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Artem Abanov [2015]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum phase transitions, in particular for the interaction of electrons with spin fluctuations.
Nominated by: DCMP

Johan Akerman [2015]
University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Citation: For advancing the understanding of dynamics induced by spin-transfer torque, including the experimental confirmation of magnetic solitons, and for contributions to the development of magnetic random access memory.
Nominated by: GMAG

Diego Alejandro Dalvit [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For original contributions to the interpretation of Casimir physics experiments, including fluctuation-induced interactions in nanostructured materials, thermal Casimir forces, and patch effects.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Mark Alford [2015]
Washington University in St. Louis
Citation: For elucidating the properties of quark matter, including its phase structure and signatures for its possible existence in neutron stars.
Nominated by: DNP

Andrea Alu [2015]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials.
Nominated by: DLS

Hiroshi Amano [2015]
Nagoya University
Citation: For pioneering the materials science and device physics leading to the invention of blue light-emitting diodes with III nitride-based semiconductor heterostructures.
Nominated by: DLS

Douglas Arion [2015]
Carthage College
Citation: For groundbreaking work towards improving the educational impact of the physics degree by promoting the widespread adoption of entrepreneurship training and mindset within the discipline.
Nominated by: FPS

Daniel Arovas [2015]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum magnetism, including novel large-N generalizations, valence bond solid and double exchange systems, and for pioneering work in the theory of fractional statistics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Tariq Aslam [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For groundbreaking contributions to the computational physics of detonations and shock waves, including co-inventing the ghost fluid method, mapped weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes, Runge-Kutta-Legendre time integration, and applications of level set methods.
Nominated by: GCCM

James Babb [2015]
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Citation: For quantitatively elucidating the role of electronic structure in long-range atom-atom and atom-wall interactions, non-adiabatic effects and spectral phenomena, and for facilitating connections with industry.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Steven Batha [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering investigations of forward scattering laser-plasma instabilities, hydrodynamic instabilities in high-energy density physics regimes, and leadership of high-energy-density research.
Nominated by: DPP

Laura Baudis [2015]
University of Zurich
Citation: For leadership and outstanding contributions to experimental searches for astrophysical dark matter by direct detection and for double beta decay.
Nominated by: DAP

Eric Bauer [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding and original contributions to the discovery and understanding of correlated electron systems, specifically for the study of complex electronic states hosted by correlated actinide and rare-earth materials.
Nominated by: DMP

Lothar Bauerdick [2015]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For innovation and leadership in building computing systems for high energy physics data analysis which enabled the Higgs boson discovery, and contributions to searches for Higgs decays to W-boson pairs.
Nominated by: DPF

Sergey Belomestnykh [2015]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the science and technology of RF and superconducting RF in beam physics.
Nominated by: DPB

Lee Bernstein [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For work developing novel methods of determining neutron-nucleus cross sections via high-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy, the early development of surrogate ratio method, and the study of nuclear processes in high energy density plasmas at NIF.
Nominated by: DNP

Noam Bernstein [2015]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering development of multiscale simulations in solids, atomistic simulations of mechanical properties, and the development and application of atomistic methods for structural and finite temperature properties of materials.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Emanuele Berti [2015]
University of Mississippi
Citation: For important contributions to theoretical gravitational-wave physics, including quasi-normal modes of black holes, tests of alternative theories, the links between analytic and numerical relativity, and the astrophysics of merging black holes.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Manuel Bibes [2015]
CNRS
Citation: For seminal contributions to the materials physics of multiferroics and electric field control of magnetism.
Nominated by: GMAG

Krastan Blagoev [2015]
National Science Foundation
Citation: For pioneering contributions in new physics concepts to solve major problems in cancer and aging and for integrating physics principles in biology and medicine.
Nominated by: DBIO

Immanuel Bloch [2015]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For pioneering and continued experimental research in quantum many-body physics with ultracold atomic gases.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Thomas Blum [2015]
Not available
Citation: For pioneering methods of lattice QCD to improve the computation of kaon properties, hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the spectrum of hadrons.
Nominated by: DPF

Peter Blunden [2015]
University of Manitoba
Citation: For seminal contributions to advancing our understanding of two-photon and two-boson exchange processes, and their implications for extracting electromagnetic and weak form factors of the nucleon.
Nominated by: DNP

Stephen Bradforth [2015]
University of Southern California
Citation: For applying femtosecond and photoelectron spectroscopies to gain better understanding of electronic interactions that guide chemical reaction dynamics in the condensed phase.
Nominated by: DCP

Silke Buehler-Paschen [2015]
Vienna University of Technology
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of strongly correlated electron systems, particularly through the synthesis and investigation of quantum critical heavy fermion compounds, Kondo insulators, and strongly correlated thermoelectrics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Laura Cadonati [2015]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For leadership of the gravitational-wave data analysis and astrophysics efforts of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, including work connecting numerical modeling of sources to observations with the LIGO, Virgo, and GEO detectors.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Gretchen Campbell [2015]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the study of superfluidity in atomic-gas Bose-Einstein condensates using ring-shaped condensates.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Erica Carlson [2015]
Purdue University
Citation: For theoretical insights into the critical role of electron nematicity, disorder, and noise in novel phases of strongly correlated electron systems and predicting unique characteristics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Ashton Carter [2015]
United States Office of the Secretary of Defense
Citation: For exceptional service to physics and to society through service in the academy and in government.
Nominated by: FPS

Sue Carter [2015]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For contributions to the science required to improve production and utilization of energy, and efforts to exploit this understanding in both the world of commerce and in public policy.
Nominated by: GERA

Scott Chambers [2015]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions in the growth and properties of crystalline oxide films, particularly the fundamental relationships between composition and structure, and the resulting electronic, magnetic, and photochemical properties.
Nominated by: DMP

Hou-Tong Chen [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the development of active metamaterials and devices, and the development and understanding of few-layer metamaterials and metasurfaces, especially in the terahertz frequency range.
Nominated by: DLS

Jeff Chen [2015]
University of Waterloo
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theoretical study of wormlike polymer chains, in particular, spatially inhomogeneous and orientaionally ordered bulk and confined systems.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Yanbei Chen [2015]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For major contributions to our understanding of quantum noise in gravitational wave interferometers, for inventing the double optical spring, and for formulating a vision for experimental research on macroscopic quantum mechanics.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Zhigang Chen [2015]
San Francisco State University
Citation: For seminal contributions on spatial solitons, photonic lattices, and beam shaping, and for promoting world-class research at an undergraduate institution.
Nominated by: DLS

