Prizes :

Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases

The prize was established in 1989 by contributions from American Telephone and Telegraph, General Electric, General Telephone and Electronics, International Business Machines, and Xerox Corporations in recognition of the outstanding contributions of Will Allis to the study of ionized gases.

2002 Recipient : Alan Garscadden, Air Force Research Laboratory, "In recognition of his distinguished career in gaseous electronics, marked by a sustained creativity in linking fundamental processes to the macroscopic properties of gas discharges and plasmas, and for his dedicated role as an advocate for the field of gaseous electronics".

Hans A. Bethe Prize

To recognize outstanding work in theory, experiment or observation in the areas of astrophysics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, or closely related fields.

2002 recipient : Gordon Baym, University of Illinois, "for his superb synthesis of fundamental concepts which have provided an understanding of matter under extreme conditions, ranging from crusts and interiors of neutron stars to matter at ultrahigh temperature".

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Biological Physics Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in biological physics research.

2002 Recipient : Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, "For his pioneering work in single molecule biophysics and the elucidation of the fundamental physics principles underlying the mechanical properties and forces involved in DNA replication and transcription".

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics, including the development of a method, technique, or device that significantly contributes in a general way to nuclear physics research.

2002 Recipient : J. David Bowman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "In recognition of his leadership in performing precision measurements involving tests of funda-mental symmetries, including his studies of parity nonconservation in compound nuclei".

Herbert P. Broida Prize

To recognize and enhance outstanding experimental advancements in the fields of atomic and molecular spectroscopy or chemical physics.

2001 Recipients : David W. Chandler and Paul Houston "For their critical contributions to the investigation of vibrationally- and rotationally-resolved molecular photodissociation and reaction dynamics, in particular for the invention and development of the photofragment ion imaging method. "

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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.

2002 Recipient : Jainendra Jain, Pennsylvania State University, Nicholas Read, Yale University, Robert Willett, Lucent Technologies, "For theoretical and experimental work establishing the composite fermion model for the half-filled Landau level and other quantized Hall systems".

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding work in atomic physics or surface physics.

2002 Recipient : Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University, "For pioneering work in trapping, cooling, and precision measurements of the properties of matter and antimatter in ion traps".

Fluid Dynamics Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in fluid dynamics research.

2002 Recipient : Gary Leal, University of California, Santa Barbara, "For his extensive use of a blend of modern analysis, innovative numerical computation, and experiments to elucidate phenomena in classical and polymer fluid dynamics."

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Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

To recognize outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physics.

2002 Recipient : Michael B. Green, Cambridge University, John H. Schwarz, Caltech, "For their pioneering work in the development of superstring theory".

Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids

To recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to the field of optical effects in solids.

2002 Recipients : James Allen, University of Michigan, Thomas Timusk, McMaster University, "For their outstanding contributions to the field of spectroscopy in strongly corrrelated electron systems leading to elucidation of many-body physics".

Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir.

2001 Recipient : Louis E. Brus, Columbia University, "For establishing the field of semiconductor nanocrystals through innovative synthesis, spectroscopy and theory."

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize

To recognize a most outstanding contribution to physics.

2001 Recipient : Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University, "For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the early universe, and extraordinary achievement in communicating the essence of physical science to the general public."

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James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

To recognize outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics.

2002 Recipient : Edward Frieman

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials. This shall include the discovery of new classes of materials, the observation of novel phenomena in known materials leading to both fundamentally new applications and scientific insights, and shall also include theoretical and experimental work contributing significantly to the understanding of such phenomena.

2002 Recipients : Sumio Iijima, NEC, Donald S. Bethune, IBM, "For the discovery and development of single-wall carbon nanotubes, which can behave like metals or semiconductors, can conduct electricity better than copper, can transmit heat better than diamond, and rank among the strongest materials known".

Lars Onsager Prize

To recognize outstanding research in theoretical statistical physics including the quantum fluids.

2002 Recipient : Anatoly I. Larkin, University of Minnesota, "for elucidating roles of fluctuations and randomness in collective phenomena, including critical behavior of uniaxial ferroelectrics, dependence of critical exponents in four dimensions on symmetry, and how impurity pinning of vortices in superconductors destroys lattice order and controls critical currents.

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George E. Pake Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry.

2002 Recipient : Paul Horn, IBM, "For his innovative contributions to the understanding of 1/f noise, the elucidation of surface phases and phase transitions, and his signal achievements in managing IBM Corporation's global research team".

W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in Experimental Particle Physics.

2002 Recipients : Masatoshi Koshiba, University of Tokyo, Yoji Totsuka, University of Tokyo, Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo, "For compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos".

