W. Haan (1995)
David Herbert Munro (1995)
Stephen Vance Weber (1995)
Charles Peter Verdon (1995)
Bruce Allen Remington (1995)
S. Gail Glendinning (1995)
Tony S. Taylor, Edward J. Strait, Ronald Stambaugh, Lang Li Lao (1994)
Yoshiaki Kato, Kunioki Mima, Robert H. Lehmberg, Stephen Obenschain, Stanley Skupsky, John M. Soures (1993)
Nathaniel J. Fisch (1992)
Charles F. Driscoll, John H. Malmberg, Thomas M. O'Neil (1991)
Mordecai D. Rosen, Dennis L. Matthews, Peter L. Hagelstein, E. Michael Campbell, Szymon Suckewer (1990)
Donald A. Gurnett (1989)
Robert J. Goldston, Richard J. Hawrylu, James D. Strachan (1988)
Fritz Wagner (1987)
John Bryan Taylor (1986)
Alfred Y. F. Wong (1985)
Bruno Coppi, Robert Taylor, Ronald R. Parker, Leonardo Pieroni, Bruce Montgomery (1983)
Biological Physics Prize
Alfred G. Redfield (2006)
Peter Wolynes (2004)
Carlos Bustamante (2002)
Paul Kenneth Hansma (2000)
Rangaswamy Srinivasan (1998)
Seiji Ogawa (1996)
Robert S. Knox (1994)
Robert M. Pearlstein (1994)
Hans Frauenfelder (1992)
Watt W. Webb (1991)
Britton Chance (1987)
Harmut Michel and Johann Deisenhofer (1986)
John Hopfield (1985)
Howard C. Berg and Edward M. Purcell (1984)
Paul C. Lauterbur (1983)
Roderick K. Clayton (1982)
George Feher (1982)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Igor Tyutin (2009)
Raymond Stora (2009)
Carlo Becchi (2009)
Alain Rouet (2009)
Mitchell Feigenbaum (2008)
Joseph Polchinski (2007)
Juan Maldacena (2007)
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2006)
Daniel Freedman (2006)
Sergio Ferrara (2006)
Giorgio Parisi (2005)
Gabriele Veneziano (2004)
James W. York (2003)
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (2003)
John H. Schwarz (2002)
Michael B. Green (2002)
Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd (2001)
Sidney R. Coleman (2000)
Tai Tsun Wu and Alexander B. Zamolodchikov (1999)
Barry M. McCoy (1999)
Edward Witten (1998)
Nathan Seiberg (1998)
Harry W. Lehmann (1997)
Roy J. Glauber (1996)
Roman W. Jackiw (1995)
Richard L. Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner (1994)
Martin C. Gutzwiller (1993)
Stanley Mandelstam (1992)
Thomas C. Spencer and Jurg Frohlich (1991)
Yakov Sinai (1990)
John S. Bell (1989)
Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino (1988)
Rodney Baxter (1987)
A.M. Polyakov (1986)
D.P. Ruelle (1985)
R.B. Griffiths (1984)
M.D. Kruskal (1983)
J.C. Ward (1982)
Jeffrey Goldstone (1981)
Arthur Michael Jaffe (1980)
James Gilbert Glimm (1980)
Gerard T. Hooft (1979)
Elliott Lieb (1978)
Steven Weinberg (1977)
Stephen William Hawking (1976)
Ludwig Dmitriyevich Faddeev (1975)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1974)
Kenneth G. Wilson (1973)
James D. Bjorken (1972)
Roger Penrose (1971)
Yoichiro Nambu (1970)
Arthur Strong Wightman (1969)
Sergio Fubini (1968)
Gian Carlo Wick (1967)
N.N. Bogolubov (1966)
Freeman J. Dyson (1965)
Tullio Regge (1964)
Keith A. Brueckner (1963)
Leon Van Hove (1962)