Majed Chergui [2015]
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Citation: For pioneering ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy, developing novel ultrafast optical spectroscopic methods that were used to answer scientific questions on molecular and biomolecular dynamics in solutions and on the charge carrier dynamics in nanoparticles.
Nominated by: DCP

Hsiao-Mei Cho [2015]
SLAC - National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of sensitive bolometers and superconducting amplifiers, and leadership in their application to the measurement of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
Nominated by: GIMS

Carson Chow [2015]
National Institute of Health
Citation: For the development and application of mathematical models describing a broad spectrum of phenomena related to human health, including neural perception, acute inflammatory response, and body weight dynamics.
Nominated by: DBIO

Daniel Claes [2015]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Citation: For outstanding contributions to education initiatives associated with elementary particle physics, in particular to underserved remote rural communities.
Nominated by: FED

Roderick Clark [2015]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of superdeformation, decisive measurements providing firm evidence of the shears mechanism in atomic nuclei, and recent studies of the structure of isomeric states in heavy elements.
Nominated by: DNP

David Cobden [2015]
University of Washington
Citation: For novel contributions to experimental physics in low dimensional nano-scale systems, in particular VO2 
nanobeams and carbon nanotube electronic properties.
Nominated by: DCMP

James Cochran [2015]
Iowa State University
Citation: For important contributions to the discovery and measurement of the properties of the top quark, searches for rare B0-meson decays, and definitive contributions to the U.S. ATLAS physics program.
Nominated by: DPF

David Cory [2015]
University of Waterloo
Citation: For pioneering one of the first demonstrations of a quantum computer using magnetic moments of nuclei as quantum bits and identifying new industrial applications in medicine, oil exploration and pharmaceuticals.
Nominated by: DQI

Dennis Coyne [2015]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For extraordinary engineering leadership in the construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory and the Advanced LIGO Detectors.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Alfred Crosby [2015]
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citation: For establishing a research program on nature-inspired materials that has gained a worldwide reputation while making a significant and broad impact on the fields of materials science, mechanics, and biology.
Nominated by: DPOLY

John D'Auria [2015]
Simon Fraser University
Citation: For a leadership role in the production of accelerated radioactive beams using the isotope separation online (ISOL)approach at TRIUMF and elsewhere, and research with such beams in experimental nuclear physics and astrophysics.
Nominated by: DNP

Jose D'Incao [2015]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of fundamental low-energy few-body physics, including Efimov physics, and its application to ultracold atomic and molecular gases.
Nominated by: GFB

Stuart Dalziel [2015]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For important contributions to experimental techniques and experimental understanding of stratified and rotating fluids, and for influential directorship of the Batchelor Laboratory and mentoring of young scientists.
Nominated by: DFD

Hooman Davoudiasl [2015]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For elucidating our understanding of the experimental consequences of warped extra-dimensional models of space-time.
Nominated by: DPF

Kaushik De [2015]
University of Texas, Arlington
Citation: For development of grid computing architectures that allow worldwide production and distributed analysis of large data sets for ATLAS and other experiments and for exploring physics beyond the standard model.
Nominated by: DPF

Anne De Wit [2015]
University Libre De Brussels
Citation: For pioneering contributions to our understanding of the coupling between chemical reaction, hydrodynamics, and pattern formation driven by coupled reacting-hydrodynamic systems.
Nominated by: DFD

Pablo Debenedetti [2015]
Princeton University
Citation: For seminal contributions to fundamental understanding of metastable liquids, through creative use of statistical mechanical theory, thermodynamic analysis, and advanced computer simulation methods.
Nominated by: DCP

Ricardo Decca [2015]
Indiana University -Purdue University
Citation: For pioneering precision experiments that have led to a deeper understanding of the Casimir force, and stringent constraints on new fundamental interactions at sub-micron ranges.
Nominated by: GPMFC

Per Delsing [2015]
Chalmers University of Technology
Citation: For pioneering research on the physics of single-electron devices, superconducting circuits, and microwave photonics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Brian DeMarco [2015]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For the pioneering use of ultracold gases in optical lattices as quantum simulators to study disordered condensed matter systems.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Stavros Demos [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions using unique optical techniques to understanding the relaxation dynamics of point defects and developing non-invasive biomedical photonics for rapid tissue assessment.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Daniel Dessau [2015]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For development of high resolution ARPES and laser-ARPES, and their utilization in ground-breaking studies of correlated electron materials, particularly cuprate superconductors and colossal magnetoresistive oxides.
Nominated by: DCMP

Haim Diamant [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For elucidating multiple new forms of hydrodynamic interaction, molecular association, and mechanical buckling, and their role in biomembranes and microfluidic channels.
Nominated by: DSOFT

Roland Diehl [2015]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, including seminal observations of gamma-ray lines from cosmic radioactivities, the origins of cosmic rays, and development of methods for the analysis of measurements made with gamma-ray telescopes.
Nominated by: DAP

Tomasz Dietl [2015]
Polish Academy of Sciences
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of magnetic semiconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Fiorenza Donato [2015]
Turin University, Italy
Citation: For extensive ground breaking contributions in astro particle physics and indirect dark matter searches.
Nominated by: DAP

Michael Drewsen [2015]
University of Aarhus
Citation: For pioneering experiments with trapped ion Coulomb crystals in linear Paul traps and the demonstration of collective strong coupling with optical cavities.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Berge Englert [2015]
National University of Singapore
Citation: For distinctive theoretical contributions to the foundations, interpretation, and applications of quantum mechanics.
Nominated by: DQI

Dean Evans [2015]
Air Force Research Laboratory - Wright Patterson AFB
Citation: For contributions in the photorefractive field leading to an understanding of the physics and defect structure needed to mature these crystals for applications, and for work in the physical understanding and development of ferroelectric nanoparticles.
Nominated by: FIAP

Marco Fanciulli [2015]
University of Milano, Bicocca
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the growth and characterization of materials and nanostructures for emerging devices for information processing.
Nominated by: FIAP

Craig Fennie [2015]
Cornell University
Citation: For the invention of novel mechanisms enabling dielectric, ferroelectric, and multiferroic functionalities in complex oxides, and identification of materials realizations through first principles methods.
Nominated by: DMP