Earl K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy

To recognize and encourage notable contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy.

2002 Recipient : Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, "for his seminal work on chemical reaction dynamics in liquids and the dynamics of fundamental biological processes using femtosecond laser spectroscopy".

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Polymer Physics Prize

To recognize outstanding accomplishment and excellence of contributions in polymer physics research.

2002 Recipient : Tom Witten, University of Chicago, "For outstanding theoretical contributions to the understanding of polymers and complex fluids".

I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics by investigators who have held a Ph. D. for 10 years or less.

2001 Recipient : Christopher Monroe, University of Michigan, "For his pivotal experiments that implemented quantum logic using trapped atomic ions, and for his fundamental studies of coherence and decoherence in entangled quantum systems. "

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in computational physics research.

2002 Recipient : David P. Landau, University of Georgia, "For the development of accurate Monte Carlo sampling and Renormalization Group Techniques, the study of the kinetics of aggregation and gelation in polymer systems, and for numerous contributions to the development and application of molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo methods".

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J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.

2002 Recipients : William J. Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Alberto Sirlin, New York University, "For their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics".

Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

To recognize outstanding contributions to basic research which uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light. Some examples of relevant areas of research are: nonlinear optics, ultrafast phenomena, laser spectroscopy, squeezed states, quantum optics, multiphoton physics, laser cooling and trapping, physics of lasers, particle acceleration by lasers, and short wavelength lasers.

2002 Recipient : Stephen E. Harris, Stanford University, "For outstanding contributions to fundamental and applied research into laser sources, nonlinear optics, extreme ultraviolet laser sources, and laser physics, including electromagnetically induced transparency and its application to lasing without inversion and to nonlinear optics at maximal coherence".

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution

To honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students.

2002 Recipient : James Cederberg, St. Olaf College, "For his sustained and productive research in molecular beam spectroscopy and an extraordinary record of spurring interest in careers in physics through student participation in challenging experiments."

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George E. Valley Prize

To recognize one individual, under age 30, for his or her outstanding scientific contribution to the knowledge of physics.

2002 Recipient : David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University, "For the discovery and elucidation of the physics of the Kondo Effect in Single Electron Transistors".

Robert R. Wilson Prize

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the physics of particle accelerators.

2002 Recipient : A.N. Skrinsky, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, "For his major contribution to the invention and development of electron cooling and for his development and for his contributions to the physics of the electron-positron colliders at the Budker Institute".

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Awards, Medals & Lectureships

David Adler Lectureship Award

To recognize an outstanding contributor to the field of materials physics, who is noted for the quality of his/her research, review articles and lecturing.

2002 Recipient : Chris G. Van de Walle, XEROX, "for his incisive theoretical contributions to the understanding of the behavior of hydrogen in semiconductors and heterostructure energy band diagrams and the exceptional exposition of this work in the scientific community".

LeRoy Apker Award

To recognize outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students, and thereby provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment.

2001 Recipients : Kathryn Todd, California Institute of Technology, for "Studies of Double-Layer Two-Dimensional Electron Gases" and Robert Wagner, Illinois State University, for "Intense Laser Physics Theory"

Edward A. Bouchet Award

To promote the participation of under-represented minorities in physics by identifying and recognizing a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research. The program will help publicize the lecturer's work and career development to the physics community, especially among minority physics students.

2002 Recipient : Oliver Keith Baker, Hampton University, "For his contribution to nuclear and particle physics; for building the infrastructure to do these measure-ments; and for being active in outreach activities, both locally and nationally".

Joseph A. Burton Forum

To recognize outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society.

2002 Recipient : Adrian Melott, University of Kansas, "For his outstanding efforts in helping to restore evolution and cosmology to their proper place in the K-12 scientific curriculum. As both a distinguished cosmologist and respected member of the clergy, he played a key role in helping the people of Kansas re-verse their State Board of Education's anti-science action.

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John H. Dillon Medal

To recognize outstanding research accomplishments by young polymer physicists who have demonstrated exceptional research promise early in their careers.

2002 Recipient : Timothy J. Bunning, Air Force Research Laboratory, "For his outstanding accomplishments in developing polymer based materials for optical applications and for elucidating the physics and chemistry underlying their formation".

Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science

To recognize physicists who have been instrumental in the development of measurement techniques or equipment that have impact on the physics community by providing better measurements.

2002 Recipient : Robert J. Soulen, Jr., Naval Research Laboratory, "For developing low temperature noise thermometry to achieve an absolute thermometer which now defines the year 2000 International Temperature Scale between 1 mK and 1 K to an accuracy of 0.1%, and for other significant contributions to thermome-try measurement over a distinguished career."

