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Archive (1990-present)

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Abarnel, Henry Don Isaac [1995]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of complex, chaotic signals and their analysis for discovering new properties of a broad range of physical systems.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Abella, Isaac D. [1984]
University of Chicago
Citation: For significant contributions to the field of non-linear optical interactions including work on two photon absorption and photon echoes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Abernathy, Cammy [2009]
University of Florida
Citation: For contributions to the development of compound semiconductor materials growth using molecular beam epitaxy.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Abernathy, Frederick H. [1991]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For his many contributions to fluid mechanics, including: formation of the vortex sheet, free surface flows, drag reduction, polymer dynamics, and the structure of the near-wall region of the turbulent boundary layer.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Abraham, Neal Broadus [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of laser instabilities and to physics education.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Abraham-Shrauner, Barbara [1999]
Washington University
Citation: For important theoretical contributions to a broad range of plasma topics, including: space plasmas, nonlinear dynamics, and plasma processing.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Abrikosov, Alexei A. [1992]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For his predictions of the existence and properties of the vortex state in type-II superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Abstreiter, Gerhard [1991]
Tech Univ Muenchen
Citation: For far-infrared and Raman scattering studies of two-dimensional electron systems and of the physics of Si/SixGe1-x superlattices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ackerson, Bruce [2007]
Oklahoma State University
Citation: For theoretical and experimental advances in the physics of colloidal liquids and crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Adams, Nigel Graham [2004]
University of Georgia
Citation: For the development of important experimental techniques for studying charged-particle interactions with molecular neutrals and ions, and seminal contributions in understanding the synthesis of molecules in the interstellar medium.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Adams, Nikolaus [2011]
Technische Universitat Munchen
Citation: For the development of novel numerical methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, and for their successful application to elucidate dynamics of turbulent boundary layers and shock-turbulence interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Adams, Philip Wayne [2006]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For his major contributions to the understanding of high field superconductivity and two dimensional electron localization.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Adams, Walter Wade [1989]
Rice Univ
Citation: In recognition of important research on the ultrastructure and properties of polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Ade, Harald [2010]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For the development and incisive use of soft x-ray characterization methods in a wide range of polymeric and organic systems
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Adelman, Steven A. [1990]
Purdue Univ
Citation: For providing the foundation for treating problems in condensed-phase chemical-reaction dynamics, especially chemical reactions occurring at the gas-solid interface and in liquids, by generalized Langevin techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Adkins, Gregory Scott [1998]
Franklin & Marshall College
Citation: For numerous contributions to the theory of the hyperfine splitting and decay rate of positronium.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Adolphsen, Chris Edward [2003]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For original contributions to the beam physics and microwave properties of high frequency high-gradient linear accelerators.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Adrian, Ronald J. [1991]
Arizona State Univ
Citation: For his improved understanding of laser Doppler anemometers, the development of the Particle-Image-Velocimeter, and the theoretical formation of stochastic estimation theory applied to turbulent coherent eddy structures.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Aeppli, Gabriel [1997]
NEC Research Institute, Inc.
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of highly correlated electron systems and exotic superconductors using neutron scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Affleck, Ian Keith [2002]
Boston University
Citation: For important theoretical contributions to quantum magnetism and quantum impurities, and for the prediction of possible flux phases in the high temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Afnan, Irag Ruhi [1991]
Flinders Univ
Citation: For contributions to the formulation of the NN-πNN equations and their application to the understanding of π-d elastic scattering and pion production in N-N scattering.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Agarwal, Ramesh K. [2002]
Wichita State University
Citation: For pioneering development of Computational Fluid Dynamics methods and codes for the aerodynamic analysis and design of all categories of aerospace vehicles and outstanding contributions to aeroacoustics, magneto-hydrodynamics and rarefied gas dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Aglitskiy, Yefim [2003]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering work in developing monochromatic x-ray imaging technology for diagnostics of laser accelerated plasmas and for experimental studies of ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and Rayleigh-Taylor growth in laser-irradiated targets.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Agranovich, Vladimir M. [2009]
UTD NanoTech Institute
Citation: For contributions to the quantum theory of polaritons and excitons.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aharoni, Herzl [2007]
Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Citation: Pioneering contributions to the invention, research, and development of two- and multi-terminal Single Crystal Silicon Light Emitting Devices (SiLED's) for all-silicon intergrated optoelectronic systems, combining semiconductor physics and standard IC technology.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Aharony, Amnon [1985]
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
Citation: For contributions to the theory of new critical and multicritical points, of random field systems and their experimental realization and of using fractals in statistical physics and in percolation.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ahearne, John F. [1994]

Citation: For wise counsel and leadership on matters of nuclear reactor safety, waste management, and risk management.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Ahluwalia, Harjit Singh [1994]
University of New Mexico
Citation: For pioneering and substantive contributions to the understanding of the relation between cosmic ray modulations of ground level detectors and solar activity.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Ahmed, Musahid [2010]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his creation of a world-class synchrotron chemical dynamics facility serving the community and his unique marriage of lasers with synchrotron science, used to study small molecule spectroscopy and energetics, biological imaging, combustion, nanoparticle reactivity, and chemical dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Ahn, Charles [2010]
Yale University
Citation: For the elucidation of novel behavior in complex materials subjected to intense ferroelectric fields, and for seminal contributions to the understanding of nanoscale interfacial phenomena in complex oxides.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ahn, Doyeol [2009]
University of Seoul
Citation: For major contributions to the theory of quantum-well lasers and development of quantum information communication research.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Ahrenkiel, Richard K. [2000]
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering and innovative work in the techniques and analysis of recombination/minority-carrier lifetime and transport in semiconductors and for outstanding contributions to numerous areas of condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Ailion, David Charles [1990]
Univ of Utah
Citation: For many contributions to the development in NMR techniques for application to condensed-matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aizenberg, Joanna [2012]
Harvard University
Citation: For research in biomineralization and the control of templated nucleation and growth of crystals
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Akerib, Daniel [2008]
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: Division of Particles and Fields

Akerlof, Carl W. [1993]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For major contributions to the study of very high energy gamma ray astronomy and numerous other contributions to high energy physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Aklonis, John J. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Akylas, Triantaphyllos [2010]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For elegant and insightful theoretical investigations of nonlinear surface and internal gravity wave phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Alam, Muhammad [2008]
Purdue University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to and innovative computational models for Electronic Transport in Spatially and Temporally Random Systems.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Alamo, Rufina [2012]
Florida State University
Citation: For her use of well-characterized materials and performance of carefully designed experiments to address structure-property relationships in polyolefins
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Alarcon, Ricardo [2003]
Arizona State University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to, and leadership in, the development of instrumentation for experiments investigating the fundamental properties of nucleons and few-body systems.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Alascio, Blas Rafael [1998]
Centro Atomic
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of correlated electrons and intermediate valence, and developing the Instituto Balseiro to its current international importance.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Albers, Robert C. [2008]
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: Division of Computational Physics

Albert, Reka Z. [2009]
Penn State University
Citation: For pioneering work in understanding the organization and dynamics of biological networks.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Albright, Carl [2001]
Northern Illinois Univ. and Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Citation: For his contributions to the physics of electroweak interactions, particularly weak neutral currents, quark mixing, and neutrino masses and mixing.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Albright, David [2005]
Institute for Science and International Security
Citation: For ground-breaking technical analysis of secret nuclear weapons program in countries suchas North Korea, Iraq, and South Africa and for his definitive analysis of world-wide fissile material production.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Albritton, Daniel [1980]
NOAA
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Albritton, James R. [1986]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of laser plasma interactions and electron heat transport.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Aleiner, Igor [2008]
Columbia University
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of low-dimensional and mesoscopic conductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Alers, George Armand [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: For applying ultrasonic waves to a wide variety of basic physics and engineering problems in order to provide new insights into the properties of solid matter.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Alessi, James G. [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his many groundbreaking contributions to the development of intense negatively charged hydrogen (H-) beam sources, both unpolarized and spin-polarized, and the development of a high intensity Electron Beam Ion Source for the production of beams of high charge state heavy ions.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Alexander, James Paul [1999]
Cornell University
Citation: For leadership in the design and construction of the CLEO II silicon vertex detector and outstanding contributions to the discovery and study of charmless hadronic decays of B mesons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Alexander, John M. [1994]

Citation: For his many original contributions to studies of heavy ion reaction mechanisms, and for his work in clarifying the dynamical and statistical aspects of compound nucleus formation and decay.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Alexander, Millard H [1984]
University of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For work at the frontiers of the quantum mechanical theory of inelastic collisions of atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Alexander Jr., Chester [1983]
Univ of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the effects of ionizing irradiation on biologically important molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Alexander, Jr, Chester [1983]
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the effects of ionizing irradiation on biologically important molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Alexandrov, Alexandre [2008]
Loughborough University
Citation: For important and broad-ranging contributions to the theory of correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Alford, William Lumpkin [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his investigations of nuclear structure with transfer reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Alfredsson, P. Henrik [2012]
Royal Inst of Tech
Citation: For the development of innovative, creative and rigorous experimental methods leading to seminal contributions to our understanding of instabilities, transitional and turbulent flows
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Alhassid, Yoram [2001]
Yale University
Citation: For development of computational techniques for the shell model and their application to properties to heavy nuclei.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Alivisatos, A. Paul [1996]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the preparation and study of nanocrystals, including their incorporation into arrays and optoelectronic devices.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Allamandola, Louis John [2006]
NASA - Ames Research Center
Citation: For his seminal contributions in astrochemistry that have forever revolutionized our understanding of interstellar molecules, interstellar ices, and the chemical physics of the interstellar medium.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Allegrini, Maria [2012]
University of Pisa
Citation: For contributions to laser interactions with atoms and small molecules: energy pooling collisions, high resolution spectroscopy, laser cooling of diatomic molecules, and contributions to international physics through collaborations and professional service
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Allen, Barry J. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Allen, Bruce [2005]
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Citation: For his leading contributions to quantum field theory in an inflationary universe, to our understanding of cosmic strings, and to gravitational-wave phenomenology and detection.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Allen, James Ward [1989]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For his work in electron spectroscopy, which his helped to develop an understanding of electron correlations in rare-earth materials and transition-metal oxides.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Allen, John Edward [1989]
Oxford Univ
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of high-current discharges, thermal plasmas, Langmuir probes and sheaths, and waves in plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Allen, Lew [1990]

Citation: For contributions to the nation through extensive service to the furthering of national goals in space exploration.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Allen, Matthew Arnold [1991]
SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
Citation: For innovative contributions to, and leadership of, research, development, and construction of radio frequency systems for GeV electron-positron storage rings, linear accelerators, and linear colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Allen, Phillip B. [1986]
State Univ of NY- Stony Brook
Citation: For contributions to the theory of electron-phonon effects in metals and semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Allen, Silas James, Jr. [1986]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For creative far-infrared spectroscopy that elucidated the physics of transport in 2-dimensional electron systems; diffusion in superionic conductors, and spin-lattice interactions in magnetic insulators.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Allen, Steven Lynn [1995]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For scientific leadership in the physics of tandem mirrors, generation of intense microwave pulses and their absorption in tokamak plasmas, and in the development of the radiative divertor.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Allenspach, Rolf [2009]
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering experimental work in the field of nanomagnetism leading to a fundamental understanding of the physical limits of magnetic behavior. His studies on oscillatory magnetic anisotropy, ultrafast magnetization reversal and current driven domain motion provide new implications for future magnetic storage and logic devices.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Alloul, Henri [2007]
University of Paris, Sud
Citation: For nuclear magnetic resonance studies of strongly correlated electronic materials including the pseudogap phase of the cuprates through Knight shift measurements, local magnetic moments in cuprates, and studies of Kondo effect and spin-glasses.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Alonso, Marcelo [2004]
Florida Institute of Technology
Citation: For his tireless efforts to strengthen scientific research throughout Latin America, for his leadership in global physics education, and for enriching physics understanding of students worldwide through his many textbooks.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Alston-Garnjost, Margaret [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For contributions to the discovery and measurements of properties of both light and heavy quark resonances.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Altarelli, Massimo [1993]

Citation: For pioneering work on the band structure of semiconductors, in particular the theory of impurity levels and excitons.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Altfeder, Igor [2012]
Air Force Research Lab
Citation: For important developments in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, in particular for development of thermal Scanning Tunneling Microscopy technique and experimental discovery of field-induced vacuum phonon tunneling
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Altick, Philip L. [1987]
Univ of Nevada - Reno
Citation: For his introduction of random-phase approximation into atomic physics, pioneering studies of continuum configuration interaction, and his important contributions to the three-body continuum Coulomb problem.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Altshuler, Boris L. [1992]

Citation: For his work on the theory of transport in disordered and mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Alvarez, Orlando [1987]
Univ of Miami
Citation: For his important contribution to string theory and field theory and for his leading role in furthering the use of advanced mathematical methods in theoretical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ambrosch-Draxl, Claudia [2011]
University of Leoben
Citation: For her seminal contributions to the development and applications of first principle theoretical techniques to the study of spectroscopic properties of condensed systems, and her pioneering work on the ab-initio theory of organic semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Amendt, Peter Andrew [2006]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of indirectly-driven single- and double- shell inertial confinement fusion physics necessary for the demonstration of laboratory-scale ignition.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Amer, Nabil M. [1987]

Citation: For developing the novel and versatile technique of photothermal spectroscopy, and for applying it to advance our understanding of amorphous semiconductors and the physics of surface and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Amidei, Dan [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of b-quark tagging at hadron colliders, and for application of b-tagging to the discovery and study of the top quark.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Amis, Eric J. [1992]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: For the excellence of his contribution toward the understanding of dynamics of polymer solutions and gels, and in crystalline growth.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Amusia, Miron Ya [1995]
Unknown
Citation: For the discovery of the collective nature of atomic photoionization and prediction of the collectivization of few electron shells under the action of many-electron neighboring shells.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Anandan, Jeeva Satchith [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to the study of quantum phases and the geometry of quantum theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Anastasiadis, Spiros H [2000]
F.O.R.T.H. Inst. For Elec. Struct & Lase
Citation: For important contributions to the dynamics of block copolymers in the melt and in solution and on the structure an dynamics of polymer interfaces and thin films.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Andelman, David [2004]
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Citation: For definitive theoretical contributions to a broad range of problems in soft condensed matter, including monolayers, surfactant solutions and polyelectrolyte solutions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Anderegg, Francois [2001]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For experiments quantifying particle diffusion and heat transport due to long-range E B collisions in single species plasmas, and for the laser diagnostics and plasma control techniques which enabled these experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Anders, Andre [2008]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the physics and technology of cathodic arc plasmas and their applications.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Andersen, Hans Christian [1983]
Stanford University
Citation: For pioneering work in theory of liquids, energy transfer in random materials, molecular dynamics, and model biological membranes.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Andersen, Nils Overgaard [2005]
Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Citation: For his contribution to the study of atomic collision processes through electron and photon polarization analysis and the systematic development of quantum-mechanically complete descriptions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Andersen, Ole K. [1993]

Citation: For invention and continued development of the Linear Muffin Tin Orbital method of calculating electronic structures of solids and, from them, thermodynamic properties using total energy techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Anderson, Charles E., Jr. [2005]
Southwest Research Institute
Citation: For his leadership in combining numerical simulations with experimental data to develop advanced models of the response of materials to shock, impact, and penetration.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Anderson, Dana Zachery [2000]
University of Colorado
Citation: For his theoretical and experimental contributions to nonlinear optics and atom optics and for creating a number of remarkable optical devices for information processing and pattern recognition.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Anderson, David Vincent [1992]
No Company Provided
Citation: For valuable contributions to the understanding of plasma equilibria, stability, and nonlinear dynamics through the application of computational models that emphasized realism, accuracy, and efficiency.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Anderson, Hans Christian [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For pioneering work in theory of fluids, energy transfer in random materials, molecular dynamics, and model biological membranes.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Anderson, James Bernhard [1988]

Citation: For his contributions in chemical kinetics and molecular dynamics; in particular, for his seminal works on supersonic nozzle molecular beams, on modern transition-state theory, and on quantum chemistry by random walk.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Anderson, Oscar A. [1993]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For the theoretical study and practical development of novel high current, high energy DC accelerators.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Anderson, Richard J. [2003]
National Science Foundation
Citation: For action as Head of the NSF Office of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research which has resulted in significant increase in the academic research culture and competitiveness of many states.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Anderson, Richard Louis [1991]
Univ of Vermont
Citation: For distinguished scholarship in physical measurements, particularly for contributions to precision measurement of temperature by gas thermometry, resistance thermometry and thermocouple thermometry.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Anderson, Scott Law [2005]
University of Utah
Citation: For contributions to understanding chemical dynamics of ion-molecule reactions, size-selected model catalysts, and gas-phase clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Anderson, William [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For significant contributions to the field of dynamic material properties research, and specifically for achieving a better understanding of the dynamic response of geophysical, planetary, and materials of importance to national security
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Ando, Tsuneya [1985]
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokylo
Citation: For leading contributions to the theory of two-dimensional electron systems and their properties in magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Andrei, Eva Y [2003]
Rutgers University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the experimental study of vortex matter and two-dimensional electron systems, including Wigner lattices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Andrei, Natan [2004]
Rutgers University
Citation: For elucidating the many-body effects of several condensed matter systems, in particular the Kondo model, by discovering and studying their exact solutions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Andreoni, Wanda [2005]
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the development and implementation of ab-initio computational methods, and for pioneering investigations that led to deep insights into the behavior of diverse condensed matter, chemical, and biomolecular systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Andres, Klaus [1987]
Walther Meissner Inst
Citation: For pioneering experiments in nuclear magnetic cooling which led to the discovery of new compounds for achieving ultralow temperature using adiabatic demagnetization.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Andrew, Edward Raymond [1989]

Citation: For his contributions to NMR studies in solids, the development of the magic angle spinning technique, and the use of NMR for medical purposes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Andrews, W. Lester S. [1993]

Citation: For major contributions to infrared spectroscopy of reactive molecular transients, ions, and complexes in solid argon.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Anholt, Robert E. [1986]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions to the study of heavy-ion-atom collisions spanning quasimolecular collisions at low energy to collisions with relativistic projectiles.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Anisimov, Mikhail Alexeevich [1998]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his outstanding contributions towards a fundamental understanding of critical phenomena in fluids and fluid mixtures including complex fluids and liquid crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Ansermet, Jean-Philippe [2011]
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Citation: For research on spintronics in metallic systems and magnetic nanowires.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Antiochos, Spiro [2008]
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: Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics

Antonsen, Thomas M. [1986]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For contributions to the theory of the stability of high temperature plasmas and the theory of the production of intense ion beams.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Appel, Jeffrey Alan [1988]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For co-discovering the upsilon, the first evidence of "bottom" quarks and for leadership in the development of detectors and in defining electronic and data acquisition directions for high energy physics experimentation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Appelquist, Thomas William [1984]
Yale University
Citation: For fundamental research in quantum field theory and its application to the theory of elementary particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Aprahamian, Ani [1999]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For showing the existence of multiphonon vibrational excitations in the low-energy spectra of both spherical and deformed nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Aprile, Elena [2000]
Columbia University
Citation: For her pioneering contributions to gamma-ray instrumentation for astrophysics, particularly her successful development of a liquid xenon time projection chamber as an innovative Compton Telescope.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Apruzese, John Patrick [1999]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For significant and original studies of radiation in dense plasmas and the theory of plasma x-ray lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Archer, Lynden [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of interfacial properties and bulk viscoelasticity of polymer liquids.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Ard, William B. [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Ardalan, Farhad [2009]
Sharif Univ of Tech
Citation: For pioneering work in applications of noncommutative geometry in string theory and gauge theories, and for promoting the participation of Iranian scientists in CERN and Middle-East programs.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Aref, Hassan [1988]

Citation: For the elucidation of chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Arenhoevel, Hartmuth [2003]
Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany
Citation: For his contribution in understanding photo- and electrodisintegration of the deuteron, especially with incorporation of isobar degrees of freedom and meson exchange currents.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Arghavani, Reza [2009]
Applied Materials Inc
Citation: For leading the team that created a series of Stress-Tunable dielectrics for MEMORY and LOGIC technologies, also for introducing first ALD High-k into INTEL development FABs, which led to the introduction of High-k/Metal Gate into 45nm INTEL Microprocessor.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Argon, Ali S. [1986]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For fundamental contributions to understanding of plastic deformation of polymer glasses.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Argyriou, Dimitri [2008]
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: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Arif, Muhammad [2010]
NIST
Citation: For pioneering contributions in neutron interferometry, imaging and detection, with applications ranging from precise measurements of neutron scattering lengths to the imaging of flows in hydrogen fuel cells.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Arimondo, Ennio [1995]
Universita degli Studi di Pisa
Citation: For the interpretation of "dark resonances" in terms of coherent population trapping, and for contributions to nonlinear dynamics and chaos in lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Arko, Aloysius John [1989]

Citation: For his research on the electronic properties of novel materials, in particular his Fermi-surface studies in strongly correlated metals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Armentrout, Peter B. [1994]

Citation: For ion beam studies of molecular dynamics, chemical kinetics and thermochemistry of gas phase reactions, especially those involving transition metal atomic ions and clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Armstrong, Lloyd [1980]
Univ of Southern California
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Arndt, Roger E.A. [2009]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For his seminal contributions to our understanding of cavitation including inception physics, erosion mechanisms, noise and vibration and effects on turbomachinery performance; and for his outstanding contributions to research and education in aeroacoustics, hydroacoustics and hydroturbine technology.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Arnett, W. David [1987]
Univ of Arizona
Citation: For exceptional contributions to our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic chemical evolution and, especially, to our understanding of supernovae, through the use of advanced computational methods and the application of nuclear physics and hydrodynamics to astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Arnold, Raymond G. [1991]

Citation: For his leadership in developing the nuclear physics program at SLAC, and for a series of fundamental investigations of few-body systems at high momentum transfer using electron scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Arnold, Susan Theresa [2006]
Air Force Research Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding achievements in anion laser photoelectron spectroscopy and the kinetics and dynamics of ion-molecule, electron-molecule, and electron-ion reactions of importance in the atmospheric and aerospace sciences.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Arons, Arnold B. [1991]

Citation: For pioneering work in the teaching of physics and leadership in the education of future teachers of physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Arons, Jonathan [1985]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For theoretical contributions in the application of plasma physics and electrodynamics to the study of pulsars, quasars, interstellar and intergalactic matter.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Aronson, Igor Samuel [2001]
Argonne National Lab
Citation: For important theoretical contributions to dynamics of far-from-equilibrium systems, and applications of novel methods of nonlinear dynamics to condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aronson, Meigan Charlotte [2000]
University of Michigan
Citation: For investigation of collective phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems using neutron scattering and high pressure techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aronson, Samuel Harry [2000]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to nuclear and particle physics, including the physics of neutral Kaons, and the leadership, design and construction of the major experiments, D0 at Fermilab and PHENIX at RHIC.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Arrington, John [2012]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his extensive and systematic work in understanding the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon and the role of short distance phenomena in nuclei
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Artuso, Marina [2007]
Syracuse University
Citation: For achievements in building RICH and silicon detectors for high energy experiments and for studies of heavy quark decays.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Asay, James Russell [1992]
Sandia Natl Labs
Citation: In recognition of his far-ranging contributions to the understanding of the physical properties of matter under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of intense shock loading.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Aschenauer, Elke-Caroline [2012]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For her scientific and technical accomplishments in the study of the spin structure of the nucleon, and her demonstrated ability to lead large, international collaborations in design and execution of such experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ashery, Daniel [1988]
Tel Aviv Univ
Citation: For contribution to the understanding of pion-nucleus interaction, and in particular of the true absorption process.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ashoori, Raymond C. [2009]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For the development of imaging techniques that reveal the physical properties of reduced-dimensional electronic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ashtekar, Abhay Vasant [1997]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his various contributions to classical and quantum gravitational physics, in particular the new canonical variables and the development of rigorous techniques for the quantization of gravity and other non-Abelian field theories.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Aspect, Alain Jean [2005]
Laboratoire Charles Fabry, France
Citation: For his trailblazing experimental tests of Bell's inequalities, and seminal contributions to laser cooling and atom optics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Aspelmeyer, Markus [2012]
University of Vienna
Citation: For outstanding contributions to experimental quantum information, quantum optics, and quantum foundations, including the first experimental realization of a one-way quantum computer using 4-photon entangled cluster states and the first demonstration of radiation-pressure based cavity cooling of a micromechanical system
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Aspuru-Guzik, Alan [2012]
Harvard University
Citation: For his contributions at the interface of quantum information and chemistry and biology, including theory and experiment on quantum simulation for molecules, the development of the undertsanding of quantum coherence in photosynthesis, and density functional theory for open quantum systems
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Asta, Mark [2010]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of materials through ab initio density functional theoretical studies.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Astumian, Raymond Dean [2000]
University of Chicago
Citation: For fundamental contributions to understanding the thermodynamics and mechanism of transduction of energy from a non-equilibrium chemical reaction to drive directed transport by molecular motors and pumps.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Atkinson, William [2011]
Boeing Company
Citation: For academic contributions in the areas of nuclear physics and for substantial applications of radiation technology to spaceborne applications in the aerospace community.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Attwood, David [2006]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For leading contributions to the characterization and use of coherent extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray radiation, and for pioneering work in laser interferometry of dense plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Atzeni, Stefano [2010]
Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
Citation: For contributions to the theory and simulation of inertial confinement fusion, leading to advances in ignition schemes, energy gain models, implosion symmetry and implosion stability.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Au, Chi Kwan [1990]
Univ of South Carolina
Citation: For contributions to atomic theory, especially to the theory of long-range forces and of logarithmic perturbation expansions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Aubrecht, Gordon J., II [2000]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For his many contributions to physics education over the years, including his work with high school teachers in PTRA, his work with the Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEC), and his book on Energy.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Aubry, Nadine N [2005]
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering work on the derivation and analysis of reduced representations of turbulent and other complex fluid flows, as well as recent contributions to micro fluid dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Auchincloss, Priscilla S. [2000]
University of Rochester
Citation: In recognition of her exemplary record of service to the APS and for her ongoing effective work to improve the climate for women physicists and to ensure gender equity.


Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Auerbach, Daniel Jonathon [1986]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For experimental studies leading to better understanding of dynamical aspects of gas surface interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Auerbach, Naftali [1986]
Tel Aviv Univ
Citation: For his many important contributions to the theoretical understanding of nuclear structure.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Austin, Robert Hamilton [1988]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For experimental investigation of the dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Auston, David H. [1990]
UC Santa Barbara
Citation: For the development of ultrafast optoelectronic and nonlinear optical techniques, and their application to the study of dynamical processes in semiconductor materials and devices.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Avagyan, Harut [2011]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For pioneering studies of Single Spin Asymmetries in electroproduction of hadrons in deep inelastic scattering, providing access to orbital motion of quarks.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Averback, Robert S. [2001]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For his research on the fundamental interactions between energetic ions and solids and the kinetic response of materials far from equilibrium.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Averbukh, Ilya [2006]
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of wave packet dynamics in atoms and molecules, particularly the sequence of revivals and fractional revivals.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Averin, Dmetri V [2004]
Stony Brook University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of single-charge-tunneling and mesoscopic effects in metallic, semiconductor, and superconductor junctions, and their applications to quantum information processing.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Avery, Paul A. [2004]
University of Florida
Citation: For leadership in developing grid computing resources for high-energy physics and other sciences.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Avignone, Frank T., III [1991]
Univ of South Carolina
Citation: For contributions to studies of weak interactions in nuclei, particularly the development of ultraclean germanium detectors for double beta decay and dark matter experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Avishai, Yshai [2004]
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Citation: For important contributions to the physics of electron transport in low dimensional systems and quantum dots, including the effects of disorder, interactions and external magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Avoutis, Phaedon [1987]
IBM T J Watson Res Ctr
Citation: For his studies of energy transfer processes in free molecules, absorbates on surfaces, and the condensed phase, and for his study of the vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of adsorbates.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Awes, Terry Clayton [2001]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the discovery of direct-photon emission in relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a means for searching for the quark-gluon plasma, and for his leadership as Spokesman of CERN heavy-ion experiment WA98.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Awschalom, David D. [1992]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For his study of the novel magnetic properties of low-dimensional semi-conductor systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aydemir, Ahmet Yasar [1994]

Citation: For the development of three-dimensional nonlinear incompressible resistive-MHD simulations and their application to dynamo action in reverse field pinches; and for numerical investigations of the trigger mechanism for fast sawtooth crashes in tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Azbel, Mark Ya [1986]
Tel Aviv Univ
Citation: For his contribution to the Azbel-Kaner cyclotron resonance method, his elucidation of the complex spectrum of Bloch electrons in magnetic field, and his theoretical work on DNA denaturation and transport through finite random structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Aziz, Michael John [1993]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For unique experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of the kinetics of crystal growth in covalent systems and of solute trapping in rapid solidfication processing.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ba i, Zlatko [2009]
New York University
Citation: For major contributions to the theoretical treatment and understanding of the quantum bound-state and dissociative dynamics of floppy polyatomic molecules, weakly bound molecular clusters, and molecular hydrogen in nanoporous materials.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Baak, Van, David [2010]
Calvin College
Citation: For successfully refining and extending experiments used in the undergraduate curriculum and for promulgating the use of diode lasers in the undergraduate laboratory.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Baartman, Richard A. [2009]
TRIUMF
Citation: For significant contributions to the theory and elucidation of collective instabilities and higher order aberrations in particle accelerators and beamlines.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Babu, Kaladi S. [2009]
Oklahoma State University
Citation: For original contributions to neutrino physics, supersymmetric model building, and grand unification.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Back, Birger Bo [2001]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his elucidation of the role of vibrational resonances in fission and for the identification and characterization of quasifission, a new mode in the interaction of heavy ions.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Back, Christina Allyssa [2004]
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Citation: For the quantitative application of x-ray spectroscopy that has advanced the understanding of high energy density plasmas in the areas of x-ray hohlraums, radiation transport, and high efficiency radiation production.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Badash, Lawrence [1987]

Citation: For his research in the history of modern physics, especially radioactivity and nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Baden, Andrew Robert [2004]
University of Maryland
Citation: For exceptional work in hadron collider physics, including instrumentation and ideas that contributed to the top quark discovery.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bader, Samuel David [1990]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For wide-ranging and innovative contributions to the understanding of physical phenomena in magnetism superconductivity, surfaces, and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baer, Helmut Willy [1988]

Citation: For efforts in development of a spectrometer for neutral pions and its exploitation in physics research, specifically charge-exchange reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Baer, Howard Arthur [1998]
Florida State University
Citation: For contributions to the search for new states of matter and for elucidating the observable consequences of weak-scale supersymmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Baer, Thomas [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: For the development of the technique of photoelectron photoion coincidence (PEPICO) and its application to the reactions of state selected ions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bagger, Jonathan Anders [1997]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity and supercolliders.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Baglin, John Edward Eroc [1991]
IBM Almaden Res Ctr
Citation: In recognition of outstanding innovative research in the physics of thin film and interface interactions and adhesion, and in ion beam modification and synthesis of advanced materials.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Baierlein, Ralph F. [1996]
Wesleyan University
Citation: For his varied contributions in physics, particularly in the areas of physics education, and for his many years of service to the profession.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Bailey, James Edward [2004]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering spectroscopic measurements in challenging high energy density experiments, contributing significantly to the advancement of atomic physics in plasmas, z-pinch physics, laboratory astrophysics, inertial fusion, and basic plasma science.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bair, Harvey Edward [1987]

Citation: For his innovative application of thermoanalytical techniques to characterize the structure and behavior of polymers materials, especially multicomponent blends, reactive polymer systems, and materials containing additives or contaminants.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Bak, Per [1993]

Citation: For work on the theory of phase transitions and quasicrystals, and the proposal of self-organized criticality.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bakajin, Olgica [2010]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For her contributions to the development of new instrumentation for studies of protein folding and for fundamental understanding of transport and selectivity at nano-scale, with implications to understanding of membrane channels.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Baksay, Laszlo [2008]
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: Forum on International Physics

Baktash, Cyrus [1995]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For discoveries of identical bands at normal deformation of band termination in heavy nuclei, superdeformation in the A = 80 region and for seminal studies of shape evolution with spin and temperature.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Balachandar, Sivaramakrishnan [2006]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of thermal convection in the earth's mantle, the structure of bluff body wakes and their effect on the dynamics of small particles, the dynamics of vortices in wall turbulence, and theory of two-phase flow, including the equilibrium Euler formulation for disperse flow.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Balachandran, Aiyalam P. [1988]
Syracuse Univ
Citation: For originating work of seminal importance on nonperturbative, geometrical, and topological aspects of field theory and his work on solitons, monopoles, and non-Abelian anomalies.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Balandin, Alexander [2011]
University of California, Riverside
Citation: For pioneering optothermal studies of phonon transport in graphene and outstanding contributions to investigation of spatially confined phonons and excitons in semiconductor nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Balantekin, A. Baha [1994]

Citation: For his development and use of symmetry concepts in nuclear structure, heavy ion fusion dynamics, and particle production in high-energy collisions, and for his work on the solar neutrino problem.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Balatsky, Alexander Vasilievich [2003]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For insightful theory of strongly correlated states of matter, particularly unconventional superconductivity and the prediction of impurity-induced quasiparticle bound states.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Balazs, Anna Christina [1993]
Univ of Pittsburgh
Citation: For her innovative application of theoretical methods to describe and predict the effect of sequence distribution on the miscibility of polymer containing mixtures and their adsorption onto surfaces and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Balazs, Louis A. P. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Baldereschi, Alfonso [1993]

Citation: For his fundamental contributions to the theory of electronic states in solids, and in particular for the development of widely used methods for the calculation of electronic structure.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baldridge, Kim K. [2000]
University of Calfornia, San Diego
Citation: For her development and application of methods for quantum calculations of molecular structure and reactivity, including her studies of aromaticity which continue the tradition of Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Baldwin, Kenneth [2008]
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: Forum on International Physics

Balibar, Sebastien [2005]
Ecole Normale Superieure
Citation: For the observation and analysis of the roughening transitions and quantum growth dynamicsin helium crystals, and for the discoveries of quantum evaporation, quantum cavitation and acoustic crystallization.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Balicas, Luis M. [2012]
Florida State University
Citation: For experimental studies of unconventional superconductors, heavy fermion materials, and frustrated magnetic systems
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Balitsky, Ian [2010]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For pioneering applications of quantum chromodynamics  (QCD) to hadron physics, in particular, for development of light-cone QCD sum rules and contributions resulted in Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) and Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Ball, James Stutsman [1995]
University of Utah
Citation: For contributions to the theoretical understanding of the strong interactions. His development of theoretically based phenomenology and its comparison with experiment have allowed rapid testing of theoretical ideas.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ball, James B. [1993]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For his contributions to the study of one and two particle transfer reactions to elucidate nuclear structure and pairing vibrations and for his key role in development of the Holified Heavy Ion Research Facility.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Balsara, Nitash P. [2000]
Polytechnic University
Citation: For elegant experiments and definitive analysis clarifying the creation and development of structure in multicomponent polymer liquids.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Baltz, Anthony [2010]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For theoretical prediction of constraints on solar neutrino mass and mixing
parameters from the Earth effect and for theoretical contributions to
ultra-peripheral interactions with relativistic heavy ion reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Banavar, Jayanth R. [1994]

Citation: For studies of spin glasses, porous media and fluids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Band, Yehuda Benzion [1996]
Ben Gurion University
Citation: For his many contributions to our understanding of the response of atoms and molecules to light, especially for the fundamental theory of molecular photodissociation and for collisions of ultracold atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bandrauk, Andrew [2007]
University of Sherbrooke
Citation: For pioneering theoretical contributions to elucidating intense laser interactions with molecules, including predictions of the existence of new molecules and of enhanced molecular ionization in intense laser fields, and of the usefulness of chirped pulses to control photochemical processes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bandyopadhyay, Supriyo [2005]
Virginia Commonwealth University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to device applications of nanostructures.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Banerjee, Sanjay Kumar [2006]
University of Texas
Citation: For contributions to silicon and silicon-germanium heterostructure MOS transistors and three- dimensional integrated-circuit technology.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bangerter, Roger Odell [1996]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental contributions to all aspects of heavy-ion-driven inertial confinement fusion and leadership of the US effort to develop its potential as an energy source.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Banks, Thomas [1999]
Rutgers University
Citation: For many important contributions to our understanding of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in Quantum Field Theory, and for many contributions to String Theory, including Matrix Theory, the first nonperturbative formulation.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bansil, Rama [2001]
Boston University
Citation: For her important contributions to phase transition kinetics, probe diffusion and chemical reactions in gels and applications of gelation in biological systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Bao, Gang [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions in the field of molecular biomechanics and seminal impacts in developing molecular sensors for diagnosis of cellular functions
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bao, Wei [2012]
Renmin University of China
Citation: For neutron scattering studies of the magnetic structure and spin dynamics of highly correlated electron systems
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Barabasi, Albert Laszlo [2003]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his discovery of scale-free networks and for his theories of surface roughening and strained surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baragiola, Razl Antonio [1998]
University of Virginia
Citation: For broad contributions to our understanding of interactions of energetic particles with solids, especially regarding mechanisms of electron emission and desorption and astronomical applications.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Baranger, Harold [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For contributions to mesoscopic and nanoscale physics, especially the manifestations of classical chaos in quantum properties and the interplay of quantum interference and electron-electron interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baratoff, Alexis [2007]
University of Basel
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of tunneling in superconductors and in scanning probe microscopes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Barbara, Paul Frank [1992]
Univ of Texas, Austin
Citation: For his innovative studies of ultrafast proton and electron transfers, isomerization reactions, and dynamic solvent effects.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Barbaro-Galtieri, Angela [1984]
University of California-Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the discovery and measurements of properties of both light and heavy quark resonances.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Barber, Herbert Bradford [1999]
University of Arizona
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of semiconductor detector arrays for application to biomedical research and clinical nuclear medicine.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bardeen, James M. [1996]
University of Washington
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the theory of cosmological density perturbations, relativistic astrophysics, and galactic structure.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Barenghi, Carlo F. [2009]
Newcastle University
Citation: For the application of ideas and methods of modern fluid mechanics to quantum fluids, especially hydrodynamic stability, vortex dynamics and turbulence.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Barger, Amy [2007]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For her pioneering observations and fundamental insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bari, Robert [2012]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his many contributions to nuclear power reactor safety, security, and proliferation resistance, including major contributions to probabilistic risk assessment and to methods for analyzing proliferation resistance of complex nuclear systems; and for leadership in advancing safety internationally
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Barker, Lynn M. [1996]
Valyn International
Citation: In recognition for his contribution to shock wave physics; particularly for development of new instrumentation techniques for shock wave studies such as VISAR and to the understanding of shock wave propagation in condensed matter.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Barkley, Dwight [2008]
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: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Barletta, William A. [1995]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the combination of plasma devices and electron beams, free electron lasers, and conventional accelerators, as well as to the wise direction of beam physics programs during the last decade.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Barnes, Daniel Charles [1991]
No Company Provided
Citation: For original contributions to the development of long-time step methods of kinetic plasma calculation and their application to multi-dimensional problems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Barnes, Ted [2003]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his seminal work on hybrid and exotic hadrons and his contributions to hadron spectroscopy and to the quantum properties of spin systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Barnett, Bruce Arnold [1989]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to elementary particle physics, especially for research on exotic particles, charmed states, and tau leptons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Barnett, Ralph Michael [1993]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to phenomenological analyses of the Standard Model and its extensions, including studies of the nature and validity of Quantum Chromodynamics, analyses of neutral current couplings, calculations of the production of heavy quarks, and predictions of the properties and decays of supersymmetric particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Baron, Edward A. [2011]
University of Oklahoma
Citation: For work at the forefront of computational astrophysics, especially for important contributions to the theory of core collapse supernovae and leadership in the theory of radiative transport in stars and supernovae.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Baroni, Stefano [2006]
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanz
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the broad area of modeling of condensed matter and for his services to the international electronic structure community as a promoter and an instructor.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Barr, Stephen [2011]
University of Delaware
Citation: For his original contributions to grand unified theories, CP violation and baryogenesis.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Barrera, Ruben Gerardo [2001]
UNAM, Mexico
Citation: For his significant contributions to the understanding of the optical properties of surfaces and inhomogenous media as well as for his leadership in the establishment and improvement of relations among physicists in the Americas, e.g., helping to create the Latin American Federation of Physics Societies.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Barrett, Bruce Richard [1987]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of the microscopic structure of nuclei, principally regarding effective nuclear interactions, exact G matrix calculations, and the microscopic structure of the Interacting Boson Model.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Barrett, Harrison Hooker [1994]

Citation: For important contributions to medical physics and imaging science, particularly to the theory and practice of radionuclide imaging in nuclear medicine.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Barrett, Joseph John [1997]
Allied Signal Inc.
Citation: For his pioneering contributions in the development and applications of new Raman and infrared techniques and, in particular, photoacoustic Raman spectroscopy for gas analysis and infrared sensors for avionics applications.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bars, Itzhak [1988]
Univ of Southern California
Citation: For formulation, development, and application of symmetry and supersymmetry principles in unified gauge theories, composite models of quarks and leptons, nuclear supersymmetry, feeble forces, superstring and supermembrane theories.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Barsch, Gerhard R. [1990]
Penn State Univ, Univ Park
Citation: For experimental and theoretical studies on linear and nonlinear elastic properties, lattice dynamics, and phase transitions of a wide range of materials of interest to physics geophysics and electromechanical devices.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bartelt, Norman Charles [1999]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For his pioneering work on the theory of thermal fluctuations and dynamic surface structure.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bartlett, Albert Allen [1984]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For outstanding contributions to physics teaching and to increased public awareness of energy-related problems in society.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bartlett, Rodney Joseph [1989]
Univ of Florida - Gainesville
Citation: For the development of many-electron methods for electron correlation in molecules, principally many-body perturbation theory and coupled-cluster theory, and their applications in chemical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bartschat, Klaus Richard [1998]
Drake University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory and numerical treatment of atomic collisions through advancing the density matrix description and developing the R-matrix with pseudo-states approach.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bartynski, Robert Allen [2004]
Rutgers University
Citation: For pioneering experiments to determine the electronic properties of surfaces, especially for leadership in developing Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy (APECS) with synchrotron radiation as a tool for local electronic structure.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baruch, Pierre [2001]
Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
Citation: For his theoretical studies on energy conversion and the thermodynamical description of photovoltaic cell operation as well as for his numerous actions in support of international scientific cooperation, e.g., through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and its Megascience Forum.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Barwick, Steven W. [2002]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For contributions to non-accelerator, experimental particle physics, especially as co-spokesperson of the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array, charged with oversight of detector operations and management of scientific output.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Barzi, Emanuela [2012]
Fermilab
Citation: For her innovations in the development of advanced superconductors, her continuous efforts in promoting International scientific collaborations, and her unwavering mentoring of US and Italian students
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Basaran, Osman A. [2008]
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: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Basbas, George J. [1987]
American Physical Society APS
Citation: For important theoretical contributions to atomic collision theory, particularly energy-loss, phenomena and inner-shell excitations, and for valuable service to the scientific community as an editor of a leading journal.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bashir, Rashid [2012]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For contributions to applications of nanotechnology to biology and medicine, and development of electrical and mechanical biosensors for molecules and cells
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Baskerville-Bridges, Frank George [2002]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For important innovations in EXAFS techniques leading to improved understanding of local structure and correlated atomic displacements.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Basov, Dmitri N. [2005]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For his significant contributions to our understanding of high temperature superconductors and other correlated electron systems using infrared and optical spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Basov, Nicolay G. [1998]
Lebedev Physics Institute
Citation: For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principles.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bastard, Gerald [1993]

Citation: For many valuable contributions to the theory of semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Batchelor, Donald B. [1989]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For theoretical analysis and code developments in the areas of plasma heating by electromagnetic waves at electron and ion cyclotron resonance frequencies and the subsequent plasma thermalization.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Batelaan, Herman [2008]
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: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bateman, Glenn [2000]
Lehigh University
Citation: For his theoretical and computational research on MHD instabilities and predictive transport modeling of tokamak plasmas, emphasizing detailed comparisons between theory-based simulations and experimental data.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bates, Frank S. [1991]
Univ of Minn - Minneapolis
Citation: For original contributions to the study of polymer blends and block copolymers, including the isotope effect, fluctuation effects oh phase transitions, and chain stretching.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Batlle, Xavier [2012]
Universitat de Barcelona
Citation: For his major, original contributions to the fundamental understanding of the magnetic properties of nanostructured materials and particle-like systems, and of the interplay among finite-size, surface, interface, interaction and proximity effects
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Batlogg, Bertram [1986]
ETH - Zurich
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of f-element compounds, particularly the mixed valence states of Tm1-xSe and of the heavy-fermion compounds CeCu2Si, UPt3, and UBe13.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Batrouni, Ghassan [2006]
Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice University of Nic
Citation: For fundamental contributions to quantum monte carlo techniques and their application to lattice gauge theory, condensed matter and atomic physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Batson, Philip Edward [1996]
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For the development of both the experimental and interpretative aspects of high spatial resolution, high energy resolution energy loss spectroscopy as a valuable addition to electron microscopy studies of matter.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bauer, Daniel [2006]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his crucial contributions to the success of the Cold Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bauer, Ernst G. [1991]
Arizona State Univ
Citation: For elucidating the structure and phase transitions of clean and mono-and multilayer films on single crystal substrates and the development of LEEM to observe highly resolved surface structures in real space and time.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Bauer, Gerrit E. [2010]
Delft University of Technology
Citation: For exposition of the interaction between spin transport, magnetization dynamics, charge and heat transport, and mechanical motion.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Bauer, Gunther [1990]
Johannes Kepler Univ
Citation: For contributions to many aspects of the physics of compound semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bauer, Robert Steven [1986]

Citation: For outstanding experimental contributions and technical leadership in understanding the electronic properties of semiconductors, especially their surfaces and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bauer, Wolfgang W. [2003]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his many contributions to the theoretical understanding and interpretation of heavy-ion collisions, and for his contributions to undergraduate physics education.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Baum, Guenter G. [1995]
University of Bielefeld
Citation: For his important contributions to electron and muon deep inelastic scattering, particularly with polarized beams and targets to study QCD sum rules and determine the nucleon's internal spin structure.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Baur, Ulrich [2008]
SUNY-Buffalo
Citation: For contributions to precision electroweak physics, especially the phenomenology of electroweak gauge bosons at hadron colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bayer, Manfred [2011]
University of Dortmund
Citation: For optical spectroscopy of charge and spin excitations in semiconductor quantum-dot structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Baylis, William Eric [1989]
Univ of Windsor
Citation: For the development and application of techniques for the calculation of interatomic potentials, and relativistic correlation effects in atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Beamish, John [2011]
University of Alberta
Citation: For measurements of the shear modulus of solid 4He at low temperatures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bean, Alice [2011]
University of Kansas
Citation: For her unique contribution in the design and construction of silicon detectors and other instrumentation. Her expert work of heavy quark decays in B decays. She created a novel outreach physics project Quarked!TM and also led unique undergraduate research opportunities.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Beane, Silas [2012]
University of New Hampshire
Citation: For advancing the understanding of few-hadron systems from Quantum Chromodynamics by pioneering the application of effective field theories and lattice calculations of the QCD path integral to these systems
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Beasley, Malcolm R. [1980]
Stanford Univ
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Beason, James Douglas [2000]
Air Force Research Laboratory (DE)
Citation: For his leadership advancing, advocating and formulating national science policy, in particular, for his impact throughout the government in basic research, and for his fundamental contributions solving the relativistic Compton scattering kernel, and inventing innovative techniques for simulating lasers and plasmas.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Beatty, James J. [2012]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to cosmic ray astrophysics, including leadership roles in the design, construction, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory, balloon-borne studies of cosmic ray antiprotons and positrons, and in searches for high energy neutrinos using radio techniques
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Beaucage, Gregory [2008]
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: Division of Polymer Physics

Beausoleil, Raymond [2012]
Hewlett-Packard
Citation: For contributions to basic research in nonlinear and quantum optics with applications to information technology
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bebek, Christopher John [2005]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the advancement of complex detector systems for bottom and charm quark experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Becchetti, Frederick Daniel [1991]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For his many original contributions to experimental nuclear physics including light and heavy-ion reactions, detector technology, and novel experiments with radioactive nuclear beams.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bechert, Dietrich Wolfgang [1997]
DLR (German Aerospace Research Est.)
Citation: For seminal contributions in receptivity of shear flows, vortex sound absorption, amplification of jet noise, acoustic array application on high speed train, and ingenious experiments of viscous drag reduction by using riblets.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bechhoefer, John L. [2009]
Simon Fraser University
Citation: For seminal experimental and theoretical contributions to nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, phase transitions, solidification and biological physics as well as important advances of scientific instrumentation.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Beck, Donald R. [2001]
Michigan Technological University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of many body and relativistic formalism to atoms and negative ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Beck, Douglas H. [2002]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For pioneering work in the use of parity-violating electron scattering to elucidate the quark structure of the nucleon.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Becker, Kurt H. [1993]

Citation: For his experimental studies of electron collision processes on free radicals, transient species and complex molecules, for coherence parameter measurements in noble gases probing the role of the weaker interactions in scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Becker, Ulrich J. [2006]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For leadership in experiments elucidating the electroweak and strong interaction theories, primarily through the development of advanced instrumentation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Becker, Uwe Eugen [1996]
Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaf
Citation: For seminal contributions to atomic and molecular photoionization studies, which have helped to develop our understanding of correlation processes particularly near threshold.


Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bedaque, Paulo [2010]
University of Maryland, College Park
Citation: For pioneering contributions to several distinct areas of theoretical nuclear physics, including effective field theories in few-body physics, the phase structure of dense quark matter, and nuclear forces from lattice QCD.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bedeaux, Dick [1996]
University of Leiden
Citation: For his contribution to the statistical physics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics of surfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bedell, Kevin Shawn [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum fluids and correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bednorz, J. Georg [1998]
IBM Research, Zurich Research Lab.
Citation: For an important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.


Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bedzyk, Michael J. [1998]
Northwestern Univ. & Argonne Nat. Lab.
Citation: For the development of variable-period x-ray standing wave experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Beene, James Robert [1991]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For his outstanding contributions and investigations in heavy-ion nuclear physics, particularly studies of the nuclear giant resonance structures via Coulomb excitations and their subsequent decay via photon and neutron emission with 4-TT detector systems.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Beg, Farhat N. [2009]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of physics of short pulse high intensity laser matter interactions and pulsed power driven dense Z-pinches. His empirical scaling of hot electron temperature versus laser internsity has contributed significantly to the understanding of relativistic electron generation and transport in matter.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Behnia, Kamran [2012]
LPEM-ESPCI
Citation: For high-resolution thermal transport measurements to understand unconventional quantum states of matter
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Behringer, Robert Paul [1993]
Duke Univ
Citation: For the discovery of chaos near onset for large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bernard convection, and the discovery of propagating waves in simple granular flows: and for the development of non-invasive techniques for imaging convection in porous media.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Beichner, Robert John [2004]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his efforts in advancing the field of physics education research and promoting the application of its findings in the nation's classroom.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Beier, Eugene William [1988]
Univ of Pennsylvania
Citation: For important contributions to experiments in particle physics and in particular the observation of neutrinos from SN1987A in the Kamiiokande detector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Beiersdorfer, Peter [2001]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For his many contributions to precision x-ray spectroscopy of highly-charged systems and application of this spectroscopy to plasma and astrophysical problems.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Beise, Elizabeth J. [2001]
University of Maryland
Citation: For contributions to and leadership in electroweak interaction studies, especially for measurements of parity violation in polarized electron-nucleon elastic scattering elucidating the role of strange quarks and the anapole structure.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Belanger, David Peter [2003]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For investigations of critical behavior near phase transitions in pure, random, and frustrated systems, and for the development of novel optical, neutron scattering, and other techniques to measure such phenomena precisely.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Belcher, John [2008]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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: Forum on Education

Belitz, Dietrich [2010]
University of Oregon
Citation: For work on classical and quantal phase transitions, and the nature of phases affected by generic scale invariance.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Belkacem, Ali [2001]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For contributions made in the study of charge changing mechanisms involving high energy, relativistic, highly charged ions leading to the discovery of new atomic processes involving the negative energy continuum.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bell, Kenneth Lloyd [1997]
Queen's University
Citation: For his fundamental and enduring contributions to the theory of electron collisions with atoms and ions, photoionization and photodetachment, and to atomic structure with particular emphasis on transition probabilities.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Bell, Michael George [1997]
Princeton University
Citation: For contributions to plasma performance optimization and investigations of confinement and stability of tokamak plasmas and for contributions to the experiments which let to the production of 10.7 MW of D-T fusion power in TFTR in November 1994.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bellaiche, Laurent [2010]
University of Arkansas
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the first-principles theory of semiconductor alloys and ferroelectric materials.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bellan, Paul Murray [1991]
Cal Inst of Tech (Caltech)
Citation: For seminal experimental and theoretical work in novel current drive schemes, such as spheromak and AC helicity injection, as well as basic plasma physics, such as Lower Hybrid and Drift Waves.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bellettini, Giorgio [1999]
University of Pisa
Citation: For his leading role in the early design and construction of the CDF detector and as CDF co-spokesperson during the time the top quark discovery was being established.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Beltram, Fabio [2008]
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: Forum on International Physics

Belyanin, Alexey [2012]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For pioneering contributions in the ultrafast and nonlinear optics of nanostructured materials and the development of novel semiconductor laser sources in the mid-infrared and terahertz spectral range
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

ben-Avraham, Daniel [2003]
Clarkson University
Citation: For contributions to statistical physics on the subjects of the kinetics of diffusion-limited reactions, diffusion and transport in disordered media, and non-equilibrium phase transitions.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Ben-Itzhak, Itzik [2002]
Kansas State University
Citation: For his creative experimental studies of molecular dissociation dynamics via fragment coincidence and 3D imaging techniques; and for his studies of the creation and decay of long-lived metastable molecular ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ben-Jacob, Eshel [2005]
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Citation: For innovative applications of nonequilibrium physics to complex biological systems,especially bacterial colony patterns and cultured neuron activity.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Ben-Naim, Eli [2008]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For broad contributions to granular physics, traffic flows, and non-equilibrium statistical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ben-Zvi, Ilan [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the development of superconducting quarter wave resonator structures and superconducting radio frequency quadrupoles for the acceleration of heavy ion beams and to the development of the Accelerator Test Facility and BNL.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Bender, Carl M. [1988]
Washington Univ
Citation: For contributions to the development and understanding of analytical and numerical probes of quantum field theory, the large-order behavior of perturbation theory, and for making advances in semiclassical, strong coupling, and lattice approximations.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bendler, John Thomas [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For contributions to the statistical-molecular nature of local chain motions and the theory of polymer blend miscibility.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Benesch, William M [1984]
No company provided
Citation: In recognition of his fundamental and wide-ranging investigations into atomic and molecular structure and behavior, particularly in relation to the properties and processes which underlie the manifestation of atmospheric phenomena
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Benford, Gregory [2004]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For theoretical and experimental research in a wide range of fields, introducing new ideas in plasma physics, astrophysical jets, high power microwave physics, particle physics and condensed matter.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Benioff, Paul [2001]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For highly original work that first showed quantum computation to be theoretically possible and led to important subsequent advances in quantum communication and quantum computing.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Benka, Stephen G. [2002]
American Institute of Physics, Maryland
Citation: For his leadership at Physics Today magazine, unwavering commitment --- scientific, social, educational, and political --- and consistently high standards of journalism on behalf of the physics community.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Bennett, Brian [2011]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the epitaxial growth, characterization, and design of narrow band-gap semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bennett, Charles Henry [1998]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For inventing reversible computation, for his analysis of Maxwell's demon, and for co-inventing quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bennett, Charles L. [1999]
NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center
Citation: For leading the team that discovered the primordial anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation with COBE data and for being the Principal Investigator for its successor, the Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bennett, David [2010]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For pioneering work in the application of gravitational lensing to solve major astrophysical problems including the nature of dark matter and discovery of extra-solar planets.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bennett, Herbert Stanton [2004]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For insights into solid-state materials and the development of physical models that led to improved performance of electronic, magnetic, and optical materials
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bennett, Peter A [2003]
Arizona State University
Citation: For illumination of fundamental issues concerning the atomic structure and surface kinetics of metal-silicon systems and their surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Benson, David J. [2009]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: In recognition of fundamental algorithms in hydrocodes and pioneering work in nonlinear, time-dependent continuum numerical simulations at the micromechanical level to develop a fundamental understanding of the response of materials to shock propagation, including energy.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Benson, Stephen Vincent [2002]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For critical contributions to the development of free-electron lasers, including the first demonstration of lasing at harmonics and of multi-kilowatt lasing with an energy recovered linac.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Benz, Samuel [2008]
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: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Beratan, David Nathan [2001]
Duke University
Citation: For establishing molecular-level theories of electron tunneling interactions in proteins and DNA.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Berg, Bernd A. [2004]
Florida State University
Citation: For pioneering lattice gauge theory simulations, innovative contributions to Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and their applications to Statistical Physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Berg, Howard C. [1990]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For the elucidation of complex biological phenomena, particularly chemotaxis and bacterial locomotion, through simple but penetrating physical theories and brilliant experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Berg, Mark Alan [2000]
University of South Carolina
Citation: For the use of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy in exploring the molecular dynamics of liquids and other disordered materials.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bergeman, Thomas Harold [1991]
State Univ of NY- Stony Brook
Citation: For important contributions to Stark spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, magnetic traps for neutral atoms, atomic response to laser spectral noise, microwave ionization, and the emerging area of computational physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Berger, Beverly K. [1998]
Oakland University
Citation: For her pioneering contributions to global issues in classical general relativity, particularly the analysis of the nature of cosmological singularities, and for founding the Topical Group on Gravitation of the APS.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Berger, Robert Lewis [1984]
Walter Reed Army Institute
Citation: For Pioneering and sustained contributions in the application and analysis of physical measurements in research in molecular biophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bergman, David J. [1989]
Tel Aviv Univ
Citation: For contributions to the theory of third sound, the concept of finite-size scaling, the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium steady states, and the physics of composite media.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bergmann, Gerd [1987]
Univ of Southern California
Citation: For his continuing illumination of electronic transport processes in metals, particularly in clarifying the physical interpretation of the effects of localization and in applying these ideas to important problems in metal physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bergmann, Klaas [1992]
Univ Kaiserslautern
Citation: For his development of innovative laser systems and their application to molecular scattering processes.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bergou, Janos [2009]
CUNY-Hunter College
Citation: For outstanding work in quantum optics and quantum information, in particular work on the theory of correlated emission lasers, the effect of pump statistics on the nature of the electromagnetic field produced in lasers and micromasers, and on quantum state discrimination.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Bergquist, James Charles [1989]
NIST - Natl Inst Stds & Tech
Citation: For the development of high-resolution, high-sensitivity laser techniques and application of these techniques to fundamental problems in atomic and molecular spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Berker, A. Nihat [1988]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For the development of the position space renormalization group technique and its application to studies of phase transitions in physisorbed systems and liquid crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Berkner, Klaus Hans [1984]
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Citation: For his contribution to the development of the physics of Rydberg states, his leadership role in the development of neutral beams, and many other contributions to the atomic physics of controlled fusion.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Berkner, Klaus Hans [1984]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: In recognition of contributions to the pure and applied physics of intense neutral beams for heating and fueling of high-temperature plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Berkowitz, Ami Emanuel [1996]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For elucidation of magnetic phenomena in particles, films, and multilayers and their technological applications.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Berkowitz, Max L. [1995]
University of North Carolina
Citation: For penetrating theoretical contributions to our understanding of aqueous systems in bulk and at interfaces, and to our understanding of aqueous clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Berlinsky, A. John [1996]
McMaster University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of the solid hydrogens, the properties of spin aligned hydrogen, frustrated magnetic systems and the electromagnetic properties of high temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Berman, Gennady P. [2002]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his internationally recognized expertise in the areas of classical and quantum dynamical systems, dynamical chaos, dynamics of quantum computation, and modeling of nano-devices.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Berman, Michael [2008]
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: Forum on Physics and Society

Berman, Paul R. [1986]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For fundamental contributions to an understanding of the effects of atomic and molecular collisions on the behavior of gas lasers, on coherent transient phenomena, and on high-resolution spectroscopic lineshapes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bern, Zvi [2004]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For outstanding contributions to quantum field theory, especially for developing powerful calculational techniques in gauge theories.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bernabei, Stephano [1993]

Citation: For pioneering work on the application of lower hybrid power to tokamak discharges including the development of the original grill launcher, demonstration of lower hybrid current drive, lower hybrid plasmas and solar plasma phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bernard, Claude [1998]
Washington University
Citation: For his many contributions to the numerical study of quantum chromodynamics, particularly of the weak decays of strongly interacting particles
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bernard, Peter Simon [1998]
University of Maryland
Citation: For elucidating the physics of turbulent transport and incorporating this knowledge in original closure models and for unraveling knotty problems in isotropic turbulence decay.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bernatowicz, Thomas James [1999]
Washington University
Citation: For measurements of the double beta decay of 128Te and 130Te and consequent limits of <1.5 ev on the Majorana mass of the neutrino, and for key contributions to the discovery and laboratory study of ancient stardust providing new insights into grain growth in stellar outflows.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bernhardt, Paul Allan [1994]

Citation: For pioneering work in the area of ionospheric modification with chemical releases and high power radio waves.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bernheim, Robert Allan [1985]
Penn State University
Citation: For his contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy through his work in nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance, and laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bernholc, Jerry [1991]
North Carolina State Univ
Citation: For pioneering and sustained contributions to the theory of point defects in semiconductors and for his contributions to the bonding and structure of atomic clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bernstein, Elliot R. [1992]
Colorado State Univ
Citation: For the development of molecular spectroscopy as a tool for the elucidation of molecular structure and conformations.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bernstein, Herbert J [2003]
Hampshire College
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to quantum interferometry and quantum theory including the fermion spinor-rotation experiment and entanglement concentration; and for innovations in teaching, outreach and service through ISIS institute.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bernstein, Robert Howard [2004]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For the design and construction of a novel neutrino beam that made possible unprecedented precision measurements.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bernthal, Frederick Michael [1993]
Univ Rsch Assoc, Inc
Citation: For his contributions to the advancement of science by his distinguished career of science administration in the legislative and executive branches in the U.S. government.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Berrah, Nora [1999]
Western Michigan University
Citation: For high-resolution work on few and many electron systems using lasers and synchrotron radiation leading to a better understanding of the interaction of light with matter.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Berry, Brian Shephard [1983]

Citation: For contributions to the study of solids by anelastic relaxation measurements, and for the application of such measurements to thin-layer materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Berry, Guy C. [1995]
Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For his fundamental studies using rheo-optical methods on dilute and concentrated solutions of flexible branched and rigid-rod liquid crystalline polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Berry, Henry G. [1980]
Univ of Notre Dame
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bertschinger, Edmund [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to theoretical cosmology, especially in the understanding of structure formation in the universe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bertulani, Carlos A. [2012]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For leading the development of theories for electromagnetic processes in heavy-ion collisions, including many pioneering and successful predictions for reactions involving nuclei far from the stability line.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Berz, Martin [1998]
Michigan State University
Citation: For pioneering the application of computational differential algebra to modeling and analysis of beam dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Besenbacher, Flemming [2010]
University of Aarhus
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of atomic scale processes on solid surfaces, leading to breakthroughs in catalysis and nanotechnology.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bethune, Donald Stimson [2001]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For contributing to our understanding of fullerenes, including spectroscopy that confirmed the fullerene structure of carbon clusters, and for synthesizing metallofullerenes and single wall carbon nanotubes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Betti, Riccardo [2001]
University of Rochester
Citation: For seminal contributions to the analytic theory and understanding of ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in inertial confinement fusion and Alfven eigenmodes in magnetic fusion energy research.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Betts, R. Russell [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of nuclear structure, including high-spin states in the as-shell and the connections between clustering and deformation, and for his leadership of the APEX experiment.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bevk, Joze [1997]
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Citation: For his pioneering studies of the ultrafine filamentary composites; of the seminal research of the Si-Ge monolayer superlattices and Si/SiO2 interfaces; and for the discovery of boron confinement and trapping mechanisms in Si-based heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Beyster, J. Robert [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bezrukov, Sergey M. [2009]
NIST
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the physics of ion channels, thereby bridging molecular biology with physical kinetics and nonlinear dynamics by developing single-molecular methods to membrane transport and noise-facilitated signal transduction.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bhat, Pushpalatha [2010]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For her demonstration of the effectiveness of advanced statistical methods in extracting the most information from small signals in hadron collider physics and especially for pioneering the use of these techniques to improve the measurement of the top-quark mass in the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bhatia, Anand Kumar [1987]
NASA/GSFC
Citation: For outstanding analysis and calculations in low-energy electron (and positron) -atom scattering, photoionization and autoionization; and the use of such data in diagnostic studies relating to solar/astrophysical and fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bhatnagar, Ved Prakash [1995]
JET Joint Undertaking
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of both theory and experiment of tokamak reactor-relevant fast-wave antenna design, heating and current drive in the ion-cyclotron range of frequencies.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Bhatt, Ravindra N. [1986]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For his effective use of fundamental theory, numerical simulation and phenomenology in elucidating such diverse systems as quantum fluids, spin glasses, and doped semiconductors near metal-insulator transitions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bhattacharjee, Amitava [1993]
Univ of New Hampshire
Citation: For innovative applications of MHD theory to solutions of fundamental problems involving magnetic reconnection in toroidal fusion plasmas, magnetospheric plasmas and solar plasma phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bhattacharya, Pallab [2005]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering contributions to molecular beam epitaxy and device applications of strained heterostructures, physics and development of quantum dot optoelectronic devices and integrated optoelectronics.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi [1990]
Tata Inst of Fundamental Res
Citation: For experimental elucidation of the dynamics of complex systems, including broken-symmetry liquids and disordered solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bialek, William Samuel [1996]
NEC Research Institute
Citation: For his contributions in understanding the neural code and the optimization of neural processing through application of the methods of theoretical physics to problems in neuroscience.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bicerano, Jozef [1996]
Dow Chemical Company
Citation: For his contributions to methods for the predictive modeling of polymers, and especially the development of a simple and powerful new method for predicting key physical properties from the polymeric repeat unit.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Biefeld, Robert M [2003]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For contributions to MOCVD deposition of compound semiconductors for optoelectronic devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Biegelsen, David Kalman [1990]
Palo Alto Research Ctr
Citation: For the broad range of experimental studies into the fundamental nature of amorphous semiconductors, novel thin-film crystal growth, and heteroepitaxy.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Biferale, Luca [2008]
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: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Bigelow, Nicholas P. [2004]
University of Rochester
Citation: For his insightful research on cold atomic vapors and the control of atomic motion using light pressure, and particularly for his pioneering studies of the creation and manipulation of ultracold multi-species mixtures.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Bigi, Ikaros I [2004]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For correctly predicting large CP violation in B meson decays.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bilderback, Donald H. [2006]
Cornell University
Citation: For his contributions to synchrotron x-ray physics in the field of x-ray optics and to the development of cryogenic cooling.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bilek, Marcela M. [2012]
University of Sydney
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the physics of plasma processing, resulting in plasma sources, processes and materials with applications to industries ranging from information technology to biomedicine
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bilger, Robert William [2002]
University of Sydney, Australia
Citation: For outstanding contributions to knowledge of turbulent reactive flows through insightful experiments, theory and modelling, especially for elucidating the fundamental processes in turbulent combustion and for the development of the conditional moment closure.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Billinge, Roy [1991]

Citation: For construction of the Fermilab Booster, for responsibility for the SPS Magnet System, and for leading the group at CERN that took stochastic cooling from an idea to a practical technique.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Billinge, Simon John Laird [2006]
Michigan State University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the study of atomic-scale disorder in complex nanostructured materials by developing and applying novel x-ray and neutron scattering methods.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bimberg, Dieter H [2004]
Technical University of Berlin
Citation: For pioneering work in the basic understanding, development and first demonstration of self-assembled quantum-dot heterostructures for novel lasers and amplifiers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bingham, Carrol Reid [2005]
University of Tennessee
Citation: For significant contributions to the study of nuclei at the limits of stability.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bingham, Robert [2001]
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Citation: For his original and creative approaches to applying plasma physics to a diverse range of problems in laser-plasma interactions, space-, and astro-plasma physics.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Birge, Norman Owen [2003]
Michigan State University
Citation: For innovative contributions concerning the glass transition and mesoscopic physics, including 1/f noise and universal conductance fluctuations, electron decoherence mechanisms, and dissipative quantum tunneling of single defects in metals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Birmingham, Thomas J. [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Birse, Michael [2011]
University of Manchester
Citation: For groundbreaking work on the implications of chiral symmetry for nucleon structure and nuclear interactions, and applications of the renormalization group to few-body systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Bishop, Alan Reginald [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For scientific leadership in developing new areas of nonlinear science and revealing the paradigmatic role of strongly nonlinear phenomena in condensed matter and statistical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bishop, David John [1987]
Boston Univ
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of the low temperature properties of condensed matter systems including metals, superconductors, and superfluids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bishop, Raymond Francis [2004]
UMIST
Citation: For pioneering development of the coupled-cluster method and its innovative application across the full spectrum of subfields of physics, as well as for his leadership of the international community of many-body theorists.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Bisognano, Joseph John [1994]

Citation: For his research into the theory of collective and statistical phenomena in particle beams, including stochastic cooling and instabilities and application of these results to the design and operation of accelerators.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Biswas, Rana [2009]
Iowa State University
Citation: For theoretical contributions to the dynamics of semiconductors, solar materials, and photonic crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bitter, Manfred [1987]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For the development of high resolution X-ray spectroscopy and the measurements of ion temperature and plasma rotation on tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bjorklund, Gary Carl [1986]

Citation: For pioneering work in non linear optics and the development and application of widely used techniques in laser spectroscopy, such as frequency modulation spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Black, Charles T. [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the integration of nanometer-scale polymer self-assembly in the fabrication of high-performance semiconductor microelectronic devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Blackman, Eric G. [2005]
University of Rochester
Citation: For identifying and elucidating fundamental principles of nonlinear magnetic dynamo theory and for contributions toward understanding magnetic fields in a range of astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Blackmon, Jeffrey C. [2012]
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Citation: For his vision and innovation in exploiting radioactive nuclear beams to advance our understanding of nuclear processes that govern astrophysical phenomena
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Blackwelder, Ronald E. [1986]
Univ of Southern California
Citation: For his contributions to the physical understanding of the structure of turbulent boundary layers.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Blaisten-Barojas, Estela Olga [2006]
George Mason University
Citation: For pioneering work in the computational simulation of atomic and molecular clusters including significant advances in the understanding of the structure and other important properties of nanoscale systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Blandford, Roger [2009]
KIPAC
Citation: For his seminal contributions to theoretical astrophysics, including black hole astrophysics, the astrophysics of relativistic plasmas, cosmic ray acceleration and propagation, and cosmological applications of gravitational lensing.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Blaskiewicz, Michael [2010]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For theoretical and experimental work leading to the first successful implementation of bunched beam stochastic cooling in a high energy ion collider.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Blatt, Rainer [2000]
University of Innsbruck
Citation: For outstanding work in quantum optics and precision spectroscopy with laser cooled trapped ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Blatter, Johann (Gianni) W. [1999]
ETH Hvnggerberg
Citation: For contributions to the theoretical understanding of macroscopic quantum phenomena of vortices in superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Blaum, Klaus [2008]
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: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Blazey, Gerald Charles [2005]
Northern Illinois University
Citation: For leadership of the D0 experiment and the study of jet production at the Tevatron.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bless, Stephen [2008]
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: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Blick, Robert H. [2012]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For his distinctive contributions to the physics of quantum dots and nanomechanical systems, and for his fine contributions to developing new on-chip screening methods for ion channel spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy of proteins
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Block, Steven [2011]
Stanford University
Citation: For his originality in the direct measurement of the forces and motions in single biomolecular complexes using optical trapping approaches.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Blondin, John M. [2009]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For extensive contributions to the study of accreting systems, stellar outflows, supernovae, and supernova remnants through hydrodynamic simulations, and for his authorship and maintenance of the VH-1 hydrodynamic code.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bloomfield, Louis Aub [1994]

Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of magnetism in clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Blucher, Edward Charles [2006]
University of Chicago
Citation: For his work in measurements of electroweak processes, in particular for precise determinations of the parameters of kaon decays and the elucidation of the "unitarity puzzle" in kaon physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Blum, Lesser [1980]
Univ of Puerto Rico - San Juan
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Blumberg, Girsh [2006]
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Citation: For his seminal contributions to elucidating the physics of spin, charge and superconducting correlations in 1D and 2D complex oxide compounds using Raman scattering techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Blume, Doerte [2010]
Washington State University
Citation: For contributions to physics of weakly-bound quantum clusters and strongly-interacting degenerate Fermi gases in one dimension.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Blumel, Reinhold [2003]
Wesleyan University
Citation: For outstanding research in classical and quantum chaos and its application in atomic and molecular physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Blythe, Philip A. [1995]
Lehigh University
Citation: For consistent work of outstanding originality in fluid mechanics and chemically reacting flows. Specifically for seminal contributions to non-equilibrium nozzle flows, shock and detonation processes and buoyancy driven motions.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bodek, Arie [1984]
University of Rochester
Citation: For numerous and significant contributions to the field of experimental particle physics, particularly in the areas of deep inelastic electron and neutrino scattering, and the hadronic production of charm.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bodenhausen, Geoffrey [1996]
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Citation: For his numerous contributions toward making magnetic resonance one of the most sophisticated and versatile methods available for gaining insight into structure and dynamics of molecules in condensed and gas phase.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bodenschatz, Eberhard [2003]
Cornell University
Citation: For illuminating experiments on Rayleigh-Be'nard convection and directional solidification, for ground breaking measurements of acceleration in fully developed turbulence, and for significant contributions to understanding electro-convection in liquid crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bodner, Stephen E. [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bodwin, Geoffrey Thomas [2000]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For definitive contributions to the systematic understanding of heavy quarkonia in terms of QCD, to the proof of factorization in QCD, and to the understanding of chirality in lattice gauge theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Boebinger, Gregory Scott [1997]
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Citation: For experimental investigations of magneto-transport in quantum wells and the normal state of high temperature superconductors using pulsed magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Boettger, Jonathan C. [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For diverse contributions of profound impact on modern methods of simulating matter under extreme conditions, especially equations of state and properties of heavy element systems, and for synthesizing the computed results in ways significant to the success of experiments important to national security
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Boghosian, Bruce Michael [2000]
Boston University
Citation: For contributions to mathematical and computational fluid dynamics, lattice models of fluids and soft condensed matter, and leadership and service in the field of computational physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bohn, John L [2003]
University of Colorado
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of collisions of ultra-cold atoms and molecules relevant to experiments in photoassociation spectroscopy, quantum degenerate gases, and cold molecule trapping.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bohnen, Klaus [2007]
IFP - Forschungszentrum
Citation: For his ground breaking work in theoretical calculations of the dispersion of surface phonon using ab initio methods.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bohr, Tomas [2009]
Technical University of Denmark
Citation: For insightful analysis of and experiments on nonlinear fluid dynamical problems, including turbulence, free-surface flows, granular dynamics, and biological flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bokor, Jeffrey [1998]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to laser science, including short-wavelength lasers and non-linear optics, development of time-resolved, two-photon photoemission, and contributions to extreme ultraviolet lithography and sub-micron MOSFET device development.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Bol, Kees [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bollen, Georg [2006]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his seminal contribution to the development pf Penning traps for short-lived radioactive isotopes and for high-precision mass measurements of these isotopes.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bollinger, John J. [1990]
NIST - Natl Inst Stds & Tech
Citation: For the development of ion-trap spectroscopy resulting in the highest accuracy yet achieved, and sensitive tests of fundamental physical properties including spatial isotropy and the linearity of quantum mechanics.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Bond, J. Richard [1998]
University of Toronto
Citation: For fundamental contributions to astrophysics and cosmology; in particular for developing the understanding of fluctuations in the cosmic background radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Bondybey, Vladimir E [1984]
University of Central Florida
Citation: For studies of nonradiative transitions, investigations of spectroscopy and structure of gaseous and matrix-isolated molecular ions by time resolved laser-induced florescence, and for the development of techniques for studies of metal clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Boninsegni, Massimo [2007]
University of Alberta
Citation: For the development of a novel methodology enabling accurate, large-scale Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of interacting many-body systems, and for its application to the investigation of the supersolid phase of helium and of superfluidity of molecular hydrogen.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bonitz, Michael [2011]
Universitaet Kiel
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the field of strongly correlated classical and quantum plasmas, including the development of a statistical theory and first-principle computer simulations.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Bonn, Douglas [2003]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For seminal work in elucidating the ground and excited states of high temperature superconductors through microwave studies of quasiparticle dynamics in samples of exceptional quality.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bonnecaze, Roger T. [2006]
University of Texas
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of suspension and interfacial flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bonoli, Paul Thaddeus [2005]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory and modeling of wave-particle interactions in the lower hybrid and ion cyclotron range of frequencies in toroidal confinement devices.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Boolchand, Punit [1995]
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For Mossbauer studies of chalcogenide glasses that elucidate coordination, cluster formation, and incipient phase separation.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Booske, John [2011]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of coherent radiation sources in the submillimeter wave and terahertz regime, in particular in the physics of sheet electron beams, advanced cathode, and interaction of high power microwave with materials.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Borchers, Julie Ann [2002]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For her insightful neutron investigations into interlayer exchange interaction phenomena in magnetic thin films and superlattices.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Borguet, Eric [2009]
Temple University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to our understanding of optical, molecular and electronic phenomena at buried interfaces, complex interfaces, and nanosystems; and for the development of novel experimental tools and methodologies, particularly the development of fluorescent labeling of surface species.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Borland, Michael [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to fourth generation light sources, particularly for development and support of the program ELEGANT, the first integrated accelerator code to realistically model coherent synchrotron radiation effects.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Borsa, Ferdinando [2001]
Iowa State University
Citation: For his novel and pioneering applications of NMR and NQR to a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics, including stripe physics in cuprate superconductors and magnetization tunneling in molecular nanomagnets.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bortoletto, Daniela [2004]
Purdue University
Citation: For important contributions to top and bottom quark physics, and leadership in the development and fabrication of precision silicon detectors.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Boswell, Roderick William [1998]
Australian National University
Citation: For the invention, development, theory and applications of the helicon plasma source.


Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Bottcher, Christopher [1986]

Citation: For versatile theoretical studies of atomic and molecular processes involving development of new powerful methods of mathematical and numerical analysis.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bourne, Neil K. [2012]
No Company Provided
Citation: For seminal work enhancing understanding of the kinetics of deformation mechanisms in condensed matter and their interaction to define the response of inert and energetic materials to extreme mechanical loading
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Bousso, Raphael [2012]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For fundamental discoveries in the field of quantum cosmology, including the covariant entropy bound and the string landscape
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bowen, Kit Hansell, Jr. [1995]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his pioneering fundamental contributions to our knowledge of negative ion solvation, the electronic structure of metal clusters, the stability and structure of negative ions and the science of nanostructured materials.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bower, Robert W. [2004]
Unavailable
Citation: For the invention and development of the self-aligned gate transistor, and innovative contributions in the CCD, metal silicide and three-dimentional device technologies.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bowers, John Edward [1996]
University of California - Santa Barbara
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the ultrafast characteristics of optoelectronic devices and materials.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Bowers, Michael Thomas [1987]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For outstanding contributions both theoretically and experimentally on the Mechanism and Dynamics of Ion-Molecule Reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bowick, Mark John [2004]
Syracuse University
Citation: With formidable analytic skills, numerical simulations and energetic collaborations with experimentalists, Mark Bowick has made significant contributions to understanding polymerized membranes and defect arrays in frozen topographies.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bowles, Thomas Joseph [1992]
Los Alamos Natl Lab
Citation: For his exemplary experimental work on neutrino mass from the beta decay of tritium, and his leadership in the development of new solar neutrino experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bowman, Joel Mark [1989]
Emory Univ
Citation: For pioneering work on rotational rainbows and quantum mechanical reduced dimensionality approaches to reactivate scattering; also for pioneering work on the self-consistent field approach to molecular vibrations.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Boyce, James B. [1990]

Citation: For innovative applications of NMR and EXAFs to structural problems in condensed-matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Boyd, Richard H. [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Boyd, Richard Nelson [1987]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to theoretical and experimental astrophysics, to nuclear structure and reaction physics, and to physics of fundamental rare particles.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Boyd, Robert William [2001]
University of Rochester
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the nonlinear interaction of light with matter.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Boyer, Larry Lee [1995]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For the formulation, development, and implementation of novel methods of modelling the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of ionic materials.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Boyer, Timothy Howard [2003]
City College of the University of New York
Citation: For original contributions to the classical and quantum theories of electromagnetism, and in particular to the theories of van der Waals and Casimir interactions.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Boykin, Timothy [2011]
University of Alabama, Huntsville
Citation: For contributions to the theory and full-bandstructure modeling of semiconductor nanostructures.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Bozovic, Ivan [1998]
Varian Research Center
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to atomic-layer engineering of cuprate superconductors and other complex oxides, fabriction of delicate multilayers and superlattices, and their innovative spectroscopic characterization.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Braaten, Eric Alan [2000]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of finite temperature and heavy quark quantum chromodynamics, and in particular, for the development of hard thermal loop resummation techniques and NRQCD.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Brabson, Bennet Bristol [1990]
Indiana Univ - Bloomington
Citation: For his measurements of cross sections for π p charge exchange; π p and pp elastic scattering; n, A2, and Y production; and e+ + e- interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bradbury, James N. [1991]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his leadership at LAMPF in showing the way this research instrument can be used in applied field of physics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bradley, David K. [2009]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For the development and use of high speed optical and x-ray instrumentation to discover new phenomena in high energy density plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Brady, John Francis [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding of transport processes in heterogeneous media, particularly the diffusive and rheological behavior of microstructured fluids, and for the invention and development of Stokesian Dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Brady, Patrick [2010]
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Citation: For pioneering contributions to gravitational-wave physics and the search for gravitational waves, and
for studies that deepened our understanding of singularities and of critical collapse.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Braginski, Aleksander Ignace [2003]
Unavailable
Citation: For contributions to magnetic materials and applied superconductivity.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brambilla, Nora [2012]
Tech Univ Muenchen
Citation: For contributions to the theory of heavy-quark-antiquark systems, including the development of new effective field theories, and for contributions to the field of heavy-quarkonium physics through the founding and leadership of the Quarkonium Working Group
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Brand, Helmut Rainer [1995]
University of Bayreuth
Citation: For his elucidation of novel phenomena in driven complex condensed matter systems, and for his extraordinary success in motivating quantitative experiments relevant to his theoretical work.


Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Brandan, Maria-Ester [1997]
IFUNAM
Citation: For her contributions to the theoretical understanding of the interaction between heavy ions, deduced from analyses of their scattering in terms of refractive phenomena.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Brandenberger, John Russell [1999]
Lawrence University
Citation: For stimulating incorporation of laser physics in undergraduate curricula, for advocacy of undergraduate research, and for creative leadership in building an exemplary undergraduate physics program.


Nominated by: Forum on Education

Brandenberger, Robert H. [2001]
Brown University
Citation: For his contributions to the development of inflationary Universe cosmology, in particular the theory of cosmological perturbations and the analysis of reheating.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Brandenburg, George W. [1992]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For contributions to the design and construction of the CDF detector and its utilization to study the properties of gauge bosons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Brandt, William N. [2009]
Penn State University
Citation: For his leadership of and numerous contributions to deep extragalactic X-ray surveys and active-galaxy studies, which have advanced understanding of the physics and evolution of accreting supermassive black holes and other cosmic X-ray sources.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Brans, Carl [2011]
Loyola University
Citation: For developing the Brans-Dicke Scalar-tensor gravitational theory alternative to Einstein's general relativity.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Branz, Howard [2012]
NREL
Citation: For seminal research on thin film silicon: defects, metastability, growth processes, nanostructuring, and solar cells
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brasseur, James G. [2009]
Penn State University
Citation: For advancements in knowledge of nonclassical interscale interactions in turbulence and in large-eddy simulation of the high Reynolds number boundary layer, and for interdisciplinary contributions to gastro-intestinal medicine by integrating physiology, mechanics, and mathematical modeling.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Brataas, Arne [2011]
Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Citation: For contributions to the theory of spin transport and dynamics in magnetic nanostructures and mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Bratkovsky, Alexander Mikhailovich [2005]
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Citation: For contributions to the theory of magnetoresistance and spin injection and design of electronic and spintronic nanodevices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brau, Charles A. [1999]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For his contributions to the development of free-electron lasers, and his discovery of the rare-gas halide excimer lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Brau, James Edward [2000]
University of Oregon
Citation: For contributions to the development of particle detectors, particularly calorimeters and vertex detectors, and for studies of the properties of the Z boson with the SLD detector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Braun, Hans Albert [1998]
University of Marburg
Citation: For the discovery of noise mediated neuronal oscillators and for elucidating their nonlinear dynamical properties.


Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Braun-Munzinger, Peter [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of medium energy and relativistic heavy ion reactions, including the observations and elucidation of energy flow and nuclear stopping and his studies of hard photons.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bray, Igor [1999]
Flinders University of South Australia
Citation: For the codevelopment of the Convergent Close-Coupling theory which has unified the theoretical treatment of electron-atom collisions at all energies, for both excitation and ionization processes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Brecher, Aviva [1999]
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Citation: For her many contributions to society in the areas of transportation research, environmental mitigation and strategic arms control.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Brecher, Kenneth [1984]
Boston University
Citation: For original contributions to theoretical high energy astrophysics and cosmology.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Breckenridge, William Howard [1999]
University of Utah
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to state-to-state dynamics using laser pump-probe "bulb" methods, to half collision van der Waals methods in dynamics, and to laser spectroscopic characterization of bonding in metal/rare-gas diatomic molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Bredas, Jean Luc [1993]

Citation: For theoretical studies of electronic structure of conjugated polymers, their conductivity when doped and their nonlinear optical polarizabilities.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Breizman, Boris N. [2001]
University of Texas
Citation: For the development of basic theories to describe a wide variety of nonlinear plasma phenomena and the corellation to experimental data.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Brennan, Joseph Michael [1997]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the design, construction, and implementation of synchrotron rf acceleration systems, and specifically the AGS.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Brenner, Michael [2004]
Harvard University
Citation: For his creative, stimulating, and seminal contributions to various subjects in Fluid Dynamics, namely to fluid singularities, single bubble sonoluminescence, electrohydrodynamics, and sedimentation.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Breuer, Kenny [2010]
Brown University
Citation: For innovative studies of active flow control, the mechanics of flight, and micro- and nano-scale fluid mechanics, and for education leadership via Multimedia Fluid Mechanics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Briand, Jean Pierre [1984]
University P & M Curie ISAP
Citation: For important contributions at the interface between atomic and nuclear physics, and for fruitful efforts to strengthen the collaboration between physicists in France and in the United States of America.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Briber, Robert M. [1995]
University of Maryland
Citation: In recognition of fundamental work on the elucidation of the effect of crosslinking on the thermodynamics and phase separation behavior of polymer blends.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Briggs, John Stuart [1996]
University of Freiburg
Citation: For seminal work in understanding the interaction of matter with ions, electrons and light.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Brill, Joseph Warren [2004]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For his innovative experiments on the elastic, thermal and non-linear optical properties of quasi-one-dimensional charge-density-wave materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brillson, Leonard Jack [1984]
Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to the physics and chemistry of metal/semiconductor interferes which have provided insight into the electronic properties of the interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bringans, Ross D. [1993]

Citation: For pioneering work in the application of angle resolved photomission spectroscopy to semiconductor surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brinke, Gerritt ten [1990]

Citation: For fundamental studies of the thermodynamics of interaction among copolymer molecules and its role in affecting miscibility of their blends.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Briscoe, William John [2005]
George Washington University
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of pionic and electromagnetic interactions with nucleons and nuclei, fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal invariance and charge symmetry; and the design and construction of the JLab Tagged Photon.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Brizard, Alain [2011]
Saint Michael's College
Citation: For pioneering the modern formulation of nonlinear gyrokinetics, including the development of methodology for general geometry, the theory of dynamical reduction, and a variational formulation of the gyrokinetic-Maxwell system.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Brock, Joel D. [2012]
Cornell University
Citation: For innovative time-resolved and in-situ synchrotron x-ray experiments on the structure, dynamics, and growth mechanisms of complex, low-dimensional systems, including liquid crystals, charge density wave systems, ion-bombarded surfaces, electrodeposition and pulsed-laser deposited complex oxides.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Brock, Raymond [1999]
Michigan State University
Citation: For many contributions to experimental high energy physics and the D0 detector which have helped to establish the future direction of physics at FERMILAB.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Brodkey, Robert S. [1987]
Ohio State Univ - Columbus
Citation: For his pioneering research on coherent structures in turbulent shear flows using imaginative flow visualization techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Broholm, Collin Leslie [2004]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his contributions to understanding low dimensional and frustrated quantum magnetism through neutron scattering.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Brongersma, Mark [2010]
Stanford University
Citation: For pioneering contributions and seminal works on plasmonics and silicon nanophotonics
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Brooks, James Stephen [1999]
Florida State University
Citation: For experiments measuring magneto-transport properties in organic conductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brooks, Philip Russell [1989]
Rice Univ
Citation: For groundbreaking experiments in reactions of oriented molecules, vibrationally and rotationally excited molecules, and in the spectroscopy of the transition region.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Bross, Alan David [2005]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering efforts in developing the D0 fiber tracking detector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Broughton, Jeremy Quinton [1997]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to large-scale numerical simulations of materials behavior, in both the classical and quantum domains.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Browand, Frederick Kent [1988]

Citation: For his contribution toward understanding the dynamics and evolution of large scale eddy structures and vortex pairing in mixing layers and turbulent mixing processes in stratified fluids.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Browder, Thomas E [2003]
University of Hawaii
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of the relationship between flavor mixing and the violation of CP symmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Brower, David L [2003]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For the development and implementation of advanced plasma diagnostic tools and for contributions to the fundamental understanding of turbulence and anomalous transport in toroidal confinement systems.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Brown, April [2011]
Duke University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to development and application of molecular beam epitaxy to the formation advanced device structures, with particular contributions to the advancement of the strained heterostructures forming modern microwave devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brown, Boyd Alex [1987]
Michigan State Univ
Citation: For penetrating and comprehensive studies which combine careful analyses of experimental data with accurate calculations of nuclear wave function models so as to uncover fundamental features of nuclear structure.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Brown, Charles N. [1990]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in a series of experiments studying dimuon production by high-energy hadrons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Brown, Elliott R. [2007]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For breakthroughs in THz science and technology including new solid-state coherent sources: (1) resonant-tunneling oscillators, and (2) photomixers; new detectors based on single-crystal, semimetal-semiconductor junctions; and high-resolution spectroscopy of solids.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brown, Gail [2007]
Wright-Patterson AFB
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental physics and development of "quantum confined" or "quantum well" semiconductor heterostructure materials for applications in high-performance infrared detectors
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brown, Garry L. [2006]
Princeton University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of structure and mixing in turbulent shear flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Brown, George S. [1985]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For important contributions to the application of synchrotron radiation to research in atomic and solid state physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Brown, Harold [1994]

Citation: For employing quantitative physics results to solve thorny diplomatic and arms control problems, particularly during the negotiations of the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Brown, Hugh R. [1988]

Citation: For the development of novel and powerful experimental methods for investigating crazing in polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Brown, Ian Gordon [1995]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For significant contributions to applied plasma physics, particularly its use in materials sciences and surface modification as well as development and study of vacuum arc ion sources.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Brown, J [2010]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his contributions to classical and quantum general relativity, in particular for the discovery
of a quasi-local expression for the energy density, and the discovery of a central charge in the
Poisson algebra of symmetries of 2+1 dimensional asymptotically Anti-deSitter spacetimes.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Brown, J. Michael [2004]
University of Washington
Citation: For outstanding development and application of novel shock and static techniques for the accurate measurement of the properties of geological and other materials at high pressures.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Brown, Michael R. [2008]
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Brown, Michael F. [2011]
University of Arizona
Citation: For the development and application of nuclear spin relaxation in biophysics and applications to investigating the molecular dynamics of proteins and lipids in membranes; for introduction of concepts of membrane elastic deformation on the mesoscale to explain functional lipid-protein interactions in celluar membranes.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Brown, Norman [1987]
Univ of Pennsylvania
Citation: For his fundamental and original experimental and theoretical contributions to the understanding of the relationship between the structure of crystalline, polymetric, and biological materials and their mechanical behavior.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Brown, Robert William [1999]
Case Western Reserve University
Citation: For industrial research and development advancing the performance of the magnetic-field system in magnetic resonance imaging, and for contributions to the knowledge, applications and teaching of MRI.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Brown, Stanley G. [2000]
American Physical Society Editorial Off.
Citation: For his role as Editor in the success of Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters, and for his contributions as Administrative Editor and Editorial Director to policy and management of the APS journal operation.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Brown, Stuart E [2003]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For fundamental studies of low dimensional, highly correlated materials, especially using high pressure NMR, transport, and thermodynamic measurements, and for studies of the non-linear dynamics of charge-density waves.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brown, Truman Roscoe [1988]

Citation: For pioneering application of 13C and 3p NMR to in vivo enzyme kinetics and chemical shift imaging in three dimensions.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Browne, John C. [1989]
No Company Provided
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the study of analog states, nuclear astrophysics, and nuclear fission, particularly in the application of the neutron-capture reaction in our understanding nucleocosmochronometry.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bruch, Ludwig W. [1995]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For contributions to the theory of physical adsorption and interactions of physically adsorbed atoms on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bruch, Reinhard Frank [1994]

Citation: For his innovative work on Auger electron spectra of few electron systems, atomic and molecular collision processes, spectroscopy and collision dynamics of complex many-body systems and absolute cross section measurements in the EUV.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bruhwiler, David [2010]
Tech-X Corp
Citation: For extensive accomplishments in computations of beam and
plasma, including codiscovery of quality beams from
laser-plasma interaction, methods for computations
of electron cooling for ion accelerators, and for discovering the importance of tunneling ionization in plasma wake field acceleration.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Bruinsma, Robijn Fredrik [1997]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of membranes, complex liquids, and random-field Ising models.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brumer, Paul W. [1993]

Citation: For the development of quantum and classical dynamics of isolated molecules and the coherent control of chemical reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Brune, Carl [2010]
Ohio University
Citation: For his numerous significant and carefully executed experiments which have advanced our understanding of nuclear astrophysics and the nuclear structure and reactions of light nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Brune, Harald [2011]
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Citation: For contributions to understanding of nucleation, epitaxial growth, and the self-assembly of nanostructure superlattices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brunger, Michael [2008]
Flinders University
Citation: For benchmark measurements of electron scattering from molecules, specifically concerning absolute collision cross sections and electron momentum spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bruschweiler, Rafael [2008]
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: Division of Biological Physics

Bruus, Henrik [2011]
Tech Univ of Denmark
Citation: For contributions to microfluidics including innovative research in lab-on-a-chip systems, electrohydrodynamics, and acoustics, and as the author of a leading textbook on theoretical microfluidics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bruynseraede, Yvan J. [1992]
Katholieke Univ Leuven
Citation: For his contribution to the study of the structure-property relationship in thin films, electron localization, and superconductivity.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Bryant, Garnett W. [2006]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of semiconductor quantum dots and other complex quantum nanostructures and to nanooptics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bryant, Howard C. [1980]
Univ of New Mexico- Lab
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Bryman, Douglas Andrew [1986]
Univ of British Columbia
Citation: For leadership in the experimental search for lepton number conservation and in pion decay experiments confirming the hypothesis of electron-muon university.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bubeck, Robert Allen [1995]
Dow Chemical Company
Citation: For his pioneering synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of technologically important polymer deformation and processing problems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Bucher, Ernst [1992]
Univ Konstanz
Citation: For his work in the fields of nuclear hyperfine cooling, mixed-valent rare-earth compounds, heavy-fermion compounds, and solar cells.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Buck, Warren Wesley, III [1998]
Hampton University
Citation: For creating a Ph.D. program in physics at Hampton University, pioneering several model programs to attract diverse students into physics, and involving minority educational institutions in physics research.


Nominated by: Forum on Education

Buckingham, Amyand David [1986]
Univ of Cambridge
Citation: For the development of the basic statistical mechanical theory that relates the equilibrium electromagnetic properties of a gas to the properties of clusters of interacting molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Buckman, Stephen John [1998]
Australian National University
Citation: For benchmark experiments in low-energy electron-atom and electron-molecular scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Buckmaster, John David [1986]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to fluid mechanics which have, in particular, helped to transform combustion theory into a mathematical science.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bucksbaum, Phillip Howard [1989]
SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
Citation: For seminal work on electrons and atoms in strong radiation fields.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Budai, John [2007]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal materials physics contributions to the structure and synthesis of quasicrystals, nanocrystals formed by ion-implantation, and epitaxial high-temperature superconductors using advanced synchrotron x-ray techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Budhani, Ramesh Chandra [2004]
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of vortices in superconductors, including pinning by linear defects, motion under thermal and electric field gradients, and studies of dissipation with probes of varying time scales.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Budker, Dmitry [2005]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his contributions to the spectroscopy of complex atoms, atomic-physics tests of fundamental symmetries, and for his leadership in the field of nonlinear magneto- and electro-optics of resonant systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Budko, Sergey [2009]
Iowa State University
Citation: For significant contributions to the study of superconducting, magnetic transport properties of metals, such as field-induced quantum criticality in heavy fermions and superconductivity in layered cuprate, rare earth nickel borocarbide, magnesium diboride, and iron arsenide-based compounds.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Budnitz, Robert J. [1987]
No Company Provided
Citation: For leadership in applying physics to issues in environmental and energy policy and careful studies of the technology of nuclear reactor safety.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Buettiker, Markus [1990]

Citation: For developing formulate of conductance and Hall effect using transmittive properties of samples with more than two connections.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Buhrman, Robert Alan [1991]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of fluctuations in superconducting weak links, nanometer scale electronics, and interfaces in high temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bulaevskii, Lev Naumovich [2000]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For numerous significant contributions to condensed matter theory, in particular in the area of layered superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bulatov, Vasily V. [2005]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to computational materials science, particularly in the areas of dislocation dynamics and crystal plasticity.


Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Bulgac, Aurel [2006]
University of Washington
Citation: For his ground-breaking work on collective properties of many-fermi systems, particularly on the theory of nuclear pairing.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bulsara, Adi [2004]
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Citation: For developing the statistical mechanics of noisy nonlinear dynamical oscillators especially in the theory, application and technology of stochastic resonance detectors.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Bunce, Gerry M. [2002]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For work in spin physics, including the muon 'g-2' experiment, contributions and leadership in the RHIC spin program and the discovery of lambda polarization in production at high energy.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Bundschuh, Ralf A. [2012]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For his significant contributions to our quantitative understanding of biophysical properties of nucleic acids and to the use of physical approaches in biological sequence analysis
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Bunker, Bruce A. [2012]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For contributions to the development of X-ray absorption spectroscopy and applications to complex nanoscale materials
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Bunning, Timothy [2006]
AFRL/MLPJ
Citation: For fundamental and innovative elucidation of the structure-property relationships of novel passice and synamic polymer-based photonic materials; which is enabling the development of next-generation adaptive optical platforms.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Buonanno, Alessandra [2011]
University of Maryland, College Park
Citation: For revolutionizing our understanding of quantum optical noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (with Chen), creating the EOB approach to 2-body dynamics (with Damour), and leading the creation of template families for searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Buongiorno-Nardelli, Marco [2010]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his seminal work on surfaces and interfaces for energy and environment applications, as made possible by his development of novel techniques for the first principle evaluation of the properties of complex and nanostructured materials.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Burbidge, Geoffrey Ronald [1988]

Citation: For his fundamental work on nucleosynthesis, the nature of radio sources, and the role of the quasistellar objects in the structure of the Universe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Burchat, Patricia R. [2001]
Stanford University
Citation: For her contributions to the understanding of heavy quark physics, particularly in semileptonic weak decays, in mixing of neutral D and B mesons, and in CP violation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Burgdorfer, Joachim [1992]

Citation: For insightful and convincing contributions to the theory of interactions of ions with gases and solids.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Burghardt, Wesley R [2003]
Northwestern University
Citation: For elucidating the molecular and nanoscopic basis of the macroscopic properties of complex fluids through innovative experimental methods and keen theoretical insight.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Burkardt, Matthias [2004]
New Mexico State University
Citation: For his contributions towards understanding the connection between generalized parton distributions and the distribution of partons in impact parameter space and his contributions to light-cone QCD.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Burke, David Lyle [1992]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For contributions to the development of high-energy electron-position colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Burke, Kieron [2007]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the development and application of the density functional theory of ground and excited electronic states, and electronic dynamics in condensed matter.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Burkert, Volker Dietmar [2004]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: Experimental research in the area of strong QCD and confinement, especially studies of nucleon excitations, their transition form factors, and the nucleon spin response in the resonance region.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Burkhardt, Theodore W. [2006]
Temple University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of phase transitions at surfaces and interfaces, and his contributions to the statistical mechanics of polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Burnett, Keith [1996]
Oxford University
Citation: For seminal theoretical and experimental work on interrogation and manipulation of atomic collisions by light, and their application to quantum optics, strong-field physics, and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Burns, Jack O'Neal [1998]
University of Missouri - Columbia
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the observation and numerical modeling of extragalactic jets and clusters of galaxies.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Burrow, Paul David [1987]
Univ of Nebraska - Lincoln
Citation: For his refinements of electron transmission spectroscopy and its innovative application to the determination of the structure, lifetimes and energies of large molecular excited states.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Burrows, Adam Seth [1992]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For his theoretical contributions to our understanding of supernova neutrino bursts, in particular, and supernova theory, in general and for his prescient predictions prior to SN1987A of the duration and magnitude of neutrino signals from neutron star formation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Burrows, David [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to high energy astrophysics, including his early development of CCD detectors for X-ray astronomy and his leadership of the XRT instrument on SWIFT.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Burrows, Philip [2008]
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: Division of Particles and Fields

Bush, John W.M. [2009]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For novel contributions to surface-tension dominated flows, elucidation of their appearance in biological contexts, and for many illustrations of the visual beauty of fluid dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Bustamante, Carlos J. [1995]
University of Oregon
Citation: For pioneering the application of optical methods and scanning probes in measurements of the properties of single DNA molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Busza, Wit [1989]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering the use of nuclear targets for the study of the mechanisms of particle productions at high energies, in particular the space-time evolution of the production process.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Buti, Bimla [1993]

Citation: For pioneering and distinguished studies of nonlinear and chaotic plasma processes and for developing mathematical models for the proper interpretation of intriguing observations in space and astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Butler, Joel Nathan [1990]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the study of charm quark states.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Butler, Laurie Jeanne [2002]
University of Chicago
Citation: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the understanding of non-adiabatic effects in molecular photophysics and photoreactivity.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Butler, William Hill [1987]
Univ of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
Citation: For his contributions to electronic structure and transport in solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Buyers, William James Leslie [1984]
Chalk River Labs
Citation: For extensive original contributions, theoretical and experimental, to studies of structure and basic excitations in in condensed matter, in particular of magnetic excitations in both ordered and disordered crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Byer, Robert L. [1991]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the development and application of stable, tunable solid state laser sources and to nonlinear optical phenomena such as four wave mixing and harmonic generation.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Byrd, John [2012]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his seminal contributions to accelerator science in the areas of: collective beam behavior, coherent synchrotron radiation in storage rings and femtosecond timing and synchronization of accelerator systems
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Cabrera, Blas [1996]
Stanford University
Citation: For his precision measurement of the Cooper pair mass in a superconductor and his search for dark matter in the forms of magnetically charged particles or weakly interacting massive particles.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Cacialli, Franco [2009]
University College London
Citation: For his significant contributions to the science and technology of organic semiconductors and related applications, and especially for seminal contributions to the scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) assisted lithography of organic semiconductor nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Cage, Marvin Eugene [1996]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For excellence in measurement research that led to an accurate experimental SI determination of the quantized Hall resistance and adoption of the quantum Hall effect as the new international standard for resistance.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Cahay, Marc [2012]
No Company Provided
Citation: For seminal contributions to understanding transport properties of mesoscopic systems and for pioneering work in spintronic devices
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cahill, David G. [2005]
University of Illinois
Citation: For original and influential contributions to the physics of heat conduction in materials and the evolution of surface morphology during crystal growth and etching.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Cahn, Robert Nathan [1988]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to particle phenomenolgy that have delineated tests of the standard model of electroweak interactions and that have identified means of finding the Higgs boson.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cain, Laurence S. [2009]
Davidson College
Citation: For strong commitment to the advancement of undergraduate teaching and research, and for significant contributions to introductory physics curriculum and assessment at the national level.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Caldwell, Allen C. [2000]
Columbia University
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to elementary particles, including the discovery of unanticipated properties of the proton from measurements made under his leadership in the ZEUS collaboration.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Caldwell, Carolyn Denise [1993]

Citation: For the first experimental demonstration of atomic alignment of photoionization, continued scholarly exposition of atomic alignment, and the elucidation of autoionization decay processes on approaching inner ionization thresholds.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Caldwell, Robert [2008]
Dartmouth College
Citation: For his numerous contributions to theoretical cosmology, particularly those on pioneering ideas for dark energy.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Callcott, Thomas Anderson [1990]

Citation: For seminal contributions to soft-x-ray spectroscopy studies of metals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Calleja-Pardo, Jose Manuel [1997]
Universidad Autsnoma de Madrid
Citation: For significant contributions to optical studies of semiconductor quantum structures and for his role in the advancement of experimental solid state research in Spain.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Callender, Robert Howard [1985]
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the energy transduction process of visual pigments and for the development of physical techniques to study spectroscopically photolabile molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Cameron, John Montgomery [1988]
Procure Treatment Centers Inc
Citation: For his leadership role in experimental studies of new-nucleon systems with hadronic and electromagnetic probes at intermediate energies.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cammarata, Robert [2012]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the thermodynamics and mechanics of surfaces, thin films, and nanomaterials, and to the synthesis, processing and mechanical behavior of nanocomposite thin films.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Camp, William J. [1998]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to computational methods in the theory of phase transition and in reactor safety physics, and for seminal efforts in high performance computing for science and engineering.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Campanelli, Manuela [2009]
Rochester Institute of Technology
Citation: For groundbreaking work on numerical simulations of binary black hole spacetimes, and for explorations using these simulations of interesting physical effects such as "superkicks" and spin-driven orbital dynamics.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Campbell, Charles Edwin [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum fluids and other strongly correlated many-body systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Campbell, Joe Charles [2003]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For leading contributions to the development of high-speed, low-noise, long-wavelength avalanche photodiodes.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Campbell, Myron Keith [1997]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his leadership and vision on data collection and triggering at hadronic collider experiments, and its direct impact on the successful physics program of the CDF experiment at Fermilab.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Campillo, Anthony Joseph [1983]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For his contributions toward understanding the propagation and spatial breakup of high power laser beams and for his extensive application of novel picosecond techniques toward understanding molecular energy transfer processes.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Campillo, Anthony Joseph [1983]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions toward understanding the propagation and spatial breakup of high power laser beams and for his extensive application of novel picosecond techniques toward understanding molecular energy transfer processes.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Campuzano, Juan Carlos [2001]
University of Illinois, Chicago
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of high temperature cuprate superconductors by use of angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Canavan, Gregory Harger [1999]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions leading to the improvement of military science and technology, and for his farsighted leadership in the transfer of developments in remote sensing and communications to the scientific, civilian, and commercial sectors.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Candy, Jeff [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For groundbreaking advancements in gyrokinetic simulation of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas including the first multi-scale kinetic simulations with coupled ion and electron scales.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Canfield, Paul C. [2001]
Iowa State University
Citation: For crystal growth and characterization of novel materials such as heavy fermion compounds, magnetic superconductors and quasicrystals, leading to important advances in condensed matter and materials physics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Canizares, Claude [1989]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering investigations in x-ray astrophysics, particularly in the analysis of astrophysical plasmas by high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Cannell, David S. [1987]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For contributions in the study of nonlinear and collective phenomena related to critical points, polymers, fractal aggregates, and hydrodynamic instabilities.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cantrell, Cyrus D. [1980]
Univ of Texas, Dallas
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Cantwell, Brian J. [1996]
Stanford University
Citation: For basic contributions to recent developments in Fluid Dynamics, particularly in unsteady, viscous flow theory, from laminar and transitional jets to organized structures in turbulence.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Cao, Gang [2009]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For experimental studies of electric and magnetic single-crystal transition-metal oxides.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cao, Hui [2006]
Northwestern University
Citation: For the invention of microlasers based on disordered media, and other groundbreaking experimental studies coherent light generation and transport in disordered media.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Capasso, Federico [1986]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the advancement of optical and microwave devices with 'band structure engineering'.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Caporaso, George James [1996]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For original contributions to the design and analysis of high-current electron accelerators, especially for instability studies which have greatly extended the utility of induction linacs.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Car, Roberto [1998]
Universite de Geneve
Citation: For outstanding contributions to physics, especially the combination of molecular dynamics with density functional theory which has proven to be a powerful method to study atomic-scale dynamics in molecules and solids.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Cardillo, Mark J. [1987]
Agere Systems - Murray Hill
Citation: For pioneering applications of molecular beam techniques to the study of elastic, inelastic, and reactive gas-surface interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Carena, Marcela [2002]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For her outstanding contributions to the physics of Higgs bosons and Supersymmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cargill, George Slade, III [1983]
Lehigh University
Citation: For his critical experiments and calculations concerning atomic scale structure, magnetic excitations, and magnetic anisotropies in amorphous metallic alloys, and for his role in developing electron-acoustic microscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Carithers, William C., Jr. [1996]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the construction of the CDF experiment, including its vertex detector, and his role as co-spokesperson during the period of discovery of the top quark.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Carlip, Steven [2008]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For contributions to black hole physics and to gravity in 2+1 dimensions.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Carlson, Carl Edwin [1984]
William & Mary College
Citation: For a variety of contributions to elementary particle theory, including recent examination and clarification of the glue ball concept.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Carlson, J David [2004]
Lord Corporation
Citation: For contributions to controllable magnetorheological fluids, devices and systems.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Carlson, Joseph Allen [1998]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of novel Green's Function Monte Carlo algorithms and their pioneering application to exact calculations of the structure and response of light nuclei using contemporary, realistic nuclear interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Carlsten, Bruce E. [2005]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of intense electron beams and for the development of techniques that have led to the achievement of ultra-bright electron sources.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Carlsten, John Lennart [2004]
Montana State University
Citation: For fundamental studies of stimulated Raman scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Carlstrom, John [2009]
The University of Chicago
Citation: For his pioneering measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect to study the early universe. For using these measurements to constrain models of the constituents of and the physical processes in the early universe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Carmichael, John Howard [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the quantum theory of light, its generation, detection, and interaction with atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Carmony, D. Duane [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Carpenter, John Marland [1989]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to neutron scattering studies in condensed matter physics; in particular for in invention of pulsed proton spallation neutron sources.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Carpenter, Steve H. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Carpick, Robert W. [2012]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: for his outstanding contributions to developing an atomic-level understanding of the tribological phenomena of friction, adhesion, and wear
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Carr, G. Lawrence [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For applications of synchrotron and terahertz radiation to condensed-matter systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Carrera, Nicholas J. [1996]
Unknown
Citation: For his key scientific role in the development and negotiation of the verification protocols to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and for his distinguished contributions to the US arms control efforts.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Carreras, Benjamin A. [1984]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For sustained contributions to the understanding and circumvention of operating limitations and enhanced transport in torodial confinement devices subject to MHD fluid instabilities.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Carrington, Tucker [2007]
Queen's University
Citation: For the development and application of new iterative tools for solving the time-independent Schrödinger equation.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Carroll, Sean [2010]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to a wide variety of subjects in cosmology, relativity, and quantum field theory, especially ideas for cosmic acceleration, as well as contributions to undergraduate, graduate, and public science education.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Carruthers, Thomas F. [2012]
National Science Foundation
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the fields of ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, and fiber lasers, for services to the physics community, and for advising and overseeing the construction and operation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Carson, Cathryn [2011]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For her contributions to the history and philosophy of physics, especially regarding Heisenberg in postwar West Germany, and for her professional leadership as program director, book and journal editor, and conference organizer.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Carter, Emily Ann [1998]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For her pioneering development and applications of ab-initio methods to energetics, kinetics and dynamics studies of surface reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Cartwright, David C. [1988]

Citation: For outstanding theoretical and experimental contributions to the determination and utilization of electron-atom (molecule) collision data for a wide variety of laboratory and naturally occurring phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cary, John Robert [1989]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For applications of modern dynamical analysis to plasmas, which led to the development of the ponderomotive Hamiltonian, an algorithm for finding integrable systems, and the theory of separatrix crossing.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Casperson, Lee Wendel [1998]
Portland State University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the field of laser instabilities, the discovery of the laser instability that bears his name, and his numerous advances in laser and resonator design.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Cassel, David Giske [1989]
Cornell University
Citation: For contributions to the investigation of photoproduction, electroprodyuction, annihilation, weak interactions, the contruction of CESR, and the construction and operation of the CLEO experiment.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cassidy, David Charles [1992]
Hofstra Univ
Citation: For his work on the history of Twentieth Century Physics, particularly his biography on Heisenberg.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Castleman, Jr, Albert Welford [1985]
Penn State University
Citation: In recognition of pioneering studies of gas-phase ionic and molecular clusters that have served to elucidate the molecular aspects of condensation and solvation phenomena, thereby bridging the gas and condensed phases.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Castor, John Irvin [2003]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For ground-breaking work on radiatively-driven stellar winds, and contributions to the theory of opacities, equations-of-state, and radiation hydrodynamics, including national security applications in high energy-density physics.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Castro, George [1989]
San Jose State Univ
Citation: For the discovery of several significant optical and electronic processes in organic solids.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Castro-Neto, Antonio H. [2003]
Boston University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of strong correlations, fluctuations, and inhomogeneities in high temperature superconductors and quantum magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cates, Gordon D., Jr. [1997]
Princeton University
Citation: For his pioneering use of laser polarized gases to permit uniquely detained images of mammalian lungs.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Cattell, Cynthia [2010]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For measurements of solitary waves and electric fields in the Earth's radiation belts and for observation and interpretation of the very large amplitude whistler mode waves that provide a new mechanism for accelerating trapped electrons to relativistic energies in a fraction of a second.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics

Catto, Peter J. [1986]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the theory of plasma equilibrium, stability and transport in mirrors, bumpy tori, and tokamaks, and for contributions to the theory of particle gyrokinetics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cauble, Robert Craig [2000]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the understanding of the equation of state of dense, strongly coupled plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cava, Robert Joseph [1988]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For contributions to the materials physics of ceramic superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cavagnero, Michael John [2000]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For creative analyses of atomic collisions, fragmentation and electron correlation, which incorporate keen insight into innovative mathematical formulations; and for energizing many successful collaborations with experimental and theoretical colleagues.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cavalleri, Andrea [2011]
Oxford University
Citation: For pioneering advances in the understanding of the ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated electron materials using ultrafast lasers and x-ray pulses.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Cavanagh, Richard Roy [2004]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For contributions to the undestanding of dynamical processes and energy-transfer mechanisms for molecular absorbates on surfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Caves, Carlton M. [2004]
University of New Mexico
Citation: For pioneering working on the role of quantum mechanics in the physics of information.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cebe, Peggy [2008]
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: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ceccio, Steven L. [2009]
University of Michigan
Citation: For experimental advancements in multiphase and high-Reynolds number flows, including cavitating flows, gas-solid flows, and skin friction drag reduction using gas and polymer injection.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Cecil, Francis Edward [2000]
Colorado School of Mines
Citation: For measurements of nuclear reactions among light ions at low energies and for the application of some of these reactions to the diagnostics of high temperature fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cederberg, James [2000]
St. Olaf College
Citation: For his strong commitment to teaching, for his advocacy and national promotion of undergraduate research, and for his highly productive program of faculty/student research in molecular beam spectroscopy at St. Olaf.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Celler, George K. [1990]
SOITEC/USA
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of interactions between intense photon beams and the Si/SiO2/dopant system, and for imaginative applications of these interactions to modification of electronic materials.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Celliers, Peter [2007]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For developing a new generation of high-precision ultra-fast diagnostics, which have enabled accurate laboratory measurements of shock compressed condensed matter in the ~1 to 100 Mbar regime.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Celotta, Robert J. [1980]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Centrella, Joan Mary [1998]
Drexel University
Citation: For her original contributions to numerical relativity, cosmology, and astrophysics, in particular for her studies of large-scale structure in the universe and sources of gravitational radiation.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Ceperley, David M. [1992]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: For development of innovative algorithms to deal with quantum many-body problems with their application to significant physical problems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Cerdeira, Hilda A. [2006]
the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theo
Citation: For her contributions in superconductivity, nonlinear dynamics and synchronization of chaotic systems and her development and management of outreach programs in communications and literature for colleagues in developing countries.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Cerdonio, Massimo [2007]
University of Padova
Citation: For his commitment to and leadership in establishing an international gravitational wave network and for promoting international collaborations through his leadership of the Gravitational Wave International Committee.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Cerrina, Francesco [2001]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For innovative physics applications in the domains of lithography, x-ray optics and microscopy.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Ceyer, Sylvia T. [1994]

Citation: In recognition of thorough and insightful contributions to the field of surface science that have advanced our understanding of the dynamics of chemical reactions on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Chabal, Yves Jean [1996]
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering development of high-resolution infrared spectroscopy for adsorbate structure and dynamics on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Chabay, Ruth W. [2009]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For contributions to the development of computer-based learning and tutorial systems, visualizations, and curricula that have modernized and improved how students learn physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Chadwick, Mark B. [2009]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For significant and innovative contributions to applied nuclear physics, including medical radiation therapy, nonproliferation, homeland security, the physics of nuclear weapons, and especially to development of the modern ENDF/B-VII data base.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Chaikin, Paul Michael [1985]
New York University
Citation: For many novel and creative uses of thermoelectric-power measurements and wide-ranging contributions to our understanding of quasi-one-dimensional metals, charge-density-wave systems, superconducting sandwiches, and colloidal crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chakrabarty, Deepto [2011]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his pioneering research on neutron stars, including the discovery and analysis of accretion-powered millisecond pulsars.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Chakraborty, Bulbul [2008]
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: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chakraborty, Tapash [2011]
University of Manitoba
Citation: For understanding of the spin structure of the fractional quantum Hall effect and the electronic properties of quantum dots.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chakravarty, Sudip [1991]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For his contributions towards the understanding of quantum dissipative phase transitions in Josephson systems and his contributions towards understanding the magnetic properties of La2CuO4.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chambouleyron, Ivan Emilio [1996]
Instituto de Fisica, UNICAMP
Citation: For significant contributions to fundamental and applied studies of amorphous semiconductors, and for his leadership role in the advancement of applied physics in Latin America.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chamon, Claudio [2008]
Boston University
Citation: For his important theoretical work on the probing of fractional charge and statistics in strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Champagne, Arthur E. [1999]
University of North Carolina
Citation: For his pioneering work in nuclear astrophysics in developing a quantitative connection between stable-beam spectroscopy measurements and direct radioactive-beam experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Champion, Paul Morris [1991]
Northeastern Univ
Citation: For contributions to the fields of molecular biophysics and spectroscopy of heme proteins.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Champion, Roy Lunsford [1984]
William & Mary College
Citation: For measurements of differential and total cross-sections, both elastic and inelastic, of ions on atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chan, Che Ting [1996]
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Citation: For his innovative contributions to the first-principles calculations and simulation of materials properties, including those of surface structures, clusters, and photonic band-gap materials.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chan, Moses H.W. [1987]
Penn State Univ, Univ Park
Citation: For pioneering studies if the nature of phases and phase transitions in two and three dimensions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chan, Shirley Suiling [2006]
Princeton University
Citation: For using sophisticated techniques to explore the spectra, structure, and dynamics of proteins and nuclei acids, and for dedicated service to the American Physical Society.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Chan, Sunney I. [1987]
Cal Inst of Tech (Caltech)
Citation: For applying the resonance methods of physics to a wide variety of biological and chemical problems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Chan, Vincent S. [1988]
General Atomics - San Diego
Citation: For significant insights into the physics of wave heating in tokamaks and original ideas to improve tokamak performance with rf waves.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chan, Yau-Wa [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chance, Britton [2007]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For prodigious contributions to biological optics over more than seventy years, and for the use of physical methods in fundamental discoveries concerning cell metabolism.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Chance, Morell S. [1987]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For development and application of fundamental analytical and numerical tools for the investigation of the magnetohydrodynamic stability of high beta plasma in shaped tokamak configurations, including the PBX device.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chance, Ronald Richard [1988]
Georgia Inst of Tech
Citation: For important contributions to the scientific understanding of the electronic properties of organic solids, including photoconduction, energy transfer, solid-state reactions, nonlinear optics, electronic structure theory, and conducting polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Chandi, James Djamshid [1989]

Citation: For theoretical contributions to the understanding of semiconductor surface reconstructions and defect-related structural metastabilities.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chandler, Colston [1992]
Univ of New Mexico- Lab
Citation: For development of a mathematically rigorous, yet practical, theory of approximation, sufficiently powerful to include breakup channels, for the fundamental D-body equations of nonrelativistic multichannel quantum scattering theory.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Chandler, David W. [1997]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For important contributions to molecular dynamics, in particular for his invention and applications of photofragment imaging and for his work using laser-induced gratings.


Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Chandrasekhar, Meera [1992]
Univ of Missouri - Columbia
Citation: For her optical experiments at high pressure on the nature of energy bands, deep levels, and quantum confined states in semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chandrasekhar, Venkat [2008]
Northwestern University
Citation: For significant contributions to transport in mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chandross, Michael E. [2012]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the development of computational physics methods and their application to tribology and the aging and reliability of nanomaterials
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Chang, Albert M. [2000]
Purdue University
Citation: For experimental studies of quantum Hall edge states and Luttinger liquids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chang, Chia-Seng [2012]
Academia Sinica
Citation: For long lasting contribution in surface sciences and nanotechnology research, and innovative developments on scanning probe microscopy, UHV TEM-STM combined system for in-situ nanoscale observation and measurements, and the development of phase plate and wet cell for TEM for biological imaging
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Chang, Ching-Ray [2009]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of magnetism and the development of computational approaches in spin transport, and for leadership in fostering international research and education in Asia.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chang, Chio Z. [1991]
Natl Cheng Kung Univ
Citation: For original work in the investigation of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities important in fusion plasmas, and the modification of these instabilities by high energy particles.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chang, Choong-Seock [2006]
New York University
Citation: For seminal and pioneering contributions in neoclassical, rf-driven, and basic transport theories, and for his leadership in plasma edge simulation in torodial magnetic confinement devices.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chang, Hsueh Chia [1997]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his deep and elegant contributions to the mathematics and to the physical understanding of nonlinear waves on thin films.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Chang, Keejoo [2009]
Korea Adv Inst of Sci & Tech
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to computational materials physics, in particular the fundamental understanding of defects, impurities, and high-pressure phases of semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Chang, Shih-Lin [2007]
national Tsing Hua University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions in developing X-ray multiple diffraction methods for solving the X-ray phase problem in crystallography, in developing Fabry-Perot resonators for hard X-rays, and in promoting international collaborations.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chang, Taihyun [2010]
Pohang University of Science & Technology
Citation: For his innovative applications of chromatographic techniques for trailblazing and exquisite molecular characterization and separation of the full range of polymers of contemporary interest.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Chang, Tu-nan [1989]
Univ of Southern California
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the many-body theory of atomic structure and photoionization, particularly the study of doubly excited states.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chang, Yia-Chung [2000]
University of Illinois
Citation: For calculations elucidating the transport, electronic, and optical, and vibrational properties of semiconductors, in the bulk and at surfaces, in heterostructures and in nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Chang, Zenghu [2008]
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: Division of Laser Science

Chanmugam, Ganesar [1991]

Citation: For his original contributions on the cyclotron emission from accreting magnetic white dwarfs, the evolution of neutron-star magnetic fields and for proposing that variable white dwarfs are undergoing nonradial oscillations.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Chanowitz, Michael Stephen [1988]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to theoretical elementary particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Chantrell, Roy William [2003]
Seagate Research, Pennsylvania
Citation: For contributions to the theory of nanoparticle magnetism and the development of theoretical and computational approaches to the problem of thermally activated magnetization reversal.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Chantry, Peter J. [1988]
No Company Provided
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of electron-molecule scattering and for pioneering work with negative ions formed by dissociative attachment.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chapman, Michael [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For developing an all-optical method for creating atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, and for seminal experimental work in the fields of quantum degenerate gases, cavity quantum electrodynamics and atom optics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Char, Kookheon [2010]
Seoul National University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to assembly of polymers in thin films leading to fundamental new insights and applications in microelectronics and optoelectronics
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Charity, Robert [2011]
Washington University, St Louis
Citation: For contributions to: statistical decay, continuum spectroscopy, and for implementing an n/p asymmetry dependent dispersive optical model.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Chattopadhyay, Swapan [1995]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering studies of fluctuations, coherence and phase-space cooling and his contributions to the accelerator physics foundation of PEP II, an asymmetric B-factory collider for CP-violation studies.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Chau, Ling-Lie [1984]
University of California-Davis
Citation: For contributions to a broad range of elementary particle theory including Regge phenomenology, weak decays, W. production and Yang-Mills theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Chaudhury, Manoj K. [2006]
Lehigh University
Citation: For conducting fundamental studies on the roles of energetic and kinetic processes on adhesion, fracture and tribological properties of polymeric interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Chelikowsky, James Robert [1987]
Univ of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of electronic, optical, and structural properties of materials through creative synthesis of empirical and first-principles quantum theory.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chemla, Daniel Simon [1988]

Citation: For contributions to the understanding of nonlinear optical processes and to the development of nonlinear spectroscopy in condensed matter.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chen, C.F. [1987]

Citation: For his contributions to basic understanding of double0diffusive convection.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Chen, Cheng-Hsuan Sunshine [1996]
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering contributions to condensed matter physics through applications of electron diffraction and microscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chen, Chien-Te [1996]
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Citation: For innovative experiments in the area of soft x-ray spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation, and especially the advancement of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chen, Chung-Hsuan Winston [1994]

Citation: For his fundamental contributions to chemical kinetics studies and the development of several ultra-sensitive detection methods by laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Chen, Gang [2012]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of heat transfer at nanoscale and to the development of thermoelectric energy conversion technologies
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Chen, Ho Sou [1989]

Citation: For providing critical insights into the nature of metastable solid phases; in particular, the structure and relaxation of metallic glasses, phase transitions in amorphous systems, and the thermodynamics of the quasi-crystalline phase.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chen, Hudong [1999]
Exa Corporation
Citation: For contributions to fundamental fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory, pioneering work in discrete many-body systems and Lattice Boltzmann representations, and industrial applications and practical numerical methods based upon these ideas.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Chen, James [1998]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For innovative and unique research in chaos and nonlinear dynamics, and in the evolution of large-scale solar plasma eruptions and their impact on the magnetosphere.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chen, Jian-Ping [2008]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For his contributions to understanding the spin structure of the neutron, through the use of a polarized Helium-3 target.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Chen, Long-Qing [2008]
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: Division of Materials Physics

Chen, Mau Hsiung [1991]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the relativistic theory of Auger transitions, the understanding of atomic inner-shell processes, and the calculation of the properties of few-electron ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chen, Pisin [1995]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For his contributions in novel accelerator concepts including the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator and the self-focusing plasma lens, and for contributions to the understanding of the beam-beam interaction in linear colliders, including the discovery of beams
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Chen, Shi-Jie [2012]
University of Missouri, Columbia
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to physics-based theoretical and computational studies of structure, stability, folding kinetics and ion effects in Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) biology
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Chen, Shiyi [1995]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For outstanding research in lattice gas methods involving creative analysis and massive computations at the frontiers of high performance computing; and for contributing fundamental advances in the theory of turbulence.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Chen, Tze-Chiang [2005]
IBM
Citation: For contributions to the science and technology of double-polysilicon bipolar transistors.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Chen, Wendell K. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Chen, Yu-Jiuan [2002]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For revolutionizing the achievable beam quality of linear induction accelerators and advancing the state-of-the art of flash x-ray radiographic technology.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Cheng, Andrew Francis [1992]

Citation: For theoretical contributions to fundamental understanding of plasmas in planetary and astrophysical magnetospheres.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Cheng, David C. [1999]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For outstanding contributions to optical and magnetic recording technologies, producing broad impacts in the data storage industry, especially in the frontiers of high data rate and high density recording.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cheng, Hai-Ping [2005]
University of Florida
Citation: For insights from pioneering nanoscale simulations, notably on cluster phase transitions,surface melting, and nanocrystal-surface interactions, especially the interplay between structure and dynamics and between structure and conductance.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Cheng, Hsien Kei [1989]

Citation: For insightful analyses applied to a broad range of fundamental problems in aerodynamics: hypersonic inviscid-viscous interactions, unsteady separated and unseparated flows, transonic flows, and bird and fish locomotion.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Cheng, Kwok-Tsang [1996]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of atomic structure and dynamics, particularly to the understanding of relativistic and quantum-electrodynamic effects in highly charged ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cheng, Kwong-sang [2006]
University of Hong Kong, China
Citation: For contributions to the theory of compact objects, especially the study of high energy radiation from pulsars and the glitch relaxation phenomenon of pulsars.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Cheng, Stephen Z.D. [1994]

Citation: For extensive structural and kinetic studies of crystallization and microstructure formation in polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Cheng, Yang-Tse [2005]
General Motors Research and Development Center
Citation: For deep insights into the relationship between nanoindentation scaling behavior, the work of indentation, and the mechanical properties of atomically engineered surfaces.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cheong, Sang-Wook [2000]
Rutgers University
Citation: For the synthesis and characterization of new oxide materials with unusual charge or spin order.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chertkov, Michael [2011]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For Fundamental Theoretical Contributions in Statistical Hydrodynamics and Physics of Information and Algorithms.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Cheshnovsky, Ori [2008]
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: Division of Laser Science

Chhabildas, Lalit Chandra [2000]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development and use of advanced diagnostic tools for studying shock compressed materials and for sustained service in advancing the objectives of the American Physical Society.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Chi, Cheng-Chung [2012]
National Tsing Hua University
Citation: For studies of nonequilibrium superconductivity and quasiparticle dynamics using tunneling and ultrafast pulse experiments
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chialvo, Dante [2007]
Northwestern University
Citation: For advances in the understanding of physiological mechanisms using the methods of nonlinear dynamics, in particular of the bifurcations leading to cardiac sudden death and the constructive role of noise in neural coding of information.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Chiang, Shirley [1994]

Citation: For advances in real space imaging of surface structure by scanning tunneling and force microscopies, especially molecular identification, imaging of metals and alloys, and atomic-scale frictional forces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Chiang, Tai-Chang [1986]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: For his numerous contributions to the understanding of bulk, surface and interface states of metals and semiconductors using photoemission techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chiarotti, Gianfranco [1994]

Citation: For development of optical modulation spectroscopy and for studies of electronic states at point defects and at surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chien, Chia-Ling [1989]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the magnetic properties of metallic glasses, magnetic super-lattices, granular solids, and superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Childress, Jeffrey R. [2009]
Hitachi San Jose Research Center
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of magnetism and magnetotransport in thin-film and nanostructured materials, and their applications to magnetic recording sensor technologies.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Childress, William S. [2008]
New York University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to dynamo theory, geophysical fluid dynamics and biological fluid mechanics including locomotion.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Chilingarian, Ashot [2011]
Yerevan Phy Inst
Citation: For bringing one of the world's largest facilities for monitoring different species of secondary cosmic rays located in Armenia to the International Space Weather initiative as a global warning system from violent space events.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Chin, Siu Ah [2006]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For original and powerful new fourth-order algorithms to solve diverse computational problems in physics and chemistry; and for pioneering theoretical and computational contributions to the many-body physics of hadronic matter.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Ching, Emily Shuk Chi [2005]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Citation: For leadership in the analysis of turbulent and chaotic dynamics, and particularly for elucidating the structure of temperature correlations in turbulent systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Ching, Wai-Yim [2008]
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: Division of Materials Physics

Chinowsky, William [1986]

Citation: For contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Chisholm, Matthew F. [2009]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to materials and interface physics through scanning transmission electron microscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Chittenden, Jeremy [2010]
Imperial College
Citation: For pioneering theoretical and computational investigations of wire array Z-pinches, X-pinches and other high energy density plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chiu, Ying-Nan [1986]

Citation: For pioneering contribution in the use of modern angular momentum and irreducible tensor methods to derive molecular rotation-electronic structure and spectroscopic intensities of higher multipole radiation and interference in molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Chivukula, R. Sekhar [1998]
Boston University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking and flavor symmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cho, Yanglai [2000]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For continuing excellent contributions to high energy physics experiments and technology, and to the design and commissioning of large accelerator facilities.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Chodos, Alan A. [1994]
Yale University
Citation: In recognition of contributions to the bag model of hadron and to theories of gravitation and other forces in more than four dimensions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Choi, Haecheon [2010]
Seoul National University
Citation: For his contributions to the fundamental physics and control of turbulent boundary layers and bluff-body flows through numerical simulations and laboratory experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Choi, Kwong Kit [2000]
US Army Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the foundation and development of quantum well infrared technology, the discovery of new quantum noise properties, and the pioneering application of excitation hot-electron spectroscopies in quantum well studies.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Chomaz, Jean-Marc [2001]
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, Palaiseau, France
Citation: For his fundamental and elegant studies of linear and nonlinear global modes in shear flows, and for the discovery of a new zig-zag instability of vortices in stratified media.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Chong, Min [2011]
University of Melbourne
Citation: For contributions to the development of series-expansion approaches to the Navier-Stokes equations to the use of topology in the study of flow patterns in turbulence, and to our understanding of the structure of jets, wakes, wall turbulence and hot-wire anemometry.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Choptuik, Matthew William [2003]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For the discovery of critical gravitational collapse.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Chou, Mei-Yin [2002]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development and application of electronic structure techniques, applied successfully to studies of structural and electronic properties of materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Christen, David [2010]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For sustained discovery and leadership in understanding of superconductive materials, especially their current conduction and vortex state properties.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Christen, Hans [2011]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering studies of effects of strain, confinement, and interfaces on the properties of complex oxide films enabled by novel pulsed-laser deposition and characterization methods.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Christensen, Niels Tage Egede [1994]

Citation: For ab initio calculations of the electronic structure and of physical propterties of solids
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Christian, Wolfgang [2005]
Davidson College
Citation: For his years of dedication and significant contributions to the use of computers in undergraduate physics education, especially for his creation, design and effective use of interactive curricular materials.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Christodoulides, Demetrios N. [2003]
Lehigh University
Citation: For the theoretical discoveries of discrete solitons and of Bragg (gap) solitons, and for important contributions on vector, composite and incoherent solitons.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Chu, Ming Sheng [1990]
General Atomics - San Diego
Citation: For elucidating the relationship between ideal and resistive MHD in toroidal configurations.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chu, Paul K. [2008]
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Chu, Shih-I [1987]
Univ of Kansas
Citation: For the development of innovative theoretical methods of remarkable power for describing the response of atoms and molecules to intense perturbing fields.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chu, Steven [1986]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions in atomic physics and laser spectroscopy, including the first observation of parity nonconservation in atoms, excitation and precision spectroscopy of positronium, and the optical confinement and cooling of atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chu, Sung Nee George [2006]
Multiplex INC
Citation: For contributions to the development of lasers and photodiodes for optical fiber communication systems.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Chu, Tsu-Kai [1980]

Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Chu, Wei-Kan [1992]
USRA - Univ Space Research Assoc
Citation: For original contributions to the fundamental understanding of ion-solid interactions and their application to the study of materials physics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Chuang, Isaac [2010]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his breadth and leadership in the field of quantum information science, including important theoretical discoveries and the exploration of experimental implementations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Chuang, Shun Lien [2003]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For his development of the fundamental theories for strained quantum-well lasers and terahertz generation from semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Chubukov, Andrey V. [2003]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For distinguished contributions to condensed matter theory, notably the theory of high temperature superconductivity and the relation between spin fluctuations and the effective interaction for electron pairing.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chudnovsky, Eugene M. [1993]

Citation: For seminal contributions to random ferromagnetism, macroscopic quantum tunneling, and hexatic order in high Tc materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Chung, Kwong T. [1987]

Citation: For development of extremely incisive methods of calculation, with concomitant calculations, of autoionization states and electron-atom (ion)resonances. Foremost among these methods is a hole-projection technique.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chupp, Timothy Edward [1995]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his ingenious use of optical pumping techniques to produce high-density samples of polarized noble gas nuclei, and his exploitation of these samples for precision measurements in atomic, nuclear, and particle physics.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Church, David Arthur [1985]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For advancing the techniques of confinement and collision studies of electronvolt-energy multi-charged ions, and for innovations in polarization and coherence spectroscopy of collisonally aligned and oriented fast ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Chutjian, Ara [1989]
Cal Inst of Tech (Caltech)
Citation: For pioneering work related to very low energy electron attachment and electron-positive-ion collision physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cieplak, Marek [1998]
Polish Academy of Sciences
Citation: For his insightful contributions to the numerical studies of disordered systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Cirac, Juan Ignacio [2003]
Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik
Citation: For outstanding contributions to quantum optics theory, in particular the problem of implementing quantum information with quantum optics and the theory of quantum degenerate atomic gases.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cirigliano, Vincenzo [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his foundational theoretical contributions to the interpretation of weak decays of light hadrons and the delineation of broader impacts of electric dipole moment searches, and for his contributions to studies of baryogenesis in the early universe
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cisneros, Carmen [1996]
Institut de Fisica
Citation: For her contributions to the field of molecular-ion collisional dissociation, particularly in fundamental hydrogenic systems, and for her efforts in international science and the development of AMO physics in Mexico.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Civale, Leonardo [2007]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of anisotropic electrical and magnetic properties of superconductors and vortex physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cizewski, Jolie A. [1990]
Rutgers Univ
Citation: For her contributions to the understanding of symmetries in nuclear structure and, in particular, to the experimental verifications of the predictions of the interacting-boson model.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cladis, Patricia Elizabeth [1983]
Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies
Citation: For outstanding contributions: to the experimental investigation of liquid crystal systems which has revealed novel and significant phenomena; to their theoretical interpretation; and to the growing field of liquid crystal science in general.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Clark, Alan Fred [1988]
Univ of Colorado - Denver
Citation: For excellence in low temperature materials research, particularly in superconductors, for development of accurate characterization methods and pursuit of their adoption, and for continued service to the science information community.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Clark, Charles Winthrop [1992]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: For innovative theoretical approaches to calculating atomic structure, the effect of static field on structure, and the interaction of atoms and ions with intense light fields.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Clark, Gregory John [1990]

Citation: For the creative scientific use of ion, electron, and photon beams for both fundamental and applied studies in condensed matter, atomic, nuclear, and geophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Clark, Noel A [1984]
University of Colorado- Boulder
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of ferroelectric liquid crystals and of liquid crystals and macroscopic colloidal crystals through the use of light scattering techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Clark, Robert Beck [1997]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For his contributions to establishing models for networks linking the national and the international physics communities and his exceptional support of physics teachers at all levels.


Nominated by: Forum on Education

Clark, W. Gilbert [2002]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For developing magnetic resonance instrumentation and methods, widely disseminating their application, and using them to investigate semiconductors, superconductors, organic conductors, low-dimensional magnets, heavy fermions, and charge and spin density waves.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Clarke, David Richard [1986]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For important contributions to understanding atomic-scale fracture phenomena, structure and energetics of class-ceramic interfaces, and toughening mechanisms in ceramic materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Clarke, John [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his deep, original and innovative contributions to condensed matter physics using superconducting quantum interference devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Clarke, Nigel [2007]
University of Durham
Citation: For contributions made to the field of soft condensed matter, and in particularly the phase behavior and dynamics of polymer systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Clarke, Roy [1991]

Citation: For pioneering work in x-ray scattering studies of structural phase transitions and their kinetics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Claro, Francisco [1993]

Citation: For exemplary contributions to the theory of the electromagnetic response of solids and particles.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Clary, David C. [2002]
University College London
Citation: For his elegant and pioneering theoretical contributions to the fields of intermolecular interactions, collisional energy transfer, cluster spectroscopy, and chemical reaction dynamics at the quantum state-to-state level.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Clayton, Christopher E. [1995]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of relativistic wave-particle interactions and demonstration of electron acceleration by beat-excited plasma waves.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Clegg, Thomas Boykin [1989]
Univ of NC - Chapel Hill
Citation: For leadership in the production and use of spin-polarized beams which has helped make measurements of polarization observables the acceptable technique for understanding the spin dependence of nuclear forces.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cleland, Andrew N. [2009]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For fundamental studies and applications of nanomechanical and nanoelectronic devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cleland, Marshall Robert [2004]
Ion Beam Applications
Citation: For leadership in and contributions to the development and production of many ion and electron accelerators for research, medicine and industry, and for the promotion of practical applications of ionizing radiation.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Clementi, Enrico [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For development of ab initio methods for dealing with solvated biological molecules, ionic solutions, and other large chemical systems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Cleveland, Jason [2011]
Asylum Research
Citation: For remarkable and lasting contributions to the field of scanning probe microscopy, both academic and commercial.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cline, Harvey [1996]
General Electric R& D Laboratories
Citation: For sustained and significant applications of physics to semiconductor processing and medical imaging, most notably thermomigration production of vertical pn junctions and 3-D medical display algorithms for X-ray CT and MRI.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Close, Francis E. [1992]

Citation: For theoretical contributions to the spectroscopy and structure of hadrons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Coalson, Rob Duncan [1999]
University of Pittsburgh
Citation: For novel contributions to the theory of condensed phase quantum dynamics, including computational methodology and applications to optical spectroscopy and electron transfer; and for theoretical insights into macroion electrostatics, with applications to colloidal suspensions and crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Cochran, Thomas B. [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his original analyses of the technology of nuclear weapons, breeder reactor technology and their relationship to nuclear weapons proliferation.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Cocke, Charles L. [1980]
Kansas State Univ
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Coe, James V. [2008]
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: Division of Chemical Physics

Coey, Michael [2000]
Trinity College
Citation: For contributions to magnetism including discovery of rare-earth iron nitrogen permanent magnets, classification of magnetic order in amorphous solids and innovative applications of permanent magnets.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Coffey, Timothy [1980]
Univ of Texas, Austin
Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Coffey, William Thomas [1999]
Trinity College
Citation: For development of new methods for the solution of the nonlinear Langevin equation without the use of the Fokker-Planck equation, allowing the exact calculation of correlation times and mean first passage times.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Cohen, Andrew G [2003]
Boston University
Citation: For numerous contributions to theories of physics beyond the Standard Model, most notably for the theories of electroweak baryogenesis, deconstruction, and electroweak symmetry breaking.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cohen, Bruce Ira [1987]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For important contributions to analysis and simulation of nonlinear wave-plasma interactions, covering parametric instabilities in laser plasmas and stability of mirror plasmas, and the development of new computational techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cohen, Elisha [1990]
TECHNION
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the optical properties of crystals and of excitons in semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cohen, James Samuel [1995]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the application of techniques of theoretical atomic and molecular physics to formation of muonic atoms and molecules, their interactions with normal species, and muon-catalyzed fusion.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cohen, Philipd Ira [1994]

Citation: For contributions to understanding epitaxial growth and in developing reflection high-energy electron diffraction as a quantitative in situ characterization technique.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Cohen, Robert S. [1999]
Boston University
Citation: For his scholarship and leadership in providing critical assessments of the advances made in modern physics and of the structure of the scientific community.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Cohen, Robert Edward [2004]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of the morphology and properties of heterogeneous polymers, in particular, pioneering fundamental work on molecular structure of block copolymers and toughening of crystalline polymers.


Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Cohen, Ronald Elliott [2002]
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the physics of ferroelectrics, and for developments of methods and understanding of high pressure and temperature materials properties.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Cohen, Ronald Herbert [1984]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For numerous contributions to the theoretical understanding of hot plasma confinement in mirror geometry.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cohen, Samuel Alan [1984]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For pioneering research on plasma-wall interactions, impurity transport in tokamaks, and the advancement of surface physics in tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cohen, Thomas David [2001]
University of Maryland
Citation: For significant contributions to nuclear physics, including the use of QCD sum rules to understand the interaction of a nucleon with a nucleus.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cohen, Yachin [1998]
Technion
Citation: For his insightful microstructural studies of polymer-solvent complexes of rigid polymers and their role in phase transformations from solution to the gel and to the solid state.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude [1986]
Lab de Phys ENS
Citation: For his seminal studies of the interactions between electromagnetic fields and atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cohn, Daniel R. [2002]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering the use of plasma processing for environmental, hydrogen production and hydrocarbon fuel efficiency applications. Also, for innovative concepts for high field tokamak fusion reactor design and operation.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Colby, Ralph H. [1998]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For advancing the understanding of the dynamics of macromolecular liquids.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Cole, Brian [2010]
Columbia University
Citation: For outstanding scientific and technical contributions to the study of high transverse momentum phenomena with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, and for leadership of the heavy ion program in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cole, Francis T. [1992]

Citation: For contributions to accelerator theory in areas including nonlinear dynamics and space-charge phenomena; for contributions to the design of accelerators for use in particle physics and in medicine.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Coleman, James J. [2000]
University of Illinois
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the functionality, performance and reliability of semiconductor lasers through innovative epitaxial growth techniques and device designs.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Coleman, Michael M. [1997]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For spectroscopic characterization of miscible polymer blends.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Coleman, Paul Dare [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his important pioneering contribution in the field of far infrared physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Coleman, Piers [2000]
Rutgers University
Citation: For innovative approaches to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Coles, Donald [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Coles, William Arthur [2006]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For his major contributions to our understanding of the effect of plasma turbulence on radio wave propagation, and the use of radio propagation measurements to infer properties of remote turbulent plasmas in interplanetary space and the interstellar medium.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics

Colestock, Patrick L. [1997]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering application of plasma physics theoretical formalisms to explain observed nonlinear beam dynamics in particle accelerators, and using this nonlinearity as a powerful new beam diagnostic tool.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Colgan, James P. [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For advancing our fundamental understanding in the electron-impact ionization, few-photon multiple ionization, and ion-impact ionization of atoms and molecules found in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Colglazier, E. William, Jr. [1996]
National Research Council
Citation: For wise guidance of science and technology studies and insightful development of waste management policies, which demonstrate to the public the positive contributions of physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Collings, Peter John [1999]
Swarthmore College
Citation: For his fundamental work in liquid crystal research particularly the optical properties of chiral liquid crystals and his leadership in the area of undergraduate education.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Collins, George J. [1990]
Colorado State Univ
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the excitation mechanisms in continuous-wave metal-ion lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Collins, Gilbert Wilson [2006]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the field of high-energy-density physics related to the development and application of novel laser-compression capabilities to measuring ultra-high pressure material properties.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Collins, James Joseph [1999]
Boston University
Citation: For the development of novel applications of nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics in biology and medicine.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Collins, John C. [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the foundation of quantum chromodynamics, including the proofs of a series of factorization theorems, and the analysis of high energy scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Collins, Lance R. [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For new physical understandings of the dynamics of aerosol particles, droplets, polymer molecules, and reacting gases in turbulence through novel direct numerical simulations and insightful theories.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Collins, Lee A. [1995]
Los Alamos Laboratory
Citation: For distinguished theoretical research in atomic and molecular physics, notably on novel approaches to electron-molecule scattering, electron-atom scattering in intense fields, and the simulation of dense plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Collins, Reuben T. [2012]
Colorado School of Mines
Citation: For contributions to understanding optical properties of high temperature superconductors, complex semiconductor heterostructures, porous silicon and hybrid organic-inorganic heterostructures
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Colonius, Timothy [2010]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For the development of accurate and robust numerical methods for fluid dynamics and creative numerical experiments that expose the fundamental mechanics and control of instabilities, flow generated sound, and cavitation bubbles
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Colson, William Boniface [2001]
Naval Postgraduate School
Citation: For outstanding theoretical contributions to the fundamental understanding of Free Electron Lasers. These theoretical concepts, first put forward over 20 years ago, are widely applied throughout the world today.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Coltrin, Michael E. [2002]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding of the gas-phase and surface chemical processes in the chemical vapor deposition of semiconductor materials.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cominsky, Lynn [2009]
Sonoma State University
Citation: For her seminal work to promote student and teacher education using NASA missions as inspiration.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Commins, Eugene D. [1985]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For pioneering and innovative experimental studies of time reversal invariance in beta decay and of the influence of weak neutral currents in atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Composto, Russell J. [2002]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For his excellent contributions in the diffusion and surface/interface phenomena in polymer physics through innovative experimental studies.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Comte-Bellot, Genevieve [2010]
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding and measurement of turbulent and aeroacoustic phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Cone, Rufus L. [1998]
Montana State University
Citation: For optical spectroscopy studies of rare earth insulators.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Connolly, John W. D. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Conrad, Janet Marie [2002]
Columbia University
Citation: For her leadership in experimental neutrino physics, particularly for initiating and leading the NuTeV decay channel experiment and the Mini-BooNe neutrino oscillations experiment.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Conradi, Mark S. [2002]
Washington University
Citation: For innovation of sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance methodologies applicable at high pressures in diamond anvil cells.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Continetti, Robert E. [2000]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the study of photodetachment and photodissociation processes in neutral and ionic molecules and clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Conway, John S. [2008]
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: Division of Particles and Fields

Cook, David M. [2012]
Lawrence University
Citation: For the prominent roles he has played in developing and disseminating outstanding computational elements for undergraduate physics courses, in building an exemplary undergraduate physics program, and in executive leadership of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Cooke, John Franklin [1987]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For his insightful formulation of multiple-band effects in itinerant magnetism of real metals, which led to the successful prediction of optical spin waves in Ni and Fe.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cooke, William Ernest [1988]
William & Mary Coll
Citation: For seminal contributions to the experimental and theoretical study of autoionization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Coon, Sudney Alan [1989]
Univ of Arizona
Citation: For contributions to the development of our understanding of few-nucleon systems, and the development of realistic models of the three-nucleon force.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Cooper, Barbara Hope [1995]
Cornell University
Citation: For her innovative studies of fundamental ion-surface interactions in the hyperthermal energy range, including experiments and simulations to develop accurate interaction potentials and comprehensive studies of ion-surface charge transfer dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cooper, Benjamin S. [1991]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his many contributions to national American energy policy, from his position of the staff of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Cooper, John William [1989]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For the development of fundamental concepts in the theory of the atomic photoionization process and their experimental verification.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cooper, Martin D. [1995]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the study of lepton number conservation in the decay of the muon and studies of nuclear structure in pion scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cooper, Peter Semler [2004]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding leadership in experiments studying charm and strange particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cooper, Richard K. [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of cumulative beam-breakup in induction and rf linacs, his role in bringing 3-D electromagnetic solvers to fruition and his early calculations of high gain FELs.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Cooper, Stephen Lance [2003]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For imaginative use of Raman and other optical techniques to study ordering, spin and charge dynamics, and their couplings to lattice dynamics in strongly correlated electronic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Cooper, Stuart L. [1980]
Ohio State Univ - Columbus
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Cooperstein, Gerald [1987]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For developing the conceptual and theoretical basis by which radio frequency waves drive currents in toroidal confinement devices, thereby creating the possibility of steady-state tokamak fusion reactors.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Copel, Matthew Warren [2002]
TJ Watson Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the development of ion beam analytical methods and to the fundamental understanding of the structure, properties and reactions of electronic materials.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Copland, Michael Alan [1994]

Citation: For careful and cleverly-designed experiments contributing to the understanding of the electronic structure of molecules, the dynamics of electron- and ion-molecule scattering, and solar wind and comet-tail composition.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Coppersmith, Susan N. [1992]
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For her theories of charge-density waves and self-organized criticality.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Corcoran, Marjorie D. [1992]
Rice Univ
Citation: For contributions to experiments studying spin asymmetries in hadronic collision.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Corcos, Gilles Marc [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his theoretical, numerical and experimental contributions to the study of the stability of and turbulence in sheared and stratified flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Corden, Pierce S. [1995]
US Arms Control & Disarmament Agcy
Citation: For steering the American course towards the goal of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty from the earliest negotiations to the threshold of completion of the accord.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Coriell, Sam R. [2000]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of the interaction between hydrodynamics and morphological instabilities during solidification.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Corke, Thomas C. [2006]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For beautiful experiments elucidating the structure of turbulent boundary layers, the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in boundary layers and in unconfined systems, and the control of turbulence.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Corkum, Paul [2007]
National Research Council
Citation: For developing the ideas and concepts that led to the field of attosecond science, to the understanding of high harmonic emission and recollision physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cormier, Thomas M. [1995]
Wayne State University
Citation: For pioneering research that provided the first direct experimental evidence for 12C-12C nuclear molecular resonances and for the development of the first practical recoil mass spectrometer for use in nuclear studies.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cornacchia, Max [1996]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For broad contributions to the development of several accelerators, particularly in the design and development of synchrotron light sources from the first generation through current studies on concepts for future sources.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Cornell, Eric Allin [1997]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For pioneering research that led to the first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas, an observation that has opened a new area of investigation in physics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Cornwall, John M. [2005]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For pioneering work in understanding non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Coroniti, Ferdinand V. [1989]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For his theoretical and experimental research on radiation belt physics, magnetospheric substorms, collisionless shocks, accretion disks, and, especially, slow shocks and magnetic-field line reconnection.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Correll Jr., Donald L. [1993]

Citation: For being actively involved in science education with public audiences, pre-college, and college students and teachers, as well as an effective and committed spokesman for science education.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Cosby, Phillip C. [1989]

Citation: For his seminal contributions to photofragment spectroscopy on positive and negative ions using drift tube and fast-beam techniques as well as development of fast-beam half collision techniques for neutrals.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Costley, Alan [2008]
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Cotanch, Stephen Robert [1998]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For sustained contributions to hadronic and electromagnetic studies of strangeness and theoretical advancements in nuclear and photonuclear reactions and hadron structure.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Cote, Robin [2007]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For contributions to the study of ultracold systems, and the effect of long-range interactions in ultracold Rydberg gases, atom-ion mixtures, and the formation of ultracold molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cottle, Paul [2012]
Florida State University
Citation: For the impact of his efforts to improve university physics education, especially for precollege teachers, and his advocacy for effective precollege science education standards and policy in Florida and nationally
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Cotts, Patricia Metzger [1995]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For her contributions to the understanding of the role of chemical architecture on polymer flexibility using static and dynamic light scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Couchman, Peter Robert [1984]
Rutgers University
Citation: For significant contributions to the field of Polymer Physics and in particular, for the development of a general thermodynamic theory for the compositional variation of glass transition temperatures.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Coufal, Hans Juergen [2004]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For contributions to detection techniques for photothermal and photoacoustic phenomena, and to optical data storage.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cousins, Robert D. [1992]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For leading contributions to measurements of rare kaon searches for lepton-flavor nonconservation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Covello, Aldo [2008]
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: Forum on International Physics

Coverdale, Christine [2008]
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Cowan Clark, Bunny Kay [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For contributions to relativistic treatment of nucleon scattering from nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Cowie, Lennox L. [1988]
Lennox Lauchlan
Citation: For incisive theoretical studies of the interstellar medium and intergalactic medium.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Cowley, Steven Charles [1998]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For the discovery of explosive energy release mechanisms in MHD and numerous important contributions to the theory of fusion and astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Cowperthwaite, Michael [2003]
Unavailable
Citation: For seminal contributions to shock wave propagation in reactive materials, detonation science, analysis of unsteady waves, and thermochemical equilibrium calculations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Cox, Daniel [2011]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For identifying energetic and symmetry principles for observation of non-Fermi liquid and Kondo impurity physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Coyne, Donald Gerald [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the development of apparatus and analysis for experiments using electron/position colliding beam machines.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Crabb, Donald G. [2009]
University of Virginia
Citation: For his contributions to the use of high field polarized targets and development of high polarization and radiation resistant polarized target materials and his role in using them in seminal particle physics experiments and advancing the knowledge of the behavior in high intensity beams.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Crabtree, George William [1984]
Argonne National Labs
Citation: For important contribution to the study of Fermi surfaces of normal and superconducting metals, particularly transition metals and mixed volume materials, through the use of the deHaas-van Alphen effect.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Craddock, Michael Kevin [1990]
Univ of British Columbia
Citation: For contributions to the design of cyclotrons and synchrotrons capable of accelerating very-high-intensity beams for pion and kaon factories.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Craighead, Harold G [2004]
Cornell University
Citation: For his significant advances in experimental studies of the physical properties and utilization of nanoscale materials and structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crannell, Carol Jo [1992]
NASA/GSFC
Citation: For contributions to physics, especially her extraordinary societal endeavors to ensure that others may enjoy opportunities to participate in exciting science such as her research in solar physics and astrophysics.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Crawford, Roy Kent [1999]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of neutron scattering instruments and of data acquisition systems for pulsed neutron sources.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Craxton, R. Stephen [2000]
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Citation: For numerous original contributions to laser-driven inertial confinement fusion including two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, uniformity modeling in tetrahedral hohlraums, and the ubiquitously used third harmonic conversion of ICF glass laser systems.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Crease, Robert [2007]
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Citation: For his extensive historical writings on physics, including "The Second Creation", "Making Science: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory" and his completion of Robert Serber's memoirs and Abraham Pais' biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Crespi, Vincent [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For creative ideas and innovative computations enhancing our understanding of nanoscale matter and predicting new structures and materials with properties possessing technological and/or fundamental scientific value.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Crim, Forrest Fleming, Jr. [1989]
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For contributions to chemical reaction dynamics. In particular, for work on collisional energy transfer, unimolecular reaction dynamics, and photodissociation of highly vibrationally excited molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Criminale, William O. [1996]
University of Washington
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of the stability of laminar shear flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Crist, Buckley [1990]
Northwestern Univ
Citation: For pioneering work on difficult problems dealing with relationships between molecular architecture, morphology, and mechanical or optical behavior of polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Croft, Mark [2007]
Rutgers University
Citation: For seminal contributions to correlated electron physics and electronic structure of rare earth and transitional metal compounds; novel applications of synchrotron radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crommie, Michael [2007]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For application of scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic and molecular manipulation, and scanning tunneling spectroscopy to the electronic and magnetic properties of surface-based nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crompton, Robert Woodhouse [1995]
Australian National University
Citation: For his extended and penetrating analysis and use of the swarm method for studying the behavior of slow electrons in gases, and his tireless work for improving physics in Australia.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Crooker, Scott [2010]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of magneto-optical spectroscopies and their applications to colloidal quantum dots and electron spin transport and noise in semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crosley, David Risdon [1986]
SRI International
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of the role of free radicals in discharges and chemical reactions by the detailed study of their kinetics and spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cross, Michael C. [1995]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the theory of superfluid 3He, magnetic order in solid 3He, pattern formation near non-equilibrium instability and quantitative understanding of spatiotemporal chaos.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crothers, Derrick Samuel F. [1994]

Citation: For his distinguished research on atomic collision theory including the development of continuum distorted wave methods and the quantum theory of Wannier threshold ionization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Crouch, Jeffrey D. [2009]
The Boeing Company
Citation: For contributions to the theory, modeling and control of flow instabilities, including the discovery of new trailing-vortex instabilities and the advancement of practical methods for boundary-layer transition prediction and laminar flow control.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Crow, Jack Emerson [1992]

Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of Condensed Matter Physics in high magnetic fields, including superconductivity, heavy fermions, and magnetic order.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Crowe, Albert [2005]
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Citation: For his carefully designed, state of the art measurements of electron scattering from atoms and molecules, which have provided very stringent tests for theoretical collision models.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Crowe, Kenneth Morse [1984]
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Citation: For important contributions to the experimental investigation of energetic collisions between nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Crowell, Paul [2008]
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: Topical Group on Magnetism

Csanak, George [1995]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For development of many-body Green's function techniques of bound-state and scattering properties of atomic and molecular systems; significant contributions to the theoretical foundation and physical interpretation of electron-photon coincidence experiments, and for contributions to the understanding of electron scattering by laser excited targets.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cubaynes, Denis [2002]
Paris-Sud University. LURE Laboratory
Citation: For his achievements in the field of atomic photoionization of laser-excited atoms and for having brought new insights into the creation and the properties of hollow atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Cumalat, John Perry [1992]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For contributions to particle physics, particle astrophysics, and for his co-invention of the heterotic string theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cummings, Peter T. [2005]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For contributions to the molecular-level understanding of industrially relevant fluids and processes and for sustained leadership in applied molecular modeling and computational nanoscience.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cundiff, Steven Thomas [2005]
NIST/JILA
Citation: For pioneering work in carrier-envelope phase stabilization of modelocked lasers and its applications to optical frequency metrology and ultrafast technology.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Cuneo, Michael [2007]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For systematic wire-array plasma physics experiments and optimization of x-ray sources for indirect drive inertial confinement fusion driven by z-pinches.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Curran, Donald Robert [1994]

Citation: In recognition of his substantial contributions to the field of shock-wave physics. In particular for his outstanding leadership in the shock-wave community and for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of dynamic failure in solids.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Curro, Nicholas [2011]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For application of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to heavy fermion and superconducting materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Curtis, Lorenzo Jan [1985]
University of Toledo
Citation: For significant contributions to the field of atomic spectroscopy through a synthesis of precision experimental measurements, innovative computational analysis, and imaginable phenomenological modeling.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Curtright, Thomas Lynn [1998]
University of Miami
Citation: For applications of relativistic quantum field theories to supersymmetry and to the theory of strings and membranes.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cushing, James T. [1998]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his deep analyses of the interpretation of quantum mechanics in an historical and philosophical context.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Cushman, Priscilla [2012]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the design and execution of experiments probing beyond the Standard Model especially the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the precise measurement of the muon magnetic moment, and the development of photodetection and low radioactivity instrumentation to advance the capabilities of high energy physics experiments
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cutkosky, Robert Dale [1989]

Citation: For the development of instruments and prodecures for measuring basic physical quantities with very high precision.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Cutler, Curt [2011]
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to gravitational-wave science, including the astrophysics of anticipated sources and the scientific potential of current and planned gravitational-wave detectors.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Cutler, Leonard S. [1996]
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Citation: For fundamental applications of physics in the development of precision, commercial atomic frequency standards and clocks, and the two-frequency laser interferometer, an essential tool in modern integrated-circuit manufacturing.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Cutts, David [1988]
Brown Univ
Citation: For significant contributions to experimental particle physics, particularly through neutrino-electron elastic scattering measurements, and through the application of innovative data acquisition schemes.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cvetic, Mirjam [2001]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For her work in a wide range of topics in supergravity and string theory, from non-perturbative gravitational effects such as black holes and domain walls to their phenomenological consequences.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Cvitanovic, Predrag [2005]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For fundamental contributions to renormalization theory, periodic orbit theory, and applications of nonlinear concepts to classical and quantum chaotic systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Czujko, Roman [2004]
American Institute of Physics
Citation: For his exemplary service to the physics community through his leadership of the American Institute of Physics' Statistics Research Center, which has accumulated, analyzed, and disseminated high quality, relevant data about the physics profession.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

D'Hoker, Eric [2005]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For contributions to Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, including string perturbation theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and AdS-CFT correspondence.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Da Silva, Luiz Barroca [1998]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering use of x-ray lasers and laser generated shock waves to study high density plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dabrowski, Bogdan [2007]
Northern Illinois University
Citation: For developing the design rules of synthesis and determination of the structure - properties relationships for a vast range of novel superconducting, magnetic, and magneto-resistive perovskites.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Dabrowski, Janusz [1993]
Soltan Inst for Nucl Studies
Citation: For major contributions towards elucidating the nuclear many-body problem and symmetry energy in nuclear matter; for studies of optical potentials in heavy-ion scattering and development of the theory of hypemuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Dagdigian, Paul J. [1986]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his contribution to an experimental understanding of the dynamics of rotationally inelastic collisions and of the origin of spin-orbit effects in chemical reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dagotto, Elbio [1998]
Florida State University
Citation: For the development and use of computational methods to study strongly correlated electron materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dahl, Jens [2008]
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: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dahl, Per Fridtjof [1993]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his pioneering research in the history of superconductivity and other areas of the history of physics, and his contributions to the design and development of superconducting accelerator magnets.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Dahlberg, Earl Dan [1996]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For contributions to the development of magnetic force microscopy and its application to the dynamics of magnetic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dahlburg, Jill P. [2001]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For making pioneering advances in computational plasma physics, development of a full 3-D radiative transport hydrodynamic code, and the understanding of inertial confinement physics, especially Rayleigh-Taylor instability and ablation physics.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dahler, John S. [1987]

Citation: For his many contributions to the kinetic theory of polyatomic and reactive fluids and the quantum theory of atomic excitation.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dahm, Arnold J. [1985]
Case Western Reserve University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the Josephson effect, quantum fluids and solids, and of the nature of the melting transition and other properties of the two-dimensional electron lattice.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dahm, Werner J.A. [1998]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his many insightful studies of small-scale turbulence, and for the development of novel experimental techniques, including "scalar image velocimetry".
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dai, Hai-Lung [1992]
Temple Univ
Citation: For developing novel laser spectroscopic techniques and the observation of novel properties of exotic chemical species such as transient, weakly bound, and reactive molecules and gases and molecules absorbed on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dai, Pengcheng [2008]
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: Topical Group on Magnetism

Dalal, Nar S. [2000]
Florida State University
Citation: For his development of electron and nuclear multiple resonance methods with much enhanced time scales and spectral resolution, and especially for their application to measure molecular dynamics and to elucidate mechanisms of ferroelectric phase transitions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dalal, Vikram [2010]
Iowa State University
Citation: For pioneering applied research in physics of thin film photovoltaic materials and devices and for invention of industrially important photovoltaic devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Dalgarno, Alexander [1980]
Harvard-Smithsonian CFA
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dalnoki-Veress, Kari [2011]
McMaster University
Citation: For the development and use of innovative experimental approaches and deeply intuitive physical insight to probe the physical properties of polymers in nanoscale systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Dandekar, Dattatraya Purushottam [2001]
Army Research Laboratory
Citation: For innovative design of novel experimental techniques and multi-beam real-time velocity interferometric diagnostics to probe shocked-reshocked and heterogenous materials.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Dang, Liem [2010]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For the development and application of molecular dynamics simulation methods and reliable polarizable potential models for studying processes in solution and at liquid interfaces and for modeling transport of ions and organic molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Danielewicz, Pawel [2008]
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: Division of Nuclear Physics

Danzmann, Karsten V. [2009]
Institut fur Gravitationsphysik
Citation: For his innovation and leadership in gravitational wave detection across its full spectrum and for promoting collaboration across national boundaries.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Dapkus, P. Daniel [2003]
University of Southern California
Citation: For important contributions to the development of metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and its application to quantum well laser devices.


Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Das, Ashok Kumar [2002]
University of Rochester
Citation: For contributions in the areas of supergravity, integrable models and finite temperature field theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Das, Bhanu [2012]
Indian Institute of Science
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the theory of parity and time-reversal violations in atoms in the context of probing the Standard Model of particle physics, and for his leadership in promoting international collaborations in frontier areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Das, Mukunda Prasad [2003]
The Australian National University
Citation: For notable theoretical investigations in condensed matter physics, namely: mesoscopic transport and noise, high temperature superconductivity and density functional theory; and for significant leadership in promoting international meetings and collaborations.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Das Sarma, Dipankar [2007]
Center for Advanced Materials
Citation: Prof. D. D. Sarma is an internationally known leader of Physics in India with outstanding papers in leading journals on electronic and magnetic properties of strongly correlated materials based on in-depth experimental and theoretical investigations.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Dasgupta, Arati [2010]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the theory of electron collisions with atoms and ions, and their applications to gaseous electronics, short laser pulses, inertial confinement fusion, and astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dashen, Roger F. [1994]

Citation: In recognition of his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the theory of strong interactions, and for his seminal work in the development of modern quantum field theories.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dasu, Sridhara [2012]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For leadership in understanding the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking in proton-proton collisions, contributions to studies of flavor-changing neutral current electro-weak decays of the B-meson, and innovation in triggering, data acquisition and computing in particle physics experiments
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Datta, Supriyo [1996]
Purdue University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum transport and the interplay between quantum interference and dissipation in mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Daughton, William [2010]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal theoretical and computational contributions to understanding of magnetic reconnection physics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Davenport, James Whitman [1995]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of new techniques for computing the electronic structure of molecules and solids and for applying them to adsorbed molecules, metallic alloys, and liquid metals.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Davidovits, Paul [1996]
Boston College
Citation: For his basic studies of alkali and boron atom gas phase kinetics and for his pioneering contributions to the study of heterogeneous gas-liquid interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Davids, Cary N. [1995]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to nuclear astrophysics and in particular for the experimental determinations of important reaction rates associated with nuclear processes that power the stars.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Davidsen, Arthur F. [1996]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For fundamental advances in the ultraviolet astronomy of faint extragalactic objects, and especially for the impact of these observations on our understanding of the hot intergalactic medium.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Davies, Kenneth T.R. [1980]
Duquesne Univ
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Davies, N. Anne [2003]
U.S. Department of Energy
Citation: For her successful efforts guiding the fusion research community through a difficult transition from a program of energy technology development to a healthy program focused on the critical scientific and technology foundations of fusion energy research.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Davies, Paul Brett [2002]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For innovative high resolution infrared laser spectroscopy of free radicals, ions and other transient molecules and for infrared-visible sum frequency spectroscopy of surfactants at interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Davis, G. Thomas [1987]

Citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of structure and properties of semicrystalline polymers, peizo and pyroelectricity in polymers, and ionic conduction in novel polymeric systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Davis, Jack [1986]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For contributions to the radiative theory of dense plasmas including modifications of atomic properties and self-consistent treatments of plasma dynamics and radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Davis, James C [2005]
Cornell University
Citation: For pioneering spectroscopic imaging STM studies of electronic structure in the cuprate high-Tc superconductors and for the discovery of novel quantum coherence effects in superfluids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Davis, Jay Clarence [1993]
The Hertz Foundation
Citation: For his substantial contributions to fields varying from nuclear physics, fusion, material science, arms control, and biomedical dosimetry through creative and original design of accelerators and research facilities.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Davis, Lloyd Craig [1983]

Citation: For his contributions to understanding the electronic properties of solids, in particular for his detailed studies of photoemission and photoabsorption in transition metals and their compounds.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Davis, Marc [1985]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For his significant contribution to the observational study of galaxy clustering and the implications for the nature of dark matter in the universe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Davis, Richard Stephen [1992]
BIPM
Citation: For significant contributions to improved accuracy mass measurements, and for helping achieve accurate values of physical constants, the determination of which depends, in part, on mass measurements.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Davis, Sumner P. [1988]

Citation: For extensive contributions to optical spectroscopy including early precision measurements on artificially produced radioactive isotopes and measurements of useful transition rates in diatomic molecular species of astrophysical interest.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Daw, Murray S. [2000]
Motorola
Citation: For his original contributions to the atomic scale modeling of the properties of solids, surface, interfaces and defects.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Dawson, Sally [1995]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding work in particle phenomenology, including the effective W approximation and Higgs physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Day, Donal [2012]
University of Virginia
Citation: For his studies of high momentum transfer quasielastic electron scattering, scaling relations and the short-range structure of nuclei and for his contributions to the use of polarized targets in the study of nucleon form factors and spin structure functions
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Day, Michael [2010]
Lebanon Valley College
Citation: For his thoughtful research, publications, and public presentations on the views of Oppenheimer, Rabi, and Condon concerning science and society.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

de, Cornelius William, Jager [2001]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to experimental medium-energy nuclear physics, in particular for his lead role in the development of and measurements with an internal target facility using polarized electrons.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

de Gironcoli, Stefano [2011]
SISSA
Citation: For his seminal and far reaching contributions to density-functional perturbation theory, and for his outstanding services to the electronic-structure community, including the creation and distribution of top-class simulation software and the dissemination of knowledge throughout the developed and developing world.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

De Gouvea, Andre Luiz [2012]
Northwestern University
Citation: For exceptional service to the field of neutrino physics through innovative studies of possible neutrino properties and their experimental implications
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

de Heer, Walter Alexander [2003]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to our understanding of the electronic properties of free metal clusters and for the studies of the field emission and transport properties of nanotubes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

de la Cruz, Francisco [1995]
Centro Atomico Bariloche
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of the vortex state in the High Tc superconductors and no less importantly for his impact on our community as an exceptional teacher of young scientists.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

De Long, Lance Eric [2006]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of magnetic properties and interactions in superconducting and strongly correlated metallic crystals and films.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

de Melo, Carlos A.R. Sa [2012]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the field of ultra-cold atoms, and for his seminal investigations of ultra-cold fermions during the evolution from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer to Bose-Einstein condensate superfluidity
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

de Pablo, Juan J [2004]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For the development and application of innovative simulation tools to problems in polymer physics.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

de Ruyter van Steven, Robert Raimond [2000]
NEC Research Institute
Citation: For contributions to understanding the physical principles of neural computation and coding through his elegant quantitative measurement and analysis of signals, noise, and information flow in the fly visual system.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

de Sa Fonseca, Antonio Carlos [1992]
No Company Provided
Citation: For significant theoretical contributions to our understanding of few-body systems in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

de Santoro, Alberto Franco [1993]
Univ of Rio de Janeiro
Citation: For prolific and exemplary contributions to experimental particle physics and leadership in the development of physics and Brazil and throughout the Americas.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Dean, David Jarvis [2004]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his important contributions to understanding of quantum many-body systems and for applications of computational quantum mechanics to the structure of atomic nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Deans, Stanley Roderick [2000]
University of South Florida
Citation: For helping reveal the beauty and power of the Radon transform.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Debevec, Paul Timothy [2002]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For novel development of instrumentation and deep intellectual contributions to a broad range of photonuclear experiments, hadron spectroscopy, and precision muon physics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Decker, Daniel L. [1980]
Brigham Young Univ - Provo
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Decker, Glenn [2012]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the design, commissioning, and enhancement of synchrotron light sources, and for innovative developments in field of particle beam diagnostics. In particular for the development and the largest deployment in the world of photoemission-type photon beam position monitors in the global closed-loop orbit feedback system
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Deckman, Harry William [1995]
Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Citation: For developing an innovative, new approach to microlithography using self-organized mask structure, and for using this approach in developing the hardware for x-ray micromography and in other novel applications.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Decyk, Viktor Konstantyn [1993]

Citation: For his pioneering work in the area of plasma simulations including applications of parallel computers to plasma modeling and the use of computers in the teaching of plasma physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Deem, Michael W. [2006]
Rice University
Citation: For his elegant and pioneering work on the connection between spin glass physics and complex phenomena in biology ranging from the immune system response to the dynamics of evolution.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Deen, M. Jamal [2008]
McMaster University
Citation: For significant contributions to noise and physics-based modeling of semiconductor devices and innovations in experiments.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Deeney, Christopher [1999]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For a series of contributions that coupled theory and experiments to increase the understanding of z-pinch physics, resulting in increased x-ray energy and power.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Degnan, James H. [2004]
AFRL/DEHP
Citation: For achievement in advancing the state of the art in high energy density plasma formation, compression, acceleration, and diagnostics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

DeGrand, Thomas Alan [2001]
University of Colorado
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of the strong interactions- particularly for the development of innovative techniques in the numerical study of quantum chromodynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Dehmer, Joseph L. [1980]
National Science Foundation
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dehmer, Patricia Moore [1984]
U.S Dept of History
Citation: For semianl contributions to the experimental study of photoionization and photodissociation.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dekker, Cees [2006]
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Citation: For seminal experimental discoveries of the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and other contributions to nanoscience.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Delayen, Jean Roger [2003]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For numerous contributions to the physics and technology of superconducting rf linear accelerators.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Deleplanque, Marie-Agnes D. [1998]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For her groundbreaking work in the studies of nuclear structure at the highest angular momenta and important contributions to the developments of gamma-ray detector arrays.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Delfyett, Peter [2011]
University of Central Florida
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the physics and implementation of ultrafast diode lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Della Torre, Edward [1998]
George Washington University
Citation: For his contribution to the understanding of magnetizing processes through numerical micromagnetic and Preisach modeling.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Delley, Bernard T. [2006]
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to density functional methodology and helping to establish density functional theory as a major tool for academic and industrial chemistry.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Delos, John B. [1988]
William & Mary Coll
Citation: For his many contributions to the field to atomic and molecular collisions and for providing insight into the relationships between the classical and quantal behavior of atomic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Demarteau, Marcellinus [2012]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of the electroweak interactions, his role in developing new capabilities for silicon based tracking detectors, and his leadership in expanding R&D for new detector technologies
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

DeMille, David P. [2005]
Yale University
Citation: For his pioneering experimental searches for violations of discrete symmetries in atoms and molecules and for his development of trapped polar molecules as potential systems for quantum computing.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Demina, Regina [2011]
University of Rochester
Citation: For significant contributions to hadron collider physics, especially measurements of the mass and properties of the top quark, and for leading the construction of silicon trackers for the CMS detector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Demkov, Alexander A. [2006]
University of Texas - Austin
Citation: For contributions to the development of the materials theory of oxides and their interfaces, as applied to CMOS technology development.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Demler, Eugene [2012]
Harvard University
Citation: For pioneering theoretical contributions to many-body physics with ultracold atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Den Hartog, Daniel J. [2012]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For novel advances in and applications of optical and spectroscopic plasma diagnostic techniques in different magnetic configurations, and for critical experimental contributions in understanding magnetic self-organization in the reversed field pinch
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

den Nijs, Marcellinus P.M. [2001]
University of Washington
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of surface critical phenomena, the prediction of new surface phases, and the elucidation of their transitions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Denisov, Dmitri [2010]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his numerous and distinguished contributions to hadronic collider physics, especially in the upgrading,  physics leadership and Co-Spokesmanship of the D0 experiment at the Tevatron Collider.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Denn, Morton Mace [2003]
The City College of the University of New York
Citation: For outstanding contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer rheology, especially his pioneering studies on the stability of viscoelastic flow and the causes and effects of wall slip.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dennis, Brian Roy [1987]
NASA/GSFC
Citation: For outstanding contributions to improving our understanding of physical processes in solar flares, both in developing hard X-ray instrumentation for space experiments and in interpretation of solar flare observations.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

DePaola, Brett David [2002]
Kansas State University
Citation: For developing and applying technologically advanced experimental methods for studying basic atomic collision processes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Depristo, Andrew Elliot [1990]
No Company Provided
Citation: For outstanding contributions in elucidating the quantum-state dependence of energy transfer in molecular collisions and developing the corrected effective-medium method for studying chemical bonding in metallic clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Derbenev, Yaroslav S. [1992]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For creative and important contributions to accelerator physics, especially in the acceleration of spin-polarized beams to high energy using Siberian snakes.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Derevianko, Andrei [2008]
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: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dermer, Charles Dennison [1999]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For original contributions to gamma-ray astronomy and the theory of astrophysical radiation processes, and for the development of models of radiation from gamma-ray bursts, blazars, black holes, neutron stars, and the Sun.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Desai, Rashmi C. [2001]
University of Toronto
Citation: For applications of statistical mechanics to materials science, including: phase separation and ordering kinetics in systems with competing interactions, Langmuir films, ferromagnetic films, epitaxially grown solid films, order-order transitions in polymers.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

DeSanto, John Anthony [2005]
Colorado School of Mines
Citation: For significant contributions that have imparted rigor to the theory of classical wave scattering from periodically and randomly rough surfaces.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Desclaux, Jean-Paul [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: In recognition of his pioneering work on relativistic effects in atoms, molecules, and solids.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Deshpande, Nilendra Ganesh [1987]
Univ of Oregon
Citation: For numerous contributions to electro-weak phenomenology, especially CP violation, one loop flavor changing processes and properties and mass limits of new gauge bosons from grandunification.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Desjarlais, Michael Paul [2005]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering work on the application of quantum molecular dynamics simulations to the generation of accurate wide-range electrical conductivity models for warm dense plasmas and liquids.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Destler, William Wallace [1988]

Citation: For contributions in relativistic electron beam physics notably those leading to efficient, high-power, coherent microwave generation from rotating E layers, and collective acceleration of heavy ions.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Detar, Carleton Edward [1998]
University of Utah
Citation: For wide ranging contributions to hadronic and computational physics from the MIT bag model, to lattice studies of the spectrum, and especially for study of the quark-gluon plasma.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Deutch, John M. [1980]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Deutsch, Claude [1996]
Universite Paris XI
Citation: For seminal contributions to plasma spectroscopy, to strongly coupled plasmas and to ion-plasma interactions, and for leadership in Europe in promoting the experimental verification of enhanced ion stopping in dense plasmas.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Deutsch, Ivan H. [2005]
University of New Mexico
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of optical lattices and quantum logic using neutral atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Deutsch, Jules P. G. [1991]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to the study of the weak interaction in nuclear systems.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Deveaud, Benoit [2012]
Ecole Polytech Federal
Citation: For demonstration of Bose Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons in microcavities and developments in semiconductor ultrafast optics
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Devereaux, Thomas [2008]
Stanford University
Citation: For significant contributions to the theories of inelastic light scattering and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopies in strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Devlin, Mark [2011]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For the advancement of observations and instrumentation in millimeter-wave astronomy.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

DeVolpi, Alexander [1991]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For innovation, research, and leadership in applying physics for arms control verification, and for contributions to public and government enlightenment on societal consequences of modern technology.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

DeVore, Carl Richard [2000]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For his development of a new class of numerical algorithms for magnetohydrodynamic simulations, their wide dissemination in software, and their applications to physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Devreese, Jozef Theofiel [1990]
Univ of Antwerp
Citation: For contributions to the theory of polarons subjected to external magnetic and electric fields, and for service to the international condensed-matter community.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dewar, Robert L. [1980]
Australian Natl Univ
Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dewey, Clarence Forbes, Jr. [2004]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For experimental and theoretical studies of high-speed and separated flows, innovations in flow measurement techniques and technology, and the understanding of the biological response of living cells to fluid-mechanical forces.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dewey, Thomas Gregory [1998]
University of Denver
Citation: For applications of fractals and complexity theory to biological systems with emphasis on sequence: structure relationships in proteins.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

DeWire, John W. [1988]

Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the design and contruction of electron synchrotrons and storage rings and their use in the study of ep and e+e- interactions at high energies.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

DeYoung, David Spencer [2003]
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Citation: For numerous and important contributions to the theory of extragalactic radio sources, in particular to the understanding of the evolution of astrophysical jets and their interactions with their environment.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Deyoung, Paul [2012]
Hope College
Citation: For his strong and sustained leadership of facilitating research opportunities to enhance undergraduate education
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Dhinojwala, Ali [2010]
University of Akron
Citation: Development of surface sensitive techniques to study polymeric surfaces and interfaces to understand properties such as adhesion, friction, and wetting.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Di Ventra, Massimiliano [2012]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the theory of electronic transport in nanoscale conductors
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Diamond, Patrick H. [1986]
Univ of California - San Diego
Citation: For important contributions to nonlinear plasma theory, plasma turbulence and understanding of anomalous transport in toroidal, magnetically confined plasma.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dickinson, J. Thomas [2002]
Washington State University
Citation: For his pioneering and innovative work in basic bond breaking mechanisms, and the forces on particles at solid surfaces during mechanical or radiative stimulation.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Dicus, Duane Alfred [1987]
Univ of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to the theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions and applications to stellar, galactic, and cosmological astrophysics, including both calculation of complexity and discussions with insight.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Diddams, Scott [2008]
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: Division of Laser Science

Diebold, Gerald [2010]
Brown University
Citation: For the development of a body of elegant and sophisticated theories addressing fundamental mechanisms of the laser photacoustic effect from spheres, cylinders, and layers of fluids and solids; the discovery of an anomalous giant photoacoustic effect; the worldwide impact of his experimental applications of his theories to suspensions, colloids, dye solutions, sedimentation and biomedical imaging.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Diebold, Ulrike [2004]
Tulane University
Citation: For groundbreaking research on the role of defects in the interplay between bulk and surface properties of transition-metal oxides and on STM imaging of their surface structure.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Diehl, Hans W. [2009]
Universitaet Duisburg-Essen
Citation: For his seminal and sustained contributions to the understanding of universal critical behavior associated with surfaces and boundaries.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Diehl, Renee [1999]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For structural studies of weakly-adsorbed species on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dienes, Keith [2010]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his seminal contributions to our understanding of
grand unification, and for his work studying the diverse phenomenological implications of string theory and extra spacetime dimensions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dill, Ken A. [1991]
Univ of California-San Fran
Citation: For innovative and imaginative use of statistical theory and computer simulation to elucidate the ways in which long chain-molecules fold into specific structures such as globular proteins.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Dilling, Jens [2012]
TRIUMF
Citation: For contributions to precision nuclear physics measurements using laser spectroscopy and mass measurements, in particular for the advancement of our understanding of Halo-nuclei, and the development of Penning trap mass spectrometry for highly charged rare isotopes.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

DiMaria, Donelli Joseph [1988]

Citation: For contributions to our microscopic understanding of the physics of insulators.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

DiMauro, Louis Franklin [1996]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For developing and utilizing high repetition rate, short pulse lasers for pioneering studies which have greatly advanced the fundamental understanding of multiphoton processes in atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dimits, Andris M. [2012]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For important insights and contributions to the theory and simulation of kinetic turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas, including the effects of self-consistent turbulence-induced velocity shear and Coulomb collisions
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dimock, Dirck L. [1980]

Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dimock, Robert L. [1980]

Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dimonte, Guy [1998]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to understanding turbulence and mixing in high energy density fluids by novel experimental techniques and facilities.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dimotakis, Paul [1980]
Cal Inst of Tech (Caltech)
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dine, Michael [1994]

Citation: For his elucidation of dynamical mechanisms central to the construction of unified theories of the fundamental interactions, including seminal works on the origin of supersymmetry breaking and on baryongenesis.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ding, Hong [2010]
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of strongly correlated materials, particularly the high-temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ding, Weixing [2010]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For seminal contributions to the measurement and understanding of magnetic fluctuation-induced transport, magnetic self-organization, and non-linear dynamics of laboratory plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dingus, Brenda Lynn [2006]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For her pioneering work on understanding the highest energy gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Dionne, Gerald Francis [2003]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of magnetic and electronic interactions in solids and for the design of novel magnetic materials and devices.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Ditmire, Todd [2005]
University of Texas,  Austin
Citation: For pioneering experiments in High Energy Density physics using ultrashort intense lasers, including production of fusion neutrons from laser-irradiated clusters and states of warm dense matter relevant to astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Ditto, William [2003]
University of Florida
Citation: For achievements in experimental nonlinear dynamics, especially as applied to biological systems such as the heart and the brain.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

DiVincenzo, David P. [1999]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For contributions to the theory of quasicrystals, and to the theory of quantum information.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Diwan, Milind [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to neutrino and kaon physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dixon, David A. [2001]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For the development and use of high level computational chemistry techniques to solve complex industrial and environmental problems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dixon, Lance Jenkins [1995]
Stanford University
Citation: For his elucidation of the general principles which connect the theory of superstrings to concrete models of elementary particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dixon, Roger [2007]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For critical leadership of the Tevatron Run II Luminosity Upgrade Program, and outstanding leadership in the construction and initial operation of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dlott, Dana D. [1996]
University of Illinois
Citation: For the development of ultrafast temperature jump techniques used to study molecular dynamics and molecular energy transfer in condensed matter under extreme conditions.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dobaczewski, Jacek [1998]
Warsaw University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to our understanding of the nuclear many-body problem, especially the development of mean-field techniques and boson expansion methods.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir [2010]
Florida State University
Citation: For research on fundamental localization processes near the metal-insulator transition, particularly the interplay of strong electronic correlations, disorder, and quantum glassy dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dobrowolska, Malgorzata [2004]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For her seminal contributions to the understanding of the role of electron spin in optical transitions in semiconductor compounds and alloys, including magnetic semiconductors and their nanostructures.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dobrynin, Andrey V. [2006]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of charged polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Dodelson, Scott [2003]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his fundamental contributions in cosmology, including the theory and analysis of physics models of the early Universe.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Doe, Peter John [2002]
University of Washington
Citation: For experimental neutrino physics including the demonstration of destructive interference in the charged- and neutral-current scattering of electron neutrinos, and the observation of solar neutrinos in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Doering, Charles R. [2001]
University of Michigan
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the analysis of noisy and nonlinear dynamical systems, including co-discovery of resonant activation, current reversals in stochastic ratchets, and rigorous dissipation rate bounds for incompressible turbulence.


Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Doering, John Price [1989]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For advancing our understanding of how to use electronic collisions to study excited states of atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Doering, Robert R. [2009]
Texas Instruments Inc.
Citation: For outstanding leadership in integrated-circuit device scaling and many other important areas of semiconductor industry research and development, including pre-competitive collaborations between industry, government, and academic physics and engineering.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Dogariu, Aristide [2007]
University of Central Florida
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the extraction of information on the random medium and for the development of the innovative technique of variable coherence tomography.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Dokholyan, Nikolay [2012]
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Citation: For using multiscale modeling techniques to advance our understanding of physical interactions within and between biological molecules that yield insights into their complex organization, behavior, and evolution. He has served the community by making his these tools publicly accessible
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Dolan, Gerald J. [1987]

Citation: For development of new techniques for fabricating microstructures and for contributions to our understanding of the physics of these microstructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dolan, Louise Ann [1987]
Univ of NC - Chapel Hill
Citation: For fundamental contributions to field theory at finite temperature, quantization of the non-linear Schrodinger equation, the 1/N expansion and for pioneering the use of Kac-Moody algebras in particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dolmatov, Valeriy [2010]
University of North Alabama
Citation: For advancing the understanding of the structure and spectra of free and confined atoms, photoelectron angular asymmetries, dynamics of half-filled -subshell.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Domaradzki, Julian A. [2008]
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: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Domingo, John Jacob [1995]
CEBAF
Citation: For sustained scientific and technical contributions to intermediate energy nuclear physics at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), and for leading the design and construction of the three experimental facilities at the newly completed Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF).
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Donald, Athene Margaret [1994]

Citation: For her research into the mechanisms of high temperature crazing, as well as morphology and phase behavior in liquid crystalline polymer systems.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Doniach, Sebastian [1985]
Stanford University
Citation: For his physical insight and mathematical treatment of collective effects in many-body systems, particularly spin fluctuations in helium and EXAFS structures from solid surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Donnelly, Thomas William [1990]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For extensive theoretical studies of the electroweak structure of nuclei and for developing the framework needed to exploit polarization observables in electron scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Donoghue, John Francis [1989]
Univ of Mass - Amherst
Citation: For continued contributions to the theory and phenomenology of hadrons, especially in the studies of weak decays, CP violation, hadron spectroscopy, and chiral symmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Doolen, Gary Dean [2003]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For frontier computational research in fluid dynamics modeling, one-component plasmas, complex-rotation methods for atomic resonances, and laser-plasma interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Dorfan, Jonathan M. [1991]
SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
Citation: For contributions to the study of properties of heavy leptons and quarks produced in electron-position annihilation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dorland, William D. [2005]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of ion and electron temperature gradient driven turbulence in plasmas, and to the development of novel computational algorithms for exploring nonlinear plasma dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dorsey, Alan Thomas [2002]
University of Florida
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of magnetic flux dynamics and non-equilibrium pattern formation in superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dostrovsky, Israel [2003]
The Weizmann Institute
Citation: For his seminal contributions in the field of stable isotope separation, development of Monte Carlo methods for nuclear reactions and chemical separation methods used in solar neutrino experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Douglas, David Ross [2005]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For pioneering beam optics contributions leading to unique multipass accelerators and accelerator-driven light sources and to energy-recovering linac operation at high average current and demonstration at high energy.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Douglas, Jack Frank [1996]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For substantial contributions to the theoretical physics and chemistry of macromolecular and complex systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Doverspike, Lynn Dale [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For measurements of differential and total cross-sections, both elastic and inelastic, of ions on atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dowben, Peter Arnold [2004]
University of Nebraska
Citation: For his significant experimental contributions to surface magnetism, spin polarization in complex magnetic systems, and metal-to-nonmetal transitions in reduced dimensionality.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Dowdy, Nancy M. [1995]
Unknown
Citation: For her role on treaty verification at the close of the Cold War, for research accomplishments and leadership in the development of synthetic fuels instrumentation, and for leadership and service in behalf of women in physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Dowell, John Derek [2003]
University of Birmingham
Citation: For contributions to the development of the quark model of hadrons, discovery of the W and Z bosons, probing of nucleon structure and QCD, and preparations for experimentation at the LHC.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dowling, David R. [2012]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For conduct and analysis of experiments on turbulent mixing and high-Reynolds number wall-bounded flows, and for contributions to fluids education
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dowling, Jonathan P. [2008]
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: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Downer, Michael C. [1999]
University of Texas
Citation: For fundamental contributions to nonlinear and ultrafast laser spectroscopy of solids and surfaces near the melting threshold and of gases and underdense plasmas near the thresholds of ionization and wakefield generation.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Doyle, Barney L. [2000]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For the invention of numerous Micro-Ion Bean Analysis techniques and their innovative application to solid state physics, fusion energy, materials science and radiation effects of semiconductors.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Doyle, John Morrissey [2001]
Harvard University
Citation: In recognition of contributions to the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics and in low-energy nuclear/particle physics, particularly buffer gas cooling and magnetic trapping of atoms, molecules and neutrons.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Doyle, Mark D. [2008]
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: American Physical Society

Draayer, Jerry Paul [2000]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For enhancing our understanding of collective phenomena in atomic nuclei through algebraic shell-model analyses, statistical spectroscopy studies of strength distributions, explorations involving pseudo-spin symmetry, and the application of nonlinear methods.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Drabold, David Alan [2003]
Ohio University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of non-crystalline materials and development of efficient first-principles electronic structure methods.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Drachman, RIchard J. [1980]
NASA/GSFC
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dracoulis, George Dennis [1993]
Australian Natl Univ
Citation: For his contribution to the understanding of nuclear structure in the mass 190 transitional and trans-led nuclei from comprehensive nuclear spectroscopy studies.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Drake, James F. [1986]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of tearing instabilities, magnetic reconnection and magnetohydrodynamic activity in laboratory and space plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Drake, Richard Paul [1989]
Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the characterization and understanding of laser plasma interactions, particularly stimulated Raman scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Dravid, Vinayak [2010]
Northwestern University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the materials physics of functional materials through the use of state of the art electron microscopy techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Dray, Tevian [2010]
Oregon State University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of general relativity, which include investigations of light-like surface layers and the physics of signature change.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Dreizler, Reiner Martin [1995]
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University
Citation: For important contributions to the development and applications of density functional theory and to the theory of atomic collision processes.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dreizler, Reiner Martin [1994]

Citation: For important contributions to the development and application of density functional theory and to the theory of atomic collision process.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Drell, Persis S. [1997]
Cornell University
Citation: For her many important contributions to elementary particle physics, including a systematic program to understand semileptonic decays of b quarks and measure the CKM matrix element Vcb.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dressler, Rainer Andreas [2004]
Air Force Research Laboratory/VSBXT
Citation: For innovative developments in the study of electron, ion, and photon interactions with molecules and applications to space vehicles and space research.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Drever, Ronald W. P. [1998]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For his fundamental experiment to test the isotropy of space, and for his pioneering contributions to laser interferometry as a tool for gravitational-wave detection.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Drew, Howard Dennis [1995]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his contribution to the study of the electrodynamic response of superconductors in magnetic fields, and collective effects in semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Driel, van, Henry [2001]
University of Toronto
Citation: Professor Henry van Driel is a leading scientist in the field of experimental laser physics, having made significant contributions in the areas of ultrafast phenomena, nonlinear optics and laser physics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Driscoll, Charles Frederick [1990]
Univ of California - San Diego
Citation: For experimental and theoretical work on wave, transport and equilibrium properties of non-neutral plasma systems, both a basic plasma physics and in related technologies.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Driscoll, Judith [2011]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For pioneering contributions in design and understanding of nanostructured functional oxides, including superconductors, magnetic materials, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Drobot, Adam T. [1993]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions to the development and use of numerical simulation codes applied to basic physics analysis of microwave, accelerator and pulsed power devices.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Drummond, Peter David [2000]
University of Queenland
Citation: For pioneering theoretical studies of quantum noise in nonlinear optical processes, including superfluorescence, optical bistability, parametric amplification and oscillation, fiber-optical solitons, proposed tests of quantum correlations, and the positive-P representation.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Du, Rui Rui [2003]
University of Utah
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect, and especially, through his original experiments, to our understanding of the properties of composite fermions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Duan, Luming [2009]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his distinctive contributions to theoretical atomic physics and quantum information; in particular, for his seminal proposals for quantum information protocols involving atom-optical systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Dubin, Daniel Herchel Eli [1994]

Citation: For pioneering contributions to the theory of trapped pure ion plasmas, liquids and crystals, including predictions of the microscopic order of the equilibrium state and of the normal modes of oscillation about that state.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

DuBois, Robert Dean [1996]
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to heavy-particle collision physics, especially the innovative use of coincidence techniques to elucidate the influence of projectile electrons on impact ionization and separate target and projectile ionization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Duff, Michael J. [1996]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For contributions towards unified theories of the elementary particles including gravity, especially for the discovery of Weyl anomalies, for the four-dimensional interpretation of extra spacetime dimensions and for string/fivebrane duality.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dufty, James W. [2009]
University of Florida
Citation: For his numerous seminal contributions to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its applications to granular fluids, plasmas, strongly coupled Coulomb systems, and materials science.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Dugan, Gerald Francis [1991]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For his leadership in many areas of Fermilab's accelerator system. his efforts have led to collider luminosities exceeding the original design specifications.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Duggan, Jerome Lewis [2000]
University of North Texas
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the application of low energy nuclear technology for analysis in the semiconductor, metals, and geophysics industries, and for initiating an international conference as a forum for the interaction of industrial and academic physicists.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Duncan, James Henry [1999]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his meticulous investigations, using experiments and computations, of interfacial phenomena including breaking waves, cavitation bubbles and compliant surfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Duncan, Michael Ansel [2001]
University of Georgia
Citation: For the application of lasers to produce novel metal clusters in the gas phase and for measurements of their spectroscopy and photodissociation dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Duncan, Robert V. [2005]
Condensed Matter Physics
Citation: For pioneering advances in experimental studies of dynamic critical phenomena near the superfluid transition in 4He, and for the development of novel instrumentation and measurement techniques for use on earth and in space.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Dunford, Robert Walter [1997]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For extensive experimental studies in fundamental atomic physics, especially in characterizing the properties of few-electron heavy-ion systems, thereby adding significantly to the understanding of relativistic quantum mechanics and QED.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dunlap, Bobby David [1985]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the understanding of electronic and magnetic properties of a wide range of materials, especially actinide compounds and magnetic superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dunlap, Bobby David [1985]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the understanding of electronic and magnetic properties of a wide range of materials, especially actinide compounds and magnetic superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dunlap, Brett [2011]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of variational fitting methods that enable reliable density-functional and ab initio calculations on large molecules and clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dunning, Frank Barry [1986]
Rice Univ
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the study of atoms in high Rydberg states, and in the extension of atomic methodology to introduce new spectroscopies for studies of solid surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Dunning, Thomas Harold, Jr. [1992]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: For contributions to the development of methods and techniques for electronic structure calculations on molecules and for applications to fundamental chemical problems in atmospheric chemistry, laser chemistry and combustion chemistry.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dupuis, Michel [2007]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For his significant contributions to the development of electronic structure methods and computer codes for the simulation of molecular properties and reactivity.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Dupuis, Russell D. [2003]
The University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For development of MOCVD deposition of semiconductors and room-temperature quantum-well lasers.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Durbin, Paul A. [1996]
Stanford University
Citation: For his contributions to fluid mechanics in general and near-wall turbulence modeling in particular through innovative concepts and analyses.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Durian, Douglas Jack [2004]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For ground-breaking contributions to the measurement and understanding of dynamics in foams and granular media.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dussan V, Elizabeth B. [1985]
Schlumberger-Doll Res Ctr
Citation: For her deep insights into the mechanisms and the realistic modeling of phenomena involving fluid-fluid interfaces, particularly in situations in which moving contact lines and mutual fluid displacement occur.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Dutcher, John [2007]
University of Guelph
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of polymers at the nanoscale; particularly to the development of novel experimental techniques for the study of ultrathin films.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Dutta, Mitra [2012]
University of Illinois, Chicago
Citation: For research leadership and administration in government and academia, through which she has susported the applications of physics for society, outreach to the public, and enhancement of physics education
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Dutta, Pulak [1992]
Northwestern Univ
Citation: For his elucidations of the structures and phase transitions of lipid monolayers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dutto, Gerardo Giovanni [1998]
TRIUMF
Citation: For contributions to the development of high-intensity H/ cyclotrons both as meson facilities and for production of proton-rich radioisotopes.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Duxbury, Philip M. [2006]
Michigan State University
Citation: For the development of efficient computational methods for strongly non-linear disordered systems and the extraction of novel physics from the application of these methods.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Dworzecka, Maria [1996]
George Mason University
Citation: For co-directing the Consortium of Upper Level Physics Software (CUPS) and co-editing accompanying instructional material for upper level physics classes.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Dykman, Mark I. [2001]
Michigan State University
Citation: For insightful contributions toward understanding the importance of large fluctuations in physical systems and for theoretical developments on the many-electron dynamics of the two-dimensional electron gas.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Dylla, Henry Frederick [2001]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For sustained contributions to the surface science of materials and the design of ultrahigh vacuum systems that have enabled a new generation of particle accelerators, plasma devices and materials processing systems.


Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Dzierba, Alexander R. [1991]
Indiana Univ - Bloomington
Citation: For significant contributions to experimental studies of the production of jets and other multiparticle systems in hadron interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Dziuba, Ronald Francis [1997]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For exceptional contributions to the realization of the ohm, the use of the quantum Hall effect as the primary resistance standard, and professional support to the metrology and scientific communities.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Dzyaloshinskii, Igor E. [1996]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For contributions to the theory of many-body systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Eaglesham, David J. [2004]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For his seminal discoveries and technical leadership in semiconductor crystal growth and structural defects in epitaxial materials.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Eastman, Lester Fuess [2001]
Cornell University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the concepts of ballistic transport and piezoelectric doping in ultra-small III-V heterojunction transistors for applications in high-speed and microwave power devices and circuits and for leadership in transitioning electric.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Eaton, John Kelly [2005]
Stanford University
Citation: For fundamental and original contributions to the understanding of turbulent boundary layers and turbulent particle-laden flows and for development of unique and useful experimental and simulation methods.


Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Eaton, William A. [1998]
National Institute of Health
Citation: For his contributions towards the understanding of physical mechanisms of protein folding, and the function of heme proteins.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Eberg, Teijo E.W. [1997]
Helsinki University of Technology
Citation: For seminal work and many contributions to the understanding of radiationless transitions and the development of a unified theory of atomic excitation and de-excitation processes.


Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Echenique, Pedro Miguel [1990]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of surface image states and of surface and bulk excitations.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ecke, Robert Everett [1994]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to thermal convection, including universal transition to chaos in 3He-superfluid-4He mixtures and traveling waves, vortices, and pattern dynamics in rotating convection.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Eckelmann, Helmut [1996]
Georg-August-Universitaet
Citation: For landmark measurements of the statistical properties of wall bounded turbulent shear flows and the study of their coherent structures and for discoveries of important three-dimensional aspects of circular cylinder wakes.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Eckern, Ulrich [2012]
University of Augsburg
Citation: For contributions to the theory of nonequilibrium superconductivity, quantum dissipation in Josephson junctions, and phase coherence in disordered and interacting mesoscopic systems
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Eckhardt, Bruno [2004]
Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Citation: For fundamental contributions to chaotic scattering, periodic orbit theory, and applications of nonlinear concepts in quantum and hydrodynamic systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Eckstein, James N. [2005]
Universtiy of Illinois
Citation: For development of layer-by-layer growth of oxide films for fundamental studies and for planar tunneling junctions made from oxide superconductors and oxide magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Economou, Eleftherios N, [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of disordered systems including mobility edges and localization of classical waves.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Edelheit, Lewis S. [2001]
General Electric Company
Citation: For outstanding technical contributions to projection radiography and fast-scan, 'fan-beam' computed X-ray tomography systems, and for leadership in bringing world-class commercial medical imaging systems to the market.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Edelstein, Norman Marvin [1998]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For optical and magnetic studies of the electronic structure of actinide ions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Edelstein, William Alan [1989]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding and technology of NMR imaging and spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Eden, James Gary [1992]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of the spectroscopy of rare-gas dimers and the physics of ultraviolet lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Ediger, Mark D. [1997]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For his insightful experimental and computational investigations of local polymer dynamics in solutions and melts.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Edwards, Donald Andrew [1992]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his many contributions to accelerator science, and the key role he played in the design and commissioning of Tevatron.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Edwards, Glenn S. [2006]
Duke University
Citation: For seminal research in the rapid thermodynamics governing infrared-laser ablation of tissue and for quantifying force producing proceses in tissue dynamics during dorsal closure, a stage of Drosophilia morphogenesis.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Edwards, Mark Andrew [2000]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For application of first-principles theory to the understanding of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Edwards, Michael J. [2011]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental contributions to hydrodynamics in high energy density physics, and for his leadership in the National Ignition Campaign on the National Ignition Facility.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Edwards, Robert [2011]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For developing key theoretical, algorithmic and computational methods to enable Lattice QCD to address vital questions in nuclear physics, and in particular the spectrum of excited states and the origin of the nuclear force.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Eernisse, Errol P. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Eesley, Gary Lynn [1994]

Citation: For ultrafast optical studies of energy transport in metals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Efetov, Konstantin [2011]
Ruhr Universitat Bochum
Citation: For applying the supersymmetry method to disordered, granular, and mesoscopic metals and superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Efimov, Vitaly [2000]
University of Washington
Citation: For the investigation of the Quantum three-body problem, and especially for his discovery of weakly bound states (called Efimov states) of three quantum particles.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Efros, Alexander Lev [2001]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of semiconductor nanocrystals including establishing the basic model used for describing their electronic and optical properties.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Efros, Alexei L. [1992]
Univ of Utah
Citation: For his work on the theory of transport in disordered systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Efthimion, Philip Charles [1991]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For significant contributions in several areas of plasma physics including free-electron lasers, wave absorption and emission at the electron cyclotron frequency, and tokamak plasma transport.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Egami, Takeshi [2000]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For pioneering work on local disorder in solids and its effect on properties, in particular the observation of charge inhomogeneity in magnetostrictive manganities and superconducting cuprates using neutron scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Egedal, Jan [2010]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions to understanding of driven and spontaneous magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas and the fundamental role played by trapped electrons.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Egelhoff, William Frederick, Jr. [1991]

Citation: For contributions to the development of photoelectron spectroscopy as a probe of surface electronic structure and of x-ray photoelectron and Auger-electron forward scattering as a surface structural probe.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Eggers, Jens G. [2009]
University of Bristol
Citation: For applications of the ideas of singularities to free-boundary problems such as jet breakup, drop formation, air entrainment, thin-film dynamics including wetting, dewetting and contact line motions, and with further applications to polymeric flows and models for granular dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Eggert, Jon [2010]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For significant achievements in linking dynamic and static compression of condensed matter.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Ehlers, Vernon J. [1995]
Congressman from Michigan
Citation: For contributions to atomic physics research, physics education, and dynamic leadership in the pursuit of bettering the health and welfare of science in the United States.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Ehrenfreund, Eitan [2011]
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Citation: For elucidating magnetic and optical phenomena in conducting polymers, semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ehrlich, Robert [1991]
George Mason Univ
Citation: For application of physics to aspects of nuclear arms race and contributions to public education in physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Eichten, Estia Joseph [1987]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of quarkonium spectroscopy, and for comprehensive studies of the physics of 1 TeV scale.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Eides, Michael I. [1999]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For outstanding contribution in the development of the theory of high order corrections in QED bound states; for improvement of the accuracy of theoretical predictions for muonium hyperfine splitting and hydrogen Lamb shift by one-two orders of magnitude.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Eigler, Donald M. [1995]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For his achievements in the field of atomic manipulation using a scanning tunneling microscope.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Einhorn, Martin B. [1990]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For QCD phenomenology especially the role of gluons in heavy favor production and QCD in two dimensions; cosmological implications of grand unification; and examining characteristics of very massive Higgs bosons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Einstein, James P. [1992]

Citation: For his experiments elucidating the transport properties of the two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Einstein, Theodore Lee [1995]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of interactions between chemisorbed atoms, their consequences for two-dimensional phase transitions and to the theory of measurable properties of vicinal surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Einsweiler, Kevin [1996]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the UA2 and CDF experiments, including high-precision measurement of the W mass, and to the design of detectors (SDC/ATLAS) for high-energy hadron colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Eisenberg, Robert S. [2004]
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology
Citation: Pioneering contributions to the understanding of ion permeation through membrane proteins.


Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Eisenstein, Laura [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of biological molecules and molecular assemblies from a physical viewpoint through spectroscopic studies of transient phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Eisenstein, Robert A. [1986]
Santa Fe Alliance for Science
Citation: For leadership in Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics, whereby experiments with pions, kaons, and antiprotons, he has demonstrated the effects of nuclear structure and the nuclear medium on elementary interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Eisenthal, Kenneth B. [1986]

Citation: For pioneering the applications of lasers to chemistry and being on of the first and major contributors to the development of the field of picosecond laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Ekin, Jack W. [1995]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For his discovery of the superconductor strain scaling law, and his development of low specific resistivity interfaces for oxide superconductors and a superconducting dc transformer.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Eklund, Peter Clay [1997]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For contributions to the synthesis and optical studies of carbon-based solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

El-Khadra, Aida [2011]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For contributions to lattice QCD and flavor physics including pioneering studies of heavy quarks on the lattice, semileptonic and leptonic heavy-light meson decays, the strong coupling constant, and quark masses.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

El-Sayed, Mostafa A. [2000]
Georgia Tech
Citation: In recognition of extra-ordinary contribution to the many spectroscopies of complex molecular systems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

El-Shall, M. Samy [2012]
Virginia Commonwealth University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the fields of ion-induced nucleation, ion mobility, thermochemistry and structures of molecular cluster ions, gas phase cluster polymerization, nanostructured materials and nanocatalysis
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Elber, Ron [2008]
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: Division of Chemical Physics

Elden, Bengt [1989]

Citation: For developing the spectroscopy of highly ionized atoms, the discovery of plasma satellites, and the explanation of the origin of the corona lines.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Elghobashi, Said E. [1999]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For his many important contributions to fluid mechanics by application of direct numerical simulation to complex flows - including flows containing variations of density and heat release, and flows containing particles.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Elias, Luis R. [1995]
University of Central Florida
Citation: For the development of Free Electron Lasers, based on electrostatic accelerators, and for demonstrating that electrostatic accelerators can operate on a quasi-continuous basis using beam-charge and beam-energy recovery.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Eliasson, Bengt [2012]
Ruhr Univ Bochum
Citation: For seminal contributions to computational and nonlinar plasma physics involving novel parametric interactions and coherent nonlinear structures at scales ranging from kinetic to quantum
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Eliezer, Shalom [1984]
Soreq NRC
Citation: For his important contributions to the gauge theory of weak interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Elliot, Daniel S. [2006]
Purdue University
Citation: For pioneering experimental demonstrations of coherent control in atomic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Elliott, Steven Ray [2004]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For significant contributions in neutrino physics, in particular for solar neutrino experiments that have demonstrated that neutrinos have nonzero mass and for his research on double beta decay.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ellis, Paul John [1998]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For his diverse contributions to the study of light nuclei using nuclear shell model methods; and to the study of pion-nucleon scattering using chiral Lagrangians.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ellis, Richard Keith [1988]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the theory of hard scattering processes in the QCD improved parton model.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ellison, Donald Charles [1997]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his pioneering work in applying computer Monte Carlo techniques to greatly further understanding of the acceleration of charged particles by astrophysical plasma shocks.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Elouadrhiri, Latifa [2010]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For her pioneering work on experiments in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS), a powerful means of accessing the non-perturbative structure of the nucleon, and  insuring the maximum fulfillment of their potential by  playing a major role in the 12 GeV Jefferson upgrade.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Elsaesser, Thomas [2011]
Max Born Institute, Berlin
Citation: For contributions to ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter, including generation and application of ultrashort pulses from THz to hard x-rays, combining ultrafast techniques with optical near-field methods and x-ray diffraction, nonequilibrium dynamics of elementary excitations in solids, and ultrafast processes in molecular systems.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Elster, Charlotte [2001]
Ohio University
Citation: For her significant contributions to the understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction and its applications in few-body systems and nuclear reactions.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Ely, Robert Pollock, Jr [1988]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions in particle physics to the understanding of the baryon multiplets and investigations of the properties of quark partons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Emma, Paul J. [2003]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For his contributions to the physics of high brightness beams in linac and compression systems, and for his critical impact on the development of linear colliders and x-ray free electron lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Endoh, Yasuo [1999]
Tohoku University
Citation: For neutron scattering experiments on one- and two-dimensional quantum magnets in high-temperature superconductors and their precursors.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Engel, Jonathan [2010]
University of North Carolina
Citation: For his important contributions to our understanding of the underlying physics and importance of nuclear double beta-decay.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Engel, Lloyd [2010]
Florida State University
Citation: For contributions to the study of the quantum Hall effects  and associated electron solid phases using microwaves in very high magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Engels, Eugene, Jr. [1988]
Univ of Pittsburgh
Citation: For significant contributions to a wide range of experiments including studies of vector mesons, kaons, and hyperons, and to the application of silicon microstrip technology to high intensity beam-fixed target experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Engheta, Nader [2008]
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: Division of Laser Science

English, Alan D. [1989]
DuPont Corp
Citation: For contributions to the development of a description of polymer segmental dynamics from solid-state NMR data, which incorporates the variability of both spatial and temporal coordinates with temperature and is applicable to both semicrystalline and amorphous polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Eno, Sarah C. [2009]
University of Maryland
Citation: For contributions in particle physics involving electroweak parameters, precision electroweak measurements, and physics beyond the Standard Model at the Tevatron.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ensslin, Klaus [2009]
ETH Zurich
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of optical and transport properties of nanoscale systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ent, Rolf [2011]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For his leadership in advancing the experimental nuclear physics program at Jefferson Laboratory, particularly regarding the study of the transition between quark-gluon and hadronic degrees of freedom.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Entin-Wohlman, Ora [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of granular superconductivity, fractions, strong localization and nonlinear optics in novel materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Enz, Charles P. [1986]
Univ of Geneve
Citation: For his many contributions to condensed-matter physics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and the history of physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Eom, Chang-Beom [2003]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For pioneering contributions in heteroepitaxy of novel complex oxide thin films and experimental materials physics in superconductivity, magnetism and ferroelectricity.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Epstein, Gerald Lewis [1994]

Citation: For technical analysis on international security and energy matters in which he directed the Congressional Office on Technology Assessment studies on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Erb, Karl A. [1994]

Citation: For his leadership and service to the community in the administration of science, and for his studies of nuclear structure with heavy ions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Erdös, Paul [1996]
University of Lusanne
Citation: For the elucidation of the thermal and electronic properties of disordered materials and actinide compounds, and for his work on the biophysics of the neural control of the locomotion of nematodes.


Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Eremenko, Victor Valentine [2000]
Institute For Low Temperature Physics
Citation: For pioneering works in magneto-optics of antiferromagnets, discovery of the "mixed" and "intermediate" states of antiferromagnets near magnetic phase transitions, photoinduced persistent phenomena in magnetic insulators & high-Tc superconductors; and his international activities as the editor of "Low Temperature" journal of AIP, an affiliated scholar of ISU, and co-director of IITAP program.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Eriksson, Mark A. [2012]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For contributions to the understanding and development of nanodevices for spintronics and quantum information applications
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ernst, David John [1987]
Vanderbilt Univ
Citation: For development and understanding of intermediate energy reactions, including multiple scattering theory, its convergence and general structure, and its extension to incorporate the particular feature of the pion.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ernst, Richard R. [1991]
ETH - Zurich
Citation: For development of Fourier transform and multidimensional magnetic resonance techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Ernst, Wolfgang Erhard [1997]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his contributions to high resolution laser spectroscopy of diatomic molecules at high sensitivity and definitive spectroscopic experiments on alkali trimers and their interpretation.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Errede, Steven Michael [1995]
University of Illinois
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the nature of the weak gauge bosons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Erskine, James L. [1989]
Univ of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to understanding of magnetic materials and for spectroscopic studies of solid surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Erwin, Steven Charles [2006]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For creative and influential contributions to computational materials science in the fields of fulleride solids, semiconductor surfaces, magnetic semiconductors, and nanocrystals.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Esarey, Eric Hans [1996]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: In recognition of his seminal scientific contributions to the physics of intense laser-plasma interaction.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Esbensen, Henning [2004]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For significant contributions to the theoretical description of low-energy heavy-ion reactions and breakup reactions of nuclei far from stability, and for extensive contributions to experimental programs.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Escudero, Roberto Derat [2002]
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of physics in Latin America and forefront research in electron tunneling and point contact spectroscopy in superconducting and magnetic materials.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Esry, Brett Daniel [2006]
Kansas State University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of few-body physics at ultracold temperatures and its impact on our understanding of trapped atoms, molecules and Efimov states, and degenerate quantum gases.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Estabrook, Kent G. [1980]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Estreicher, Stefan K. [1997]
Texas Technical University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to our theoretical understanding of interstitial defects in semiconductors and their roles in such phenomena as diffusion, passivation, activation, and defect clustering.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Etemad, Shahab [1993]

Citation: For extensive research on the interaction of light with matter, especially photon localization and nonlinear optics in novel materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Evans, James William [2002]
Iowa State University
Citation: For the development and application of models of the non-equilibrium processes of epitaxy, chemisorption and catalytic reactions at surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Evans, Lyndon Rees [1991]
CERN
Citation: For contributions to the physics of particle accelerators and storage rings, in particular to the development of the understanding of the fundamental limitations of high-energy hadron colliding beam devices.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Evans, Todd [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of complex 3-D magnetic field topologies and their application to the beneficial control of the plasma edge in high temperature fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Evenson, Kenneth M. [1989]

Citation: For his contribution in free-radical spectroscopy and in the direct measurements of frequency at infrared and optical wavelengths, yielding definitive measurements of the speed of light and the redefinition of the meter.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Evenson, Paul A. [1990]
Univ of Delaware
Citation: For original experimental and theoretical contributions to the study of the production of energetic particles in solar flares and the propagation of energetic particles in the heliosphere.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Evenson, William E. [2004]
Brigham Young University
Citation: For his long service to the Forum on the History of Physics as a member of its Executive committee, as Editor of the Forum's Newsletter, and for his physical research.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Everitt, C.W. Francis [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For his pioneering role as scientist, visionary, and leader in the development and successful operation of Gravity Probe B, a mission to measure the general relativistic dragging of inertial frames by the rotating Earth.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Everitt, Henry [2010]
US Army Missile Command
Citation: For his broad leadership in furthering quantum information science, including the effective stewardship of quantum information programs for the US government and also for his own research in semiconductor optics.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Evrard, August [2011]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For groundbreaking work in simulations of large scale structure with particular emphasis on theory of galaxy clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Ewing, George E. [1992]
Indiana Univ - Bloomington
Citation: For his influential experimental and theoretical developments on van der Waals molecules, especially their spectroscopies and dynamics, and on vibrational relaxation processes of molecules within liquids and on surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Eyink, Gregory Lawrence [2003]
The Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his work in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular on the foundation of transport laws in chaotic dynamical systems, on field-theoretic methods in statistical hydrodynamics and on singularities and dissipative anomalies in fluid turbulence.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Eyler, Edward E. [1997]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For precision spectroscopic measurements of simple atomic and molecular systems, especially molecular hydrogen.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Ezra, Gregory [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For his deep contributions to the analysis of the classical, semi-classical, and quantum molecular mechanics of systems of multiple degrees of freedom, with applications to their linear and non-linear spectroscopies.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fabrikant, Ilya I [1995]
University of Nebraska
Citation: For his studies of electron collisions and Rydberg atom collisions involving the formation of temporary negative ions, and for photodetachment of negative ions in the presence of external static fields.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Fadley, Charles Sherwood [1987]
Univ of California - Davis
Citation: For experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of photoelectron spectroscopy for core-level chemical shifts, multiplet splittings, surface-sensitivity enhancement, photoelectron diffraction, and angle-resolved valence band studies.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Faeth, Gerard M [2003]
University of Michigan
Citation: For contributions to understanding the dynamics of liquid breakup in sprays, the properties of self-preserving turbulent flows and the mechanism of turbulence generation in dispersed multiphase flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Fahy, Stephen Bernard [2005]
Fahy, Stephen Bernard
Citation: For contributions to the development of variational wave function and pseudopotential quantum Monte Carlo methods and the application of electronic structure theory to materials under extreme pressures and photoexcitation.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Fain Jr., Samuel C. [1984]
University of Washington
Citation: For contributions and understanding of two dimensional phases of commensurate, incommensurate, and orientationally distinct structures and for improvements in low energy electron diffraction techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fainberg, Anthony [1993]
No Company Provided
Citation: For fundamental analysis of national security issues of nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation, technology and counter-terrorism, and ballistic missile defenses, and contributions tot he field of national energy policy.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Fairbank, William Martiin [1988]
Colorado State Univ
Citation: For pioneering work in single atom detection and its application to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and for contributions to precision dye laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Faissner, Helmut Carl [1984]
No company provided
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of the Electro-Weak Interaction, in particular of his pioneer work in connection with the discovery of Weak Neutral Currents.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fajans, Joel [1995]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For important basic experiments with free electron lasers and nonneutral plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Falco, Charles M. [1987]
Univ of Arizona
Citation: For his unique and leading contributions in the area of metallic superlattices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Falcone, Roger Wirth [1992]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the physics and technology of ultrafast x-ray sources.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Falk, Adam Frederick [2002]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his contributions to the theoretical understanding of hadrons containing bottom and charm quarks.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Faller, James Elliot [1991]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For his work in precision measurement and tests of fundamental physics.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Family, Fereydoon [1990]
Emory Univ
Citation: For contributions in statistical physics including work on liquid helium, renormalization in polymer systems and DLA clusters, and the formation of a scaling theory for rough surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fan, Shanhui [2008]
Stanford University
Citation: Contributions to the theory and applications of nanophotonic structures and devices, including photonic crystals, plasmonics and meta-materials.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Fang, Li-Zhi [2010]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his important work in cosmology and early-universe physics; his inspiring leadership, teaching and mentoring of students in China, the United States and around the world; and his tireless, selfless, courageous and continuing advocacy of human rights in China.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Fang, Zhong [2011]
Chinese Academy of Science
Citation: For applying first-principle calculations to topological aspects of spin-orbital physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Farge, Marie [2011]
Ecole Normale Supericeure
Citation: For pioneering research applying wavelets to the analysis and computation of turbulent flows in two and three dimensions.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Farhi, Edward [2011]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his seminal discoveries of new quantum algorithms and quantum computational paradigms, in particular the quantum walk and quantum adiabatic methods.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Farmer, Barry L. [1988]
Air Force Inst of Tech - WPAFB
Citation: For his leadership role in computer modeling of polymer conformations, structures, defects, crystallization, diffusion, and relaxations.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Farrar, James Martin [1987]
Univ of Rochester
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of low energy ion-neutral collision dynamics, particularly related to gas proton transfer and laboratory studies of reactions important in interstellar chemistry.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Farrell, David E. [1992]
Case Western Reserve Univ
Citation: For his contributions to the use of SQUIDs in biomagnetic research and his studies of anisotrophy in high- Tc superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Farrow, Robin F. C. [1998]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For pioneering the development of molecular beam epitaxy to grow and study epitaxial semiconductors, metastable phases, dielectrics, magnetic elements and alloys.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Fasoli, Ambrogio [2008]
EPFL-Lausanne
Citation: For fundamental experimental research on plasma wave phenomena including the dynamics of Alfven wave eignemodes in Tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fathe, Laurie A. [2001]
George Mason University
Citation: For serving as an example of a Civic Scientist - for ongoing work in promoting state and national policy that supports science and science education, and for her efforts to inspire and teach other scientists to be effective in the policy world.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Fauchet, Philippe M. [1998]
University of Rochester
Citation: For experimental contributions to understanding properties of porous silicon.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Feagin, James Marshall [1998]
California State University - Fullerton
Citation: For advancements towards understanding the dynamical symmetries of the few-body Coulomb problem, particularly of low-energy bound and continuum electron pairs.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Fearing, Harold W. [1990]
TRIUMF
Citation: For his contribution to the theoretical understanding of a variety of few-body processes at medium energies.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Feder, Jens [1989]
Univ of Oslo
Citation: For contributions to theories and experiments on structural phase transitions and on fractals in aggregates and in porous media.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Feder, Ralph [1986]

Citation: For pioneering the field of x-ray contact microscopy, and for his early contributions to the study of the equilibrium concentration of point defects in metals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Federman, Steven Robert [2002]
University of Toledo
Citation: For high quality spectroscopic observations of interstellar species, especially those relevant to light element synthesis and chemical fractionation, and for measurements of oscillator strengths needed to interpret the data.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Feenstra, Randall M. [1997]
Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For contributions to the development of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope as a spectroscopic tool to probe semiconductor surfaces and surface phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Feigelman, Mikhail [2007]
Landau Institute
Citation: For contributions to the theory of disordered materials, in particular to pinned charge density waves, spin glasses, pinned vortices in superconductors, glass formation in systems without quenched disorder, and disordered superconductor-normal metal structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Feit, Michael Dennis [1988]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For the development and implementation of novel and powerful computational techniques with applications to optical propagation physics and the quantum theory of atoms and molecules and for contributing to the fundamental understanding of complex optical waveguiding devices.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Feldkamp, Lee A. [1996]
Ford Motor Company
Citation: For contributions in the application of physics to practical automotive control systems and computed tomography and to fundamental understanding of electron spectroscopies.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Feldman, Joseph Louis [2005]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For the formulation and implementation of novel modeling methods for vibrational properties of disordered systems: thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon and localized vibronic Raman spectra of solid hydrogen.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Feldman, Paul D. [1986]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For his contributions to understanding the gasses in comets through their ultraviolet spectra, and his work on the upper atmospheres of the planets and the earth.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Feldman, Uri [2000]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For original contributions to the study of the atomic structure of highly excited elements, both the development of advanced tools to conduct observations and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting data; and for the application of the physics of highly excited elements to the study of energetic processes in the sun's atmosphere.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Felker, Peter Mark [1998]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For the development of rotational coherence spectroscopy and ion-detected Raman spectroscopy and major contributions in the study of molecular clusters and intermolecular interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Felser, Claudia [2012]
Johannes Gutenberg University
Citation: For creating and understanding new Heusler materials with spintronic and energy functionalities
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Feng, Da Hsuan [1996]
Drexel University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of nuclear structure physics, particularly for the application of the coherent states to physics and nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Feng, Jonathan [2007]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the properties of supersymmetric particles and the possible role of these particles in forming the dark matter of the universe.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Feng, Yuan [2011]
National University of Singapore
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism in non-magnetic element doped semiconductors and new phenomena in carbon-based nano materials through computational studies and his untiring efforts in promoting international scientific collaborations in computational materials physics.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Fenter, Paul [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative application of x-ray scattering to the study of complex molecular-scale structures and processes at organic-inorganic and mineral-water interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ferbel, Thomas [1984]
University of Rochester
Citation: For numerous and significant contributions to the field of experimental particle physics, particularly in the areas of hadron spectroscopy, inclusive reactions, diffractive dissociation, meson radiative decays, and direct photon production.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fernandez, Juan C. [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding and sustained contributions in laser-plasma interactions, relativistic laser-plasmas, and self-organizing force-free magnetized plasmas, and in their application to fusion research and national security
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fernandez, Julio Fernando [1993]

Citation: For basic simulation contributions to the physics or disordered magnetic systems, especially of the random-field Ising model.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fernando, Harindra Joseph [2004]
Arizona State University
Citation: For contributing greatly to fundamental and applied environmental fluid mechanics, including notable discoveries for how turbulence interacts with stably stratified inversion layers via waves, instabilities and mixing events.


Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Ferrari, Andrea Carlo [2011]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of phonons and electron-phonon interactions in carbon based materials, particularly for establishing Raman spectroscopy as a standard characterisation tool.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ferrell, Thomas Lee [2003]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering work in developing the photon scanning tunneling microscope and the elucidation of the fundamental physical principles underlying imaging and spectroscopic mechanisms of the photon scanning tunneling microscope.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Ferron, John R. [2006]
General Atomics
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding and control of the MHD stability of high-pressure tokamak plasmas, including the stability of the H-mode edge.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Ferrone, Frank A. [1997]
Drexel University
Citation: For development of novel instrumentation and methods to probe protein structure and assembly, and particularly for developing and elaborating a detailed physical picture of the polymerization of sickle hemoglobin.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Fertig, Herbert A [2001]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of the two-dimensional electron gas in high magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fetter, Steven Alan [1994]

Citation: For scientific analysis on international security issues, especially his treatment of the Comprehensive Test Ban issues, and for service to policy makers in the departments of State and Defense.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Fetters, Lewis John [1995]
Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Citation: For developing controlled syntheses of numerous model polymers, and for providing exquisitely tailored materials essential for the critical evaluation of polymer theory.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Fichthorn, Kristen [2010]
Penn State University
Citation: For simulations that revealed new phenomena in the kinetics of reaction systems, self-assembly of nanostructures, and diffusion in mesoporous systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fick, Dieter [1991]
Philipps Univ Marburg
Citation: For his leadership in the development of beams of polarized heavy ions, and novel applications in the study of reaction mechanisms, nuclear shapes, and the study of surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Fickett, Frederick R. [1989]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions to measurement science in the fields of superconductivity and magnetics.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Fiebig, Manfred [2011]
Univ of Bonn
Citation: For developments in non-linear optics and their application to solving seminal problems in multiferroics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Fiedler, Heinrich Edwin [1994]

Citation: For his archival experiments on the turbulent shear flows, especially mixing layers and jets.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Field, Richard D. [1987]
Univ of Florida - Gainesville
Citation: For contributions to the application of the Quantum Chromodynamic theory of quarks and gluons to hadron hadron collisions and the concept of parton fragmentation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Field, Robert W. [1980]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Filippone, Bradley [2009]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: In recognition of his many contributions to nuclear astrophysics, nucleon spin structure, nuclear interactions at short distances, and fundamental symmetries and especially the development of experimental techniques to meet these challenges.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Fineberg, Jay [2011]
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Citation: For his clever experiments and analyses of the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems, particularly concerning the propagation and instabilities of cracks in solids and gels, the dynamics of friction and earthquakes, and instabilities in oscillated liquid layers.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Finegold, Leonard X. [1992]
Drexel Univ
Citation: For contributions to the experimental physics of simple model proteins and model membranes, and of lattice dynamics, at low and biological temperatures.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Fink, Jörg [2003]
IFW Dresden, Germany
Citation: For his eminent work on electron spectroscopies of novel materials, in particular of cuprate superconductors, fullerenes, nanotubes, and conducting polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Fink, Manfred K. [1994]

Citation: For the extension of high energy electron scattering to high temperature compounds, biological molecules, the determination of molecular charge densities and state selected molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Finkelstein, Noah [2011]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For advancing physics education research through studies of student learning in context and for extensive professional service at all levels from individual mentoring, to developing model programs, to national advocacy.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Finlay, Roger William [1986]
Ohio Univ
Citation: In recognition of continuing and fruitful efforts to improve the quality of neutron scattering data and use of these results to enhance our understanding of the optical model.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Finn, John McMaster [1988]
Los Alamos Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to nonlinear dynamics perturbation techniques, and to understanding of basic processes in low frequency behavior of plasmas, including the role of nonlinear dynamics in orbits and field lines.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Finn, Lee Samuel [2002]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For innovative contributions to the computational infrastructure for gravitational wave detection, detector modeling, data analysis and source simulations.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Fiorani, Dino [2012]
National Research Council of Italy
Citation: For his contribution to the physics of nanostructured materials and his contribution to the international aspect of physics through organization of international science meetings
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Fiorito, Ralph Bruno [2002]
Catholic University of America
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding and application of transition radiation, diffraction radiation and parametric x-radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Fisch, Nathaniel Joseph [1987]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For developing the conceptual and theoretical basis by which radio frequency wave drive currents in toroidal confinement devices, thereby creating the possibility of steady-state tokamak fusion reactors.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fischbach, Ephraim [2001]
Purdue University
Citation: For his contributions to understanding the connection between precision gravity measurements and high-energy physics.


Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Fischer, Charlotte Froese [1990]

Citation: For developing the numerical approach to the Hartree-Fock method for atoms; for providing benchmark oscillator strengths; for discovery of the calcium negative ion.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Fischer, Erhard Wolfgang [1997]
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Res.
Citation: For his many seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of the structure and properties of solid polymers.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Fischer, John Edward [1992]

Citation: For seminal studies of layered solids and for developing a unified approach to phase equilibria in guest-host systems with competing interactions such as graphite intercalation compounds, polyacetylene, and fullernes.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Fischer, Wolfram [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For the successful commissioning of high luminosity high energy collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and outstanding contributions to the understanding of high-energy accelerator and collider properties.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Fischetti, Massimo Vincenzo [1996]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Cntr
Citation: For the development of first-principle modeling that predicts accurately the performance of sub-micron semiconductor devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Fisher, Andrew James [2005]
University College London
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of electronic phenomena at the nanoscale.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fisher, Daniel Sebastian [1986]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For his application of the modern techniques of statistical mechanics to such diverse systems as two-dimensional phase transitions, solid 3He, charge-density-wave solids, and disordered magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fisher, Galen B. [2004]
Delphi Research Labs
Citation: For distinguished research in heterogeneous catalysis, using surface science techniques and principles.


Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Fisher, Gerhard E. [1992]

Citation: For many contributions to the development of accelerator technology, including his most recent work no alignment, ground motion and vibration issues for linear colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Fisher, Matthew P. A. [1998]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For contributions to theories of vortex states, superconductor-insulator transitions, and edge states in the quantum Hall effect.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fisher, Peter H. [2006]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For initiating Tau Polarization Asymmetry Measurements and W-Boson self couplings, leading to a top mass prediction (found later at FNAL). First proof of single W-production in e+ e- annihilation. Determination of sin20w with proposal to expand to highest accuracy of 10-5 at LHC.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fisher, Raymond Kurt [1997]
General Atomics
Citation: For innovative leading-edge contributions, including the first measurements of confined alphas and knock-on tails, the first observations of plasma resonance cones, and pioneering experiments on non-circular tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fishman, Gerald J. [1995]
Marshall Flight Center
Citation: For pioneering advances in gamma-ray astronomy, particularly his important observations of gamma-ray bursts that suggest a possible cosmological origin.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Fisk, Henry Eugene [1990]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the neutrino physics research, and his skilled management of large scientific projects including superconducting high-gradient quadrupoles and Fermilab's DO detector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fisk, Zachary [1985]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For important contributions to the synthesis and understanding of new materials in single crystal form, particularly high critical temperature superconductors and heavy Fermion superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fiszdon, Wladyslaw [1986]

Citation: For his lasting contributions to Aerodynamics and for his tireless efforts in promoting the development of Fluid Dynamics through he Biennial Fluid Dynamics Symposia that he has organized in Poland since 1951.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Fitchen, Douglas B. [1989]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of defects and impurities in solids and for studies of the properties of conducting polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fitzpatrick, Richard [2003]
University of Texas,  Austin
Citation: For original research on feedback stabilization of resistive wall modes, error field-driven reconnection, and tearing mode phase-locking and stability in magnetic fusion confinement devices.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fitzsimmons, Michael R. [2006]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his work in elucidating the magnetization reversal processes in exchange bias systems using polarized neutron reflectometry.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Flambaum, Victor [2010]
University of New South Wales
Citation: For searches for violations of fundamental symmetries and for space-time variation of fundamental constants, to atomic many-body theory, and to quantum chaos.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Flanagan, Eanna [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to gravitational physics, ranging from the physics of gravitational waves and their detection, to the astrophysics of neutron stars, and to cosmology and quantum gravity.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Flatte, Michael [2007]
University of Iowa
Citation: For contributions to the theory of spin-dependent properties of semiconductors, especially transient and inhomogeneous magnetic and optical properties, and applications to spintronic devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Flatti, Stanley Martin [1997]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For work on meson spectroscopy and for work on wave propagation in random media with innovative contributions to ocean acoustics, atmospheric optics, seismology, and numerical simulation.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Flaughter, Brenna [2011]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For her important contributions to experimental particle astrophysics, particularly her leadership of and seminal contributions to the design and construction of the Dark Energy Camera.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Fleetwood, Daniel Mark [2001]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For important and broad-based contributions to the understanding of radiation effects and low-frequency noise in microelectronic materials and devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Fleming, Donald G. [2012]
TRIUMF
Citation: For his pioneering studies utilizing muons as uniquely sensitive isotopic probes of molecular interactions and quantum mass effects in the chemical sciences
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fleming, Robert McLemore [1988]
Sandia Natl Labs
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of the structural and transport properties of charge density waves in transition metal compounds.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fliflet, Arne Woolset [1993]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For significant and outstanding contributions to research on electron cyclotron masers, pioneering work on gyrotron and cyclotron auto-resonance maser theory, and in experimental quasioptical gyrotron research.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Flores, Fernando [1987]

Citation: For his contributions to the theory of electronic surface states, metal-semiconductor interfaces, and the interaction of energetic probes with surfaces and bulk matter.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Flory, Curt A. [1997]
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Citation: For the imaginative use of theoretical physics in the analysis and creation of precision frequency standards, microwave sources, acoustic signal processing and sensing devices, and mass spectrometry instrumentation.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Flynn, George William [1984]
Columbia University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of vibrational energy transfer; through his ingenious experimental application of laser techniques to study excitation, photofragmentation and collisional energy transfer in polyatomic molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Foiles, Stephen M. [2000]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For significant advances in the computational simulation of materials including pioneering work on the embedded atom method and demonstrating the power of simulations to determine important properties.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Folkins, Jeffrey J. [1999]
Xerox Corporation
Citation: For applications of physics to electrophotography resulting in major innovations in the design of development subsystems and in color Xerographic marking systems.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Fonck, Raymond J. [1992]
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For pioneering advances in optical diagnostics; especially neutral-beam-based diagnostics central to the experimental understanding of transport in tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fong, Ching-Yao [1995]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For pioneering work in developing theoretical models and applying them to computational studies of the fundamental electronic and vibrational properties of semiconductor systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Fontaine, Didler de [1993]

Citation: For his continuing theoretical contributions to our understanding of kinetics of crystal growth in covalent systems and of solute trapping in rapid solidification processing.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Foot, Christopher John [2003]
Oxford University, United Kingdom
Citation: For seminal contributions to the practice of laser cooling of atoms, and the elucidation of rotational dynamics and excitation mechanisms in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Forbes, Jerry Wayne [1992]
Energetics Technology Ctr
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to shockwave physics and in particular, his outstanding leadership in the shockwave community and additions to the understanding of phase transformations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Ford, Albert Lewis [1988]
Texas A&M Univ
Citation: For contributions in theoretical atomic and molecular physics, specifically studies of the properties of small molecules and of excitation, ionization, and charge transfer in ion-atom collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ford, Joseph [1989]

Citation: For pioneering contributions in classical and quantal chaos, and for fundamental and significant contributions to theory of statistical mechanics, ergodicity, and stochasticity, and chaos.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Ford, Lawrence H [2004]
Tufts University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to quantum field theory in flat and curved spacetime.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Ford, William T. [1987]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For his contributions to research in elementary particles and his measurement of the lifetime of particles containing b quarks.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Forden, Geoffrey [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For Innovative and important contributions to arms control and international security, in areas such as proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, military space programs, early warning systems, and ballistic missile defenses.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Forest, Cary [2008]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Forgacs, Gabor [2008]
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: Division of Biological Physics

Forman, Miriam Ausman [1984]
State Univ of NY
Citation: For Fundamental contributions to the theory of propagation and acceleration of energetic particles in the solar system and for application of the theory in the interpretation of observation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Forman, Paul [1988]
Smithsonian Inst
Citation: For his research on the history and cultural background of modern physics, and for his development of museum exhibits presenting physics to the public.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Forrest, James A. [2008]
University of Waterloo
Citation: For pioneering work in the dynamics of confined polymers and polymer surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Forrest, Stephen [2008]
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: Division of Materials Physics

Forrey, Robert C. [2011]
Penn State University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of internal energy transfer in atomic and molecular systems and for meaningful involvement of undergraduate students in research.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Forslund, David W. [1980]

Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fortov, Vladimir E. [2002]
Russian Academy of Sciences
Citation: For pioneering work on the physical properties of hot dense plasmas at multimegabar pressures and very high temperatures achieved with shock compression.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Fossan, David B [1984]
State University of Ny-Stony Brook
Citation: For important contributions to the study of electromagnetic properties of nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Foster, George William [1998]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to development of large scale particle physics electronics, and for a leading role in the design of the permanent magnetic-based Fermilab Antiproton Recycler ring.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Foster, Thomas Harrison [2001]
University of Rochester
Citation: For his unique and successful applications of physical concepts to the understanding and advancement of magnetic resonance imaging, photodynamic therapy, and diffuse-light optical studies of tissues.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Fourkas, John T. [2002]
Boston College
Citation: For his experimental and theoretical contributions in the use of nonlinear optical techniques to study dynamics in condensed phases.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fowler, Michael [1994]

Citation: For the application of the Bethe Ansatz method to the solution of challenging problems in one-dimensional systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fowles, G. Richard [1997]
Washington State University
Citation: For contributions to the education of shock compression scientists and for pioneering theoretical and experimental investigations in shock physics, including elastic-plastic shock compression.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Fox, Geoffrey Charles [1989]

Citation: For contributions centered on novel uses of computers; firstly, in the phenomenological comparison of theory and experiment in particle physics, and secondly, in the design and use of parallel computers.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fox, John [2008]
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: Division of Physics of Beams

Fox, Kenneth [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For innovative and creative contributions to theory, experiment, and astrophysical studies involving highly symmetric spherical-top molecules like methane; revealing unexpected and significant physical and astrophysical phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fox, Rodney [2007]
Iowa State University
Citation: For ground-breaking contributions to the field of turbulent reacting flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Fradkin, Eduardo Hector [1998]
University of Illinois
Citation: For the application of quantum field theory methods to condensed matter physics.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Franciosi, Alfonso [2001]
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Trieste, Italy
Citation: For his contribution to the understanding of the properties of interfaces, including semiconductor heterojunctions and metal/semiconductor contacts, and his efforts to bridge the gap between basic interface science and applications.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Francisco, Joseph S. [1998]
Purdue University
Citation: For his fundamental contributions to the theoretical and spectroscopic elucidation of critical transient species in atmospheric chemical processes.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Frank, Alejandro Hoeflich [1998]
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the development and application of algebraic models in nuclear physics, and especially to algebraic scattering theory and the discovery of scissors states in odd-mass nuclei.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Frank, Curtis W. [1988]

Citation: For innovative application of fluorescence methods to the study of polymeric systems in order to characterize their molecular environment both in solution and in the solid state.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Frank, Louis A. [1989]

Citation: For the development of a whole generation of charged-particle detectors used to measure plasma distribution functions in outer space.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Frankfurt, Leonid [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Franklin, Allan David [1988]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For his research in the history of theories and experiments in medieval and modern physics.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Franklin, Melissa E.B. [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the study of gauge bosons produced in proton-antiproton collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Franson, James [2010]
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Citation: For contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum optics and quantum information processing.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Franzini, Paolo [1991]

Citation: For forefront research over many years spanning many topics, especially classical measurements of the bound states spectroscopy of the bottom and anti-bottom quarks.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fraser, Gerald Timothy [1998]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of weak intermolecular forces, vibrational couplings, intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, and the development of the technique of electric-resonance optothermal spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Frauendorf, Stefan Gottfried [2003]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the physics of rotating nuclei via mean-field symmetries.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Frazer, William R. [1986]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions to elementary particle theory, including analysis of electromagnetic structure of nucleons which predicted the existence of the rho meson, analysis of multiparticle reactions, and work in perturbative QCD.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fredrickson, Eric [2008]
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: Division of Plasma Physics

Fredrickson, Glenn H. [1998]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For contributions to the theory of block copolymers and polymer blends.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Freedman, Daniel Z. [1986]

Citation: For important contributions to the development of supersymmetry and supergravity quantum field theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Freedman, Stuart Jay [1984]
University of California-Berkeley
Citation: For important studies of weak interactions phenomena in nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Freedman, Wendy [2011]
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Citation: For fundamental contributions in observational cosmology, including the determination of the Hubble constant.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Freeouf, John Lawrence [1990]
Oregon Health Sciences Univ
Citation: For application of surface-science techniques to the elucidation of semiconductor interfaces and for contributions to the physics of surface barriers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Freericks, James Knox [2006]
Georgetown University
Citation: For seminal results in applying dynamical mean-field theory to bulk and multilayered strongly correlated electron systems, significantly advancing our understanding of transport, light scattering, ordered phases and photoemission.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Freese, Katherine [2009]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering work on the theories of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Frenje, Johan [2012]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering development of unique neutron diagnostic methods and their utilization in inertial confinement fusion research, particularly in assessing implosion performance in fundamental and applied nuclear-science experiments
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Freund, Hans-Joachim [2001]
Fritz-Haber-Institut
Citation: In recognition of his pioneering study of the structure and dynamics of adsorbates on thin film oxide surfaces and oxide supported metal clusters and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Freund, Henry Philip [1997]
Science Applications International Corp
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of collective radiation mechanisms in plasma and relativistic electron beans, and the application of the theory to runaway electron instabilities in tokamaks and to coherent radiation sources such as Free-Electron Lases and Cerenkov Masers.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Freund, Jonathan [2011]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For his pioneering and incisive numerical simulation studies of atomic-scale and biological flows, free shear flow turbulence, and jet aeroacoustics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Friar, James Lewis [1987]
Los Alamos Natl Lab
Citation: For outstanding theoretical work leading to improved understanding of electron and photon interactions with nuclei, of relativistic and mesonic effects in nuclear physics and of the trinuclear system.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Fricke, Martin P. [1988]
No Company Provided
Citation: For research on the uses of particle beams as weapons, assessment of Soviet weapons technology, and application of physics to weapons development.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Fried, Laurence E. [2009]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: In recognition of outstanding contributions to the physics and chemistry of shocked materials, the high pressure, high temperature equations of state of solids and liquids, and the prediction of energetic material reactivity, most notably the existence of sub-picosecond chemistry in high temperature dense fluids.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Friedel, Jacques [1986]

Citation: For outstanding contributions to the microscopic description of impurities in metals and the properties of crystals, allows and surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Friedlaender, Fritz Josef [1992]
Purdue Univ
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of magnetization processes , magnetic devices, and device physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Friedland, Lazar [1994]

Citation: For pioneering work on autoresonant wave interaction, on multi-dimensional mode conversion, on order-reduction in multi-component geometric optics, and for the theory of free electron lasers with guide magnetic field.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Friedman, Alex [1996]
Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Citation: For innovations in computer modeling of fusion plasmas, laser-plasma interactions and charged particle beams, and design of high space charge accelerator components.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Friedman, Harold Leo [1987]

Citation: For pioneering work in the theory of the statistical mechanics of ionic solutions and in the application of the theory of experimental observables.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Friedman, Joel M [1984]
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Citation: For innovative applications of time resolved Raman spectroscopy to the study of structural dynamics and reactivity in hemeproteins.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Friedman, John L. [1999]
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of rotating stars, to topological aspects of general relativity, and to quantum gravity.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Friedman, William A. [1989]
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For many contributions to the understanding of statistical decay products of heavy-ion collisions, especially those involving final-state interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Frieman, Joshua Adam [1997]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: In recognition of his many contributions in the application of particle physics to early-universe cosmology.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Frisch, Henry Jonathan [1986]
Univ of Chicago
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of production of hadrons at large transverse momentum.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Frischknecht, Amalie [2012]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of ionomers and nanocomposites including the development and application of density functional theory to polymers
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Fritschel, Peter Karl [2005]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his pioneering achievements in optical metrology at the quantum limit and their application to gravitational wave detection.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Frois, Bernard [1991]

Citation: For outstanding studies of light and heavy nuclear systems using electron scattering; in particular, for demonstrating the unequivocal need for subnuclear degrees of nuclear degrees of freedom in any complete description of nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Fruchtman, Amnon [1999]
Center for Technological Education, Holon
Citation: For original theoretical contributions to the phenomenon of fast magnetic field penetration into plasmas due to the Hall field, and to the theory of free electron lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fry, Edward S. [1997]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For new optical probes and effects ranging from the foundations of quantum mechanics to ocean optics and lasing without inversion.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Fry, James Nathan [2005]
University of Florida
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of large-scale cosmological structure, emphasizing nonlinear effects and higher order correlations.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Fryer, Chris [2008]
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: Division of Astrophysics

Fryxell, Bruce [2012]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For his work disseminating computational methods to the field of astrophysics and applying these methods to a wide range of astrophysics from supernovae to X-ray binaries
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Fu, Chong Long [2008]
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: Division of Materials Physics

Fu, Guo-yong [2006]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the physics of energetic particle-driven MHD modes in tokamaks and ideal MHD stability in stellarators.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fubini, Sergio Piero [1991]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to the description of scattering processes, dual resonance models, and the algebra of currents.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Fuchs, Christopher [2012]
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Citation: For powerful theorems and lucid expositions that have expanded our understanding of quantum foundations, through his illuminating reformulation of the view that quantum states are states of knowledge, merging the Copenhagen interpretation with the interpre- tation of probabilities as degrees of belief
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Fuchs, Vladimir [1990]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of parametric instability in finite, inhomogeneous plasmas; the theory of kinetic mode conversion; and the analysis of perpendicular tail temperatures in lower hybrid current drive
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Fuda, Michael George [1997]
State University of New York, Buffalo
Citation: For the development of techniques for the analysis of the nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics of few particle systems, and their applications to strongly interacting few particle systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Fuhrer, Michael [2010]
University of Maryland, College Park
Citation: For experimental studies of the electronic transport properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fujimoto, James G. [2001]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions to ultrafast optics and optical coherence tomography.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Fujiwara, Mamoru [2009]
Osaka University
Citation: For many and continuing contributions to nuclear physics involving innovative use of high-resolution spectrometers for charge-exchange reactions, and leadership in wide-ranging international collaborations and activities.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Fuller, George M. [1994]

Citation: For work in modern nuclear astrophysics,especially the role of weak interactions in the dynamics of compact objects and in cosmology.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Fuller, Gerald G. [1993]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For significant contributions in optical rheology to elucidate the characteristics of polymer melts and solutions during flow.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Fuller, James [2010]
University of Washington
Citation: In recognition of his pivotal contributions to international arms control, nuclear disarmament, and proliferation prevention and for his leadership in educational outreach.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Fuller, Robert G. [1997]
University of Nebraska
Citation: For his development of video and computer materials for the teaching of physics and his leadership in introducing technology into the teaching of physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Fullerton, Eric Edward [1998]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For innovative contributions to understanding the growth, structural characterization, and magnetic properties of metallic thin films and superlattices.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Fulton, Theodore Alan [1983]
Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Laboratories
Citation: For his contributions to the development of Electron Spectroscopy of Chemical Analysis (ESCA).
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Fuoss, Paul Henry [1999]
AT&T Laboratories
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the science of x-ray scattering, including anomalous scattering for amorphous materials, grazing incident scattering to study monolayers on surfaces and in-situ scattering during chemical vapor deposition.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Furman, Miguel [2007]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering development and application of simulation tools for the beam-beam and electron cloud effects in colliders and storage rings.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Furnstahl, Richard J. [2001]
Ohio State University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the nuclear many-body problem, including developments in relativistic many-body theory, QCD sum roles at finite density, and effective field theory at finite density.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Fursa, Dmitry [2012]
Curtin University
Citation: For the development of the convergent close-coupling method for quasi two-electron targets
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Furtak, Tom [2010]
Colorado School of Mines
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of surface enhanced Raman scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Futrell, Jean H [2003]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of dynamics and mechanisms of charge exchange, proton-transfer, condensation and dissociation ion-molecule reactions at low and intermediate collision energy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Fye, Richard Maurice [2006]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For the pioneering development and usage of exact quantum Monte Carlo and other methods for studying models of highly correlated electrons.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Fytas, George [2004]
Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas
Citation: For his significant contributions in the dynamics of polymer solutions, blends, block copolymers and soft colloids as well as on the dynamics of amorphous polymers associated with the glass transition.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Gaarde, Mette B. [2011]
Louisianna State University
Citation: For important contributions to the macroscopic theory of high harmonic generation and attosecond light formation.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gabriel, Tony A. [1990]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For his development of analytic and numerical methods which have advanced the state-of-the-art in high-energy accelerator shielding and the design of calorimeters for physics experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gabrielse, Gerald [1991]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For innovative studies of the trapping, storage and collisions of antiprotons and the measurements of the antiproton mass.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gad-el-Hak, Mohamed [2000]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his original contributions to reactive controls of turbulent flows, pioneering work in developing laser-induced fluorescence techniques, and definitive experiments detailing fluid-compliant surface interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gadgil, Ashok J. [2001]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his outstanding work modeling air and pollutant transport inside buildings, analyzing energy issues in developing countries, and developing "UV" waterworks" for inexpensively disinfecting drinking water in such countries.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Gaeta, Alexander Luis [2005]
Cornell University
Citation: For pioneering experimental and theoretical investigations of nonlinear optical interactions in photonic crystal fibers and with ultrashort pulses in bulk media.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Gagliardi, Carl Albert [2002]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For his leadership role in measuring the ratio of the anti-down to anti-up sea quark content in the proton and in the development of new indirect techniques for nuclear astrophysics.


Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gai, Feng [2011]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the field of protein folding, in particular the innovative use of infrared spectroscopy and the novel development of vibrational probes to elucidate the fundamental folding mechanism.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Gai, Moshe [1997]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For his measurements of critical reaction rates in Nuclear Astrophysics using innovative experimental techniques, as well as his measurements of enhanced El decays in nuclei, with implications for the structure of reflexion asymmetric nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gai, Wei [2010]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the wakefield acceleration of particle beams and his leadership in the development of high current electron beams for accelerator applications.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Gaillard, Mary K [1984]
University of California-Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the phenomenology of gauge theories of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gaines, James Roland [1990]
No Company Provided
Citation: For use of magnetic-resonance techniques to investigate fundamental aspects of quantum solids vital to fusion applications and use of infrared spectroscopy to study properties of metal-insulator composites.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Gaisser, Thomas Korff [1984]
University of Delaware
Citation: For seminal contributions to our current understanding of the nature of the diverse interactions of cosmic rays with very high energies, and of their astrophysics implications.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Gaitskell, Richard [2010]
Brown University
Citation: For his leadership and outstanding contributions to experimental searches for particle dark matter by direct detection using a variety of cryogenic techniques; especially for his work in extending the sensitivity reach by utilizing the noble liquid xenon two phase method.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Galayda, John Nicolas [1996]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his key role in the design, construction, and commissioning of the National Sychrotron Light Source and the Advanced Photon Source.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Gale, Charles [2003]
McGill University
Citation: For theoretical investigations of the nuclear equation of state and electromagnetic probes of high temperature nuclear matter in heavy ion collisions.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Galik, Richard S. [2002]
Cornell University
Citation: For his many contributions to our understanding of the tau lepton, his insightful two-photon work, and his leadership in understanding and explaining the potential of the Upsilon resonances to probe meson structure and test QCD.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Galison, Peter Louis [1999]
Harvard University
Citation: For his numerous and valuable contributions to the history and theory of the working of modern, large-scale physics.


Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Gallagher, Jean Weil [1996]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For outstanding leadership and work in compiling and evaluating numeric data in atomic, molecular and optical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gallagher, Thomas F. [1980]
Univ of Virginia
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gallagher, William J. [1991]
IBM T J Watson Res Ctr
Citation: For his contributions to superconductivity and thin-film superconducting materials and devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Galli, Giulia [2003]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to the field of ab initio molecular dynamics and to the understanding of amorphous and liquid semiconductors and quantum systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Galloway, Kenneth Franklin [2002]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For extensive and substantive contributions in applied physics and engineering science that have yielded an improved understanding of radiation effects in solid-state devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Galvin, Mary E. [1999]
University of Deleware
Citation: For her contributions to the synthesis, structural understanding, and property optimization of electroluminescent polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Gambini, Rodolfo [1996]
Instituto de Fisica
Citation: For distinguished research in field theory and gravitation, notably on geometrical techniques and the loop representation of gauge theories, and for mentoring theoretical physicists in Latin America.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Gammel, Peter Ledel [1996]
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of persistent currents in superfluid 3He and vorticity in both superfluid 3He and superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gammie, Charles Forbes [2006]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For contributions to understanding the structure and implications of astrophysical turbulence, particularly in black hole magnetospheres, star forming interstellar clouds, and circumstellar disks.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Gammon, Daniel [2002]
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
Citation: For advances in the optical spectroscopy of single semiconductor quantum dots using ultrahigh spatial and spectral resolution.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gamota, George [1980]
Sci & Tech Mgmt Asso
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gan, K. K. [2005]
Ohio University
Citation: For contributions to the study of rare tau decays and for design of optical electronics for high radiation environments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ganan-Calvo, Alfonso M. [2012]
Univ de Sevilla
Citation: Novel insights, including experiments and theory, for molding fluid jets into micro jets using aerodynamic, hydrodynamic or electrical forces
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Ganesan, Venkatraghavan [2012]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For exceptional contributions to innovative computer simulation approaches and analysis of equilibrium and dynamic properties of multicomponent polymeric materials and nanocomposites
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Gangopadhyay, Shubhra Mukerjee [2003]
Texas Tech University
Citation: For basic studies of amorphous carbon with applications in microelectronics.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Ganguli, Gurudas [1997]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For being a pioneer in the study of velocity shear-induced microinstabilities and the associated mesoscale effects on the global ionospheric and magnetospheric plasma state.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gao, Bo [2009]
University of Toledo
Citation: For contributions to the quantum-defect theory of cold atom interactions and the analyses of the associated mathematical special functions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gao, Haiyan [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For her extensive contributions to understanding the quark/hadron transition region and for determinations of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Garabedian, Paul Roesel [2004]
New York University
Citation: For fundamental advances in the theory of equilibrium and stability in controlled fusion, and for outstanding contributions to the design and optimization of stellarators through innovative techniques in computational physics.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Garber, Elizabeth [1989]
No Company Provided
Citation: For her research in the history of physics, including the development of kinetic theory and molecular science in the 19th century.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Garbincius, Peter Henry [1994]

Citation: For his leadership in support of Fermilab's particle physics research program in many areas, including as Head of the Research Division, and his many contributions to Fermilab's photoproduction experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Garcia, Alejandro [2005]
University of Washington
Citation: For innovative measurements related to nuclear beta decay, fundamental interactions, neutrino detector calibrations and nuclear astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Garcia, Angel E. [1997]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the systematic study of the folding, the stability, and the dynamics of biomolecules, in particular of the role of water, using sophisticated molecular dynamics computations.


Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Garcia, Ricardo Garcia [2006]
Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, Spain
Citation: For his contributions to the development of scanning probe microscopes into multipurpose tools for nanoscale imaging, patterning and compositional analysis of polymers, biomolecules and semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Garcia De Abajo, Francisco Javier [2006]
Institute De Optica, CSIC, Spain
Citation: Nominated for his theoretical contributions to understanding various aspects of atomic collisions in solids, electron-energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), photoelectron diffraction (PD), and light interaction with nanostructures.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Gardiner, Crispin William [1983]
University of Otago
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the statistical mechanics of open systems, far from equilibrium, particularly in the case of chemical reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gardner, John Herbert [1991]
Florida State Univ
Citation: For extensive and innovative contributions to the numerical simulation of fluid and plasma flows, especially in the area of inertial confinement fusion, and for leadership in the development of numerical simulation techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gardner, Kenn Corwin Hancock [1994]

Citation: For his outstanding contributions to determinations of polymer structures by X-ray methods, especially polyamides, poly ether ketones and polysaccarides, and for his development of necessary software and instrumentation.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Garfinkle, David [2008]
Oakland University
Citation: For his numerous contributions to a wide variety of topics in relativity and semiclassical gravity.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Garg, Anupam K. [2012]
Northwestern University
Citation: For theory and predictions of molecular magnetism and macroscopic quantum phenomena
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Garg, Umesh [1999]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his pioneering studies of giant resonances and his nuclear structure investigations using gamma ray spectroscopic methods with large gamma ray detection arrays.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Garito, Anthony F. [1998]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of enhancement mechanisms for second and third order nonlinear optical processes in organic and polymer structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Garland, James Callaway [1985]
Miami University
Citation: For contributions to understanding thermoelectric phenomena in both normal metals and superconductors, especially two-dimensional thin films; and for his extensive research on electrical transport properties of inhomogeneous materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Garmire, Elsa M. [1993]
Dartmouth Coll
Citation: For contributions in nonlinear optical semiconductor effects, interactions and devices.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Garnavich, Peter [2007]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For pioneering work on the discovery of dark energy and the cosmic equation of state, along with important observvational discoveries regarding the nature of gamma ray bursts and the physics of supernova light curves.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Garofalo, Andrea M.V. [2009]
General Atomics
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of tokamak plasma stability in the presence of a conducting wall, leading to sustained operation above the free-boundary pressure limit.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Garoff, Stephen [1998]
Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For experimental studies of the dynamics of wetting.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Garren, Alper Abdy [1990]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For making major contributions to accelerator design, including the development of the first comprehensive program for lattice design and its implementation at many of the leading laboratories of the world.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Garrett, Bruce C. [1999]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the development of rate theories for polyatomic reactions in the gas-phase and the study of the kinetics of important environmental processes.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Garrett, William Ray [1991]
Tennessee State Univ
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of the theory of bound and continuous states of polar molecules and for experimental and theoretical contributions to the field of resonant nonlinear-optical phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Garrison, Barbara Jane [1993]

Citation: For pioneering computational molecular dynamics to explore the basic mechanisms of surface chemical processes associated with reactions, growth, etching and desorption which are amenable to experimental verification.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Garwin, Laura Justine [2003]
Harvard University
Citation: For her outstanding contributions in increasing the strength and prestige of physics and biological physics at Nature, and for her service to the physics and biology communities, as a bridge between these disciplines.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Gary, J. William [2005]
University of California, Riverside
Citation: For contributions to the experimental study of gluon jets and their differences from quark jets.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gary, S [2007]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his fundamental and definitive contributions to our understanding of collisionless wave-particle interactions and their effects on plasma properties in the solar atmosphere, the interplanetary medium, and all astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics

Gasparini, Francis M. [1990]
State Univ of NY - Buffalo
Citation: For contributions to the field of quantum fluids, especially He-He mixtures, and the critical behavior and finite-size scaling at the super-fluid transition of He.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gaster, Michael [1997]
Queen Mary & Westfield College
Citation: In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the understanding of transition to turbulence, vortex shedding from bluff bodies and experimental aerodynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gates, Sylvester James [1994]

Citation: For his work on the mathematical structure of supersymmetric o-models and extended supergravity theories. For his pedagogical activity in the field of theoretical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gaulin, Bruce Douglas [2005]
McMaster University
Citation: For leadership in the application of scattering techniques to problems in phase transitions and magnetism.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gauthier, Daniel Joseph [2002]
Duke University
Citation: For fundamental studies in nonlinear and quantum optics, including the development of the Raman two-photon laser and the investigation of multi-photon optical amplification processes in laser-driven atomic vapors.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gay, Timothy James [1994]

Citation: For his studies of fundamental atomic collision processes, particularly with regard to to spin-dependent effects, and for important contributions to the development of polarized electron technology.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gea-Banacloche, Julio [2004]
University of Arkansas
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of quantum-mechanical effects in the interaction of light with matter, and for his valuable service to the physics community as an associate editor of Physical Review A.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gebbie, Katherine R. [1993]

Citation: For pioneering spectroscopic and theoretical studies of radiation transport and departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium in stellar atmospheres. For leadership in strengthening ties between pure and applied atomic physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Geer, Stephen [2001]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the US effort towards a neutrino factory based on a muon storage ring.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Geesaman, Donald F. [1993]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For outstanding work on inelastic pion scattering, on the propagation of nucleons in the nuclear medium, and on parton distributions of nucleons in nuclei through deep-inelastic muon scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gehrels, Neil [1993]

Citation: For fundamental observational and theoretical studies in gamma-ray astronomy, and for the development of new detector technologies for low-background gamma-ray spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gehring, Peter Motz [2006]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For major contributions to our understanding of the lattice dynamics of relaxor ferroelectrics, and elucidating the nature of the spin dynamics of cuprate oxides by means of neutron scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gehrz, Robert D. [2004]
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of the role of classical novae in the interstellar medium, and of the properties of grains and gas in comets, interstellar clouds, and circumstellar winds.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Geisel, Theo [2008]
MPI for Dynamics & Self-Organization
Citation: For pioneering and sustained contributions to our understanding of transport in classical and quantum chaotic dynamical systems, and for applying this understanding to a broad range of real-world problems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Gekelman, Walter [1996]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For a unique, original program of complete and definitive diagnostic studies of magnetic field reconnection and current disruptions in plasmas, achieving major advances and linking space and laboratory plasma physics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gelbart, William Michael [1987]

Citation: For his many contributions to the light scattering and phase transition properties of simple fluids, liquid crystals, and surfactant solutions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gelbke, Claus Konrad [1984]
Michigan State University
Citation: For the experimental investigations of nuclear reactions between complex nuclei at intermediate energies.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Geller, Margaret J. [1995]
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Citation: For her pioneering contributions to mapping the nearby universe and elucidating the large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Gelmini, Graciela Beatriz [2004]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of cosmological dark matter, neutrino mass, and the astrophysics of the highest energy cosmic rays.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gemmell, Donald Stewart [1987]
No Company Provided
Citation: For pioneering research into ion-solid interactions, the motions of charged particles in crystals, wake effects induced in solids by swift ions, and determination of molecular structures through Coulomb explosions.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Genack, Azriel Z. [1991]
CUNY-Queens Coll
Citation: For the characterization of electromagnetic propagation in the diffusive and critical regimes and for relating key propagation phenomena to the statistics of eigenmodes of random systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de [1986]

Citation: For his pioneering and leading role in a variety of fields in condensed-matter theory and polymer physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gentile, Thomas R. [2009]
NIST
Citation: For his extensive contributions to diverse precision measurements, particularly in the development of neutron spin filters using polarized 3He and in the application of polarized 3He to precision measurements in neutron science.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Gentle, Kenneth W. [1996]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For his pioneering experiments on wave-particle and wave-wave interactions which have illuminated the fundamental nonlinear phenomena in collisionless plasmas, and for his leadership in the development of experiments which directly measure the fundamental processes of transport in Tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gentry, William Ronald [1987]

Citation: For his many contributions to our understanding of ion-molecule collisions, state-resolved molecular energy transfer, and photodissociation.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Genzel, Reinhard Ludwig [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: For important contributions in the experimental and observational astrophysics using techniques of very long baseline interferometry and spectroscopy in the infrared and submilimeter regions of the spectrum.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Genzer, Jan [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For the design, synthesis, and modeling of engineered surfaces and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Geohegan, David [2010]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering work in understanding and controlling nonequilibrium growth processes of thin films and nanomaterials through real-time laser spectroscopy, imaging, and plasma diagnostic investigations.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

George, Steven M. [1997]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For advancements in our understanding of gas-surface energy transfer dynamics, surface kinetics and diffusion processes, environmental chemistry at gas-surface interfaces, heterogeneous catalysis, and chemically controlled eptiaxy of novel thin film materials.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

George, Thomas Frederick [1984]
University of Missouri- St Louis
Citation: For development of theories to describe laser induced molecular rate processes in the gas phase and at a solid surface.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

George, William K., Jr. [1988]
Imperial Coll
Citation: For contributions to the measurement and analysis of turbulent flows, especially laser Doppler anemometry.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Georgi, Howard [1993]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For innovative work in particle physics including the standard model, QCD, SU(2)xU(1) symmetry breaking, and GUTs.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gerardo, James Bernard [1988]
No Company Provided
Citation: For scientific contributions in gaseous electronics, electron dynamics in plasmas, laser physics, plasma physics, and laser analytical measurement methods.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gerber, Cecilia [2010]
Univerity of Illinois, Chicago
Citation: For her numerous contributions to the D0 experiment, especially the implementation of the D0 muon and silicon trackers and the elucidation of the characteristics of top quarks in the strong production of top-antitop pairs and the electroweak production of single top quarks.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gerber, Christoph Emanuel [1999]
IBM Research, R|schlikon
Citation: For his outstanding original contributions to the breakthrough of STM and AFM technology and his continuing support of the science community, which led to the tremendous advancement of the technique.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Gerber, Robert Benny [1988]
Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem
Citation: For seminal contributions to understanding isolated molecule dynamics, molecule-surface interactions, and molecular relaxation phenomena, and for pioneering work on potential surface inversion from scattering and spectroscopic observations.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gerhard, Reimund [2011]
University of Postdam
Citation: For his contributions to the investigation, the understanding and the application of charge and polarization phenomena in polymer electrets and ferroelectret systems.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Germann, Timothy [2011]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the application of large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to the study of shock-induced plasticity and phase transitions in metals, as well as applications of these techniques in the development of large-scale agent-based models in computational epidemiology.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gerry, Christopher [2011]
CUNY Lehman College
Citation: For pioneering work in quantum optical interferometry using photon number parity measurements, quantum state engineering for superpositions of macroscopically distinguishable states, and application of group theoretical methods to quantum optics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gershenfeld, Neil [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For significant contributions ranging from quantum computing to advanced technologies for global development and for leadership in bringing science out of the laboratory and into the real world.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Gershenson, Michael [2007]
Rutgers University
Citation: For experimental studies of quantum transport and dephasing processes in disordered low-dimensional electronic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gershoni, David [2004]
Technion, Israel
Citation: For pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of the optical properties of nanostructured semiconductors, including nanowires and single self-assembled quantum dots.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gharib, Morteza [1998]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For his innovative experimental techniques, such as digital particle-image velocimetry and soap film tunnel, and for his fundamental contributions to the study of vorticity dynamics in wakes, free-surface and cardiac flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Ghiorso, Albert [1986]

Citation: For his discovery, with coworkers, of twelve transuranium elements (atomic numbers 96-106, inclusive) and the determination of their radioactive decay properties.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ghosal, Sandip [2011]
Northwestern University
Citation: For insightful mathematical models of multi-physics and multi-scale fluid flow phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Giacomelli, Giorgio M. [1993]

Citation: For definitive measurements of total and elastic hadronic cross sections from MeV to TeV energies, systematic monopole searches and important pedagogic contributions through review articles and lecture courses.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Giaime, Joseph A. [2009]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For his contributions to gravitational wave physics, in particular key aspects of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Giannetta, Russell [2007]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For significant advances in experimental techniques for measuring the superconducting penetration depth and their application for elucidating the pariing symmetry and electronic structure of unconventional superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gianturco, Franco Antonio [1988]
Univ of Roma
Citation: For extensive innovative research carried out in several diverse areas in the theory of molecular processes involving electrons, photons, atoms, and ions interacting with molecules, focusing on collision dynamics and intermolecular forces.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gibbard, Bruce [2004]
Brookhaven National Labs
Citation: For leadership in planning and implementing large-scale computing facilities for high-energy and nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gibble, Kurt E. [2005]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For innovative contributions to laser-cooled atomic clocks and ultra-cold atom-atom scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gibbs, Laurence Doon [1996]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For development of x-ray magnetic scattering techniques and contributions to the understanding of the structure and phase behavior of metal surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gibbs, William Royal [1984]
New Mexico State University
Citation: For furthering the understanding of hadron nucleus scattering and reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gibson, J. Murray [1989]
Northeastern Univ
Citation: For uses of electron microscopy of elucidate the relation between atomic structure and physical properties in condensed matter systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gidal, George [1988]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For significant experimental contributions to the physics of weak interactions, meson nucleon inelastic scattering, and photon-photon interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Giddings, Steven [2012]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For his wide ranging contributions to gravitational physics at its intersection with elementary particle physics, especially his work on the quantum properties of black holes in the universe and in accelerators
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Gidley, David W. [2001]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the physics of positronium including precision measurement of the singlet and triplet state lifetimes and for his development of applications and techniques using positrons for the study of materials.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Giele, Walter [2011]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his detailed investigation of the perturbative structure of QCD, and the performance of calculations that have significantly increased the discovery potential of hadron colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Giese, Clayton Frederick [1988]

Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of fundamental atomic and molecular interactions, and his development of new experimental techniques for the study of molecular collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gilbert, Pupa [2010]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For contributions to synchrotron spectromicroscopy and its application to cancer therapy, tribology, and biomineralization.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gilbert, Walter [1998]
Harvard University
Citation: For fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Gilbody, H. Brian [1986]
Queens Univ of Belfast
Citation: In recognition of twenty years of dependable reliable measurements of ion-atom collision cross-sections.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gilchriese, Murdock Gordon Douglas [1988]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to the study of weak decays of the b quark, studies of the upsilon resonances and detector development for present and future colliding beam experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gilgenbach, Ronald Matthew [1996]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering experimental research on electron cyclotron resonance heating in a tokamak, preionization by gyrotrons, electron beam transport and instabilities, and diagnostics of laser-ablated plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gillaspy, John Dale [2004]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For providing fundamental insights into the radiation and collisional properties of very highly charged ions through pioneering research with an Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT).
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gillies, George [2007]
University of Virginia
Citation: For enduring contributions to the development of magnetic stereotaxis. His inventions already are guiding catheters to critical regions of the human heart. Current research may lead to delivery of medications to the brain as well.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Gillmor, Charles Stewart [1992]
Wesleyan Univ
Citation: For his research in electricity, geophysics, and ionospheric physics, and for his service to the Division of the History of Physics.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Gilman, Ronald [2003]
Rutgers University
Citation: For his studies of the transition region between pion/nucleon and quark/gluon degrees of freedom via recoil proton polarization measurements.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Gilmer, Goerge Hudson [1987]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of atomistic phenomena in materials through computer simulations: crystal growth, the surface roughening transition, surface diffusion, and grain boundary diffusion.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gingras, Michel J.P. [2011]
University of Waterloo
Citation: For the theory of geometrically-frustrated magnetic materials and the spin ice ground state in pyrochlore magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ginley, David [2011]
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Citation: For sustained scientific contributions in the broad area of solar energy conversion devices and services to the physics community, including chairing and organizing a series of focus sessions on energy related topics and giving invited talks and active participation in outreach to young physicists.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Ginocchio, Joseph Natale [1984]
Los Alamos National Lab
Citation: For important contributions to the theoretical understanding of collective modes of nuclear excitations.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ginsparg, Paul [2000]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his work relating to chiral symmetry on the lattice, for fundamental contributions to string theory, and for establishment and development of the revolutionary "Los Alamos E-Print Archive.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Ginter, Marshall Lloyd [1985]
University of Maryland, College Park
Citation: For exemplary contributions to atomic and molecular spectroscopy and structure and for exceptional leadership in the field of vacuum ultraviolet physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ginzburg, Vitaly L [2003]
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Citation: For his major contributions to the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Giordano, Nicholas Joseph [1991]
Purdue Univ
Citation: For his seminal work on electrical conduction in one and two dimensional systems, including his fundamental studies of weak localization, electron-electron interactions, conductance fluctuations, and super-conductivity in these systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Girimaji, Sharath [2007]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For important contributions to the fundamental understanding of elementary turbulence processes; and, based on this improved knowledge, for the development of widely-used engineering closure models for turbulence and turbulent mixing.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Girvin, Steven Mark [1989]
Yale Univ
Citation: For theoretical contributions to the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gittleman, Bernard [1987]

Citation: For contributions to the design of storage rings and detectors as well as for contributions to the understanding of the physics of the production and decay of B mesons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Giuliani, Gabriele F. [2006]
Purdue University
Citation: For his many contributions to the theory of the electron liquid and in particular to its modern formation in terms of many-body local fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Givi, Peyman [2007]
University of Pittsburgh
Citation: For pioneering computational research on turbulent reactive flows, and especially for the development of the filtered density function methodol-ogy.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gladding, Gary Earle [1999]
University of Illinois
Citation: For leadership, pedagogical insights and creativity in adapting best-practice physics pedagogy to produce an innovative, integrated curriculum for calculus-based introductory physics courses appropriate for large research universities.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Glasmacher, Thomas [2005]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his important contributions to in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy with fast beams of rare isotopes.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Glass, Leon [1999]
McGill University
Citation: For development and application of methods of nonlinear dynamics to study physiological dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Glasser, Alan Herbert [1999]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the theory of toroidal ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and their applications to plasma confinement for magnetic fusion energy research.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Glauser, Mark [2007]
Syracuse University
Citation: For his innovative use of multi-point low-dimensional methods to elucidate key physics associated with time dependent flow phenomena for flow control applications in turbulent jets, shear layers and separated flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Glazier, James Alexander [2006]
Indiana University
Citation: For his contributions to the development of the field of biological physics through the Cellular Potts Model and the modeling of limb development and angiogenesis.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Glazman, Leonid I. [1997]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For contributions to theories of electron transport and correlations in mesoscopic and low dimensional systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gleiser, Marcelo [1999]
Dartmouth College
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to early universe cosmology.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Gleiser, Reinaldo Jaime [1997]
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argenti
Citation: For his role in the development of physics in Cordoba, and for his contributions to the application of exact solutions to Einstein equations and gravitational radiation theory.


Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Glembocki, Orest Jaroslaw [1996]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions in the field of optical properties of solids, especially photoreflectance of semiconductor microstructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Glendinning, Sharon Gail [1998]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For clear and illuminating experimental investigations of ablation-front Rayleigh-Taylor instability, laser imprinting, and nonlinear hydrodynamic instabilities relevant to inertial confinement fusion, high energy-density physics and astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Glenzer, Ari [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For in-depth insight into flow structure through innovative experiments, and the creation of fundamentally new approaches to flow control, leading to the dramatic alteration of the underlying physics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Glenzer, Siegfried H. [2001]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of Thomson Scattering for the diagnostics of high temperature inertial confinement fusion plasmas and for important contributions to understanding of plasma waves, atomic physics, and hydrodynamics of hot dense plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Glenzinski, Douglas [2012]
Fermilab
Citation: For his leadership on many levels of the CDF experiment including the construction and commissioning of the intermediate silicon detector (ISL) effort, serving as physics coordinator as well as his many physics contributions to the characterization of the top quark and search for new physics in the B_s channel
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Glockle, Walter [1990]

Citation: For significant contributions to formal scattering theory and for his prodigious efforts in numerically solving the equations of few-nucleon and few-atom bound and scattering states.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Glotzer, Sharon C. [2006]
University of Michigan
Citation: For her pioneering simulations of glass-forming liquids, self-assembled nanomaterials and complex fluids, and for her leadership and service to the computational science community.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Glownia, James Henry [1994]

Citation: For the discovery and development of UV and VUV ultrafast laser sources, and for advances in femtosecond-time-domain studies of elementary chemical reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Gluskin, Efim [2000]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the development, construction and characterization of insertion devices for 3rd generation synchrotron radiation sources and free-electron lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Glyde, Henry Russell [1987]
Univ of Delaware
Citation: For fundamental and continuing contributions to the understanding of dynamics of quantum solids and fluids and of the nature of anharmonic phonons in solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Godyak, Valery A. [1990]
No Company Provided
Citation: For pioneering contributions tot he understanding and characterization of rf discharge phenomena, particularly the concepts of oscillating rf sheaths and stochastic electron heating in capacitive rf discharges.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Goebel, Dan M. [2012]
Jet Propulsion Lab
Citation: For the invention, development, and fielding of novel plasma devices used in science and industry, including magnetic fusion, propulsion, microwave-source, and semiconductor-processing research
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Goedeceker, Stefan A. [2008]
University of Basel
Citation: For his pioneering development of efficient linear scaling and low complexity algorithms for electronic structure calculations and atomistic simulations.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gold, Steven Harvey [1998]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to research on high power, coherent radiation sources driven by intense, relativistic electron beams, including millimeter-wave free-electron lasers, gyrotron oscillators and amplifiers, and the magnicon.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Goldbart, Paul Mark [2001]
University of Illinois
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of disordered solids and to the elucidation of the role of geometric phases in mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldberg, Bennett [2008]
Boston University
Citation: For the development and application of nanoscale optical spectroscopy to semiconductors and biological systems and for the commitment to improving urban education.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldberg, Marvin [1999]
National Science Foundation
Citation: For his distinguished career in elementary particle research, including the discovery of the Omega Minus baryon, and other discoveries in meson spectroscopy, science education, and service to the community.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Golden, Kenneth Ivan [1991]
Univ of Vermont
Citation: For pioneering work in the theory of dynamical processes in strongly coupled plasmas; for extending the theory to the analysis of binary ion mixtures and of two dimensional electron systems; for contributions to the theory of the structure of shock waves in magnetized plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Goldenfeld, Nigel David [1995]
University of Illinois
Citation: For his contribution to theory of non equilibrium systems, and pairing states in high temperature superconductivity.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldhirsch, Isaac [2001]
Tel-Aviv University
Citation: For seminal contributions in the field of granular fluids and fundamental contributions in magnetism, solid-state physics, dynamical systems and hydrodynamics.


Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Golding, Brange, Jr. [1980]
Michigan State Univ
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldman, Alan Ira [1999]
Iowa State University
Citation: For X-ray diffraction measurements elucidating the nature of quasicrystals, and for advances in magnetic X-ray scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldman, Allen Marshall [1984]
University of Minnisota-Minneapolis
Citation: For fundamental experimental investigation of the superconducting state using thin film techniques which have led to discoveries relating both to the dynamics of superconductors and to the superconducting phase transition.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldman, Jack Terrance [1999]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his many noteworthy contributions to our understanding of the structure and interactions of hadrons, and particularly for his work on the charge dependence of nuclear forces.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Goldman, Rachel [2012]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding of strain relaxation, alloy formation, and diffusion, and their applications to nanostructure processing
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Goldman, Vladimir Joseph [1998]
SUNY
Citation: For experimental studies of quantum Hall systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goldstein, David [1994]

Citation: For playing a leading role in enactment of energy efficiency laws and regulations in the United States.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Goldstein, Marvin E [1984]
NASA Glenn Res Center
Citation: For his outstanding contributions in aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, and stability and receptivity theory which have significantly advanced these disciplines and have enhanced our understanding of unsteady flow phenomena
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Goldstein, Raymond E. [2002]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to theoretical and experimental studies of nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation in physical and biological systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Goldstein, Richard Jay [1989]

Citation: For significant contributions to our knowledge of fluid mechanics through development of precision systems and their application to studies of important physical phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Goldston, Robert James [1987]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For outstanding theoretical and experimental contributions to the understanding of transport and heating of tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Goldstone, Jeffrey [1987]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his contributions to particle and nuclear many body theory in establishing rigorous diagrammatic methods for the many body problem and for discovering the fundamental role in the zero mass excitations in spontaneously broken symmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gole, James L [2003]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering studies of dynamics and ultrafast energy transfer in highly exothermic metal/metal cluster oxidation reactions, the development of Visible Chemical Laser Amplifiers, and the characterization of Chemically Induced Raman Pumping.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Golowich, Eugene [2008]
University of Massachusetts
Citation: For extensive contributions to the development and understanding of the Standard Model, particularly through the calculations elucidating the interplay of the strong and weak interactions and the application of chiral and dispersive methods.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Golub, Robert [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For pioneering research in studies of the neutron electric dipole moment, for development of the superthermal technique for production of ultracold neutrons, and for development of new methods in neutron spin echo research.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Golubovic, Leonardo [2005]
West Virginia University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including prediction and elucidation of the properties of novel partially ordered phases in Liquid Crystal Elastomers and DNA-lipid membrane complexes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goncharov, Valeri [2007]
University of Rochester
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and for development of a technique to reduce the growth of these instabilities by means of adiabat shaping, enhancing the potential of direct-drive ICF to achieve very high performance.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gong, Xingao [2009]
Fudan University
Citation: For innovative theoretical studies of the properties of clusters and wires, development of theoretical treatments of pressure effects on materials, and for tireless promotion of international collaborations in computational materials physics.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Gonzalez, Gabriela [2007]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For her experimental contributions to the field of gravitational wave detection, her leadership in the analysis of LIGO data for gravitational wave signals, and for her skill in communicating the excitement of physics to students and the public.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Gonze, Xavier [2007]
University of Catholique de Louvain
Citation: For contributions to density-functional perturbation theory and its application to dielectric properties, and for leadership in open-source software development for the electronic structure community.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Goode, Phillip R. [2004]
Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Citation: For outstanding research in studies of solar structure and oscillations, in earthshine measurements of the global reflectance, and for critical national and international research leadership in solar astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Goodkind, John M. [1986]
Univ of California - San Diego
Citation: For the investigation of the properties of liquid and solid, 3He, and for contributions to the development and application of nuclear cooling and superconducting devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goodman, Alan Leonard [1992]
Tulane Univ
Citation: For the microscopic description of sudden transitions in single-particle and collective nuclear properties at high spins and moderate temperature.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Goodman, Jordan A. [1997]
University of Maryland
Citation: For many important contributions to the ground-based studies of high-energy cosmic rays and gamma rays, in particular, the development and utilization of extensive air-shower detectors.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Goodman, Mark [2001]
Department of State
Citation: For scholarship and diplomacy to control nuclear materials for preventing nuclear proliferation.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Goodman, Maury C. [2008]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to experimental neutrino physics, especially the initiation of worldwide programs of accelerator long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and of the new generation of reactor experiments to measure the theta-13 neutrino mixing parameter.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Goodrich, Roy Gordon [1993]

Citation: For pioneering studies of the Fermi surface properties of metals and low-temperature superconductors and artificially-layered thin-film structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gopalan, Venkatraman [2012]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his insightful use of symmetry combined with optical and scanning probe methods to better understand domain walls and the influence of defects, rotations, and strain on ferroelectrics and multiferroics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Gor'kov, Lev Petrovich [1997]
Florida State University
Citation: For the quantum field formulation of the theory of superconductivity.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gordon, Joseph Grover, II [2000]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the study of electrified interfaces through the development and application of techniques for in-situ vibrational spectroscopy and structural characterization.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Gordon, Mark S. [2000]
Iowa State University
Citation: For the development of methods that extend the size of chemical systems that can be treated using ab initio electronic structure theory and methods that interface quantum chemistry with dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gordon, Robert J. [1996]
University of Illinois
Citation: For the development for both active and passive control over the rates and branching ratios of molecular reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Goree, John A. [2001]
University of Iowa
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the physics of dusty plasmas, including experimental and simulation studies of Coulomb crystal formation and structure, dust-acoustic waves, and the experimental discovery of Mach cones.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gorelenkov, Nikolai [2012]
Princeton University
Citation: For ground-breaking research on predictions and observations of energetic-particle-driven electromagnetic instabilities in magnetically-confined toroidal plasmas
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gornik, Erich [1994]

Citation: For contributions in semiconductor physics, particularly far-infrared emission spectroscopy, development of tunable far-infrared semiconductor laser, and tunneling spectroscopy in low-dimensional structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goshaw, Alfred T. [1998]
Duke University
Citation: For broad contributions to the study of the strong interactions in high energy hadron collisions, and for his leadership in particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gottesman, Daniel [2012]
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Citation: For his pioneering theoretical work on quantum computation and cryptography, in particular laying the foundations of quantum error correction and rigorously extending the theory of fault tolerant quantum computation
Nominated by: Topical Group on Quantum Information

Gottlieb, Steven A. [1994]

Citation: For leadership in large scale computations of hadronic properties, including the calculation of coupling constants, the mass spectrum, and the quark gluon plasma.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gottscho, Richard Alan [1988]
No Company Provided
Citation: For new insights into the mechanisms of radiofrequency plasmas, and for new spectroscopic techniques for their characterization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gould, Christopher Robert [1992]
North Carolina State Univ
Citation: For contributions to the study of the neutron-nucleus interaction and fundamental symmetries through experiments employing polarized neutron beams and cryogenically orientated targets.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gould, Harvey Allen [1995]
Clark University
Citation: For his work in statistical and computational physics, specifically his studies of clusters and the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, and for his work on introducing computer simulations and computational methods into the undergraduate curriculum and to a wider scientific audience.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gould, Harvey Allen [1988]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For contributions to understanding strong-field QED effects in highly ionized atoms and for setting the experimental upper limit on the electron electric dipole moment.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Gould, Phillip L. [1997]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For his pioneering research in the use of lasers for diffracting and manipulating atoms, cooling trapped atoms to ultracold temperatures, ultracold atomic collisions and developing techniques for photoassociative molecular spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Gourlay, Stephen [2009]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his intellectual leadership and technical achievements in the design, fabrication and testing of high field superconducting accelerator magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Gourley, Paul Lee [1994]

Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding and application of artificially structured and bulk semiconductor materials through the use of laser/optical spectroscopies and microscopies.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Gover, A. [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For outstanding scientific achievements and leadership in international cooperation in the area of Free Electron Lasers.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Govorov, Alexandre O. [2012]
Ohio University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of optical properties of semiconductor and metal nanostructures, including elucidation of the optical Aharonov-Bohm and nonlinear Fano effects
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Goyal, Amit [2008]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For leadership and pioneering contributions to the invention, research, and development of high-performance, high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires, culminating in over 50 issued patents and the subsequent technology transfer to the industry.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Grady, Dennis Edward [1989]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his creative leadership in carrying out constitutive property measurements and his incisive modeling of dynamic yielding and fragmentation of earth materials.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Graham, Michael [2011]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For diverse contributions to the understanding of complex fluids, including the flow of polymer solutions in confined geometries, the nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flows at low and high Reynolds numbers, and the collective dynamics of swimming microorganisms.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Graham, William George [1996]
Queen's University
Citation: For significant contributions towards the measurement of atomic collision processes, particularly recombination, in nuclear fusion plasmas, and to the understanding of atomic collision processes in low-temperature plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Granick, Steve [1992]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: With elegant experiments, he has pioneered the study of polymer surface dynamics, both in the melt and in solution.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Grannis, Paul Dutton [1987]
State Univ of NY- Stony Brook
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of high energy hadron collisions and the development of experimental facilities for their study.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Grant, Edward Robert [1991]
Univ of British Columbia
Citation: For developing new experimental methods in multiresonant photoionization, and for the application, of semiclassical formalisms to model electronically nonadiabatic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Grant, Paul Michael [1997]
Electric Power Research Institute
Citation: For contributions to the fields of organic conductors and high temperature superconductivity.


Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Gratta, Giorgio [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For leadership and vision in the development of experiments to probe neutrino phenomena, including lepton mixing, geoneutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gratton, Enrico [1991]

Citation: For experimental and theoretical contributions to fluorescence spectroscopy and the elucidation of biomolecular dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Gray, Eoin Wedderburn [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his many contributions to the physics and chemistry of arcing at atmospheric pressure and their applications to industrial systems.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Gray, George Thompson [2006]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of soft shock recovery techniques leading to significant advances in our understanding of defect generation and storage, and tensile failure of shock compressed materials.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Gray, Kenneth E. [1998]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of non-equilibrium superconductivity.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gray, Stephen [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For major contributions to theoretical chemical dynamics and to the understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with nanoparticles.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gray, Tom J. [1987]
No Company Provided
Citation: For pioneering work in the use of heavy-ion beams to probe ion-atom collision processes, including inner-shell ionization, slow recoil ion production, and low and intermediate velocity electron capture.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Greaves, Roderick George [2006]
First Point Scientific, Inc
Citation: For the development of new methods to create positron plasmas and beams, including those of technological importance, and seminal studies of positron plasmas and the electron-positron plasma system.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Grebogi, Celso [1991]

Citation: For contributions to the fundamental aspects and significant applications of chaotic dynamics, and in the development of novel and effective computer techniques for the numerical study of dynamical systems.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Green, Daniel [1991]

Citation: For his leadership in particle physics experiments including the muon-system for the Fermilab Do detector, the SSC, the Solenoid Detector Collaboration, and in several physics administrative positions at the Laboratory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Green, Peter Fitzroy [1995]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of block copolymer, homopolymer melts and polymer blends and to the behavior of block copolymers near surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Greenbaum, Elias [1983]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For his application of high temperature solid state electrolytes and gas sensitive semiconductors to fundamental studies on the kinetics and mechanism of light activated water splitting in photosynthetic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Greenbaum, Elias [1983]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his application of high temperature solid sate electrolytes and gas sensitive semiconductors to fundamental studies on the kinetics and mechanism of light activated water splitting in photosynthetic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Greenbaum, Steven [2010]
CUNY, Hunter College
Citation: For pioneering advances in NMR spectroscopy applied to transport measurements leading to improved molecular level understanding of function and failure mechanisms in lithium ion batteries and fuel cells and innovative and sustained enhancement of participation in physics by under represented groups.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Greenberger, Daniel M. [1999]
City College of New York
Citation: For his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, particularly by proposing and explaining novel experiments in neutron interferometry and multi-particle quantum entanglement.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Greene, Chris H. [1989]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For his generalization of quantum defect theory to non-Coulombic potentials and his development of successive eigenchannel R-matrix methods for the calculation of photoionization cross-sections of complex atomic species with spectroscopic accuracy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Greene, Geoffrey L. [1995]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For contributions to precision measurements on the free neutron, in particular, the determination of the neutron lifetime.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Greene, Joseph E. [1998]
University of Illinois
Citation: For original contributions to the experimental development, modeling, and understanding of Si, Ge, and Si(1-x)Ge(x) atomic-layer epitaxy and gas-source molecular-beam epitaxy.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Greene, Laura H. [1993]

Citation: For work on the physics of novel materials, in particular physical properties of high-temperature superconductors and artificially-layered thin-film structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Greene, Richard L. [1980]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Greenwald, Martin J. [2000]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his insightful experimental contributions and scientific leadership in plasma transport research, and his formulation of the empirical tokamak density limit as a consequence of underlying transport processes.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Greer, Sandra Charlene [1986]
Mills College
Citation: For seminal contributions to experimental thermodynamics leading to new understanding of phase transitions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Grein, Christoph [2012]
University of Illinois, Chicago
Citation: For achievements in novel superlattice-based infrared detectors and emitters
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Grest, Gary Stephen [1989]
Sandia Natl Labs
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the kinetics of domain growth, amorphous glasses, disordered magnets, and polymer dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Greven, Martin [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For establishing a stellar record in growth and perfection of high quality crystals of oxide superconductors, which have permitted both his inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering experiments, and a host of other experiments (STM, ARPES, and optical measurements) by his collaborators which led to a number of important advances in the field.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Greywall, Dennis Stanley [1986]
No Company Provided
Citation: For setting standards of precision and elegance in the study of quantum fluids and solids at low and ultra-low temperatures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Grieger, Gunter [1993]
Max Planck Inst Plasmaphysik
Citation: For his leading scientific role in the development of the stellarator concept and his contributions to the development of next-generation tokamaks and fusion reactors.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Griest, Kim [2001]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to understanding the nature of dark matter, including the theory of relic abundance and detection of particle dark matter, and the theory, discovery, and interpretation of gravitational microlensing.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Griffin, Allan [2003]
University of Toronto
Citation: For fundamental theoretical studies on Bose-Einstein condensation and the collective excitations in superfluid He4 and trapped atomic gases.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Griffin, Donald Christian [1995]
Rollins College
Citation: For theoretical developments in the fields of relativistic atomic structure and electron collisions with atomic ions, as well as contributions to undergraduate science education.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Griffin, James Edward [1992]

Citation: For conception and development of numerous techniques for manipulation of particles in longitudinal phase space leading to successful operation of the fermilab proton-antiproton colliding beam program.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Griffioen, Keith A. [2006]
College of William and Mary
Citation: For definitive experimental studies of the spin structure of the proton and neutron, both in the perturbative, deep-inelastic regime, and in the non-perturbative resonance region.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Griffiths, David J. [2009]
Reed College
Citation: For advancing the upper level physics curriculum through the writing of leading textbooks and through his contributions to the American Journal of Physics in many editorial roles and as an author.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Grigera, J. Raul [2001]
IFLTSIB
Citation: For his role in developing the SPC/E model of water, which is perhaps the most widely used one in computer simulation of biological systems, and for his application to unveiling the structure of hydrated biomolecules.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Grimes, Charles C. [1980]
No Company Provided
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Grimes, Steven M. [1980]
Ohio Univ
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Grimm, Rudolf [2007]
Institute for Experimental Physics
Citation: For fundamental contributions in experimental atomic physics with quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi gases, in particular Bose Einstein condensation of molecules, Cooper pairing of cold fermionic atoms, Efimov states, and repulsively bound atom pairs in optical lattices.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Grimmeiss, Hermann G. [1989]
Lund Univ/Lund Inst of Tech
Citation: For experimental investigations of impurities in semiconductors through the innovative use of a wide range of techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Grimsditch, Marcos Hugo [1995]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For significant insights into elastic properties, magnetic excitations and phase transitions of solids and their heterostructures obtained through a skillful application of inelastic light scattering techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Grindlay, Jonathan E [1984]
Harvard-Smithsonian
Citation: For research and discoveries concerning galactic X-ray sources, particularly 'X-ray bursters' and sources located in globular clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Grinstein, Benjamin [1997]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For his outstanding contribution to the development of heavy quark effective field theories and their applications in search of the origin of CP violation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Grinstein, Fernando F. [2011]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding technical leadership in the formalization, development, and validation of novel large-eddy simulation strategies, and for their application to transitional and turbulent flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Grinstein, Geoffrey Mark [1985]
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the phases and phase transitions of quenched disordered systems and liquid crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Griscom, David Lawrence [1995]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the analysis and interpretation of electron spin resonance spectra of transition-group ions, radiation-induced point defects, and ferromagnetic precipitates in glass.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Grobe, Rainer [2002]
Illinois State University
Citation: For pioneering theoretical contributions to the understanding of one- and two-electron systems in intense, short-pulse laser fields and propogation of coupled laser pulses in multi-level dielectric material.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Groebner, Richard Joseph [1994]

Citation: For significant experimental contributions to our knowledge of anomalous ion thermal transport and changes in the edge radial electric field at the L-H transition in tokamaks.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Groeneveld, Karl Ontjes [1999]
Wolfgang Goethe Universitdt
Citation: For ingenious, inventive, pioneering, and creative exploration of several previously non-existent interfaces among atomic collisions in dilute gases vis-`-vis solids surfaces, and superconductors consistently generated over more than two decades.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Gronbech-Jensen, Niels [2010]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For his development and application of new computational algorithms and tools in Biological and Condensed Matter Physics, especially those involving massively parallel molecular dynamics, electrostatic interactions, ion implantation, and nonlinear physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gronlund, Lisbeth Dagmar [2001]
Union of Concerned Scientists
Citation: In recognition of her many important contributions to arms control, including work on missile defense, missile capabilities and the nuclear fuel cycle as it relates to proliferation, made possible by her ability to analyze technical issues and by her community.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Groom, Donald E. [1999]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For original contributions to the study of cosmic rays, hadronic cascades, radiation at the SSC, CCD's for astronomical imaging, and to the Review of Particle Physics.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Grosberg, Alexander Yu [2004]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For fundamental contributions in the statistical physics of macromolecules, including pioneering results in phase transitions, quenched disorder, and topology of polymers and biopolymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Gross, Carl J. [2009]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For enabling the studies of most exotic atomic nuclei through the invention and implementation of novel experimental methods.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Grotberg, James Bernard [2002]
University of Michigan
Citation: For the identification and quantification of physical mechanisms in pulmonary fluid mechanics including wheezes, high-frequency ventilation, and surfactant transport.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gruebele, Martin [2002]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For pioneering the field of the study of the early events in protein folding using laser temperature jump initiation and fluorescence lifetime detection.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Grun, Jacob NMI [1992]

Citation: For significant advances in the understanding of laser-ablative acceleration, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and turbulence of matter.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Grunder, Hermann A. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gruner, George [1987]

Citation: For his experimental studies of the Kondo problem and the dynamics of charge-density-wave and spin-density-wave ground states.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gruner, Sol Michael [1990]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of structure and function of biomembranes. his research has provided insight on the physical basis of lyotropic mesomorphism.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Gschneidner, Karl A., Jr. [2002]
Iowa State University
Citation: For contributions to the scientific understanding and applications of rare earth elements, their alloys and compounds.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Gu, Genda [2011]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the synthesis of high quality single crystals for experimental research, particularly the high Tc superconducting cuprates.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Guazzelli, Elisabeth [2008]
CNRS-Paris
Citation: For extensive and careful experiments revealing complex phenomena in mobile particulate systems.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gubernatis, James Edward [1993]