Jaime Fernandez-Baca [2015]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal neutron scattering studies of magnetic materials, especially the spin and lattice dynamics of colossal magnetoresistive manganites.
Nominated by: DMP

Douglas Finkbeiner [2015]
Harvard University
Citation: For work as one of the world’s leading practitioners of “big data” science, exploiting the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays, with rigorous attention to the underlying physics of what are often complex phenomena.
Nominated by: DAP

Gleb Finkelstein [2015]
Duke University
Citation: For significant experimental studies of quantum transport in nanostructures, especially electron correlation effects in artificial quantum impurity systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jerzy Floryan [2015]
University of Western Ontario
Citation: For seminal illumination of the critical influence of surface topography and heating on surface drag; and the onset of shear-, centrifugal-, buoyancy-, and parametric-resonance driven instabilities; and their characterization.
Nominated by: DFD

Steven Frautschi [2015]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the introduction of Regge poles into particle physics, elucidation of the role of infrared photons in high energy scattering, and for seminal contributions to undergraduate physics education.
Nominated by: GERA

Mark Freeman [2015]
University of Alberta
Citation: For pioneering studies of magnetization dynamics in nanostructures using ultrafast optical spectroscopy, scanning microscopy, and nanomechanical magnetometry.
Nominated by: DCMP

Stefan Funk [2015]
University Erlangen Nuernberg
Citation: For scientific contributions and effective leadership in high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics.
Nominated by: DAP

Ivo Furno [2015]
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Citation: For fundamental experimental work involving the physical, statistical, and transport properties of self-organized plasma blobs at the edge of magnetized plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

Maurice Garcia-Sciveres [2015]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For leadership in the development of vertex detectors at hadron colliders that enabled studies of the top quark and discoveries including B meson oscillations and the Higgs boson.
Nominated by: DPF

David Gerdes [2015]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Citation: For contributions to the discovery and study of the top quark, particularly the development of b-quark tagging, as well as trigger and tracker upgrades that led to improved measurements.
Nominated by: DPF

Oliver Gessner [2015]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For the development of coherent x-ray spectroscopy and imaging techniques and their application to monitor fundamental dynamics in interfacial systems and new forms of matter.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Tony Gherghetta [2015]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For contributions to theories of extra dimensions and supersymmetry, advancing our understanding of grand unification, supersymmetry-breaking and the fermion mass hierarchy.
Nominated by: DPF

Thomas Gorczyca [2015]
Western Michigan University
Citation: For advancing our fundamental understanding in the photoionization, spectra, and opacities of atomic ions in astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Martin Grant [2015]
McGill University
Citation: For groundbreaking contributions on computational materials physics in systems out of equilibrium and fundamental contributions to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Thomas Greenslade [2015]
Kenyon College
Citation: For decades of work collecting historically interesting physics textbooks, demonstrations and laboratory apparatus, and for providing a unique historical resource to the physics community by exhibits, photos, and explanations of apparatus, their origins, and their uses.
Nominated by: FHPP

Julie Grollier [2015]
CNRS
Citation: For measurements of spin-transfer torque dynamics and the development of devices to implement biologically inspired computing.
Nominated by: GMAG

Michael Gronau [2015]
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Citation: For incisive contributions regarding tests of the Kobayashi-Maskawa theory of CP violation and searches for new physics in the decays of particles containing heavy quarks.
Nominated by: DPF

Matthias Grosse Perdekamp [2015]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For a leadership role in spin physics at RHIC and the measurement of the novel Collins fragmentation functions at Belle.
Nominated by: DNP

Roger Hagengruber [2015]
University of New Mexico
Citation: For decades-long leadership of nuclear arms control and nonproliferation efforts informed by deep knowledge of the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
Nominated by: FPS

Hans Hallen [2015]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For creative contributions to our understanding of the optical properties of materials at the nanoscale, and their use in the characterization of materials and structures.
Nominated by: FIAP

Daniel Haskel [2015]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For development and use of advanced polarized x-ray techniques for studies of magnetism and electron-lattice coupling in correlated electron systems, particularly under extreme conditions.
Nominated by: DCMP

Guowei He [2015]
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Citation: For fundamental contributions to understanding space-time correlations in turbulent flows and development of time-accurate models for large-eddy simulation, and for leadership in fluid dynamics research in China.
Nominated by: DFD

Xiao-Gang He [2015]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For influential contributions to particle phenomenology in CP violation and flavor physics, and in quantum topological phases, and for his leadership in promoting national and international collaborations in theoretical physics.
Nominated by: FIP

Christopher Hearty [2015]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For scientific and technical leadership on the BaBar experiment which produced important results on CP violation, flavor physics, and many other areas.
Nominated by: DPF

Stefan Hell [2015]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development and application of superresolved, far-field optical microscopy.
Nominated by: DLS

Zhirong Huang [2015]
SLAC - National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theoretical development and experimental verification of high-gain x-ray free-electron lasers operating as seeded and SASE amplifiers.
Nominated by: DPB

Bruce Hunt [2015]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For groundbreaking work on the history of electromagnetism in the nineteenth century and the relationship between physics and technology.
Nominated by: FHPP

Giuseppe Iannaccone [2015]
Pisa University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of quantum transport and noise in mesoscopic and nanoelectronic devices and to their application in electronics.
Nominated by: FIAP

Bhuvnesh Jain [2015]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For groundbreaking work in astrophysics and cosmology including the areas of theoretical modeling of cosmological phenomena, measurement and interpretation of cosmological weak lensing, and the interface of gravity theories and experimental tests.
Nominated by: DAP

Frank Jenko [2015]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of comprehensive gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence in tokamaks and stellarators.
Nominated by: DPP

Byungnam Kahng [2015]
Seoul National University
Citation: For contributions to understanding continuous and discontinuous transitions in percolation and their applications to memory devices, and work on fractality, random walks and spectral properties, avalanche dynamics, and synchronization in complex networks.
Nominated by: GSNP

James Kakalios [2015]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For innovative efforts to engage the public in the excitement of physics through popular science books, general audience talks, and on-line videos that use examples taken from popular culture.
Nominated by: FOEP

