Francis 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. The award is given biennially every odd-number year and consists of $2,000 plus support of travel expenses to the APS Meeting at which the award is conferred.

Establishment & Support

The award was established in 1997 by the Topical Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants in memory of Francis M. Pipkin, an enthusiastic and active member of the topical group whose wide interests in physics included experiments in condensed matter, nuclear, high energy, and atomic, molecular and optical physics, always with a special interest in precision measurements. The award has been endowed by contributions from family members, friends, students, and colleagues of Frank Pipkin.

Rules & Eligibility

Scientists who have held the Ph.D. degree for not more than 15 years prior to the nomination deadline are eligible for the award. The award recipient will be selected on the basis of outstanding work in the area of precision measurement and fundamental constants, as represented by his or her publications and three nominating letters. Any APS member, not a member of the award Selection Committee, may submit a nominations. The nomination packet should include:

1. A letter from the nominator citing the significance of the nominees accomplishments to the field of precision measurement and fundamental constants.
2. Curriculum vitae for the nominee, including dates of academic degrees.
3. Two letters seconding the nomination.

Nomination & Selection Process

This year’s deadline has passed. Next prize to be awarded in 2011.

2009 Selection Committee: Protik Majumder, Alejandro Garcia, David DeMille, Peter Mohr, Priscilla Cushman

2009 Francis M. Pipkin Award Recipient:
Zheng-Tian Lu
Argonne National Laboratory

Past Recipients:

2007:	David DeMille
2005:	Ronald L. Walsworth
2003:	Eric A. Hessels
2001:	Jens H. Gundlach
1999:	Steven Keith Lamoreaux