Citation: For his contributions to the methodology and the application of quantum simulation techniques to interacting electron problems in condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gubser, Donald U. [1980]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Guenther, Bob D. [1996]
Army Research Office
Citation: For seminal contributions to the fields of quantum electronics and optics, including the development of the use of lasers for enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, and for contributions to education in optics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Guenza, Marina [2011]
University of Oregon
Citation: For significant contributions to the field of polymer physics through the development of theoretical methods to study macromolecular structure and dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Guha, Supratik [2009]
IBM T.J. Watson Res Ctr
Citation: For his leadership in semiconductor materials and devices and, in particular, for providing the scientific and technological underpinnings of the high dielectric constant gate stack scheduled to replace the venerable silicon dioxide gate film in field effect transistor products in IBM.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Gullion, Terry W. [2012]
West Virginia University
Citation: For creation, development, and numerous applications of solid-state NMR techniques for measuring distances between nuclear spins in biological, polymeric, and inorganic rotating solids
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Gumbs, Godfrey Anthony [2004]
Hunter College, City University of New York
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of the optical and transport properties of semiconductor heterostructures and the electronic properties of Fibonacci superlattices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gundlach, Jens H. [2009]
University of Washington
Citation: In recognition of his unique and outstanding contributions to precision mechanical measurements and our quantitative understanding of the strength of gravity.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Gunion, John Francis [1989]
Univ of California - Davis
Citation: In recognition of fundamental and pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of quantum chromodynamics, electroweak symmetry breaking, and supersymmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gunnarsson, Olle R. L. [1999]
Max-Planck-Insititut
Citation: For work on the theory of photoemission spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gunner, Marilyn [2007]
City College of New York
Citation: For her work in both experimental and theoretical studies of electron and proton transfer processes in proteins, in particular for her beautiful work coupling the theory of electrostatic interactions to the dynamics of charge transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers , and in recognition of her service to the Division of Biological Physics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Gunshor, Robert L. [1990]
No Company Provided
Citation: For creative and pioneering contributions to heteroepitaxy, LL-VI semiconductors accomplished though imaginative applications of molecular-beam epitaxy.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Guntherodt, Gernot [2009]
Physikal Instit IIA
Citation: For important contribution to the fields of Half Metallic Ferromagnets, Ultrathin Magnetic Films, Magnetic Semiconductors and Exchange Bias.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Gunton, James Douglas [1990]
Lehigh Univ
Citation: For contributions to the field of the kinetics of first-order phase transitions, particular through numerical studies of microscopic and continuum models or phase separation.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Guo, Chunlei [2012]
University of Rochester
Citation: For pioneering contributions in laser-matter interactions and applications, including the discoveries of the black and colored metals and exploring their wide range of applications
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Guo, Guang-Yu [2005]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of relativity-induced phenomena in magnetic solids and physical properties of materials including transition metal oxides and carbon nanotube structures, through first-principles electronic structure calculations.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Guo, Hong [2004]
McGill University, Canada
Citation: For pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational modeling of quantum transport in nanoelectronic systems.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Gupta, Arunava [1998]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Cntr
Citation: For contributions to the development of pulsed laser deposition techniques, the use of this technique for the production of materials with novel physical properties, and for original contributions to the understanding of nonequilibrium film-growth mechanisms.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Gupta, Devendra [1990]
IBM T J Watson Res Ctr
Citation: For extensive contribution in the field of diffusion in diverse materials during a research career of over 30 years, and for the introduction of novel techniques for measurements of small diffusion coefficients which are currently being used worldwide.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Gupta, Rajan [1994]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to numerical simulations in lattice quantum chromodynamics and the Monte Carlo renormalization group.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gupta, Rajendra [1998]
University of Arkansas
Citation: For the first Doppler-free spectroscopy of optically inaccessible states of alkali atoms, for the most complete study of photothermal technique in flowing fluids, and for innovative use of photothermal technique to combustion diagnostics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Gupta, Yogendra Mohan [1991]
Washington State Univ
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to two of the most fundamental problems of shock-compression science: characterization of the time-varying stress states of solids and correlation of macroscopic changes with microscopic properties in condensed media.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Gurevich, Alexander V. [2008]
Florida State University
Citation: For significant contributions to the theory of superconductivity, particularly the effect of crystalline defects on critical currents, vortex dynamics, and upper critical fields of high-temperature superconductors and MgB2.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gurnett, Donald A. [1987]
Univ of Iowa
Citation: For discovery and study of virtually all of the waves of plasma physics in the solar wind and in the vicinity of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gurney, Bruce Alvin [1999]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For leadership in the invention, implementation, and investigation of spin valve and giant magnetoresistive materials for recording sensors, and innovations in spin dependent transport and other phenomena in ferromagnetic layered structures.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Gursey, Feza [1986]

Citation: For important contributions to symmetries of particles through the use of Group Theory; the introduction of chiral symmetry and the SU(6) symmetry of the quark model; and the introduction of exceptional groups to particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gustafsson, Torgny [1990]
Rutgers Univ
Citation: For development of novel and exciting techniques in surface science.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Gutbrod, Hans Herbert [1992]
GSI Darmstadt
Citation: In recognition of pioneering work in nuclear reactions at relativistic energies, pursued with innovative experimental techniques and leading to important discoveries such as the existence of collective flow.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gutierrez, Gaston R. [2009]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For leading the introduction of "matrix-element" techniques for extracting precise measurements of standard-model parameters at hadron colliders and for seminal and vital contributions to the construction of the unique scintillating fiber tracker for the DZero experiment.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Gutmark, Ephraim [2012]
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the fundamental flow physics of noise, combustion, and propulsion, and the development of flow control methodologies to achieve quiet aircraft engines, clean, stable and efficient combustion, and innovative propulsion systems
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Gutowski, Maciej S. [2009]
Heriot-Watt Univ
Citation: For contributions in the development and application of computational approaches tot he understanding of atomic and molecular interactions of weakly bound molecules, interfacial species, and anions of molecular clusters and biological molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Guttman, Charles Martin [1986]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: For his modeling by Monte Carlo and Gambler's Ruin Methods of both the morphology and SANS of semicrystalline polymers, and for his work on Gel Permeation chromatography.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Guyon, Etienne M.P. [1991]
Ecole Normale Superieure
Citation: For his contributions to the fields of superconductivity, liquid crystals, hydrodynamic instabilities, and disordered media.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Guyot-Sionnest, Philippe [2001]
James Franck Institute
Citation: For fundamental contributions to surface nonlinear optics and to characterizing and manipulating the electronic and optical response of semiconductor nanocrystals.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Guzdar, Parvez Nariman [1993]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For significant contributions on temperature and density gradient driven instabilities, turbulence and transport in tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Gygi, Francois [2010]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the development of innovative computational algorithms for the accurate and most efficient calculation of the electronic structure of a broad variety of systems, relevant to solid state and liquid structure theory, to nanoscience and chemical physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Gyulassy, Miklos [1990]
Columbia Univ
Citation: For innovative work on the spacetime aspects of nuclear-collision dynamics, pion interferometry, quark-gluon plasma formation, and hadronization in relativistic and ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Gösele, Ulrich Michael [2000]
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure P
Citation: For important contributions to our understanding of phase formation in thin films, diffusion processes in semiconductors, quantum effects in porous silicon formation, semiconductor wafer bonding and materials integration.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ha, Taekjip [2005]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For innovative work in the determination of nucleic acids structure and dynamics using single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Haan, Stanley [2010]
Calvin College
Citation: For contributions to the theory of photodetachment, photoionization, and photorecombination processes, including quantum and classical models for double ionization of atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Haan, Steven W. [1994]

Citation: For pioneering work in the theory and modeling of hydrodynamic instabilities and mix in ICF targets, and for leadership in the design and analysis of ignition and gain in ICF targets.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Haase, David Glen [2000]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his vision in creating Science House and in defining a model for how research universities and public schools can interact to provide quality science education for all children.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Haber, Carl [2001]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For leadership in applying silicon strip detectors to hadron collider experiments, thereby opening new paths to B-hadron physics and permitting efficient identification of b-quark jets.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Haber, Howard [1993]
Univ of California-Santa Cruz
Citation: For his incisive contributions to the phenomenology of low energy supersymmetric models and of models with and extended higgs sector.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Haddon, Robert Cort [1995]
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Citation: For work on organic electronic materials, including the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-doped carbon-60.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hadjipanayis, George C. [2001]
University of Delaware
Citation: For his innovative and applicable investigations and development of novel permanent magnets and magnetic nanoparticles.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Hadley, Nicholas John [1996]
University of Maryland
Citation: For his contributions to the discovery of the top quark and to searches for new particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hadziioannou, Georges [1993]

Citation: For his pioneering scattering studies on the bulk structure of block copolymers and on the behavior of block copolymers at surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Hafemeister, David W. [1988]
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
Citation: For continuing contributions tot he analysis of science and society issues relating to energy and the nuclear arms race.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hagen, Carl [2010]
University of Rochester
Citation: For the elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Haglund, Richard F., Jr. [2009]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For the innovative creation of new materials and the exploration of their properties employing sophisticated optical probes.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hagopian, Sharon Lee [1999]
Florida State University
Citation: For contributions to large collider experiments, developing and using graphical on-line displays and for searches of new states of matter linking quarks and leptons.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hagopian, Vasken [1996]
Florida State University
Citation: For significant contributions to high energy physics including the discovery of the f(1270) meson and the detailed analysis of many other meson resonances.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hahm, Taik Soo [1995]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to progress in understanding anomalous transport and enhanced confinement regimes in toroidal plasmas through nonlinear analysis of microinstabilities and the development of the toroidal gyrokinetic formalism.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hahn, Yukap [1986]

Citation: For significant contributions in a number of areas of physics, including theoretical atomic physics and, especially, for his thorough, and important calculations on dielectronic recombination.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Haight, Richard Alan [1995]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For the development of laser photoemission spectroscopy and for innovative applications of the method to investigate electron dynamics at surfaces and interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Haines, Malcolm Golby [1995]
Imperial College
Citation: For his leadership of a research group at Imperial College Group and his major contributions to Z-pinches, theta pinches, cusp confinement, inertial confinement and magnetic fields, and stability theory.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Hakonen, Pertti J. [1995]
Helsinki University of Technology
Citation: For his experimental investigations on vortex structures in superfluid 3He and studies of nuclear ordering in metals at positive and negative subnanokelvin temperatures.


Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Halas, Naomi J. [2001]
Rice University
Citation: For the development of new types of nanoparticles with unique optical properties and applications, and groundbreaking studies of molecular modification of scanning probe microscope tip properties.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Halbach, Klaus [1990]

Citation: For pioneering and definitive work on permanent magnet wigglers and undulators, which contributed profoundly to the development of modern synchrotron- radiation sources and free-electron lasers.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Haldane, Frederick Duncan Michael [1986]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For his contributions, both analytic and numerical, to the solution of difficult many-body problems such as the Anderson model, the quantum spin chain and the-fractionally quantized Hall effect.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hale, Gerald M. [2002]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For phenomenological studies of light nuclear systems leading to detailed knowledge of their scattering amplitudes and resonances, and to refined predictions of nuclear data used in a variety of applications.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Hall, Carol [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For creating a new paradigm to simulate protein aggregation through a combination of intermediate-resolution molecular models and the discontinuous molecular dynamics method.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hall, Dennis Gene [1995]
University of Rochester
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of optical phenomena in thin metal films, in semiconductors, and in optical waveguides.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Hall, Gregory E. [2009]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative applications of high resolution molecular spectroscopy to photodissociation dynamics, energy transfer and biomolecular reactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hall, Lawrence John [1993]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For numerous original contributions to the phenomenology of weak interaction, supersymmetry and supergravity, and the physics of the early universe.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Haller, Eugene E. [1986]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of ultrapure semiconductors and significant investigations of the spectroscopy of novel defects in them.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Halley, J. Woods [1998]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For contributions to the theory of superfluidity and to the theory of electrode-electrolyte interfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hallin, Aksel L. [2005]
Queen's University
Citation: For major contributions to neutrino and weak interaction physics, in particular to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that measured flavor transformation for solar neutrinos and verified models for solar neutrino fluxes.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hallman, Timothy J. [2006]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Halperin, William P. [1995]
Northwestern University
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of liquid and solid 3He, particularly the discovery of magnetic order in solid 3He, and fundamental investigations of collective excitations in the superfluid phases.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Halpern, Leopold Ernst [2003]
Florida State University
Citation: For saving the memory of Marietta Blau from oblivion. A close associate of Schroedinger and of Dirac, he applied his impressive historical knowledge to dispel misconceptions and prevent injustice.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Halsey, Thomas C [2003]
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Citation: For theoretical studies of multifractality and diffusion-limited aggregation, Josephson junction arrays, electrorheological and dipolar fluids, and granular media.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Halzen, Francis Louis [1994]

Citation: For outstanding contributions to parton model and QCD phenomenology, and innovative particle astrophysics research.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hamaguchi, Satoshi [2012]
Osaka Unuversity
Citation: For seminal contributions to theory and simulation of strongly coupled plasmas, plamas interacting with solid particles and surfaces, and ion-temperature-gradient turbulence dynamics
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hamilton, John Frederick [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For his many contributions to understanding the physical phenomena involved in the photographic latent image, in catalysis by small metal clusters and in the reconstruction of ionic crystal surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hamilton, William Oliver [1997]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For pioneering work and continuing leadership in developing gravitational-wave detectors, for back-action evading measurements of mechanical squeezed states, and for the development of techniques for magnetic shielding.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Hammack, William S. [2008]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For enhancing public awareness about physics, science, and technology via his radio commentaries and for his governmental service at the State Department.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hammel, Bruce A. [1996]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For measurements and understanding of x-ray driven implosions, x-ray driven hydrodynamic instabilities and x-ray drive asymmetry.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hammel, Peter C. [1998]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For nuclear magnetic resonance studies of superconducting cuprates.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hammer, Hans [2010]
University of Bonn
Citation: For significant advances in the few-body problem in both nuclear and atomic physics, particularly through the use of effective field theories, and for elucidating the universal properties of Efimov states and related phenomena in three- and four-body systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Hammer, James Henry [2000]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For his development of novel approaches to fusion and high-energy-density plasma applications, and for his extensive insights into the magnetohydrodynamic behavior of compact toroidal and z-pinch plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hammer, Philip W. [2002]
The Franklin Institute - Philadelphia, PA
Citation: For dedicated efforts to forge strong links within the physics community and for creative and effective contributions to help the physics community meet its future institutional, social, and educational challenges.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon [2010]
Penn State University
Citation: For the development and application of a theory for proton-coupled electron transfer; clarifying the roles of hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzymes; and fundamental insight into electron-proton correlation in nuclear-electronic orbital methods and multicomponent density functional theory.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hammett, Gregory W. [1997]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For development of fluid-like models containing Landau damping and gyro-orbit averaging important in the simulation of drift wave turbulence, and for bounce averaged quasilinear theory of ion cyclotron heating.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hammond, Paula T. [2006]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For her contributions on thin-film patterning of polymers through selective deposition and her studies on side-chain liquid-crystalline block copolymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Han, Tao [2003]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For contributions to the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking, Higgs bosons, supersymmetry and to collider phenomenology.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hanany, Shaul [2011]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For developing novel techniques for, and making important measurements of, the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation and its polarization, particularly on balloon borne instruments.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hanggi, Peter [1988]
Univ Augsburg
Citation: For distinguished contributions to nonlinear statistical physics and reaction rate theory and for elucidating the influence of non-Markovian memory effects and dissipative tunneling in equilibrium and non equilibrium systems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hangst, Jeffrey S. [2005]
CERN Division PH
Citation: For his leadership role in the creation and detection of cold anti-hydrogen atom, and for his seminal studies of laser cooling of ion plasmas in storage rings and radio-frequency ion traps.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hanke, Werner [2011]
Universitat Wurzburg
Citation: For the theory of quantum many-body effects and optical properties of materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hannahs, Scott T. [2009]
Florida State University
Citation: For his contributions to instrumentation and measurements in high magnetic fields and for scientific contributions to many fields including quantum fluids, organic superconductors, heavy fermions, quantum Hall effect, and Heisenberg spin systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Hanne, George Friedrich [2006]
Universitat Munster, Germany
Citation: For his studies of spin-dependent effects in electron-atom collisions using polarized electrons, and particularly his prediction and experimental verification of the "fine-structure effect".
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hannon, James Patrick [1997]
Rice University
Citation: For theories of Mvssbauer gamma-ray optics and of resonant X-ray magnetic scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hannon, James [2010]
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Citation: For seminal studies of surface and interface structure and properties using Low Energy Electron Microscopy.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hansen, P. Gregers [2002]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his many contributions to nuclear physics, and in particular to our understanding of halo nuclei and the structure and decays of nuclei far from stability.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hansma, Paul K. [1989]
Univ of California-Santa Barb
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the electron and phonon structure of solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hansmann, Ulrich H. [2008]
Michigan Technological University
Citation: For pioneering protein simulations, innovative contributions to computational algorithms and their applications to Biological Physics.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Hanson, Gail G. [1986]
Univ of California - Riverside
Citation: For numerous and important contributions to the discovery and study of new particles, and to the establishment of quarks as hadronic constituents.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Harakeh, Mishin Nayef [1994]

Citation: For his many significant, pioneering and continuing contributions to the field of giant resonances and for his leadership in numerous international collaborations.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Harari, Haim [1986]

Citation: For outstanding contributions to hadron phenomenology, for many excellent reviews and rapporteur's talks. and for profound idea on possible quark-lepton composite structure.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Harding, Alice Just [1991]
NASA/GSFC
Citation: For pioneering investigation of the theory of pulsar atmospheres, including the pulsar wind and its role in accelerating particles to high energies, and for contributions to the theory of basic electromagnetic interactions in the presence of super-strong magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hardy, Christopher J. [2002]
GE Corporate Research and Development, New York
Citation: For contributions to the science and technology of magnetic resonance imaging, particularly methods for the noninvasive visualization of cardiac anatomy, function, and metabolism, and for the MRI selective pulse design.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hardy, John Christopher [1984]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For his contributions to our knowledge of the weak interaction through comprehensive, precise studies of superallowed beta decay.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hardy, Walter Newbold [2002]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For seminal contributions to high Tc superconductivity, and for pioneering spectroscopic studies of hydrogen using NMR, microwave and Raman techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hargrove, Clifford Kingston [1991]
Carleton Univ
Citation: For his development of the first Time Projection Chamber operating in a major experiment and his contribution to the search for lepton number conservation and for his leadership in the OPAL experiment at LEP.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Harlow, Francis Harvey [2003]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of low-speed, free-surface, and turbulent flow through computational modeling, and his invention of completely original methods to address these issues.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Harmon, Bruce N. [1989]
Iowa State Univ
Citation: For theoretical contributions to the understanding of the electron and phonon structure of solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Haroche, Serge [1990]
Lab de Phys ENS
Citation: For fundamental contributions to laser spectroscopy, quantum optics, and the physics of Rydberg atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Harris, Alexander Lowe [2004]
Brookhaven National Labs
Citation: For his pioneering work in developing vibrational spectroscopy to probe ultra-fast dynamics at surfaces, and for elucidating the vibrational energy flow pathways of adosrbates at solid surfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Harris, Arthur Brooks [1989]
Univ of Pennsylvania
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of random systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Harris, Frank E. [2004]
University of Florida
Citation: For innovative contributions, over a 50-year period and still continuing, to methods of electronic structure computation for atoms, molecules, and solids, and to the underlying mathematics.


Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Harris, James Stewart, Jr. [1992]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For pioneering contributions to heterojunction device physics and materials preparation techniques that have produced new electronic devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Harris, Jeffrey Hunter [1994]

Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of fluctuations in stellarator plasmas through experimental measurements with multiple techniques and comparison with theory.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Harris, John William [1996]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of relativistic nuclear collisions and leadership in the development of the experimental program at the future Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Harris, Richard [2008]
NIST
Citation: For creating remarkable and practical measurements and standards based on superconducting integrated circuits through technical leadership and personal contributions.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Harris, Vincent G. [2002]
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
Citation: For contributions to magnetism in revealing the role of atomic structure in local magnetic phenomena, including the discovery of the structural origins of magnetic anisotropy in rare earth-based amorphous alloys.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Harrison, Fiona [2011]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For fundamental contributions in gamma-ray, X-ray, and optical observations of gamma-ray bursts, active galaxies, and black hole systems.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Harrison, Michael Arthur [1994]

Citation: For outstanding contribution to the development, construction and operation of superconducting colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Harrison, Neil [2006]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering experimentation on the electronic structure and magnetism of strongly correlated electron systems in very strong magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Harte, John [1988]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the interface between physics and ecology, including development of understanding of climate codification due to nuclear winter and to the impact of acid rain on aquatic ecosystems.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Harter, William George [1994]

Citation: For the development of novel and semiclassical and graphical theories which contributed to better understanding, analysis and prediction of complex electronic spectra of atoms and molecules, and high resolution rotation-vibration of symmetric polyatomic molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hartill, Donald LeRoy [1989]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For significant contributions to the experimental understanding of deep inelastic e-p scattering and e+e- physics in the J/w and w(4s) regions and in instrumentation and accelerator physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hartline, Beverly Karplus [2000]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For creative leadership and drive to advance physics and other science education at all levels from kindergarten to graduate school, including outreach to teachers and the general public.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Hartstein, Allan Mark [1985]
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Citation: For pioneering research in the electronic properties of semiconductor systems with reduced dimensionality, in particularly the discovery of 2D impurity bands and the fabrication and investigation of 1D MOSFETS.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Harvey, Jeffrey A. [1992]

Citation: For his contributions to particle physics, particle astrophysics, and for his co-invention of the heterotic string theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Harwit, Martin O. [1987]
No Company Provided
Citation: In recognition of twenty-five years of outstanding contributions to theoretical and observational infrared astrophysics and for providing the leadership needed to create a coordinated space astrophysics program for the remainder of the century through the Great Observatory Program.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hase, William Louis [1991]
Texas Tech Univ
Citation: For the extensive contributions to the theory of unimolecular and intramolecular dynamics, variational transition state theory, and the classical trajectory approach for studying chemical reaction dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hasenfratz, Anna [2008]
University of Colorado
Citation: For her studies of nonperturbative behavior in quantum field theory, including quantum chromodynamics and models for electroweak symmetry breaking, using lattice discretization and renormalization group methods.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hass, Kenneth Charles [2004]
Ford Motor Company
Citation: For significant applications of atomic-level modeling to technological materials and outstanding leadership in the promotion of industrially-relevant research and education.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hass, Michael [1999]
Weizmann Institute
Citation: For innovative experiments on parity violation in nuclear electromagnetic decay and on measurements of electromagnetic moments of short lived nuclear states via the development of transient hyperfine magnetic field and tilted foil techniques essential to align and polarize nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hassam, Adil B. [1991]
Univ of Maryland-College Park
Citation: For contributions toward widening our understanding of plasmas from a fluid viewpoint as applied to dissipative magnetohydrodynamics and systems of intermediate magnetization.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hastie, Robert James [2002]
UKAEA Fusion Culham Science Center, England
Citation: For recognition of his numerous and seminal contributions to theoretical plasma physics; particularly his key role in the development of the modern theory of stability in confined plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hastings, Jerome Biller [1991]
SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
Citation: For his research in nuclear resonant scattering of X-rays and neutrons and significant contributions in Synchrotron Radiation instramentation.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hatchett, Stephen P., II [2003]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to theory and experiments of implosion physics for inertial confinement fusion, and for innovative designs for fast ignition.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hathaway, Kristl B. [1993]

Citation: For elucidating the relationships between magnetism, structure, and the elastic properties of amorphous and crystalline materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hau, Lene V. [2012]
Harvard University
Citation: For slowing, stopping, and storing light pulses in Bose-Einstein condensates of laser cooled atoms and converting light into a matter imprint then resurrecting the light
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hauer, Allan Austin [1987]
Department of Energy - US
Citation: For his contributions to the development of x-ray spectroscopic techniques and analysis, and their application to the understanding of dense inertial fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hauptman, Herbert Aaron [1998]
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research
Citation: For outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Haus, Hermann Anton [1991]

Citation: For pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of laser modelocking, optical waveguide devices, and quantum optics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Haus, Joseph [2007]
University of Dayton
Citation: For his seminal contributions to nonlinear and quantum optics of heterogeneous materials, especially photonic band gap structures.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Hauser, Michael George [1988]
Space Telescope Sci Inst
Citation: For being a leading instrument builder by playing major roles in the construction of the IRAS and COBE cryogenically cooled infrared astronomical satellites and providing deep insights into the nature of infrared diffuse emission from the sky.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hausser, Otto Fredrich [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For pioneering work on short-lived isomers, the study of static moments and deformation of nuclei at high spin, and of core polarization and meson exchange effects in nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Havey, Mark Douglas [1998]
Old Dominion University
Citation: For development and explication of novel one- and two-photon spectroscopies of bound and dissociative electronic states of diatomic molecules; also for development of precision atomic two-photon polarization spectroscopy for determination of atomic matrix elements and novel sum rule.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Havlin, Shlomo [1996]
Bar-Ilan University
Citation: For pioneering light scattering imaging of biological tissues, and for seminal contributions to the understanding of transport in disordered systems, rough interfaces, chemical reactions, DNA, heartbeats and Alzheimer disease.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Hawrylak, Pawel [1996]
NRC of Canada
Citation: For theoretical work on the role of many body effects in the optical properties of low dimensional electronic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hawryluk, Richard J. [1986]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For outstanding contributions to understanding plasma behavior in tokamak devices, particularly startup, transport and heating.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Haxton, Wick C. [1987]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For his major contributions to the applications of nuclear physics to tests of fundamental theories and interactions as well as to space-time-symmetries.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hayakawa, Satio [1989]

Citation: For pioneering work in astrophysics in postwar Japan with major contributions to cosmic-ray physics, infrared astronomy, and the physics of celestial x-rays.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hayes, Anna C. [2002]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For her contributions to studies of the weak interaction in nuclei, in particular providing the nuclear-structure calculations of the underlying weak matrix elements.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hayes, Dennis [2008]
Retired
Citation: For pioneering work into the nature of shock wave induced phase transitions in a broad range of materials and the development of multi-phase equations-of-state (EOS) for materials that can be used in computer codes for large scale simulations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Hayes, Robert [2011]
Washington TRU Solutions, LLC
Citation: For furthering the use of nuclear technology in the areas of radiation safety, nuclear engineering and nuclear waste disposal through the use of physical science.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hayes, Wallace Dean [1986]

Citation: For influencing generations of graduate students at Princeton and elsewhere with the elegance and precision of his theoretical works.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hayes, William [1990]

Citation: For creative applications of spectroscopy and laser techniques to the understanding of defects in solids. phase transitions, and semi-conductor physics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Haynes, William M. [1999]
NIST
Citation: In recognition of his technical contributions and exceptional leadership in the development of one of the world's pre-eminent research programs on the properties of fluids and fluid mixtures.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Hays, Dan A. [1998]
Xerox Corp
Citation: For original contributions to the physics of Xerography.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hayter, John Bingley [1991]

Citation: For his contributions to the development of neutron spin-echo spectrometry and the field of neutron small-angle scattering from colloids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hazi, Andrew [1988]
Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Citation: For developing L2 methods for resonance widths and for advancing the development of the stabilization method.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Heath, James Richard [1999]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For the development of synthetic and characterization techniques for fabricating and assembling nanoscale materials, including size and shape control of Group IV quantum structures and metal insulator transitions in quantum dot artificial solids.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hebard, Arthur F. [1993]
Univ of Florida - Gainesville
Citation: For experimental studies of two-dimensional superconductors and for the discovery of superconductivity in the fullerenes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hebner, Gregory A. [2006]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For investigations of, and contributions to, the science of atomic and molecular processes in plasmas through development of innovative optical, microwave and rf diagnostics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Heckel, Blayne [1995]
University of Washington
Citation: For performing precise tests of fundamental symmetries, especially parity and time reversal, using neutrons, nuclei, and atoms, and for carrying out sensitive searches for new forces of macroscopic range.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hecker, Siegfried S. [2009]
Stanford University
Citation: For outstanding leadership in promoting better nuclear security and international cooperation and understanding with Russia, South Asia, and North Korea, in preventing nuclear terrorism, and in ensuring a safe, secure and reliable U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hedin, David [2011]
Northern Illinois University
Citation: For his many important contributions to the D0 muon system design, construction, and operation, and his leadership in exploiting muons in a variety of physics studies at D0 both in Run I and Run II of the Tevatron.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Heenen, Paul Henri [1997]
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Citation: For his many contributions to our understanding of the nuclear mean field, especially for the development of self-consistent methods to study the static and dynamic aspects of nuclear motion.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Heffner, Robert Haag [2001]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the discovery and insightful study of complex magnetic and superconducting states in correlated electron materials using muon-spin-relaxation/rotation techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heger, Alexander [2009]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For important contributions to the understanding of massive star evolution, nucleosynthesis, supernovae, and X-ray bursts.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hegna, Chris C [2003]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of nonideal and nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and instabilities in toroidal, magnetically confined plasmas, specifically stellarator equilibria, magnetic islands, neoclassical tearing modes, and ballooning modes.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hehn, Jack G [2003]
American Institute of Physics
Citation: For his wide range of experience in physics and science education, curriculum development, implementing large-scale programs for AAPT and AIP, and administering educational programs for the National Science Foundation.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Heiblum, Morhehai [1990]
Weizmann Inst of Sci
Citation: For the demonstration and investigation of hot-electron ballistic transport in semiconductors and for contributions to epitaxial growth by molecular-beam epitaxy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heidbrink, William Walter [1996]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For quantitative studies of the confinement and thermalization of fast ions in tokamak plasmas and for discovery of several fast-ion driven instabilities.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Heiman, Donald E. [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For studies of excitons in the quantum Hall regime and exchange interactions in magnetic semiconductors, using optical spectroscopy at the extremes of high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heine, Volker [1987]
Univ of Cambridge
Citation: For his leading contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of solids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heinemann, Beate [2009]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the search for physics beyond the Standard Model through precision measurements in electron-proton collisions and direct searches for new particles and phenomena in proton-antiproton collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Heiney, Paul A [2001]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of the structure, defects, disorder, and phase transitions in quasicrystals and fullerenes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heinrich, Andreas J. [2012]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For the development of scanning tunneling microscope methods to study individual magnetic atoms by spin-excitation spectroscopy and nanosecond pump-probe techniques
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heinrich, Bretislav Victor [1995]
Simon Fraser University
Citation: For the elucidation of loss of ferromagnetic resonance in metals; for the contribution to the invention of ferromagnetic antiresonance; for adapting molecular beam epitaxy to studies of exchange interactions and anisotropies in the highest quality ultrathin magnetic films.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Heinson, Ann [2008]
University of California, Riverside
Citation: For leadership in the search for single top quark production and significant contributions to experimental single top quark physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Heintz, Ulrich [2009]
Boston University
Citation: For his contributions to the precision measurement of the masses of the W boson and the top quark.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Heinz, Tony F. [1992]
Columbia Univ
Citation: For outstanding contributions in optical studies of surfaces and interfaces, including determination of structure, electronic properties, and adsorbate diffusivity using nonlinear second-harmonic reflection, and femtosecond time-solved surface dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Heinz, Ulrich Walter [2001]
Ohio State University
Citation: For his original work on the kinetic theory of relativistic quantum systems and his contributions to our understanding of the dynamics and thermodynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Heinzen, Daniel J. [1999]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For outstanding and groundbreaking work on cold-atom photoassociation spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Helfrich, Karl R [2001]
Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institution
Citation: For laboratory, analytical, numerical, and observational contributions to understanding waves, hydraulic control, abyssal ocean circulation, thermals, plumes, viscous fingering and other areas of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Heller, Eric Johnson [1987]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For his seminal work connecting molecular dynamics to spectroscopic measurements.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Heller, Kenneth Jeffrey [1995]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For his contributions to the discovery and exploration of inclusive hyperon polarization and the use of this phenomenon to make precise measurements of the hyperon magnetic moments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hellman, Frances [1997]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For her studies on the interplay between magnetism and the surface phenomena inherent to vapor deposition growth.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Helm, Hanspeter [1989]

Citation: For substantial contributions to studies of electronic, atomic, and molecular interactions ranging from electron capture to photodissociation, predissociation, and autoionization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Helm, Richard Henry [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the optical design of electron linear accelerators and electron-position storage rings, and to the beam dynamics of those accelerators.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Helmerson, Kristian P. [2006]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For pioneering work in cooling, trapping, and coherent manipulation of cold atoms and for the development of seminal techniques for the manipulation and control of objects with optical tweezers.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Hemley, Russell Julian [1995]
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Citation: For advancing ultra high-pressure of condensed matters and for discovering new materials, transitions, and properties at high pressures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hemminger, John Charles [1993]

Citation: For his contributions to the application of new techniques for the study of chemical reactions on surfaces, especially the techniques of Laser Induced Thermal Desorption and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Henderson, Stuart [2012]
Fermilab
Citation: For leadership in the construction and commissioning of the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in particular for leading the effort to bring the SNS into full operational status with a beam power in excess of 1 MW
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Hendricus van Oers, Williem Theodorus [1988]
Univ of Manitoba
Citation: For the recent first measurement of charge symmetry breaking in the neutron-proton system and for earlier extensive nuclear physics studies including nucleon-deuteron scattering and optical model analyses.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hengehold, Robert [2008]
Air Force Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions to semiconductor material characterization, over 30 years of distinguished and dedicated leadership in the development of graduate applied physics programs for military officers, and service to the physics community through APS sectional meetings specifically on applied and industrial physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Henley, Christopher Lee [1996]
Cornell University
Citation: For theoretical contributions to the understanding the structure and physics of quasicrystals and related crystalline structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Henningson, Dan S. [2012]
Kungliga Tek Hogskolan KTH
Citation: For pioneering contributions to linear and nonlinear hydrodynamic stability and numerical simulations of transitional and turbulent flows, including in-depth understanding of the concept of receptivity, bypass transition and flows over complex surfaces, as well as feedback control of these flows
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Henrich, Victor E. [1983]
Yale University
Citation: For imaginative use of modern and sophisticated experimental tools on the study of electronic properties of transition metal oxide surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hentschel, H. [2010]
Emory University
Citation: For his contributions to biological pattern formation in cellular and multicellular systems, and specifically for his work on the physical mechanisms underlying neuronal development.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hepburn, John William [1999]
University of Waterloo
Citation: For important contributions to laser chemistry and laser spectroscopy, particularly in the area of applications of coherent vacuum ultraviolet radiation to threshold photoionization spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Herbert, Thorwald [1986]

Citation: In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of linear and nonlinear hydrodynamic stability and in particular for his explanation of the subharmonic instabilities in boundary-layer flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Herbst, Eric [1999]
Ohio State University
Citation: For his fundamental paper with W. Klemperer which initiated the field of astrochemistry and for his continued extensive contribution which led to the current understanding of interstellar chemistry.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Herbst, Jan F. [1985]
GM Research and Development Center
Citation: For research on the electronic and magnetic structure of rare earth materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Herczeg, Peter [1993]
Los Alamos Natl Lab
Citation: For important contributions to our understanding of symmetry principles in weak interactions, and to the phenomenologial analyses central to experimental tests of these principles.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Heremans, Joseph Pierre [1987]
UC Santa Barbara
Citation: For pioneering work in the thermal conductivity of low-dimensional materials and electronic magnetostriction; and for the study of electronic and thermal properties of marrow-gap semiconductors, semimetals, and graphite intercalation compounds.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Heritage, Jonathan P. [1989]
Univ of California - Davis
Citation: For contributions to ultrafast nonlinear optics and picosecond laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Herman, Irving Philip [1997]
Columbia University
Citation: For distinguished accomplishments in laser physics, notably the development and application of laser techniques to probe and control materials processing.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Herman, Michael Frederick [2001]
Tulane University
Citation: For the development of the semiclassical propagation of wavefunctions for advancing the understanding and development of semiclassical procedures for processes involving non-adiabatic transitions.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hermann, Allen Max [1984]
University of Colorado- Boulder
Citation: For contributions to basic research on transport properties in solids and applied research culminating in the invention and development of a solid state battery widely used in cardiac pacemakers.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hermann, Mark C. [2012]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For innovative technical advances and exceptional leadership in the areas of inertial confinement fusion target design and magnetically driven high-energy-density science
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hernandez, E. Susana [2006]
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Citation: For her contributions to international physics, including remarkably diverse scientific contributions derived from her continuing efforts to bring together researchers from different areas and disciplines with particular emphasis on young scientists.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Hernandez, Rigoberto [2011]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For theoretical and computational advances in modeling and characterizing chemical and molecular dynamics in complex environments.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hernando, Antonio [2006]
Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Spain
Citation: For significant contributions to applied magnetism in soft magnetic materials and magnetism in metallic nanoparticles for his many contributions to international physics through his participation in IUPAP committees and activities.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Heron, Paula [2007]
University of Washington
Citation: For her leadership in the physics education research community and development and active dissemination of research-based curricula that significantly impact physics instruction throughout the world.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Herring, Jackson R. [1992]
Univ of Colorado - Boulder
Citation: For contributions to the development of the statistical theory of turbulence, its applications in a variety of geophysical settings, and assessed comparison of theory to numerical simulations and experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Herrmann, Hans Jurgen [2006]
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Citation: For his novel contributions to significant problems in computational physics including fracture, packings, percolation, granular flow, dunes and irreversible growth.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Hersam, Mark C. [2012]
Northwestern University
Citation: For pioneering research on the fundamentals and applications of nanoelectronic materials, including the development of methods for sorting carbon nanotubes and graphene, and for chemical functionalization of semiconductor surfaces
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hershcovitch, Ady [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For inventing and developing original plasmas devices, as well as improving existing devices for applications in research and industry that led to new technologies and new physics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hertzog, David William [2000]
University of Illinois
Citation: For the development of novel and creative instrumentation and for its use in pbar p-induced searches for exotic mesons and in high-precision measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Herzenberg, Caroline Littlejohn [1989]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For leadership and advocacy with respect to women's participation in physics, and for contributions toward assessment of issues relating to space weaponry, and for research accomplishments in Mossbauer spectrometry.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Herzfeld, Judith [1992]
Brandeis Univ
Citation: For pioneering applications of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to biological membranes and insightful analyses of entropically-driven and long-range order in crowded self-assembling systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hess, Harald Frederick [1997]
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Citation: For contributions in magnetic evaporative cooling of ions and scanning probe microscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hess, Karl [1994]

Citation: For contributions to nonlinear electronic transport in semiconductors and in quantum well heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hess, Wayne P. [2012]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For advancing laser science to understand the dynamics and reactions of electronically excited crystalline solids and laser desorption of atoms and molecules
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Hessels, Eric A [2003]
York University, Canada
Citation: For a wide range of high precision measurements to test fundamental interactions in atomic physics, especially fine structure splittings in helium.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hestenes, David Orlin [1995]
Arizona State University
Citation: For elucidating the relevance of cognitive science to physics education, establishing the deficiency of standard lecture methods, developing superior pedagogy, and constructing a new mathematical language for research and education.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Heuvelen, Van, Alan [1999]
Ohio State University
Citation: For numerous diverse contributions and leadership in physics pedagogy, conceptual development, and problem-solving skills, for example the development of Active Learning Problem Sheets (ALPS) kits.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Hewett, Dennis W. [1993]

Citation: For significant contributions to the formulation of implicit plasma simulation methods to the linear systems, and for many advances in successfully modeling experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Hewett, Joanne [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For her contributions to our understanding of constraints on and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, and service to the particle physics community leading studies of future experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hewitt, Jacqueline N. [2004]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering investigations of gravitational lenses using radio astronomy, application of gravitational lens studies to cosmology, and leadership in astronomy.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Heyde, Kristiaan Ludwig Guido [2006]
University of Gent, Belgium
Citation: For his many contributions to nuclear structure, especially large-scale shell model physics, particle- core coupling and nuclear shape coexistence, as well as his excellent textbooks on nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hibbert, Alan [2002]
Queen's University, United Kingdom
Citation: For important contributions to atomic structure physics via the development of widely-used configuration interaction codes, definitive calculations of atomic transitions, and pioneering atomic collisions calculations.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hickman, Albert Peet [1991]

Citation: For insightful developments in the theory of scattering processes involving bound states and a continuum, fine-structure transitions, and electron-ion recombination.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hickok Jr., Rober Lyman [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For contributions to high temperature plasma diagnostics, particularly the development of ion beam probing and for carrying out the first direct measurements of plasma space potential in hot plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hicks, Kenneth H. [2004]
Ohio University
Citation: For his recent leadership role in experiments which have opened the new field of exotic pentaquark baryon study and for his sustained contributions to nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hiebert, Erwin Nick [1989]
Harvard Univ
Citation: For his research in the history of modern physical science and its relations with philosophy and religion.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Higdon, James Conway [1995]
The Claremont Colleges
Citation: For his important work on interplanetary and interstellar turbulence and his innovative studies of gamma ray bursts, cosmic rays, pulsars, novae, supernovae, and galactic nucleosynthesis.


Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Higgins, Richard J. [1988]

Citation: For contributions to electronic and microcomputer instrumentation for improved measurements of metals, alloys, and semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Hilborn, Robert C [2003]
Amherst College
Citation: For leadership in improving undergraduate physics education and uniting all segments of the physics community in recognizing the importance of undergraduate physics programs.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Hill, Christopher T. [1989]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For elucidating the mechanisms shaping the spectra of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, and for contributions to the understanding of nonleptonic weak interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hill, Henry Allen [1985]
No Company Provided
Citation: For his contributions as an outstanding member of the physics community, and an active and cooperative faculty member, and for his original ideas and the drive to carry them to fruition.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hill, John C [2003]
Iowa State University
Citation: For discovering several neutron-rich nuclei, measuring the large electromagnetic dissociation cross sections of relativistic heavy ions, and leadership in development of trigger systems for the AGS-E864 and PHENIX-RHIC experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hill, John P. [2002]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For novel x-ray scattering studies of cuprate, manganite and other correlated electronic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hill, Wendell Talbot, III [1999]
University of Maryland
Citation: For significant experimental contributions to our understanding of multiphoton dissociation and ionization of small molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hillebrands, Burkard [2010]
University of Kaiserslautern
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, linear and nonlinear spin-wave propagation phenomena, and his pioneering work  on  the development of space- and time-resolved Brillouin light scattering technique.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Hillebrecht, Franz Ulrich [1998]
D|sseldorf Universitaet
Citation: For contributions to the development of spin polarized photoemission.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hillery, Mark [2006]
Hunter College of CUNY
Citation: For his imaginative and pioneering work in quantum information theory and quantum optics and his effective contributions to Physical Review A on the Editorial Board and as Associate Editor.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hills, Jack Gilbert [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal theoretical work on the physics of dense stellar systems and in particular for proposing and developing his model of the energy source of quasars.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hime, Andrew [2003]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his many scientific contributions to neutrino physics with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that resulted in the demonstration that neutrinos from the Sun undergo flavor transformation.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Himpsel, Franz Joseph [1985]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For his principal role in the development of photoemission and inverse photoemission into powerful techniques for the determination of energy band dispersion of electrons in bulk solids and at surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hinch, E. John [2003]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For many contributions to complex fluids, including novel ideas and physical insight combined with asymptotic and numerical studies, which have illuminated suspension mechanics, viscous, multiphase and viscoelastic flows, and electrokinetics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hinchliffe, Ian [2006]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For distinguished contributions to the theoretical and experimental physics of high energy colliders.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hinde, David [2011]
Australian National University
Citation: For his sustained contributions to the physics of fusion reactions below the Coulomb Barrier.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hinds, Edwatrd A. [1993]

Citation: For demonstrated virtuosity in wide ranging areas of atomic physics, including precision measurements, fundamental symmetries, atomsurface interactions, and polarized samples.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hingerty, Brian Edward [1985]
Tennessee Wesleyan College
Citation: For furthering our understanding of biomolecular structure and function by experimental (x-ray and neutron diffraction) and theoretical (conformational potential energy)calculations.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hinkel, Denise [2007]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For extensive contributions to laser-plasma interaction physics and radiation hydrodynamic design of inertial-confinement fusion targets, and to the fundamental physics of linear and nonlinear wave propagation in plasma.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hipps, Kerry W. [2009]
Washington State University
Citation: For his pioneering and innovative work in tunneling spectroscopy and in STM based orbital mediated tunneling through molecular systems.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hirsch, Jorge Eduardo [1990]
Univ of California - San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the development of numerical simulations in interacting fermion systems, especially in two dimensions, and for his studies of strongly interacting electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hirschfeld, Peter Joseph [2004]
University of Florida
Citation: For distinguished contributions to the theory of disordered unconventional superconductors which helped to identify d-wave pairing in the high-temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hirshman, Steven Paul [1999]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of neoclassical transport in toroidal plasmas, theory and computation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional MHD equilibrium, and for analysis and optimization of three-dimensional toroidal systems.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hitlin, David George [1986]
Cal Inst of Tech (Caltech)
Citation: For contributions to the study of weak decays of K mesons, particularly measurements of CP violating parameters and form factors, and for measurements of hadronic states produced in the decay of the psi meson and detailed studies of the weak decays of charmed particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hixson, Robert S. [2006]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For sustained technical contributions towards dynamic properties measurements on materials of broad scientific importance and vital interest to national defense needs, and for leadership in the field of shock physics.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Hjorth-Jensen, Morten [2007]
University of Oslo
Citation: For his seminal developments in nuclear many-body theory and its applications in various nuclear many-body calculations ranging from finite nuclear structure, to level densities, to infinite nuclear matter.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Ho, Chih-Ming [1989]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For contributions in understanding the sensitivity of free-shear layers under perturbations or geometrical variations in initial conditions. his pioneering works have served as bases for controlling the evolution of turbulent free-shear layers.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Ho, John T. [1990]
State Univ of NY - Buffalo
Citation: For experimental studies that have enhanced our understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena in magnetic systems, liquid crystals, and biomembranes.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ho, Kai Ming [1995]
Iowa State University
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to electronic structure calculation for the study of surface geometry's and lattice dynamics, and for his work on photonic band gap materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ho, Paul Siu-Chung [1983]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For his contributions to the basic understanding and technical development of electromigration in thin films and silicide-silicon interfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ho, Tin-Lun [1999]
Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of superfluids.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ho, Wilson [1995]
Cornell University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the field of photophysics and photochemistry on solid surfaces, especially in the elucidation of the fundamental mechanisms and photochemical dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Ho, Yew Kam Eugene [1997]
Academia Sinica
Citation: For seminal contribution to the understanding of atomic resonances in two-electron systems, with and without the presence of electric field, through high precision applications of complex coordinate rotational method.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hoagland, David Alan [2002]
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Citation: For his pioneering efforts in the dynamics and transport of charged polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Hobbs, John [2011]
SUNY, Stony Brook
Citation: For leadership and personal contributions to understanding electroweak symmetry breaking through studies of the top quark, electroweak bosons, and searches for the Higgs boson and phenomena beyond the standard model.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hobson, Art [1992]
No Company Provided
Citation: For outstanding development of the Newsletter of the Forum on Physics and Society, and for numerous other contributions in the area of physics and society.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hochstrasser, Robin M. [1986]
Univ of Pennsylvania
Citation: For inventing ingenious experiments exploiting the non-linear couplings of radiation and matter, and using these methods in pioneering studies of dynamics of molecules in gas, liquid and solid phases.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hodapp, Theodore W. [2009]
American Physical Society
Citation: For improving physics education by helping set licensure standards for physics teachers, and by leading the PhysTEC project to develop strong liaisons between university physics departments and schools of education to increase the number of qualified high school physics teachers.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Hoddeson, Lillian Hartman [1993]
Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Citation: For organizing and providing written records of 20th century history of physics through projects and conferences covering solid state physics, particle physics and national laboratories.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Hoeflich, Peter [2012]
Florida State University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to stellar evolution, radiation hydrodynamics, and nuclear astrophysics, especially in the context of modeling the light curves and spectral evolution of supernova explosions
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Hoerlin, Herman W. [1980]

Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hoff, Arnold J. [1996]
University of Leiden
Citation: For novel and insightful applications of a variety of EPR related techniques to the elucidation of the primary processes in bacterial and green plant photosynthesis.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hoffman, Allan R. [1989]
Department of Energy - US
Citation: For his many and creative contributions to analyzing and facilitating legislation and Nation Research Council studies on energy, science advice, and science public policy.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hoffman, Darleane [1986]
Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab
Citation: For a long and distinguished career of pioneering studies in the understanding of low-energy and spontaneous fission and the production of heavy-element isotopes.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hoffman, David K. [1993]
Iowa State Univ
Citation: For fundamental contributions to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of reacting fluids, the physics of repulsive potential dominated, inelastic molecular collisions, and real-time path integration and wavepacket propagation.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Hoffmann, Axel [2011]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of magnetic and superconducting hybrid systems, novel insights into exchange bias systems, and the investigation of pure spin currents.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Hoffmann, Gerald Wayne [1998]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to precision measurements of intermediate energy proton-nucleus scattering cross sections and polarization observables, development of polarized nuclear targets, and the understanding of nucleon-nucleus scattering dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Hoffmann, William F. [1997]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his pioneering work in the field of balloon-borne far-infrared astronomy and discovery of far-infrared radiation from Galactic Center; successful construction of the Multi Mirror Telescope (MMT) and application of infrared array technology to astronomy.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hofmann, Albert Josef [1991]
CERN
Citation: For development and application of beam dynamics and synchrotron radiation for new methods of beam diagnostics, their practical use in machine experiments, and commissioning and improvements of storage rings.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Hofmann, Hartmut Mathes [2005]
Institut fur Theoretishe Physik der Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of nuclear reaction mechanisms, and for developing the refined resonating group model to do state-of-the-art scattering calculations in light nuclei using realistic nuclear forces.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Hofmann, Ingo [1999]
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Citation: For his pioneering research of collective instabilities in nonstationary high-current beams and for his scientific leadership role in developing accelerator systems for heavy ion inertial fusion.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Hogan, Craig J. [2009]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his innovative research in diverse areas of astrophysics, including the constituents of the universe, dark energy, gravitational waves, cosmological phase transitions, and cosmic background radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hogan, Mark J. [2006]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For scientific achievement and leadership in the development of electron and positron beam-plasma interactions, including the first experimental demonstration of meter-scale wakefield acceleration.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Hohenemser, Christoph [1984]
Clark University
Citation: For application of high precision perturbed angular correlation experiments to elucidate critical behavior, producing new insights into spin conservation and spin fluctuations in magnetic materials.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Holbrow, Charles H. [1996]
Colgate University
Citation: For his leadership in the development of the new modern physics problems project and its contribution to upper-division physics teaching, and for his leadership in bringing modern experimental techniques and instrumentation, especially involving laser physics, into undergraduate classrooms.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Holdren, John P. [1988]