Sergei Kalinin [2015]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For foundational contribution to nanoscale electromechanics and revolutionary studies of defect-mediated phase transitions, energy conversion, and electrochemical reactivity at the nanometer and atomic scales enabled by advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques.
Nominated by: DMP

Gamani Karunasiri [2015]
Naval Postgraduate School
Citation: For extensive contributions to the development of quantum well infrared detectors and MEMS based sensors for directional sound sensing and THz imaging.
Nominated by: FIAP

Roland Kawakami [2015]
Ohio State University
Citation: For pioneering advances in understanding the magnetic properties of graphene, including mechanisms of spin lifetime and spin transport, and the role of adatoms in magnetic moment formation.
Nominated by: GMAG

Vasili Kharchenko [2015]
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Citation: For contributions to the theory of non-equilibrium processes in classical and quantum gases, including energy and charge relaxations in collisions of atoms and molecules and charge-exchange X-ray emissions in astrophysical environments.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Ki Kim [2015]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of electron-phonon scattering and related transport properties in the low-dimensional electronic and spintronic devices and structures.
Nominated by: FIAP

Mackillo Kira [2015]
Philipps University Marburg
Citation: For contributions to theoretical semiconductor quantum optics.
Nominated by: DLS

Anatoly Kolomeisky [2015]
Rice University
Citation: For major advances in the field of theoretical biophysics by fundamental contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of motor proteins, cytoskeleton dynamics, protein nucleation, channel transport, and protein-DNA interactions.
Nominated by: DBIO

Eiichiro Komatsu [2015]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For pioneering use of the bispectrum to study the physics of the early universe and for playing a leading role in the analysis of WMAP data.
Nominated by: DAP

Jeffrey Koseff [2015]
Stanford University
Citation: For pioneering contributions in understanding lid-driven cavity flow and transport phenomena in coupled physical-biological systems, and seminal contributions to the theory of stratified turbulence and internal wave breaking.
Nominated by: DFD

Yakov Krasik [2015]
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the physics of plasma cathodes, the generation of high-current electron beams and nanosecond-timescale gaseous discharges, and converging strong shock waves.
Nominated by: DPP

Roman Krems [2015]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For developing numerical tools for the description of molecular collisions at cold and ultracold temperatures and their control using external electric and magnetic fields.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Graham Kribs [2015]
University of Oregon
Citation: For contributions to our understanding of physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular theories with supersymmetry and extra generations of matter.
Nominated by: DPF

Hulikal Krishnamurthy [2015]
Indian Institute of Science
Citation: For outstanding contributions to condensed matter theory, especially strongly correlated phenomena in fermionic and bosonic systems, universal behavior in quantum impurity physics, and colossal magneto-resistance.
Nominated by: DCMP

Satish Kumar [2015]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For fundamental contributions to interfacial and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and for exemplary leadership in the engineering science of liquid-applied coating and printing processes.
Nominated by: DFD

Viswanathan Kumaran [2015]
Indian Institute of Science
Citation: For studies of transition to turbulence in flows past soft surfaces at moderate Reynolds numbers, including asymptotic and numerical analyses, and experimental characterization of instabilities, turbulence, and ultrafast mixing.
Nominated by: DFD

Shane Larson [2015]
Northwestern University
Citation: For impacting science and society through the integration of public engagement and research, and for empowering generations of future scientists by his example.
Nominated by: FOEP

George Lauder [2015]
Harvard University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to understanding of aquatic propulsion in fishes through experimental hydrodynamics.
Nominated by: DFD

O Lavrentovich [2015]
Kent State University
Citation: For exceptional contributions to the physics of liquid crystals and related soft matter.
Nominated by: DSOFT

Richard Lebed [2015]
Arizona State University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the properties of hadrons and, in particular, for the application of techniques of large N QCD to the physics of hadrons.
Nominated by: GHP

Liliane Leger [2015]
College de France
Citation: For masterfully pioneering experiments about the fundamentals of polymer diffusion, adhesion, and rheological flow.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Andre Levchenko [2015]
Yale University
Citation: For pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of cellular regulatory systems, and especially for elucidating chemical and mechanical mechanisms of guidance and control of cellular motility.
Nominated by: DBIO

Xiaoqin Li [2015]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For contributions to quantum information, multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, nanophotonics based on AFM assembly, and spin dynamics in ferromagnetic nanostructures.
Nominated by: DLS

Tianquan Lian [2015]
Emory University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the study of ultrafast photoinduced interfacial charge transfer dynamics in photovoltaic and photocatalytic nanomaterials and for pioneering applications of time-resolved spectroscopy to solving fundamental problems in solar energy conversion.
Nominated by: DCP

Ron Lifshitz [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For the theory of nonlinear dynamics and relaxation of vibrational modes in nanomechanical systems and for groundbreaking results on the symmetry stabilization, and photonic and magnetic properties of quasicrystals.
Nominated by: DMP

Don Lincoln [2015]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to outreach and engaging the public in the physical sciences, particularly particle physics, with a broad range of communication vehicles and forums.
Nominated by: FOEP

Junming Liu [2015]
Nanjing University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the synthesis and characterization of multiferroic materials and other complex transition metal oxides, and to the understanding of physics of rare-earth manganites with multiferroicity and colossal magnetoresistance.
Nominated by: DMP

Abraham Loeb [2015]
Harvard University
Citation: For seminal contributions to several challenging problems in theoretical astrophysics ranging from the emergence of structure formation at the earliest epochs, to the physics of the epoch of reionization, to the use of gamma-ray bursts as cosmic probes, to the use of microlensing to detect planets.
Nominated by: DAP

Mark Lumsden [2015]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of magnetism in iron-based superconductors using neutron scattering techniques.
Nominated by: DCMP

Yu-Gang Ma [2015]
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
Citation: For a leadership role in the construction of the MRPC Time-of-Flight detector for STAR collaboration, the subsequent discoveries of anti-helium 4 and anti-hypertriton at RHIC, and significant contributions to studies of nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions.
Nominated by: DNP

Grzegorz Madejski [2015]
SLAC - National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For insightful research over a thirty year career on relativistic jets and rich clusters of galaxies, his effective contributions to many successful high energy astrophysics space missions, and leadership in the community.
Nominated by: DAP

Vidya Madhavan [2015]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For major contributions to the study of topological phases of electronic matter using advanced spectroscopic imaging STM.
Nominated by: DCMP

