New Prize and Award Recipients

Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics

Lillian Hoddeson (2012 Recipient)
University of Illinois
For her leadership and contributions to writing the history of twentieth-century physics, her pioneering studies of American research laboratories -particularly Bell Labs, Los Alamos and Fermilab- and her perceptive scientific biography of John Bardeen.

Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics

Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz (2011 Recipient)
Cornell University
Equilibrium and stability in vortex and wave flows.

Andrei Sakharov Prize

Richard Wilson (2012 Recipient)
Harvard University
For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and for inspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same.

Mulugeta Bekele (2012 Recipient)
University of Addis Ababa
For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and for inspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same.

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

Kai-Ming Ho (2012 Recipient)
Iowa State University
For his pioneering work in the development of computational physics for photonic crystal and atomic cluster structures calculations.

Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

Michael D. Fayer (2012 Recipient)
Stanford University
For seminal contributions to laser science in the development of ultrafast nonlinear and multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy.

Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics

Siyuan Steven Wang (2011 Recipient)
Princeton University
For pioneering studies of the contribution of cytoskeletal filaments to the stiffness of E. coli cells, observations of growth-driven motions of bacterial actin homologs, and probes of the chiral origins of cell wall robustness.

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (2012 Recipient)
University of Rome
For contributions to the interaction between statistical mechanics, field theory and the theory of elementary particles, including spontaneous symmetry breaking, critical phenomena and a general theory of dissipative systems.

David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics

Stuart Parkin (2012 Recipient)
IBM Almaden Research Center
For inspiring experimental research, lectures, and writing in the area of metallic spintronics.

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics

Jean Dalibard (2012 Recipient)
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
For his seminal contributions to the physics of light-atom interactions and cold atomic gases.

Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics

Emanuele Mereghetti (2012 Recipient)
University of Arizona
For his ground-breaking work in applying effective field theory as a single, consistent, theoretical framework to a wide range of topics at the intersection of particle and nuclear physics, which include beyond-the-Standard Model Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, hadronic physics, and nuclear processes.

Phillip S. Barbeau (2012 Recipient)
Stanford University
For pioneering work in developing a new type of germanium detector with the capability to measure very low energy nuclear recoils, with applications to the measurement of elastic scattering of reactor neutrinos, in searches for dark matter candidates, and for germanium based double-beta decay experiments.

Dwight Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach

David Ernst (2011 Recipient)
Vanderbilt University
For his career-long efforts to promote diversity in physics and for his success in increasing minority participation in physics in the USA.

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics

Andrei Tokmakoff (2012 Recipient)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For pioneering work in the development and application of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy.

Edward A. Bouchet Award

Ramon Lopez (2012 Recipient)
University of Texas, Arlington
For his contributions to the understanding of magnetic storms, substorms, and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, his communication of space science to the public, and his extensive work in physics education at all levels.

Einstein Prize

Ezra Ted Newman (2011 Recipient)
University of Pittsburgh
For outstanding contributions to theoretical relativity, including the Newman-Penrose formalism, Kerr-Newman solution, Heaven, and null foliation theory. For his intellectual passion, generosity and honesty, which have inspired and represented a model for generations of relativists.

Excellence in Physics Education Award

Physics Teaching Resource Agents (2011 Recipient)
For providing peer-led professional development for 25 years to more than 5000 physics and physical science teachers nationwide through a network of more than 500 master teachers.

Fluid Dynamics Prize

Tony Maxworthy (2011 Recipient)
University of Southern California
For outstanding and sustained contributions to fluid dynamics, elucidating stability of fluid interfaces, vortex dynamics, insect flight and, notably, to geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics, including stratified and rotating flow phenomena, gravity currents, and convective processes.

Francis M. Pipkin Award

Michael Romalis (2011 Recipient)
Princeton University
For using ingenious high precision measurements of spin-precession to search for a nuclear electric dipole moment and other new fundamental spin interactions, and also for using such measurements to achieve the most sensitive magnetometry to date and demonstrate its utility for research in biomagnetism and medicine.

Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids

Dmitri Basov (2012 Recipient)
University of California, San Diego
For innovative and insightful use of infrared spectroscopy to probe correlated electron systems.

George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award

James Johnson (2011 Recipient)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding of crystal anisotropy effects, phase transformations, tensile fracture, and chemical reactions in shock compressed condensed matter.