Marvin L. Goldberger (1961)
Aage Bohr (1960)
Murray Gell-Mann (1959)
David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Salvatore Torquato (2009)
Karin Rabe (2008)
Samuel D. Bader (2007)
James Chelikowsky (2006)
Ramamoorthy Ramesh (2005)
Chia-Ling Chien (2004)
Ivan K. Schuller (2003)
Chris G. Van de Walle (2002)
Ellen D. Williams (2001)
Bertram Batlogg (2000)
Leonard C. Feldman (1999)
Joe Greene (1998)
John D. Joannopoulos (1997)
M. Brian Maple (1996)
Marc A. Kastner (1995)
Max Lagally (1994)
Simon C. Moss (1993)
Robert A. Street (1992)
John R. Smith (1991)
Michael Schluter (1990)
Robert W. Balluffi (1989)
Jan Tauc (1988)
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Krishnan Raghavachari (2009)
Yves Chabal (2009)
Horst Schmidt-Böcking (2008)
Franz Himpsel (2007)
C. Lewis Cocke (2006)
Ernst G. Bauer (2005)
Paul Julienne (2004)
Rudolf M. Tromp (2003)
Gerald Gabrielse (2002)
Donald M. Eigler (2001)
William Happer (2000)
Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (1999)
Sheldon Datz (1998)
Jerry D. Tersoff (1997)
Thomas Francis Gallagher (1996)
Max G. Lagally (1995)
Carl Weiman (1994)
Joseph Demuth (1993)
Larry Spruch (1992)
Neville V. Smith (1991)
David Wineland (1990)
Peter J. Feibelman (1989)
John L. Hall (1988)
Maurice B. Webb (1987)
D. Kleppner (1986)
J. Gregory Dash (1985)
Manfred A. Biondi and Gordon H. Dunn (1984)
E. W. Plummer (1983)
Llwewllyn H. Thomas (1982)
Robert Gomer (1981)
Alexander Dalgarno (1980)
J. A. Appelbaum and D. R. Hamann (1979)
Vernon Hughes (1978)
Walter Kohn and Norton Lang (1977)
Ugo Fano (1976)
James J. Lander and Homer D. Hagstrum (1975)
Norman Ramsey (1974)
Erwin W. Mueller (1972)
Hans Dehmelt (1970)
Horace Richard Crane (1967)
George J. Schulz (1965)
Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Steven M. Clayton (2009)
Thomas I. Banks (2009)
Nikolai Tolich (2008)
Deepshikha Choudhury (2008)
Magdalena Djordjevic (2007)
Kathryn K.S. Miknaitis (2007)
Li-Bang Wang (2006)
Andriy Kurylov (2005)
Andrew W. Steiner (2004)
Karsten Heeger (2003)
Jiunn-Wei Chen (2002)
Daniel Bardayan (2001)
John Arrington (2000)
Eric Hawker (1999)
Yury G. Kolomensky (1998)
Gregory Joseph Schmid (1996)
Zhiping Zhao (1994)
James Edward Koster (1992)
Michael J. Musolf (1990)
Thomas E. Cowan (1988)
Brad Sherrill (1986)
W. J. Burger (1986)
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy
Terry A. Miller (2009)
Steven G. Boxer (2008)
Timothy S. Zwier (2007)
Mark Johnson (2006)
Robert Tycko (2005)
Richard Van Duyne (2004)
Giacinto Scoles (2003)
Kevin K. Lehmann (2003)
Graham Fleming (2002)
W. E. Moerner (2001)
Michael David Fayer (2000)
David Wixon Pratt (1999)
Forrest Fleming Crim (1998)
David J. Nesbitt (1997)
Roger Ervin Miller (1997)
Charles S. Stedman (1996)
James L. Kinsey (1995)
C. Bradley Moore (1994)
Ahmed Zewail (1993)
William C. Lineberger (1992)
Kenneth M. Evenson (1991)
Andreas C. Albrecht (1990)
Richard J. Saykally (1989)
Robert W. Field (1988)