Otto LaPorte Award

To recognize outstanding research accomplishments pertaining to the physics of fluids.

2002 Recipient : Andrea Prosperetti, Johns Hopkins University, "For breakthroughs in the theory of multiphase flows, the dynamics of bubble oscillations, underwater sound, and free-surface flows and for providing elegant explanations of paradoxial phenomena in these fields."

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award

To recognize and enhance outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and to provide opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the spirit of Maria Goeppert-Mayer.

2002 Recipient : Deborah S. Jin, N.I.S.T., "For her innovative realization and exploration of a novel quantum system, the degenerate Fermi atomic gas, and the scientific promise portended by her pioneering work".

Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service

To recognize the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists.

2002 : Ramon Lopez

Frances M. Pipkin Award

To honor exceptional research accomplishments by a young scientist in the interdisciplinary area of precision measurement and fundamental constants and to encourage the wide dissemination of the results of that research.

2001 Recipient : Jens H Gundlach, University of Washington, "For identifying, and providing a solution to, an unrecognized weakness in the Cavendish technique for measuring the gravitational constant G; improving the accuracy of G by an order of magnitude, representing one of the largest incremental increases in accuracy ever obtained in the history of such measurements."

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Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

To recognize a particular recent outstanding achievement in plasma physics research.

2002 Recipients : Troy Carter, Scott Hsu, Hantao Ji and Masaaki Yamada, "For the experimental investigation of driven magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma. In this work, careful diagnostic studies of the current sheet structure, dynamics and associated wave activity provide a compre-hensive picture of the reconnection process."

Shock Compression Science Award

To recognize contributions to understanding condensed matter and non-linear physics through shock compression.

2001 Recipient : Yogendra Gupta, Washington State University, "For many significant contributions to the mechanical, optical, and x-ray measurement of both continuum and microscopic aspects of shock waves in condensed matter."

Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

To recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society in such areas as the environment, arms control, and science policy. The lecture format is intended to increase the visibility of those who have promoted the use of physics for the benefit of society.

2002 Recipient : Henry C. Kelly, Federation of American Scientists, "For his exceptional efforts in informing and shaping government policy in arms control, the environment, information technology, and energy policy while serving at the Solar Energy Research Institute, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy".

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John Wheatley Award

To honor and recognize the dedication of physicists who have made contributions to the development of physics in countries of the third world.

2001 Recipient : Henry R. Glyde, University of Delaware, "For his enduring commitment and multifaceted contributions to the development of physics in Thailand, which include innovative creation of scientific links between North American research universities and Chulalongkorn University, inspiring collaboration with leading Thai physicists, and the marshaling of financial and intellectual resources to establish new regional research centers"

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Dissertation Awards

Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics

To provide recognition to exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of fluid dynamics.

2001 Recipient : Greg A. Voth, Haverford College, for "Lagrangian Acceleration Measurements in Turbulence at Large Reynolds Numbers".

Beam Physics Award

To recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in beam physics and engineering

2002 Recipient : Boris Podobedov, "For an experimental study of the microwave instability in the SLC damping rings using a streak camera to correlate each event to the RF. The development of this sophisticated technique provides a powerful tool for the study of non-linear instabilities above threshold".

Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

To provide recognition to exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of experimental particle physics.

2002 Recipient : Bruce Owen Knuteson, University of Chicago, "For his development of the innovative SLEUTH algorithm, and its successful application to a sensitive search for new phenomena in high-energy interactions at the DO Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. The results of this work have the potential for changing fundamentally the way that particle physicists approach searches for new physics".

Nicholas Metropolis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis work in computational physics

The purpose of the award is to recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in computational physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results.

2002 Recipient : Nadia Lapusta, Harvard University, "For work on an innovative computational algorithm to simulate sequences of earthquake instabilities spanning more than ten orders of magnitude in time with physical representations of friction and rigorous continuum elastodynamics, leading to elucidation of earthquake nucleation, seismic radiation, and small-event clustering processes."

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Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award

To recognize a recent Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics.

2002 Recipient : Jiunn-Wei Chen, University of Washington, "For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of effective field theory to two-nucleon systems".

Outstanding doctoral thesis research in atomic, molecular, or optical physics

To recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in atomic, molecular, or optical physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results.

2002 Recipient : Brian DeMarco, NIST, Boulder.

Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award

To provide recognition to exceptional young scientists who have performed original thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of plasma physics.

2002 Recipient : Mayya Tokman, UC Berkeley, "For the development of exponential propagation methods for 3-D MHD simulations and for their application to the solar corona, giving new understanding of observed features of coronal mass ejections."

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