George E. Pake Prize

Thirumalai Venkatesan (2012 Recipient)
National University of Singapore
For his exemplary scientific career in research, industrial leadership, and guidance of new generations of physicists in the creation new ventures by innovation.

Hans A. Bethe Prize

Silvia Torres-Peimbert (2012 Recipient)
UNAM
For outstanding work on the primordial helium abundance as well as abundances of other elements and their implications for cosmology and for the chemical evolution of galaxies and stars. This work is fundamental as a critical test for cosmological theories and the baryonic content of the Universe.

Manuel Peimbert (2012 Recipient)
UNAM
For outstanding work on the primordial helium abundance as well as abundances of other elements and their implications for cosmology and for the chemical evolution of galaxies and stars. This work is fundamental as a critical test for cosmological theories and the baryonic content of the Universe.

Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

Daniel Jafferis (2012 Recipient)
Harvard University
For the construction and study of three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories.

Herbert P. Broida Prize

Warren S. Warren (2011 Recipient)
Duke University
For the development of nonlinear coherent techniques which enhance molecular spectroscopy and molecular imaging.

I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular & Optical Phy

Cheng Chin (2011 Recipient)
James Franck Institute
For pioneering work in strongly interacting Fermi gas and few body physics including the discovery of the Effimov effect.

Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics

Stephen Leone (2011 Recipient)
University of California, Berkeley
For his pioneering use of soft x-rays in probing ultrafast dynamics in atomic and molecular systems.

J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

Bryan Webber (2012 Recipient)
University of Cambridge
For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.

Torbjorn Sjostrand (2012 Recipient)
Lund University
For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.

Guido Altarelli (2012 Recipient)
Universita di Roma Tre
For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.

J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics

Andre Lessa (2012 Recipient)
University of Oklahoma
For outstanding research as graduate student and a dissertation that explores the cosmological consequences of solving the strong CP problem via the Peccei-Quinn mechanism in the context of supersymmetric models.

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Robert Cava (2012 Recipient)
Princeton University
For pioneering discovery of new strongly correlated materials, especially novel superconductors.

James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

Gregor Morfill (2011 Recipient)
Max-Planck Institute für Extraterrestrische Physik
For Pioneering, and seminal contributions to, the field of dusty plasmas, including work leading to the discovery of plasma crystals, to an explanation for the complicated structure of Saturn's rings, and to microgravity dusty plasma experiments conducted first on parabolic-trajectory flights and then on the International Space Station.

John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Paul Bowe (2011 Recipient)
Aarhus University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Joel Fajans (2011 Recipient)
University of California, Berkeley
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Makoto Fujiwara (2011 Recipient)
TRIUMF
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Jeffrey Hangst (2011 Recipient)
Aarhus University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Michael Charlton (2011 Recipient)
Swansea University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Francis Robicheaux (2011 Recipient)
Auburn University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Dirk Van der Werf (2011 Recipient)
Swansea University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Niels Madsen (2011 Recipient)
Swansea University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

William Bertsche (2011 Recipient)
Swansea University
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Daniel Silveira (2011 Recipient)
RIKEN
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

Jonathan Wurtele (2011 Recipient)
University of California, Berkeley
For the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques which produced the first demonstration of the trapping of antihydrogen.

John H. Dillon Medal

Rachel Segalman (2012 Recipient)
University of California, Berkeley
For fundamental and technological contributions to the field of polymer science and engineering, especially in the area of rod-coil block copolymers.

John Wheatley Award

Miguel Jose Yacaman (2011 Recipient)
University of Texas, San Antonio
For the great impact that his efforts as an influential promoter of the development of physics have had, not only in Mexico, but also in Latin America and beyond.

Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

Arian Pregenzer (2012 Recipient)
Stanford University
For her intellectual and managerial leadership in creating centers that allow international technical and policy experts to explore confidence building measures and other arms control regimes.

Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science

Andreas Mandelis (2012 Recipient)
University of Toronto
For seminal contributions to the development of new experimental techniques based on photothermal science, and the application of these techniques to a variety of real-world problems.

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize

Gordon Kane (2012 Recipient)
University of Michigan
For important contributions to the phenomenology of elementary particle physics, especially supersymmetry, and for his accomplished record as a popularizer of science.