Donald H. Levy (1987)
James K.G. Watson (1986)
Gerhard Herzberg (1985)
John T. Hougen (1984)
William Aloys Klemperer (1983)
Takeshi Oka (1982)
Richard N. Zare (1981)
Walter Gordy (1980)
George C. Pimentel (1979)
E. Bright Wilson, Jr (1978)
Charles H. Townes (1977)
Edward A. Bouchet Award
Gaston R. Gutierrez (2009)
Ronald E. Mickens (2008)
Gabriela Gonzalez (2007)
Angel Garcia (2006)
Godfrey Gumbs (2005)
Juan M. Maldacena (2004)
Homer Alfred Neal (2003)
Oliver Keith Baker (2002)
Jorge Pullin (2001)
Philip W. Phillips (2000)
Alfred Z. Msezane (1999)
Jose D. Garcia Jr. (1998)
Larry Donnie Gladney (1997)
Anthony Michael Johnson (1996)
Joseph Johnson III (1995)
Sylvester James Gates, Jr. (1994)
Einstein Prize
James Hartle (2009)
Rainer Weiss (2007)
Ronald Drever (2007)
Bryce DeWitt (2005)
John A. Wheeler (2003)
Peter G. Bergmann (2003)
Excellence in Physics Education Award
David Maloney (2009)
Tom O'Kuma (2009)
Curtis Hieggelke (2009)
University of Washington Physics Education Group (2008)
Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) and Implementers (2007)
Fluid Dynamics Prize
Julio M. Ottino (2008)
Guenter Ahlers (2007)
Thomas S. Lundgren (2006)
Ronald J. Adrian (2005)
George M. (Bud) Homsy (2004)
Jerry Gollub (2003)
Gary Leal (2002)
Howard Brenner (2001)
Friedrich Hermann Busse (2000)
Daniel D. Joseph (1999)
Fazle Hussain (1998)
Louis Norberg Howard (1997)
Parviz Moin (1996)
Harry L Swinney (1995)
Stephen H. Davis (1994)
Theodore Yao-tsu Wu (1993)
William R. Sears (1992)
Andreas Acrivos (1991)
John L. Lumley (1990)
William W. Willmarth (1989)
Galen B. Schubauer (1988)
Anatol Roshko (1987)
Robert T. Jones (1986)
Chia-Shun Yih (1985)
George Carrier (1984)
Stanley Corrsin (1983)
Howard W. Emmons (1982)
Philip S. Klebanoff (1981)
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann (1980)
Chia Chiao Lin (1979)
Francis M. Pipkin Award
Zheng-Tian Lu (2009)
David DeMille (2007)
Ronald L. Walsworth (2005)
Eric A. Hessels (2003)
Jens H. Gundlach (2001)
Steven Keith Lamoreaux (1999)
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Joseph Orenstein (2008)
Zeev Valentine Vardeny (2008)
Roberto Merlin (2006)
James Wolfe (2004)
Thomas Timusk (2002)
James W. Allen (2002)
Paul Linford Richards (2000)
Yuen-Ron Shen (1998)
David E. Aspnes (1996)
Anant K. Ramdas (1994)
Paul A. Fleury (1992)
Miles V. Klein (1990)
Albert J. Sievers (1988)
Elias Burstein (1986)
Manuel Cardona (1984)
Jan Tauc (1982)
David L. Dexter (1980)
George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award
Donald Curran (2009)
Dennis E. Grady (2007)
Vladimir E. Fortov (2005)
James Asay (2003)
Yogendra Gupta (2001)
Lynn M. Barker (1999)
William J. Nellis (1997)
Arthur C. Mitchell (1997)
Thomas J. Aherns (1995)
Robert A. Graham (1993)
Levi Vladimirovich Al’tshuler (1991)
George E. Duvall (1989)
John M. Walsh, Robert McQueen, and Melvin Rice (1987)
George E. Pake Prize
David J. Bishop (2009)
Julia M. Phillips (2008)
Mark Kryder (2007)