Niels Madsen [2015]
CERN
Citation: For seminal contribution to the field of antihydrogen and leadership in developing techniques that enabled the trapping and first microwave spectroscopy of antihydrogen.
Nominated by: DPP

John Maier [2015]
University of Basel
Citation: For development and application of a variety of techniques to obtain the electronic spectra of numerous transient species, ions, cluster ions, and carbon chains, especially those of astrophysical relevance.
Nominated by: DCP

Thomas Maier [2015]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For numerical and phenomenological calculations that have provided insight into cuprate and iron-pnictide superconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Michael Manfra [2015]
Purdue University
Citation: For advancing MBE growth of AlGaAs/GaAs and AlGaN/GaN heterostructures that enable fundamental understanding of 2D electron correlation effects and realization of novel devices.
Nominated by: DMP

Tariq Manzur [2015]
Naval Underwater System Center
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the field of photonics, laser devices, and systems.
Nominated by: FIAP

Ivar Martin [2015]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: "For fundamental work in the theory of strongly correlated electrons, topological materials, and quantum measurement."
Nominated by: DCMP

Omar Matar [2015]
Imperial College London
Citation: For important contributions to interfacial fluid dynamics in the presence of surfactants, nanoparticles, and electric fields, using theory and computation, and with applications in industrial and daily life settings.
Nominated by: DFD

Konstantin Matchev [2015]
University of Florida, Gainesville
Citation: For contributions to the collider phenomenology of supersymmetry and extra dimensions, studies of dark matter, and leadership in the development and popularization of simulation tools.
Nominated by: DPF

Francesco Mauri [2015]
Not available
Citation: For the development and application of original methods to determine materials properties from first-principles, most notably for the case of solid-state NMR and EPR spectroscopies and electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Stephane Mazevet [2015]
CNRS
Citation: For fundamental contributions to computational simulations of the properties of matter under extreme density, temperature, and radiation conditions.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Thomas Meitzler [2015]
US Army Research Devevelpment & Engineering Command
Citation: For the development of a novel technique for embedding of ultrasonic, optical, and spintronic transducers-sensors into armor materials and contributions to understanding how embedded transducers give indication of armor damage.
Nominated by: FIAP

Carlos Meriles [2015]
City College of New York
Citation: For creative contributions to the development of novel techniques in magnetic resonance, including ex-situ MRI scanning, spin hyperpolarization and optical detection.
Nominated by: DMP

Igor Mezic [2015]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of three-dimensional chaotic advection, measures and control of mixing, and development of a spectral operator theory approach to decomposition of complex fluid flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Pierre Michel [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to laser-plasma interaction physics and dynamic multi-laser beam physics enabling symmetry control in indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion implosions.
Nominated by: DPP

Kalman Migler [2015]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For definitive optical and rheological experiments concerning the physics of polymer flow to identify slippage and multiphase behavior.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Timothy Minton [2015]
Montana State University
Citation: For pioneering research in hyperthermal gas-surface and gas-phase reaction dynamics.
Nominated by: DCP

Prabhakar Misra [2015]
Howard University
Citation: For sustained contributions to the spectroscopy of the condensed phases and exemplary mentoring of underrepresented students.
Nominated by: DCMP

Vesna Mitrovic [2015]
Brown University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to NMR study of low energy excitations in emergent quantum phases.
Nominated by: DCMP

W Mochan [2015]
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas
Citation: For pioneering and imaginative work on the theoretical description of optical properties of surfaces and nanostructured materials, as well as for continuing efforts to communicate physics to a broad audience.
Nominated by: FIP

Roderich Moessner [2015]
Ecole Normale Superieure
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the theoretical study of new types of magnetism, particularly in topological spin liquids, including the resonating valence bond liquid; and of emergent monopoles in spin ice.
Nominated by: GMAG

Jorge Morfin [2015]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For uniting theorists and experimentalists, particle and nuclear physicists, and physicists from North, Central and South America in understanding strong interactions in the nucleon, in the nucleus, and in neutrino interactions on nuclei.
Nominated by: FIP

James Nagle [2015]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For outstanding scientific and technical contributions to the study of heavy flavor production and correlations in high-energy nuclear interactions and for leadership of the PHENIX experiment.
Nominated by: DNP

Kae Nemoto [2015]
National Institute of Informatics
Citation: For pioneering the theory for quantum optical implementations of quantum information processing and communication.
Nominated by: DQI

Dwight Neuenschwander [2015]
Southern Nazarene University
Citation: For demonstrating the importance of history of physics both in the education and inspiration of science students and in outreach to the general community.
Nominated by: FHPP

Dinh Nguyen [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For an outstanding record of innovation and contribution to the initial development of high-brightness photo-injectors, early experimental validation of self-amplified spontaneous-emission theory, and high average current injectors.
Nominated by: DPB

Joseph Niemela [2015]
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Citation: For significant contributions to high-­precision heat transport measurements at very high Rayleigh numbers in cryogenic Rayleigh-­Bénard convection, and pioneering applications of low-­temperature techniques to studies of instabilities and turbulence.
Nominated by: DFD

Filomena Nunes [2015]
Michigan State University
Citation: For developing new standards in relating nuclear reactions, nuclear structure, and astrophysical reaction rates by the implementation of non-perturbative treatments of nuclear breakup.
Nominated by: DNP

Vivian O'Dell [2015]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For leadership in CMS operations and upgrades, the Run IIb DZero detector upgrade; th DZero and CMS QCD physics groups and major contributions to the CMS Data Acquisition system.
Nominated by: DPF

Choo-Hiap Oh [2015]
National Univ of Singapore
Citation: For vital contributions to the development of physics teaching and research in Singapore, especially establishing its leading position in research in quantum technology, and for important personal contributions to this field.
Nominated by: FIP

Ivan Oleynik [2015]
University of South Florida
Citation: For the development and application of novel computational methods that have led to fundamental insights into behavior of matter at extreme conditions, molecular electronics, graphene, and spin-dependent tunneling.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Kostas Orginos [2015]
William & Mary College
Citation: For innovative developments and applications of lattice QCD algorithms and techniques that provide unique insight into low-energy QCD, ranging from nucleon structure to charmed hadron spectroscopy to multi-nucleon systems.
Nominated by: DNP

David Osborn [2015]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative research in multiplexed methods for interrogating chemical kinetics and measurements of the physical chemistry of previously elusive reaction intermediates
Nominated by: DCP