Citation: For application of rigorous training in theoretical plasma physics to problems of energy and the environment and leadership in gaining academic recognition for such studies.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Holian, Brad Lee [2002]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering use of large-scale atomistic computer simulations (massively parallel nonequilibrium molecular dynamics) in studying shock waves in condensed matter.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Holland, Murray John [2003]
University of Colorado
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of quantum degenerate atomic gases.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hollander, Jack M. [1987]
Univ of California - Berkeley
Citation: For founding and directing research programs on energy and the environment and for taking a leading role in the study of global energy resources and requirements.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hollberg, Leo William [2003]
National Institute of Science and Technology
Citation: For seminal work in the development and application of ultra-stable diode lasers, especially as applied to spectroscopy and precision measurements.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Hollenhorst, James [2007]
Agilent Labs
Citation: For outstanding contributions to measurement science and low noise electronics and for leadership of physical science based research and development in support of electronics and life science businesses.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Holloway, Stephen [2004]
University of Liverpool
Citation: For his pioneering work on the applications of high-dimentional quantum and classical dynamical simulations to gas-surface reactions and inelastic scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Holmes, Neil C. [1998]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative experimental studies to elucidate and understand the response of condensed matter to dynamic high pressures.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Holmes, Philip John [2006]
Princeton University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of nonlinear dynamics and the development of groundbreaking applications in classical, solid and fluid mechanics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Holmes, Stephen Dockler [1993]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the Antiproton Source, Booster, and Main Injector design at Fermilab.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Holmgren, Donald [2011]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For leadership and innovation in the design and operation of massively parallel computers for lattice gauge theory.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Holstein, Barry R. [1989]
Univ of Mass - Amherst
Citation: For his work on the phenomenology of weak interactions, specifically in the areas of CP violation and on the particle/nuclear physics interface.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Holt, Richard A. [2012]
University of Western Ontario
Citation: For a landmark proposal to test Bell's inequality, and high-prcision experiments of key significance to test quantum electrodynamics in two-electron atomic ions
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Holt, Roy J. [1993]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For studies of the properties of the deuteron: the development of tensor-polarized targets and their use in electron scattering and the demonstration of scaling in the photo-dissociation of the deuteron.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Holt, Rush D. [1998]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For advancing the health of science in the US through important contributions to plasma physics research, public science education reform, and public service.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Holt, Stephen S. [1983]
Olin College of Engineering
Citation: For important contributions to knowledge of X-ray sources through studies of their variability and spectra carried out with advanced satellite instrumentation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Holtkamp, Norbert Richard [2006]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For leadership in the successful construction and commissioning of the Spallation Neutron Source.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Holzapfel, William L. [2012]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his contributions to experimental studies of the early universe, notably cosmic microwave background anisotropies and its polarization, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Homes, Christopher [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of infrared spectroscopy, and its application to strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Homsy, George Mitchel [1984]
University of California-Santa Barbara
Citation: For outstanding contributions in stability theory and in the flow of two-phase materials.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hong, Minghwei [2011]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For pioneering in III-V semiconductor metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors including the landmark discovery of high dielectric constant oxide films on GaAs surface with low interface states and unpinned Fermi level, and the first demonstration of inversion-channel GaAs MOSFET, timely for science and technology beyond Si CMOS.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Honscheid, Klaus [2005]
Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of hadronic B meson decays and the development of advanced data acquisition systems.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hooper Jr., Charles F [1984]
Univ of Florida - Gainesville
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the theory of spectral line broadening in dense plasmas and to the theory of strongly coupled plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hopfinger, Emil J. [1996]
IMG Domaine Universitaire
Citation: For his enlightening experiments in high Reynolds number turbulent flows, and for his unique experiments in stratified and rotating flows which have helped define the present-day study of geophysical fluid dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Horanyi, Mihaly [2003]
University of Colorado
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the physical and dynamical consequences of dust-plasma interactions in space and in the laboratory.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Horie, Yasuyuki [1997]
North Carolina State University
Citation: In recognition of fundamental contributions to shock physics, including research on the shock synthesis of refractory and ceramic composites and the development of computational models of shocked reactive powders.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Horowitz, Charles J. [2008]
Indiana University
Citation: For seminal and sustained contributions to relativistic descriptions of nuclei, nuclear reactions, and dense matter.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Horowitz, Gary T. [2001]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: Gary Horowit'z precise insights have illuminated both the general properties of Einstein's classical general theory of relativity and the nature of string theory quantum gravity.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Horwitz, Nahmin [1988]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For contributions to the study of elementary particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hosoi, Anette E. [2012]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For her innovative work in thin fluid films and in the study of nonlinear interactions between viscous fluids and deformable interfaces including shape, kinematic and rheological optimization in biological systems
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hotop, Hartmut Oskar [1990]
Univ Kaiserslautern
Citation: For major contributions to the atomic and molecular physics through measurements and interpretation of ionization resulting from collision of excited atoms with atoms and molecules and seminal investigations of properties of negative ions.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hough, James [2000]
University of Glasgow
Citation: For his pivotal role in devising and developing the necessary implementing technologies for gravitational wave detection.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Houghton, Anthony [1993]

Citation: For contributions to the theory of superconductivity, critical phenomena, and many body systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Houle, Frances Anne [1992]
No Company Provided
Citation: For contributions to understanding of chemistry and physics in laser chemical modification of materials.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Houston, Paul L. [1989]
Cornell Univ
Citation: For important contributions toward understanding molecular photodissociation dynamics, energy transfer, and gas-solid interactions; in particular, for his imaginative use of photofragment imaging and his development of the field of vector correlations.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hoven, Gerard Van [1988]

Citation: For contributions to plasma astrophysics, especially for contributions to the plasma mechanisms of solar flares.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Howard, Don [2007]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his ground-breaking studies of the interplay between physics and philosophy of science in the 20th century, especially in connection with the work of Einstein and Bohr, and for organizing conference series and editing book series fostering the dialogue between physicists and philosophers and historians of science.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Howard, Louis Norberg [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For original and penetrating insights into mechanics of change in flow structure.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Howard, Richard E. [1993]
Agere Systems - Murray Hill
Citation: For the innovative use of microfabrication to explore transport in mesoscopic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Howell, Calvin R. [2006]
Duke University
Citation: For precision measurements of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in few-body systems using polarization observables and for service to the scientific community, especially, by mentoring students at historically black colleges and universities.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Howes, Ruth H. [1992]
Ball State Univ
Citation: For her innovations in the verification of ballistic missile characteristics, which assisted in resolving problems negotiating parts of the Start Treaty, and for her analyses of energy policy and ballistic missile defenses.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Hsiang, James Chen, Tsang [1987]
IBM T J Watson Res Ctr
Citation: For his creative use of Raman spectroscopy in characterizing magnetic semiconductors, charge-density waves, surfaces and interfaces, and time-dependent phenomena, and for his contributions to the techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hsiang, Thomas Y. [1991]

Citation: For his studies of non-equilibrium superconductivity, picosecond phenomena, and noise in silicon devices and superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hsiao, Benjamin S. [2002]
State University of NY at Stony Brook
Citation: For insightful experiments to elucidate the early stages of crystallization of polymers, particularly through development of powerful synchrotron X-ray techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Hsieh, Ke-Chiang [2000]
University of Arizona
Citation: For pioneering the measurement of energetic neutral particles in space plasma, thereby opening the door to a new frontier of space research.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hsiung, Yee Bob [2000]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his key role in the Fermilab neutral kaon decay program, particularly his leadership that resulted in the recent evidence for direct CP-violation.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hsu, Julia W.P. [2001]
Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
Citation: For pioneering work in applying scanning probe microscopy techniques to elucidate the nanometer scale electronic and optical properties of novel materials, in particular the physics related to defects.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hsu, Shaw Ling [1986]
Univ of Mass - Amherst
Citation: For his use of vibrational spectroscopy to characterize polymer structure and to follow the dynamics of structural change.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Hu, Bei-Lok [2001]
University of Maryland
Citation: For fundamental contributions to quantum field theory in curved spacetime, quantum processes in the early universe, and nonequilibrium statistical field theory applied to gravity and cosmology.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Hu, Chia-Ren [2003]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For initiating the theory of midgap states in high-T_c and other unconventional superconductors, and for studies of the transport properties of type-II superconductors and the textural properties of superfluid ^3He.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hu, Evelyn Lynn [1995]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For contributions to the fabrications and study of low dimensional structures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hu, Howard [2011]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of multiphase flows, particularly the direct numerical simulations of Newtonian and viscoelastic particulate flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hu, Qing [2006]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the development of long-wavelength terahertz quantum-cascade lasers and real-time terahertz imaging.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Huang, Chao-Yuan [1983]
National Taiwan Normal University
Citation: For contributions to spin-lattice relaxation; thermal fluctuations and pair-breaking times in superconducting microbridges; muon spin relaxation in magnets; and anomalous properties in magnetic superconductors at high pressures and magnetic fields.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Huang, Cheng-Cher [1993]
Univ of Minn - Minneapolis
Citation: For fundamental investigations of phase transitions in liquid crystals, in particular the thermal properties of substrate-free two-dimensional systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Huang, Danhong [2011]
Air Force Research Lab - Kirtland
Citation: Significant contributions to our understanding of optical absorption and electron transport properties of quantum devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Huang, Huan Z. [2012]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For experimental measurements of strange hadrons, in particular hyperons, and quark number scaling in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Huang, Huey-Wen [1993]

Citation: For pioneering new methods for studying peptide-membrane interactions and discovering peptide phase transitions in membranes that are related to cytolytic mechanism of membrane-active antibiotics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Huang, John S. [1990]

Citation: For contributions to our understanding of complex fluids, including micellar, micromulsion, and colloidal systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hubbard, Amanda Eileen [2003]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of the plasma edge pedestal formation and of the transition to an improved confinement regime in magnetic fusion confinement devices.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hubbell, John Howard [2002]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For constructive syntheses of data on photon interactions in compilations used around the world in a wide range of disciplines, and for his effective promotion of radiation physics in developed and developing countries.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Huchra, John Peter [1992]

Citation: For observational studies of the large-scale distribution of galaxies and contraints of Cosmology.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hudgens, Jeffrey Warren [1994]

Citation: For pioneering spectroscopic studies which established resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization spectroscopy as a powerful method for discovering and characterizing electronic states of molecular free radicals and transient molecules.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hudson, Bruce Samuel [1993]

Citation: For pioneering achievements in molecular spectroscopy and development of novel laser Ramantechniques, for excellence in training scientists and for distinguished service to the chemical physics community.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Hudson, Hugh Stephen [1994]

Citation: For observational and interpretational studies of solar processes, including energetic emissions during flares and time variations of solar irradiance.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hudson, Steven David [2006]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For excellence in structural studies of supramolecular and polymeric materials and the quantative description of droplet and particle dispersion under quiescent and flow conditions.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Huennekens, John P. [2012]
Lehigh University
Citation: For contributions to the development of fine and hyperfine structure, and quantum interference effects based spectroscopic probes for the study of electronic state interactions and transition dipole moments and for efforts to advance the state of undergraduate physics research experience.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Huerre, Patrick [1993]
Ecole Polytechnique
Citation: For his creative contributions to shear flow instability problems including critical layers, the distinction between closed and open systems in spatially developing flows, the concept of global modes, and the principles underlying frequency and pattern selection.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Huestis, David L. [1990]
SRI International
Citation: For his extensive, broad-ranging theoretical contributions and collaborations with experimentalists leading to fundamental understanding in areas of atomic and molecular excited states, molecular spectroscopy, excimer-laser kinetics, nonlinear optics, and scattering theory.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Huff, Howard Richard [2004]
International SEMATECH
Citation: For contributions to silicon materials science, and its application to enhanced integrated-circuit performance, yield and reliability.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Huffman, Gerald P. [2006]
University of Kentucky
Citation: For wide-ranging and significant contributions to the field of fossil energy research.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hughes, Emlyn [2007]
Columbia University
Citation: For leadership in forefront experimental research that elucidated the spin structure of the nucleon and provided unique precision tests the Standard Model.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hughes, John P. [2008]
Rutgers University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and for pioneering studies of the origin of Galactic cosmic rays using the structure and evolution of supernova remnants.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hughes, Richard [2010]
Ohio State University
Citation: For his contributions to the heavy flavor program at the Tevatron. For the development of bottom quark tagging used in the discovery of the top quark
and his contributions and leadership of the Level 1 tracking and triggering system crucial to the Run II physics program at CDF.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hughes, Richard J. [1999]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For work in the application of fundamental quantum mechanical principles to practical problems, including quantum computation and quantum cryptography, and for the development of experimental techniques in this regard.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hughes, Scott [2012]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering work in gravitational wave physics including modeling the waveforms of extreme mass-ratio inspirals, developing a framework for testing black hole spacetimes, and showing how gravitational waves can be used to study structure formation and measure cosmological parameters
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Hui, Sek Wen [1994]

Citation: For innovative application of electron diffraction and other physical methods to elucidate membrane and liquid crystal structures, phase transition and membrane fusion mechanisms.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hulet, Randall G. [1995]
Rice University
Citation: For his contributions to a broad range of important problems in atomic and optical physics including cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum jumps, ion storage, and laser cooling of atoms.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Hulin, Jean Pierre [2005]
Laboratoire FAST
Citation: For novel and physically insightful experiments on transport in porous and fractured media, fluid mixing and granular flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hull, Robert [2002]
University of Virginia
Citation: For the development of pioneering in-situ electron microscopy techniques for elucidating dislocation physics in semiconductors and in strained layer epitaxial systems.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hulse, Russell A. [1993]
Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
Citation: For fundamental contributions in two fields of physics. The discovery by radio astronomy of the first binary pulsar, and description and computational modeling of processes involving high-Z ions in tokamak plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hummer, David Greybull [1992]

Citation: For his contribution to the theory of radiative transfer, for calculations of atomic data, and for applications to the analysis of the atmospheres of hot stars.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Hummer, Gerhard [2005]
National Institutes of Health
Citation: For his pioneering research on the hydrophobic effect and the role of water in the energetics and functional dynamics of biomolecular systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Humphries, Stanley [1989]

Citation: For pioneering work in the invention of efficient ion diodes and in the generation and transport of intense ion beams through accelerating structures.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Hunt, Earle R. [1999]
Ohio University
Citation: For significant contributions in early NMR studies of matter, and pioneering experimental work on chaos control and stochastic resonance in spatio-temporal model systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Hunt, Jeffrey [2007]
Boeing Info Spc & Def Sys
Citation: For significant contributions in nonlinear surface spectroscopy, and ground-breaking applications of laser physics in the aerospace industry.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Hunt, Julian C.R. [2002]
University College London
Citation: For his long-lasting contributions to the understanding and modeling of various fluid flow phenomena in nature and in engineering practice as well as for extensive services to the fluid mechanics community.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Hunter, Larry Russel [1997]
Amherst College
Citation: For his contributions to precise tests of fundamental physical laws and symmetries, and in particular for substantially improving the bound on the electric dipole moment of the electron.
Nominated by: Topical Group Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants

Hunziker, Heinrich Erwin [1987]

Citation: For initiating and developing the modulation spectroscopy of photochemical reactions, which made it possible to obtain electronic absorption spectra and kinetic information for a number of important chemical transient species.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Huo, Winifred M. [1991]
NASA/Ames Res Ctr
Citation: For innovative contributions to the theoretical description and accurate calculation of electron-molecule collisions and multiphoton molecular processes including resonant enhanced multiphoton ionization.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Huppert, Herbert E. [2004]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For pioneering work in geological fluid mechanics including gravity currents, magmas, double-diffusive convections, and solidification.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hurlimann, Martin Dominik [2005]
Schlumberger - Doll Research
Citation: For development of nuclear magnetic resonance methods based on diffusion and relaxation to characterize fluid saturated porous media with practical application in ex-situ examination of earth formations.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Huse, David A. [1992]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For theoretical contributions to the statistical mechanics of glasses, disordered systems, surfaces, and quantum magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hussain, A.K.M. Fazle [1985]
USRA - Univ Space Research Assoc
Citation: For his contributions to the study of turbulent jets and shear layers and in particular for the insight his research has provided to our understanding of coherent structures in turbulent flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Hussain, Zahid [2004]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For major scientific contributions in the physics of materials using synchrotron radiation spectroscopies, and for enabling discoveries by others through the development of cutting-edge instrumentation.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Hussaini, Yousuff [1997]
Florida State University
Citation: For scientific leadership and innovative and pioneering research in the theory and application of computational fluid dynamics, particularly spectral methods, to problems in transition, compressible turbulence, shock-turbulence interaction, and aeroacoustics.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Huston, Joey [2007]
Michigan State University
Citation: For scientific leadership and fundamental contributions to the study of the strong interaction of quarks and gluons through definitive experiments at hadron colliders and important phenomenological calculations.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hutchinson, Ian H. [1988]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For innovative experimental and theoretical contributions to the understanding of toroidal plasmas especially through measurements of their MHD instabilities and electron cyclotron emission.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Huth, John [1998]
Harvard University
Citation: For contributions to the study of quantum chromodynamics in high energy proton-antiproton collisions.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hwa, Rudolph C. [1995]
University of Oregon
Citation: For contributions to the study of soft hadronic processes in high energy collisions, signatures of quark gluon plasma, fractal structure in multiparticle production and phase transition.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Hwa, Terence [2008]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For fundamental investigations into the statistical physics underlying molecular biology, especially including transcriptional regulation.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Hwang, Harold [2011]
Stanford University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the materials physics of correlated electron materials through the prudent use of doping, artificial interfaces, dimensional confinement, and electronic reconstruction.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hwang, Robert [2008]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering experiments on metal-on-metal epitaxy leading to fundamental advances in the understanding the structure of thin metal films, and for his exceptional service in the advocacy of nanoscience in the United States.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hwang, Woei-Yann Pauchy [2003]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For his pioneering work on using muon capture to test the conserved vector current hypothesis and second class currents, his elucidation of the role of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics, and his enduring effort in promoting international physics.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Hybertsen, Mark S. [2001]
Agere Systems
Citation: For fundamental developments in the theory of electronic and optical properties of materials, especially the importance of many-body effects, and the application to semiconductor optoelectronic technology.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Hyde-Wright, Charles Earl [2005]
Old Dominion University
Citation: For the development of Virtual Compton Scattering as a probe of the structure of the Nucleon.


Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Hynes, James (Casey) T. [2000]
University of Colorado
Citation: For his original contributions to the theory of reactions in solutions and on ice surfaces.


Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Höfer, Ulrich [2006]
Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Citation: For outstanding contributon to the development and application of laser-based techniques to the study of surface and interface dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

I, Lin [2005]
National Central University
Citation: For his pioneering experimental investigation of dusty plasma in all three states: Crystals, liquid and gas, particularly the first laboratory demonstration of the formation of 3D Coulomb crystals.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Iafrate, Gerald J. [1990]
North Carolina State Univ
Citation: For the development of fundamental concepts and applications of the physics of submicron and ultrasubmicron devices.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ice, Gene Emery [1999]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For advances in x-ray resonant scattering techniques to study the many body problems of atomic electron rearrangements, local atomic disorder and magnetism, and for innovations in synchrotron x-ray optics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ichimaru, Setsuno [1986]

Citation: For significant contributions to the advancement of the many-body theories and statistical physics of plasmas and related condensed matter, and their application to plasma astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Idzerda, Yves [2007]
Montana State University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of soft x-ray spectroscopies to the study of magnetic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Iglesias, Carlos A. [2005]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For ground-breaking contributions to the study of the production and transport of radiation in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, including particularly the development of the OPAL opacity code.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Ihm, Jisoon [2007]
Seoul National University
Citation: For his fundamental contributions to the theory of solids, surfaces and nanostructures, especially his development of the momentum-space formalism for total energy of solids.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Iijima, Sumio [2000]
NEC Corporation (Japan)
Citation: For the discovery of carbon nanotube and promotion of its research and development.


Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Ikezi, Hiroyuki [1980]
General Atomics - San Diego
Citation: None
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Imai, Takashi [2008]
McMaster University
Citation: For important studies of quantum magnetism and superconductivity using NMR techniques.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Imamoglu, Atac [2002]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For major innovation in quantum optics and mesoscopic physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Imbusch, George Francis [1995]
University College
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of the static and dynamical processes which affect the optically excited states of luminescent materials.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Imry, Yoseph [1985]
Weizmann Institute of Science
Citation: For work on phase transitions, transport and quantum effects in disordered and/or small systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Inan, Umran [2009]
Stanford University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of nonlinear whistler-mode wave-particle interactions, the physics of lightning-ionosphere interactions, and lightning-driven loss of radiation belt electrons.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Incandela, Joseph [2012]
CERN
Citation: For distinguished contributions to our understanding of vector bosons, the observation and studies of the properties of the top quark, and searches for new physics at the LHC as well as leadership in the design and construction of new silicon tracking detectors that enabled many important new results at the Tevatron and the LHC
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Indelicato, Paul [2003]
Ecole Normale Superieure et Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Citation: For his outstanding contributions both in new measurements and new theoretical methods to understand quantum electrodynamic (QED) and quantum chromodynamic (QCD) effects in atomic systems.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ingersent, Kevin [2009]
University of Florida
Citation: For contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Inguscio, Massimo [2006]
University of Florence, Italy
Citation: For pathbreaking experiments exploring the quantum dynamics of ultracold gases of atomic fermions and bosons, and for major advances in precision laser spectroscopy of the helium atom.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Innes, K. Keith [1989]

Citation: For his contributions to electronic spectroscopy, including the first full rovibronic analysis of a polyatomic molecule electronic transition, textbook examples of linear- bent and magnetic dipole transitions, and insights into vibronic coupling theory.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Intrator, Tom [2012]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For novel experimental investigations of interrelated properties of magnetic flux ropes, magnetic reconnection, and turbulence in astrophysical, space, and fusion physics, and for seminal Alfven-wave current-drive experiments
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Intriligator, Kenneth [2003]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the study of nonperturbative phenomena and duality in supersymmetric quantum field theories and string theory.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ioffe, Boris Lazarevich [1994]

Citation: For the proof of light-cone dominance of deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering and that in QCD, the baryon masses and magnetic moments are caused by quark vacuum condensate.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ioffe, Lev B. [2006]
Rutgers University
Citation: For significant contributions to the theory of spin glasses, without quenched disorder, disordered superconductors, high-Tc superconductors and the discovery of Josephson networks with topological order parameter.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Ippen, Erich P. [1989]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his pioneering work in the generation, measurement, and application to physical systems of picosecond and femtosecond light pulses.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Iqbal, Zafar [1996]
Allied Signal, Inc.
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the design, synthesis, understanding, and application of non-conventional electronic, optical, and energetic materials - from porous silicon to polydiacetylenes, high temperature superconductors, and explosives.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Irena, Stankiewicz Jolanta [2006]
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Citation: For significant contributions to the physics of semimagnetic semiconductors and pioneering semiconductor research in Venezuela.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Irwin, John [1996]
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Citation: For significant contributions to the research, development and application of modern techniques of nonlinear dynamics to accelerator systems, in particular to electron-positron colliding beam devices.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Irwin, Kent [2007]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For world-leading technical contributions and leadership in applying transition-edge superconducting sensors to materials and nuclear analysis and astronomical observations.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Isaac, Randall Duane [1997]
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For outstanding contributions to advanced bipolar technology and the 64Mb DRAM development.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Isaacs, Eric D. [2000]
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Citation: For pioneering work in the application of synchrotron-based magnetic X-ray scattering to condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Isacker, Van [2009]
GANIL
Citation: For his fearless confrontation of transitional nuclei using graded Lie Algebras, g-bosons, gamma deformations and nuclear chaos leading to interrelations of bands in even-even, odd-even and odd-odd nuclei and predictions of nuclear masses beyond the valley of stability.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Isenberg, James Allen [2000]
University of Oregon
Citation: For his pioneering work on global issues in general relativity and for his contributions to the field.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Isgur, Nathan [1989]

Citation: For the study of the implications of chromodynamics for the quark model, the application of the constituent quark model to phenomena including hadron spectroscopy, electromagnetic and weak form factors, and interhadron forces.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Islam, Muhammad M. [1980]
Univ of Conn - Storrs
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Isler, Ralph Charles [1984]
Oak Ridge National Lab
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of the effects of impurity radiation and transport in magnetically confined high temperature plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Israel, Martin Henry [1984]
Washington University
Citation: For contributions to the measurement of the composition of ultraheavy cosmic rays through development of balloon-borne and satellite (High Energy Astronomy Observatory, HEAO-3 instruments.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Israelachvili, Jacob Nissim [2003]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For developing experimental techniques for measuring interparticle forces in liquids that have led to the discovery and elucidation of new types of intermolecular and surface interactions in complex colloidal and biological systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Itano, Wayne M. [1990]
NIST - Natl Inst Stds & Tech
Citation: For the theoretical description of atomic-physics experiments of practical and fundamental interest, including laser cooling, nonclassical statistics, and quantum measurement theory.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ivanov, Plamen Ch. [2010]
Boston University and Harvard Medical School
Citation: For his pioneering applications of statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics to physiology and biomedicine,
and for uncovering fundamental scaling and multifractal properties, self-organized criticality, sleep- and
circadian-related phase transitions in physiologic dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Iyer, Balasubramanian [2012]
Raman Research Institute
Citation: For his important contributions to gravitational theory, in particular the post-Newtonian approximation and equations of motion, his outstanding leadership in creating the gravitational wave community in India through the IndIGO consortium, and his key role in the LIGO-India initiative
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Jacak, Barbara V. [1996]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For her contributions to the development of identified-hadron spectroscopy as a means of probing the space-time evolution of hot hadronic matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jackel, Lawrence David [1997]
AT&T Bell Labs
Citation: For sustained contributions to the fields of microscience and machine learning by increasing scientific understanding and by developing technology and applying it to systems with commercial and industrial significance.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Jackson, Alan [2002]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering work in the development and construction of 3rd generation synchrotron radiation sources.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Jackson, Gerald Peter [1998]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For conceptual and technical innovations in circular colliders, leading to record-breaking luminosities in the Tevatron, and to the Recycler.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Jackson, Harold E. [1994]

Citation: For his contributions to photoneutron studies of nuclear structure and to our understanding of intermediate energy nuclear reactions induced by pions and electrons.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jackson, Howard E. [2000]
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For innovative light scattering studies combining high spectral and spatial resolution.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jackson, Kenneth A. [1988]

Citation: For contributions to crystal growth theory and for experimental investigations of growth and instability phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jackson, Shirley Ann [1986]
Rensselaer Polytech Inst
Citation: For contributions to the theory of charge density wave instabilities, the channeling of heavy ions in solids, and the behavior of 2-D electrons on helium films.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jackson, Warren Bruce [1995]
Xerox PARC
Citation: For pioneering research in the fundamental properties of amorphous semiconductors, including seminal studies of the intrinsic electronic density of states and metastable mechanisms and processes, and for the application of photothermal deflection spectroscopy to address a wide range of problems in hydrogenated amorphous silicon.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jackson, William Morgan [1995]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For his fundamental contributions to experimental chemical dynamics and his original use of lasers in pioneering work in astrochemistry.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jacob, Maurice [1993]

Citation: For unique and original contributions to theoretical particle physics; for exemplary leadership in promoting communication among physicists in Europe, and among learned societies throughout the world.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Jacoboni, Carlo [1999]
Modena University
Citation: For outstanding research and leadership in computational analysis of transport phenomena in solids.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Jacobs, Donald T. [2002]
The College of Wooster, Ohio
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of critical phenomena in liquids, and for sustained mentoring of undergraduate students engaged in research.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jacobs, Peter Martin [2005]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in studies of the suppression of high-Pt particle production and jet quenching by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jacobs, Ralph Raymond [1994]

Citation: For fundamental and applied contributions to the research and development for a wide variety of gaseous, solid, and liquid laser media.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Jacobs, Theodore A. [1980]

Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jacobs, Verne L. [1985]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding calculations and fundamental analysis of photoionization and its incorporation together with dielectronic recombination and other processes in application to plasma diagnostics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jacobsen, Chris [2011]
Northwestern University
Citation: For seminal contributions to x-ray microscopy.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Jacobson, Abram Robert [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of reversed-field pinch physics through both experimental and theoretical work.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jacobson, Allan Stanley [1986]

Citation: For pioneering work in high resolution gamma-ray astrophysical observations and instrumentation.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Jacobson, Theodore [2004]
University of Maryland
Citation: For pioneering work on spin-connection formulations of gravitational dynamics, black hole thermodynamics, and the possible role of the microstructure of spacetime in black hole physics and high energy particle physics.
Nominated by: Topical Group in Gravitation

Jacox, Marilyn Elizabeth [1986]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: For original and important contributions to matrix isolation spectroscopy and ultraviolet photochemistry of molecular radicals and ions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jaeger, Heinrich Martin [2002]
University of Chicago
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the study of granular systems, mesoscopic self assembly, and flux flow in superconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jaeger, Klaus Bruno [1992]
Jaeger Enterprises
Citation: In recognition of his success in transferring and implementing primary intrinsic metrology standards technology from the university and national laboratory research sector to an industrial environment.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science

Jaffe, Charles [2007]
West Virginia University
Citation: For fundamental discoveries in the theory of transport in atomic, molecular, and celestial mechanical systems.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Few-Body Systems

Jaffe, Robert Loren [1986]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For important contributions to the dynamics of confined quarks and gluons, and the study of glueballs, multiquark hadrons, and quark distributions in nuclei, in the context of QCD.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Jagadish, Chennupati [2003]
The Australian University
Citation: For contributions to compound semiconductor growth, processing and optoelectronic devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Jaime, Marcelo [2011]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering techniques for the study of thermal properties of materials in high pulsed magnetic fields and for contributions to the understanding of colossal magnetoresistance compounds, Kondo insulators, correlated-electron systems, and quantum magnets.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jain, Jainendra Kumar [1997]
SUNY - Stony Brook
Citation: For the "Composite Fermion" theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jain, Ravinder K. [2008]
University of New Mexico
Citation: For pioneering contributions in several areas of applied physics, including discovery of plasmon-mediated light-emission from tunnel junctions, seminal studies of nonlinear optics in semiconductors and optical fibers, and the invention of several important ultrashort pulse lasers and fiber lasers.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Jakobsson, Erik [1994]

Citation: For the elucidation of ion transport through biological membranes by computer modeling of polypeptide, ion and water motions.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Jalali, Bahram [2010]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For pioneering contributions to silicon photonics including demonstration silicon Raman laser and other nonlinear optics phenomenon.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

James, Philip Benjamin [1984]
University of Toledo
Citation: For experimental and theoretical work directed towards the goal of understanding the current volatile cycles on Mars and the evolution of martian climate.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

James, Ralph Boyd [2000]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For outstanding contributions and leadership in materials science leading to the development of wide bandgap compound semiconductor devices for detecting and imaging X- and gamma-ray radiation.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jamieson, Alexander MacRae [1989]
Case Western Reserve Univ
Citation: For applications of light scattering to characterize specific solvation effects in the configurational and hydrodynamic properties of high polymers in good solvents, and the dynamics of amorphous polymers near Tg.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Janda, Kenneth C. [1993]

Citation: For the application of pump-probe methods to the study of electronically excited stare vibrational dynamics of weakly bound complexes a the state-to-state level.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jansen, Henri J. F. [2005]
Oregon State University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory and methods of electronic structure calculations, especially for developing precise methods for computing crystalline magnetic anisotropy.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Janssen, Michel [2010]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For path-breaking contributions to the history of early twentieth-century physics, for excellent editorial work on Einstein papers, and for promoting substantive interactions between physicists and historians of physics.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Janssens, Robert V.F. [1992]
Argonne Natl Lab
Citation: For his many outstanding contributions to studies of high angular momentum in nuclear physics and, in particular, for his leadership in the discovery of superdeformation in the A=190 region.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jarboe, Thomas R. [1986]
Univ of Washington
Citation: For innovation and leadership in spheromak research including equilibrium, stability, and sustainment physics, and for contributions to the understanding of the role of magnetic helicity during spheromak formation and sustainment.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jaros, John A. [1993]
Stanford Univ
Citation: For pioneering work in the use of high resolution detectors for the measurement of secondary vertices in e+e- collider experiments.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Jarrell, Mark [2007]
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of computational condensed matter physics including dynamical mean field theory and the dynamical cluster approximation applied to advancing the understanding of strongly correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Jarzynski, Christopher [2009]
University of Maryland
Citation: For pioneering work in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, especially his elegant equality relating free energy differences between two equilibrium states to averaged work expended in non-equilibrium transformations between them.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Jasinski, Joseph Martin [1994]

Citation: For the spectroscopic elucidation of transient and long-lived chemical intermediates in chemical vapor deposition processes and for the development of gas phase preparative methods for the synthesis of silicon nanoparticles.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jasnow, David M. [1990]
Univ of Pittsburgh
Citation: For contributions to our knowledge of critical phenomena and the statics and dynamics of interfaces and domain growth.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jassby, Daniel Lewis [1987]
Princeton Univ
Citation: For playing a leading role in conceptualizing and developing the ideas which form the basis for present experiments (TFTR) and future reactors (hybrids).
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Javanainen, Juha M. [1998]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For fundamental contributions to theoretical quantum optics, especially light pressure, laser cooling and trapping, and optical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jawahery, Abolhassan [2004]
University of Maryland
Citation: For important contributions to the measurement of bottom quark properties and the CKM matrix elements, including the CP violating phase.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Jayaprakash, Ciriyam [2001]
Ohio State University
Citation: For distinguished work on the statistical physics of Josephson junction arrays, crystal shapes, the two-impurity Kondo problem, and classical non-equilibrium systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jean, Yanching Jerry [1994]

Citation: For significant contributions to recent developments of position annihilation spectroscopy for the characterization of atomic scale free-volume hole properties in polymeric materials.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Jeanloz, Raymond [2009]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the development of sound public policy for nuclear weapons management and nuclear non-proliferation and for engaging scientists in Russia, China, and India in order to address technical and potentially sensitive issues in international security, arms control and disarmament.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Jeffrey, William [2007]
Institute for Defense Analysis
Citation: For excellence in management of scientific and technical programs, particularly those of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Jelinski, Lynn Woodard [1984]
No company provided
Citation: For development and application of the techniques of solid state deuterium NMR to problems in the structure and dynamics of polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Jellinek, Julius [2010]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the conceptual foundations of the physics of finite-size systems and phenomena, development of new simulation and analysis methodologies specifically tailored for the nanoscale, and pioneering explorations of a broad spectrum of properties of atomic and molecular clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jena, Purusottam [1999]
Virginia Commonwealth University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic structure, equilibrium geometries, stability, electronic & magnetic properties of Atomic Clusters.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jenekhe, Samson A [2003]
University of Washington
Citation: For outstanding contributions to understanding the self-assembly, photophysics, and properties of conjugated polymers.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Jenkins, Elizabeth [2006]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For her contributions to the understanding of the realization of flavor and spin symmetries for Baryons, through innovative application of the large Nc expansion.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jensen, Hans Burkal [1996]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in the construction and operation of the CDF experiment, especially its calorimetry.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Jensen, Kevin L. [2009]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory and modeling of electron emission sources for particle accelerators and microwave tubes.
Nominated by: Division of Physics of Beams

Jensen, Roderick V. [2000]
Wesleyan University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly perturbed quantum systems that are classically chaotic, like Rydberg atoms in strong fields, and for the extension of the methods of nonlinear dynamics across many disciplines, from atomic physics and mesoscopic solid-state physics to biophysics and neuroscience.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jensen, Torkil Hesselberg [1984]
General Atomics - San Diego
Citation: For contributions to both experimental and theoretical plasma physics, especially in the area of linear waves, resistive instabilities and the doublet and reversed field configuration.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jessen, Poul [2007]
University of Arizona
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of optical lattices of laser cooled atoms, quantum information processing, and quantum control experiments with atomic spins.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jeziorski, Bogumil [2010]
Warsaw University
Citation: For contributions to symmetry-adapted perturbation theory of intermolecular interactions and computational studies of interatomic and intermolecular potential energy surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jha, Sudhanshu S. [1987]
Indian Inst of Tech-Bombay
Citation: For his theoretical studies of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals; in particular, the elucidation of the mechanisms responsible for second-harmonic generation and electronic Raman scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jhe, Wonho [2012]
Seoul National University
Citation: For the experiments on radiative decay in optical cavities, development of a single-beam magneto-optical trap, and observation of critical many-body phenomena in periodically modulated cold-atom systems
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Ji, Chueng-Ryong [2011]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For his remarkable and pioneering contributions in QCD applying light-front dynamics to fundamental aspects of hadron physics, including spectroscopy, wave functions, and form factors.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Ji, Hantao [2004]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions of experimental research on basic physical processes important to both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, including dynamo effects, magnetic reconnection, magnetic helicity conservation, and magnetorotational instability.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Ji, Xiangdon [2000]
University of Maryland
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of the structure of the nucleon and the process of deeply virtual Compton scattering.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Jia, Quanxi [2009]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions in epitaxial functional metal-oxide films for coated conductors and electronic devices.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jiang, HongWen [2002]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For fundamental experimental studies of the ground-state phases of the two dimensional electron gas, including the first identification of the Hall metal state in a half-filled Landau level.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jiang, Hongxing [2010]
Texas Tech University
Citation: For his seminal works in the area of III-nitride wide bandgap semiconductors.  In particular, for his significant contributions to the understanding of fundamental optical and defect properties and practical applications of III-nitrides and pioneering contributions to the field of nanophotonics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jiang, Samuel J. [2009]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For experimental contributions to the study of magnetotransport and magnetic coupling phenomena in magnetic nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jiles, David Collingwoo [1997]
Iowa State University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetic hysteresis and related magnetic phenomena.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Jimenez, Javier S. [1993]
Ciudad Univ
Citation: For his work in image processing, in turbulence, on the structure of turbulent mixing layers, and on the mechanics of near-wall turbulence.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Jin, Deborah Shiu-Lan [2003]
NIST/JILA
Citation: For her innovative realization and exploration of a novel quantum system, the degenerate Fermi atomic gas.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jin, Kui-juan [2012]
No Company Provided
Citation: For her significant contribution in the crossing area of optics and condensed matter physics, including Fano resonance applying in some semiconductor systems, laser MBE growing and novel property revealing for peroveskite oxide heterostructures, and for her important role as a leading card for women in physics
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Jin, Rongying [2010]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For her significant contributions to materials physics, including science-driven materials development and pioneering studies of their underlying physics.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Jin, Sungho [2003]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding and control of structure and properties in magnetic materials including CMR materials, critical current behavior of superconductor materials, and technical applications.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Magnetism

Jinnai, Hiroshi [2010]
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Citation: For elucidating the three-dimensional morphology of complex polymer systems by transmission electron microtomography.
Nominated by: Division of Polymer Physics

Joannopoulos, John Dimitrs [1983]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For outstanding contributions to research and to developing young theorists in condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Johannes, Michelle D. [2012]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For computational work that has made a strong impact in novel superconductivity, magnetism, charge density waves and battery electrode materials. Her calculations have contributed to understanding and explaining the underlying physics that governs the properties of widely diverse materials
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

John, Sajeev [2002]
University of Toronto
Citation: For pioneering contributions to studies of classical wave localization in disordered systems and to the theory of photonic band gap systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Johnsen, Rainer [1993]

Citation: For his seminal and innovative developments of Drift Tube Techniques for ion-molecule reactions, and for the High Pressure Photoionized Afterglow method for ion-ion and electron-ion recombination studies.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Johnson, Alan [2011]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For creative and influential discoveries furthering our understanding of the electronic and vibrational properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Johnson, Anthony M. [1995]
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Citation: For his contributions to ultrafast optoelectronics and nonlinear optics, including high speed semiconductor sampling gates, optical pulse compression and tunable ultrafast laser sources.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Johnson, Duane Douglas [2003]
University of Illinois
Citation: For theoretical and computational contributions to our understanding of physical properties of disordered alloys which have uncovered the microscopic underpinnings of the thermodynamics and phase transformations of alloys.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Johnson, Fred M. [1980]
Cal State Univ- Fullerton
Citation: None
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Johnson, James Norman [1996]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: In recognition of his pioneering efforts to illuminate the connections between fundamental macro and microscopic properties of real materials and their response to shock waves.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Johnson, Joseph Andrew [1990]

Citation: For developing innovative experimental techniques used in the study of supersonic combustion and for the identification of the controlling dynamics in supersonic transport phenomena.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Johnson, Mark A. [1999]
Yale University
Citation: For developing controlled sources of cold cluster anions and using infrared dissociation to elucidate the structure of water networks around anions.


Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Johnson, Mark Brian [2003]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering achievements demonstrating electrical spin injection and detection in ferromagnetic - nonmagnetic - ferromagnetic metal structures, and discovering long conduction electron spin diffusion lengths in bulk and thin film metals.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Johnson, Noble Marshall [1993]
Palo Alto Research Ctr
Citation: For pioneering research on the physics of semiconductor materials and devices, and particularly for elucidating their complex reactions with hydrogen.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Johnson, Peter D. [1991]
Dartmouth Coll
Citation: For his contributions to the development of electron spectroscopies for the study of the electronic structure of metallic surfaces.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Johnson, Philip Martin [1991]
Texas Tech Univ
Citation: For the demonstration and development of multiphoton ionization as a general tool for molecular spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Johnson, Robert A. [1980]
Cal State Univ-Dominguez Hill
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Johnson, Robert [2012]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For his leadership of the design and implementation of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Tracker
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Johnson, Ronald Ceci [1989]
Univ of Surrey
Citation: For clarifying and extending theories of spin dependence and antisymmetry in nuclear reactions, and for introducing the adiabatic theory of breakup effects.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics

Johnson, W. Neil [1998]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: In recognition of outstanding contributions to observational gamma-ray astrophysics, development of the OSSE instrument, and the understanding of high-energy emissions from the Galaxy and Active Galactic Nuclei.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Johnston, David C. [1988]
Iowa State Univ
Citation: For the imaginative development of new materials and for their characterization.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jolivette, Peter Lauson [2000]
Hope College
Citation: In recognition of leadership and development of undergraduate research in nuclear physics.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Jonas, David [2007]
University of Colorado
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to phase-resolved nonlinear optics and the demonstration and subsequent development of femtosecond two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Jones, Alun Denry Wynn [2003]
Unavailable
Citation: For significant contributions to the influence of physics, the status of physicists and the standing of the subject in high schools, universities, industry and government in the United Kingdom.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Jones, Barbara [1994]

Citation: For pioneering development of state-of-the-art infrared instrumentation, the design of the next generation of large telescopes, and their use to make forefront observations of infrared sources.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Jones, Barbara A. [2002]
IBM Almaden Research Center
Citation: For outstanding contributions to theories of impurity magnetism and spin transport in magnetic nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jones, Ieuan Rinallt [1998]
Flinders University of South Australia
Citation: For advancing the understanding of the interaction of radio frequency power with plasma and pioneering the use of rotating magnetic fields to produce the Rotamak compact torus configuration.


Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jones, Kevin [2007]
Williams College
Citation: For seminal contributions to the study of cold collisions and to the development of photoassocation spectroscopy in ultracold gasses.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jones, Michael E. [1999]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of novel particle-in-cell simulation methods and their use in the study of the generation, transport, and stability of intense charged particle beams and plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jones, Robert Edwin [2003]
Motorola, Inc
Citation: For development of new materials technologies for integrated circuits and high-permittivity DRAMs.


Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Jones, Robert Rivers, Jr. [2000]
University of Virginia
Citation: For the development of experimental probes of Rydberg atoms and for providing new insighes about their behavior.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jonker, Berend Thomas [2003]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the field of magneto-electronics, including low dimensional magnetism in metals, spin-dependent carrier localization in semiconductors, and spin injection, scattering, and ferromagnetic order in semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jordan, Kenneth David [1992]
Univ of Pittsburgh
Citation: For his insight and theoretical guidance into the binding of electrons to molecules and clusters, the nature of temporary anion states, and long-range intra-molecular interactions.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jorgensen, James D. [1989]

Citation: For the determination of crystal structures from high-resolution neutron-diffraction data.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jortner, Joshua [1985]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions to chemical physics which have elucidated the nature of radiationless relaxation processes in large molecules and condensed phases, providing a general and useful conceptual framework for the description of molecular dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Jose, Jorge V. [1997]
Northeastern University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of low dimensional critical phenomena and quantum chaos.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Joseph, Daniel D. [1993]

Citation: For numerous significant contributions to the understanding of the stability and bifurcation theory of fluid motions, the analysis of non-Newtonian fluids, and the lubricated transport of viscous fluids and solids.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Joshi, Chandrashekhar Janardan [1990]
Univ of California-Los Angeles
Citation: For original contributions in the areas of plasma accelerators, laser-plasma interactions, and nonlinear optics of plasmas.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Jossem, E. Leonard [1998]
Ohio State University
Citation: For his leadership, persistence, and numerous contributions that advanced the enterprise of physics education and built a community of physics educators, both in the USA and internationally.
Nominated by: Forum on Education

Joyce, Glenn Russell [1989]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For his contributions in plasma simulation using particle techniques, developing the first simulation models of plasma double layers, pioneering in the field of two-dimensional plasma turbulence, and his efforts toward the simulation of relativistic.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Joynt, Robert [2004]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of quantum hall effect, heavy fermion materials and high-Tc superconductivity.


Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Jozef van Leeuven, Johannes Maria [1994]

Citation: For contributions to statistical physics, in particular to the understanding of static and dynamic correlations in fluids, and to real space renormalization group theory.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Judd, O'Dean [2008]
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Retired)
Citation: For outstanding, seminal contributions to the understanding and development of high power/energy gas lasers and their applications to laser fusion, laser chemistry, and national defense.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Judge, Darrell Lynn [1996]
University of Southern California
Citation: For his pioneering work on the fundamental properties of atoms and molecules using selected monochromatic photon excitation and dispersed fluorescence, and their applications in space physics.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Julian, Stephen R. [2012]
University of Toronto
Citation: For research on unconventional metallic and superconducting states of heavy fermion metals and strongly correlated oxides
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Julienne, Paul Sebastian [1990]
NIST - Natl Inst of Stds & Tech
Citation: For basic contributions to the understanding of collisional interactions between atoms, molecules, and radiation fields, and the development of a general nonadiabatic theory of collisional line broadening and radiative redistribution.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Jung, Chang Kee [2002]
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Citation: For leadership in experiments to understand the nature of neutrino oscillations and proton decay.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Jung, Peter [2004]
Ohio University
Citation: For distinguished contributions to statistical and nonlinear physics far from equilibrium and for elucidating the role of noise in biological systems.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Kaarsberg, Tina Marie [2005]
Office of Policy and International Affairs
Citation: For leadership in analysis of clean energy options and the importance of greater support for physical sciences in energy, climate change, and science & technology policy.
Nominated by: Forum on Physics and Society

Kachru, Ravinder [1994]

Citation: For the application of photon echoes in fundamental atomic physics and optical data storage.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Kagan, Harris P. [2002]
The Ohio State University
Citation: For his contributions to the early B-meson and tau-lepton physics, and the development of high resolution and radiation hard charged particle tracking detectors.


Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Kagan, Morton R. [2002]
IBM and Florida Atlantic University
Citation: For leveraging his IBM research leadership into undergraduate physics education reform incorporating technology and pedagogy, and for later work (after retirement) to strengthen undergraduate physics instruction at several universities.


Nominated by: Forum on Education

Kaganovich, Igor [2007]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the kinetic modeling of plasmas, including collisionless electron heating, negative ion dynamics, Hall thrusters, and intense ion beam dynamics.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Kahn, Antoine [2002]
Princeton University
Citation: For pioneering work on the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces of organic and inorganic semiconductors.
Nominated by: Division of Materials Physics

Kahn, Steven Michael [1991]
SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
Citation: For his insightful observation and interpretation of x-ray spectra of compact objects, supernova remnants, and the soft-x-ray background.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Kailasanath, Kazhikathra [2008]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For contributions to advanced computational techniques and basic understanding of the dynamics of chemically reactive flows and their application in design, analysis, and performance of propulsion concepts.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Kais, Sabre [2006]
Purdue University
Citation: For the development of a finite size scaling approach to calculate quantum critical parameters for atomic, molecular and quantum dot systems.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Kaiser, David [2010]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his outstanding publications that combine technical mastery of twentieth-century physics with a deep knowledge of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science.
Nominated by: Forum on the History of Physics

Kaiser, Ralf [2011]
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Citation: For pioneering experimental investigations of the chemical evolution of the Solar System and the Interstellar Medium, using crossed molecular beams and surface scattering to probe the underlying phenomena on the most fundamental, microscopic molecular level.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Kaiser, Robin [2011]
Institut non Lineaire
Citation: For fundamental investigations of multiple scattering of light in atomic vapors, especially coherent backscattering of light by cold atoms and Lévy flights of photons in hot atomic vapors.
Nominated by: Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

Kaita, Robert [2003]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental fast particle studies, including the first direct observations of ion magnetic trapping, the resonance localization of radio frequency heating, and mode-particle resonances with tangential neutral beam injection.
Nominated by: Division of Plasma Physics

Kajino, Toshitaka [2004]
National Astronomical Observatory & Dept of Astronomy Grad School of Science
Citation: For significant contributions to nuclear astrophysics and theoretical nuclear physics and for the promotion of scientific exchange between Japan and the international community.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Kaku, Michio [1980]
CUNY-CCNY
Citation: Not Provided
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Kalia, Rajiv [2007]
University of Southern California
Citation: For contributions to the development of multimillion-atom multiscale simulation methods on parallel computers and their application to the fundamental understanding of atomistic mechanisms for broad properties and processes in nanostructured materials.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Kallin, Catherine [1994]

Citation: For contributions to the understanding of correlations between electrons in low-dimensional systems.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Kalmus, George Ernest [1992]
Rutherford Appleton Lab
Citation: For leadership of the RAL Bubble Chamber and DELPHI Groups and, in particular, for the adaptation of Bu