Charles B. Duke (2006)
Cherry Murray (2005)
Robert M. White (2004)
C. Paul Robinson (2003)
Paul M. Horn (2002)
Lewis S. Edelheit (2001)
Chauncey Starr (2000)
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (1999)
John Paul McTague (1998)
Don R. Scifres (1997)
Charles Vernon Shank (1996)
James C. McGroddy (1995)
William F. Brinkman (1994)
Roland W. Schmitt (1993)
Alan Chynoweth (1992)
Albert Narath (1991)
Arno A. Penzias (1990)
John A. Armstrong (1989)
C. Kumar N. Patel (1988)
Praveen Chaudhari (1987)
John K. Galt (1986)
J. Ross MacDonald (1985)
Arthur G. Anderson (1984)
George E. Valley Jr. Prize
Paul Sorensen (2008)
Irfan Siddiqi (2006)
Ivo Souza (2004)
David Goldhaber-Gordon (2002)
Hans A. Bethe Prize
David Arnett (2009)
Friedrich K. Thielemann (2008)
James R. Wilson (2007)
Alastair G.W. Cameron (2006)
Stan Woosley (2005)
Wick Haxton (2004)
Michael C.F. Wiescher (2003)
Gordon Baym (2002)
Gerald E. Brown (2001)
Igal Talmi (2000)
Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1999)
John Norris Bahcall (1998)
Herbert P. Broida Prize
Gustav Gerber (2009)
James C. Bergquist (2007)
Hanna Reisler (2005)
George W. Flynn (2003)
Paul Houston (2001)
David W. Chandler (2001)
Terry A. Miller (1999)
William Happer (1997)
Ahmed Zewail (1995)
Curt Wittig (1993)
David E. Pritchard (1991)
Stephen R. Leone (1989)
Steven Chu (1987)
Richard Bersohn (1985)
Theodore W. Hansch (1983)
William C. Lineberger (1981)
Robert W. Field (1980)
I.I. Rabi Prize
Mikhail Lukin (2009)
Jun Ye (2007)
Deborah Jin (2005)
Mark A. Kasevich (2003)
Christopher Monroe (2001)
Mark George Raizen (1999)
Wolfgang Ketterle (1997)
Eric Allin Cornell (1997)
Randall G. Hulet (1995)
Timothy E. Chupp (1993)
Chris H. Greene (1991)
Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics
W.E. Moerner (2009)
Gabor Somorjai (2007)
David Chandler (2005)
Phaedon Avouris (2003)
Louis E. Brus (2001)
Daniel Kivelson (1999)
Jack Herschel Freed (1997)
George Benedek (1995)
J. David Litster (1993)
Richard E. Smalley (1991)
Frank H. Stillinger (1989)
Martin Karplus (1987)
Richard N. Zare (1985)
Dudley R. Herschbach (1983)
Willis H. Flygare (1981)
Donald S. McClure (1979)
Aneesur Rahman (1977)
Robert H. Cole (1975)
Peter M. Rentzepis (1973)
Michael E. Fisher (1971)
Charles P. Slichter (1969)
John Clarke Slater (1967)
J.H. Van Vleck (1965)
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
R. Keith Ellis (2009)
Davison E. Soper (2009)
John C. Collins (2009)
Stanislav Mikheyev (2008)
Alexei Smirnov (2008)
Stanley Brodsky (2007)
Savas Dimopoulos (2006)
Susumu Okubo (2005)
Anthony Sanda (2004)
Ikaros Bigi (2004)
George Sterman (2003)
Alfred Mueller (2003)
Alberto Sirlin (2002)
William J. Marciano (2002)
Nathan Isgur (2001)
Mark Wise (2001)
Mikhail Voloshin (2001)
Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (2000)
Valentin Invanovich Zakharov (1999)
Arkady Vainshtein (1999)
Mikhail Shifman (1999)
Leonard Susskind (1998)
Thomas Appelquist (1997)