Feryal Ozel [2015]
University of Arizona
Citation: For pathbreaking theoretical and observational contributions to understanding the behavior of high energy astrophysical systems in the universe, including neutron stars, magnetars and black holes; and for leadership in the astrophysics community.
Nominated by: DAP

Ning Pan [2015]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For significant contributions to the scientific research of mechanics and physics in the field of fibrous materials.
Nominated by: DMP

V Adrian Parsegian [2015]
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citation: For seminal contributions to biological physics by formulating and measuring forces organizing biological molecules and driving transitions in ionic channels and macromolecules to connect molecular structure, conformation, and function.
Nominated by: DBIO

Thomas Pedersen [2015]
Columbia University
Citation: For seminal studies of pure electron plasmas in a stellarator and for active stabilization of resistive wall modes up to the ideal wall limit in a tokamak.
Nominated by: DPP

J Pendry [2015]
Imperial College London
Citation: For the discovery of metamaterials.
Nominated by: DMP

Alan Perelson [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of dynamical models of HIV infection, for elucidating therapeutic responses of HCV, and for helping found the fields of viral dynamics and theoretical immunology.
Nominated by: DBIO

Alexey Petrov [2015]
Wayne State University
Citation: For contributions to heavy flavor physics, in particular studies of charm quarks and contributions to indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.
Nominated by: DPF

Cedomir Petrovic [2015]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to understanding of heavy fermion materials through synthesis and characterization of new systems, particularly CeCoIn5.
Nominated by: DCMP

Eli Piasetzky [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For pioneering explorations of the high momentum structure of the nuclear wave function using high energy probes and the discovery of the dominance of proton-neutron pairs.
Nominated by: DNP

Yuan Ping [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering experiments exploring the nature, equilibration, and use of nonequilibrium plasmas strongly driven by coherent and incoherent sources.
Nominated by: DPP

Leonid Pismen [2015]
Israel Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering and ingenious contributions to fundamental fluid dynamics, particularly interfacial flows, dynamics of moving contact lines, and the analysis of instabilities and pattern formation in diverse systems.
Nominated by: DFD

Antoni Planes [2015]
Universitat de Barcelona
Citation: For outstanding and original contributions to the study of fundamental aspects of phase transition dynamics in functional materials.
Nominated by: DMP

Michel Pleimling [2015]
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Citation: For seminal and sustained contributions to computational statistical physics, specifically his investigations of complex systems far from thermal equilibrium, and in-depth understanding of non-equilibrium relaxation and physical aging phenomena.
Nominated by: GSNP

Matthew Poelker [2015]
Jefferson Laboratory
Citation: For sustained and transformative work on the development of polarized electron beams, opening new vistas in their application to nuclear and particle physics experiments at the frontiers of knowledge.
Nominated by: DPB

Steven Pollock [2015]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For pioneering efforts in upper division physics education research by applying interactive engagement teaching methods and by performing measures of their effectiveness.
Nominated by: GPER

James Proudfoot [2015]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For mentoring young physicists from around the world, including those in underdeveloped nations, in the advancement of calorimetric techniques in HEP experiments and their application to electroweak and strong interaction measurements.
Nominated by: FIP

Gulshan Rai [2015]
Department of Energy
Citation: For pioneering work at the Berkeley Bevalac, especially development and first implementation of time projection chambers with pad readout, and initiating a heavy-ion energy scan experiment (EOS/E895) at Brookhaven's AGS accelerator.
Nominated by: DNP

Ramamurthy Ramprasad [2015]
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the computation-driven rational design of materials, especially polymeric and inorganic dielectric materials and catalysts.
Nominated by: DMP

Scott Ransom [2015]
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Citation: For contributions to the study of radio pulsars, including the measurement of pulsar masses that have constrained the equation of state of ultradense matter, the discovery of many millisecond and binary pulsars, and development of key pulsar algorithms.
Nominated by: DAP

Elie Raphael [2015]
Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of complex fluids, including polymers at interfaces, polyelectrolytes, wetting of thin films, and capillary-gravity waves.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Sean Regan [2015]
University of Rochester
Citation: For scientific contributions and leadership in the development and application of x-ray spectroscopy to diagnose plasma conditions, hydrodynamic instabilities and mix in both direct and x-ray driven inertial confinement fusion targets.
Nominated by: DPP

Marcos Rigol [2015]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For studies of quantum states of matter in and out of equilibrium.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Charles Roland [2015]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For important experimental contributions and physical insight into the temperature and pressure dependence of the dynamics of polymeric systems.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Filip Ronning [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For experimental contributions to understanding strongly correlated electron phenomena, particularly in cuprate and heavy-fermion systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

John Rumble [2015]
R&R Data Services
Citation: For leadership in developing systems that organize and provide ready access to the high quality scientific and technical data needed for the design, performance prediction, and analysis of industrial products.
Nominated by: FIAP

Roger Rusack [2015]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For leadership in the development of advanced photodetector systems used in the Higgs boson discovery and realization and exploitation of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment.
Nominated by: DPF

Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta [2015]
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Citation: For development of fast and accurate electronic structure methods allowing the combined study of material-specific and many-body aspects, and their application in understanding the transition-metal oxides and quantum spin systems.
Nominated by: DMP

Daniel Sanchez-Portal [2015]
Not available
Citation: For contributions to the development and use of electronic structure methods, especially SIESTA and its time-dependent version, which has enabled the simulation of systems of unprecedented complexity.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Alexander Saunders [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions in developing proton radiography and the LANL ultra cold neutron source, enabling new applications of nuclear science and an improved understanding of the decay of the free neutron.
Nominated by: DNP

Stephan Schlamminger [2015]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For a precision measurement of the Newtonian constant of Gravitation G and a precision measurement of the Planck constant h.
Nominated by: GPMFC

Ira Schwartz [2015]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For the pioneering contributions to the understanding and development of topological insights into the dynamics, fluctuations, and control of strongly nonlinear physical and population systems.
Nominated by: GSNP

Rachel Segalman [2015]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of conjugated, polypeptoid, and ion-containing polymers and co-polymers.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Peter Shaffer [2015]
University of Washington
Citation: For contributions to the field of physics education research and to the development of research-based instructional materials that have led to improved learning in physics by undergraduates and K-12 teachers.
Nominated by: FED

