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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