William Allan Bardeen (1996)
Howard Georgi (1995)
Yoichiro Nambu (1994)
Mary K. Gaillard (1993)
Lincoln Wolfenstein (1992)
Vladimir N. Gribov (1991)
Toichiro Kinoshita (1990)
Nicola Cabibbo (1989)
Stephen L. Adler (1988)
Luciano Maiani and John Iliopoulos (1987)
David Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek (1986)
Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi (1985)
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Akihisa Inoue (2009)
William L. Johnson (2009)
Jun Akimitsu (2008)
Robert C. Haddon (2008)
Arthur F. Hebard (2008)
Arthur J. Epstein (2007)
Joel S. Miller (2007)
Alex Zettl (2006)
Hongjie Dai (2006)
Yoshinori Tokura (2005)
Loren Pfeiffer (2004)
Charles M. Lieber (2003)
Sumio Iijima (2002)
Donald S. Bethune (2002)
Arthur Charles Gossard (2001)
M. Brian Maple (2000)
Eugene E. Haller (1999)
Thomas Richard Anthony (1999)
Peter Grünberg, Albert Fert, Stuart Parkin (1994)
Gordon C. Osbourn (1993)
Robert E. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley (1992)
Francis J. DiSalvo, Jr. and Frederic Holtzberg (1991)
James L. Smith, Hans R. Ott, Frank Steglich and Zachary Fisk (1990)
J.B. MacChesney, R.D. Maurer and K.C. Kao (1989)
J. Georg Bednorz, C. (Paul) Chu and K. Alex Muller (1988)
Dan Schechtman (1987)
John Croat, Jan Herbst, Norman C. Koon and Masato Sagawa (1986)
Leroy L. Chang, Leo Esaki and Raphael Tsu (1985)
J.P. Remeika (1984)
David Turnbull (1983)
John R. Arthur, Jr. and Alfred Y. Cho (1982)
LeGrand G. van Uitert (1981)
Pol E. Duwez and William Klement, Jr (1980)
J. Eugene Kunzler, Bernd T. Matthias and John K. Hulm (1979)
J.H. Sinfelt (1978)
Francis Bundy, H. Tracy Hall, Herbert Strong and Robert H. Wentoff, Jr (1977)
William G. Pfann and Henry C. Theurer (1976)
Heinrich Welker (1975)
James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
Ronald C. Davidson (2008)
John Lindl (2007)
Chandrashekhar J. Joshi (2006)
Nathaniel Fisch (2005)
Valery Godyak (2004)
Noah Hershkowitz (2004)
Eugene N. Parker (2003)
Edward A. Frieman (2002)
Roald Sagdeev (2001)
Akira Hasegawa (2000)
John Bryan Taylor (1999)
Boris B. Kadomtsev (1998)
Charles F. Kennel (1997)
Thomas Michael O'Neil (1996)
Francis F. Chen (1995)
Roy W. Gould (1994)
Russell M. Kulsrud (1993)
John M. Green (1992)
Hans R. Griem (1991)
William L. Kruer (1990)
Ravindra N. Sudan (1989)
Norman Rostoker (1988)
Bruno Coppi (1987)
Harold Grad (1986)
John H. Malmberg (1985)
Donald W. Kerst (1984)
Harold P. Furth (1983)
Ira B. Bernstein (1982)
John H. Nuckolls (1981)
Thomas H. Stix (1980)
Tihiro Ohkawa (1979)
Richard F. Post (1978)
John M. Dawson (1977)
Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (1976)
Lyman Spitzer (1975)
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Michael C. Zarsnorff (2008)
Stewart C. Prager (2008)
Edward J. Strait (2007)
Michio Okabayashi (2007)
Gerald A. Navratil (2007)
Andrea M. Garofalo (2007)
John H. Dillon Medal
Venkat Ganesan (2009)
Kari Dalnoki-Veress (2008)