Eugene Shakhnovich [2015]
Harvard University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the statistical physics of polypeptides, by significantly extending methods previously used for disordered systems, and for discovery of physical-chemical principles of selection of protein sequences now used as a tool for discovery of new protein sequences.
Nominated by: DBIO

Michael A Shay [2015]
University of Delaware
Citation: For pioneering contributions to understanding magnetic reconnection, including the nature of collisionless reconnection, and of plasma turbulence.
Nominated by: GPAP

Javid Sheikh [2015]
Not available
Citation: For a pioneering contribution to the study of nuclei beyond the valley of stability and for developing symmetry projected mean field equations.
Nominated by: FIP

Mengyan Shen [2015]
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Citation: For enabling near ultraviolet laser action and artificial photosynthesis with metal oxide semiconductors.
Nominated by: GERA

Troy Shinbrot [2015]
Rutgers University
Citation: For creative and thought-provoking work on chaos, fluid mixing, and granular flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Kirill Shtengel [2015]
University of California, Riverside
Citation: For major theoretical contributions to the prediction and detection of non-Abelian anyons in condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Irfan Siddiqi [2015]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For significant contributions to the development of superconducting quantum information devices and quantum measurement techniques.
Nominated by: DCMP

Daniel Sigg [2015]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For development of techniques essential to the successful high-sensitivity operation of gravitational wave detectors and leadership in commissioning the LIGO detectors.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Mary Silber [2015]
Northwestern University
Citation: For contributions to bifurcation theory in the presence of symmetries, and its application to the theory of pattern selection in nonlinear, spatially extended, dissipative physical systems.
Nominated by: GSNP

Daniel Sinars [2015]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For scientific contributions and leadership in the development of innovative x-ray radiography and spectroscopy diagnostics for the study of z-pinch physics, inertial confinement fusion, and high energy density physics.
Nominated by: DPP

Patrick Slane [2015]
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Citation: For significant contributions to the physics of supernova remnants, in particular for using deep images and spectra, over many wavebands, to understand the interaction of hot gas, interstellar material, pulsar wind nebulae, and cosmic ray acceleration within the remnants.
Nominated by: DAP

Vladimir Smalyuk [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities in inertial confinement fusion using elegant experiments on Omega and NIF.
Nominated by: DPP

Alexei Sokolov [2015]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For insightful work on quantum molecular coherence, ultrafast optics, and laser spectroscopy.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Todd Squires [2015]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For advancing the quantitative and qualitative understanding of fundamental processes in microfluidics and nonlinear electrokinetics, colloidal hydrodynamics, and active and nonlinear microrheology of bulk materials and complex fluid interfaces.
Nominated by: DFD

Richard Staley [2015]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For multifaceted historical works on how the early community of theoretical and experimental physicists developed relativity physics, and for outstanding analysis of the career of Albert Michelson.
Nominated by: FHPP

Frank Steglich [2015]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For seminal contributions to correlated electron physics, including discovery of unconventional superconductivity in CeCu2Si2, and explication of electronic criticality near antiferromagnetic quantum critical points.
Nominated by: DCMP

Daniel Steinberg [2015]
Princeton University
Citation: For developing, assessing, and disseminating new science education outreach programs targeted to pre-college students and to the general public, and for forging prototypical outreach partnerships locally and nationally.
Nominated by: FOEP

Richard Steinberg [2015]
City College of New York
Citation: For contributions to understanding the teaching and learning of physics ranging from elementary school science to quantum mechanics and for using physics education research to improve K-16 instruction.
Nominated by: GPER

Frederick Streitz [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For important contributions to computational condensed matter physics and for leadership in extreme scale computation.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Liling Sun [2015]
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Citation: For outstanding contributions in the study of iron-based superconductors and other quantum correlated materials, and in the development of state-of-the-art systems for in-situ high pressure measurements.
Nominated by: DMP

Eric Suraud [2015]
Université Paul Sabatier
Citation: For major contributions to cluster physics, including development of a microscopic description of the nonlinear response of irradiated clusters and molecules leading to a wide range of applications, and for developing ties with emerging nations in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Nominated by: FIP

Kenneth Suslick [2015]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For pioneering explorations of sonoluminescence and sonochemistry. And for providing the first measurements of conditions created during cavitation as bubbles implosively collapse.
Nominated by: DCP

Damian Swift [2015]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For wide-ranging contributions to shock- and ramp-wave compression experiments using laser, pulsed-power, and explosive drivers, and for employing rigorous quantum and statistical mechanical principles to guide the formulation of theoretical solutions to experimental problems.
Nominated by: GCCM

Stefan Soldner-Rembold [2015]
University of Manchester
Citation: For leadership of the DZero Collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron which provided many discoveries and precision measurements in the field of particle physics.
Nominated by: DPF

Charles Tahan [2015]
Lab for Physical Sciences
Citation: For important contributions to the field of quantum information science, including theoretical work advancing the experimental development of silicon quantum computers and proposing new quantum devices in the solid state.
Nominated by: DQI

Shina Tan [2015]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For the derivation of fundamental relations for ultracold atomic gases with two-body short-range interactions and the study of ultracold few-body systems.
Nominated by: GFB

Hirohisa Tanaka [2015]
University of British Columbia
Citation: For contributions in experimental neutrino physics, particularly for work leading to observation of neutrino oscillations in the T2K experiment and to searches for neutrino oscillations in the Mini-BooNe experiment.
Nominated by: DPF

Xinfeng Tang [2015]
Wuhan University of Technology
Citation: For pioneering studies of the synthesis, processing, characterization, and understanding of thermoelectric materials, and for contributions to their use in industrial applications.
Nominated by: FIAP

Benn Tannenbaum [2015]
Sandia National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to international peace and security by addressing nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and terrorism; and for mentoring young scientists and educating students to bring science to bear on societal challenges.
Nominated by: FPS

Janet Tate [2015]
Oregon State University
Citation: For contributions to structural, transport, and optical properties of a wide variety of electronic and superconducting materials.
Nominated by: DCMP

Pieter Ten Wolde [2015]
FOM Institute AMOLF
Citation: For elucidating the design principles of biochemical networks using rigorous theory and innovative computational techniques.
Nominated by: DBIO