Lars Onsager Prize

Ian Affleck (2012 Recipient)
University of British Columbia
For his pioneering role in developing and applying the ideas and methods of conformal field theory to important problems in statistical and condensed matter physics, including the quantum critical behavior of spin chains and (with Ludwig) the universal behavior of quantum impurity systems.

LeRoy Apker Award

Bethany Jochim (2011 Recipient)
Augustana College
Strong-field dissociation dynamics of NO2+: A multiphoton electronic or vibrational excitation.

Djordje Radicevic (2011 Recipient)
Princeton University
Holography from Renormalization Group Flows.

Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

Siegfried Hecker (2012 Recipient)
Stanford University
For his leadership in developing international science and technology cooperation in areas critical to global security resulting in real reductions in the dangers of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism.

Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

Nadya Mason (2012 Recipient)
University of Illinois
For innovative experiments that elucidate the electronic interactions and correlations in low-dimensional systems, in particular the use of local gates and tunnel probes to control and measure the electronic states in carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award

Felix Parra (2011 Recipient)
University of Oxford
For demonstrating limitations in the gyrokinetic theory of the radial electric field for plasmas in an axisymmetric magnetic field and formulating an alternative procedure-insights that have inspired research around the world.

Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics

William A. Eaton (2012 Recipient)
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
In recognition of his contributions to the understanding of protein folding, dynamics, and function. Eaton's innovative experiments provided a detailed characterization of the energy landscape of proteins.

Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

Georgia Karagiorgi (2012 Recipient)
Columbia University
Searches for New Physics at MiniBooNE: Sterile Neutrinos and Mixing Freedom.

Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics

Justin Weber (2012 Recipient)
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Impact of Defects on Computer Technology: From CMOS to Quantum Computers.

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize

Charles L. Kane (2012 Recipient)
University of Pennsylvania
For the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect, opening the field of topological insulators.

Shoucheng Zhang (2012 Recipient)
Stanford University
For the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect, opening the field of topological insulators.

Laurens W. Molenkamp (2012 Recipient)
University of Wuerzburg
For the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect, opening the field of topological insulators.

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics

Elmar Haller (2011 Recipient)
University of Innsbruck
A one-dimensional quantum gas with tunable interactions.

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award

Roderik Bruce (2011 Recipient)
CERN
For his research on beam loss mechanisms involving ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions in relativistic heavy-ion colliders that are potentially performance-limiting.

Ian Blumenfeld (2011 Recipient)
Archimedes Model
For his research on the physics of plasma wakefield acceleration; in particular, the scaling of the longitudinal electric fields and transformer ratio in the nonlinear "blowout" regime.

Polymer Physics Prize

Matthew Tirrell (2012 Recipient)
University of Chicago
For his pioneering achievements in the area of polymer dynamics, polymers at surfaces and interfaces, and polymers in confined geometries.

Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics

Billy Ward (2011 Recipient)
ALIS Corporation
For innovative developments in the physics of field ion microscopy and the invention and commercial introduction of the Helium Ion Microscope.

Nicholas P. Economou (2011 Recipient)
ALIS Corporation
For innovative developments in the physics of field ion microscopy and the invention and commercial introduction of the Helium Ion Microscope.

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution

David S. Hall (2012 Recipient)
Amherst College
For his ground breaking experimental investigations of Bose-Einstein condensates and the dynamics of quantum vortices and for his enthusiastic inclusion of undergraduates in his research.

Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators

John Madey (2012 Recipient)
University of Hawaii, Manoa
For the invention and first experimental demonstration of the free electron laser and important contributions to its conceptual development.

Stanley Corrsin Award

Charles Meneveau (2011 Recipient)
Johns Hopkins University
For his innovative use of experimental data and turbulence theory in the development of advanced models for large-eddy simulations, and for the application of these models to environmental, geophysical and engineering applications.

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

Witold Nazarewicz (2012 Recipient)
University of Tennessee
For his foundational work in developing and applying nuclear Density Functional Theory, motivating experiments and interpreting their results, and implementing a comprehensive theoretical framework for the physics of exotic nuclei.

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

William B. Atwood (2012 Recipient)
University of California, Santa Cruz
For his leading work on the design, construction, and use of the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Satellite, enabling numerous new results in gamma-ray astrophysics and fundamental physics.

Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases

Philip G. Burke (2012 Recipient)
Queen's University Belfast
For pioneering and sustained theoretical development of R-Matrix computational methods for electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions important in modeling ionized gases and plasmas.