Dave Thirumalai [2015]
University of Maryland, College Park
Citation: For pioneering applications of concepts from statistical mechanics and polymer physics in developing new computational tools and theoretical models that have greatly advanced our understanding of the behavior of bio-macromolecules.
Nominated by: DBIO

Edward Thomas [2015]
Auburn University
Citation: For pioneering contributions and leadership in the development of particle-image velocimetry in the study of dusty plasmas and for exemplary service to the plasma physics community.
Nominated by: DPP

Rodger Thompson [2015]
University of Arizona
Citation: For work in infrared instrumentation and studies of stellar nucleosynthesis, star formation, and active galactic nuclei; his pivotal role as principal investigator for NICMOS on the Hubble Space telescope; and his use of that instrument to pursue high redshift cosmology, AGNs, and star formation.
Nominated by: DAP

David Toback [2015]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For pioneering work on searches for new particles and leadership of the CDF experiment.
Nominated by: DPF

Federico Toschi [2015]
Eindhoven University of Technology
Citation: For lasting contributions to direct numerical simulations of complex flows and turbulence, and to the understanding of fully developed turbulence and turbulent two-phase flow.
Nominated by: DFD

Mark Trodden [2015]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For pioneering work in theoretical cosmology and astroparticle physics, including explorations of theoretical explanations for the acceleration of the Universe.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Thomas Truskett [2015]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems.
Nominated by: DSOFT

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak [2015]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of spin dynamics in ferromagnetic nanostructures.
Nominated by: DCMP

Tolek Tyliszczak [2015]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For the groundbreaking development and technical implementations of the highest performance soft x-ray scanning transmission microscope (STXM) and its applications, and investigation of extraterrestrial particles.
Nominated by: GIMS

Dmitri Uzdensky [2015]
University of Colorado, Boulder
Citation: For cornerstone contributions to theoretical understanding of magnetic reconnection in astrophysical plasmas and, in particular, for developing the theory of plasmoid-driven reconnection and revealing mechanisms of particle acceleration in reconnection events.
Nominated by: GPAP

Ilya Vekhter [2015]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of unconventional superconductors in the vortex state, including probes of order parameter symmetry.
Nominated by: DCMP

Latha Venkataraman [2015]
Columbia University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to measurement and understanding of electron transport through single organic molecules.
Nominated by: DCMP

Kai Vetter [2015]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to fundamental radiation detection techniques, particularly gamma-ray imaging, and important societal applications.
Nominated by: DNP

David Vitali [2015]
Universita di Camerino
Citation: For groundbreaking work on cavity opto-mechanics, which proved to provide an ideal and flexible environment for quantum information processing and quantum-limited sensing; for proposing pioneering techniques to control decoherence in quantum systems.
Nominated by: FIP

Thomas Vojta [2015]
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Citation: For innovative analyses of quantum phase transitions in the presence of strong disorder.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jelena Vuckovic [2015]
Stanford University
Citation: For major and field opening contributions to nano photonics and its application to information science; including the design and fabrication of 2D photonic crystals with integrated quantum dot structures.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Philip Walther [2015]
Not available
Citation: For outstanding achievements in experimental quantum information, quantum optics, and quantum photonics; including the first realization of privacy-preserving quantum cloud computing and the first experimental verification of a quantum computation.
Nominated by: DQI

Benjamin Wandelt [2015]
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Citation: For a leading role in the development of the algorithms and tools used in the analysis and interpretation of cosmic microwave background data and for his development of novel approaches to cosmological analyses.
Nominated by: DAP

Alan Weinstein [2015]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For leadership in developing and testing the new generation of gravitational wave detectors, data analysis and searches for astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, and making LIGO data available to the broader community.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Bernard Whiting [2015]
University of Florida, Gainesville
Citation: For influential contributions to wide-ranging areas of gravitational physics, including tests of Newtonian gravity, stability of the Kerr metric, and the self-force problem.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Ferdinand Willeke [2015]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions advancing the physics of beams and scientific research, by leading the design and construction of frontier accelerator facilities and providing valuable advice to many accelerator facilities worldwide.
Nominated by: DPB

Michael Wittmann [2015]
University of Maine
Citation: For foundational research into student learning of physics, pioneering work in K-12 teacher development, and leadership in building community for physics education researchers.
Nominated by: GPER

Michael Wright [2015]
Varian Medical Systems
Citation: For outstanding research and innovation in x-ray imaging and radiation therapy, its resulting commercial impact, and profound medical benefits for humankind.
Nominated by: FIAP

Xiaohua Wu [2015]
Royal Military College of Canada
Citation: For pioneering direct numerical simulations of pipe and boundary layer flows, from a laminar state, through transition, to a fully-developed turbulent state; and for generating striking and insightful visualizations.
Nominated by: DFD

Glen Wurden [2015]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative approaches to plasma diagnostics applied to a wide variety of fusion confinement concepts, ranging from reversed field pinches to tokamaks to magneto-inertial fusion.
Nominated by: DPP

Vladislav Yakovlev [2015]
Texas A&M University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of ultrafast lasers, optical instrumentation, and the resulting spectroscopic advances that have important applications.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Jie Yan [2015]
National University of Singapore
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understandings of the micromechanics of DNA, protein, and their interactions using single-molecule biophysical methods.
Nominated by: DBIO

Yang Yang [2015]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For extraordinary contributions in organic and hybrid electronic materials, interfacial engineering, and novel device design that have led to highly efficient organic and hybrid solar cells, digital memory devices, vertical transistors, and organic LEDs.
Nominated by: DMP

Stefano Zapperi [2015]
University of Milan
Citation: For key contributions to the understanding of statistical properties of crackling noise in materials, including the theory of the Barkhausen effects in ferromagnets and the understanding of dislocation avalanches in microplasticity.
Nominated by: GSNP

Zhuomin Zhang [2015]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For advancing the knowledge of near-field thermal radiation between objects at nanometer distances as well as the radiative properties of photonic crystals and metamaterials for energy harvesting and semiconductor processing.
Nominated by: FIAP

Xiaochao Zheng [2015]
University of Virginia
Citation: For advancing the measurement of parity violating asymmetry in electron-nucleon deep inelastic scattering.
Nominated by: GHP

Michael Zudov [2015]
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Citation: For seminal experiments on nonequilibrium transport in high Landau levels of 2D systems, including discovery of microwave-induced resistance oscillations and zero-resistance states.
Nominated by: DCMP