Archive (1995-present)

Wagner, Albert Fordyce
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: Theoretical contributions to the fundamentals of chemical collision theory, including energy transfer, recombination, and dissociation reactions.
Nominated by: Chemical Physics (DCP)

Waldeck, David Hennessey
Chevron Science Center
Citation: For his fundamental contributions to the molecular and electronic origins of friction in chemical reactions and transport processes in liquid solutions.
Nominated by: Chemical Physics (DCP)

Weinstein, Lawrence B.
Old Dominion University
Citation: For his original contributions to the study of nucleon-nucleon correlations in nuclei.
Nominated by: Few-Body Systems & Multiparticle Dynamics (GFB)

Wertheim, Michael Stephen
Michigan Technological University
Citation: For the analytic solution of several important integral equations in the theory of fluids that led to the understanding of the structure and thermodynamics of liquids, including polar liquids.
Nominated by: Chemical Physics (DCP)

Wilczek, Frank
MIT
Citation: For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interactions.
Nominated by: Particles and Fields (DPF)

Woelfle, Peter
Universitat Karlruhe, Germany
Citation: For his pioneering contributions in condensed matter theory, in particular on the superfluid phases of 3He, on quantum transport in disordered systems and on strongly correlated electron systems.


Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)

Wurtele, Jonathan Syrkin
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his many theoretical contributions to free electron lasers, laser-plasma acceleration, laser-plasma interactions, and muon beam manipulations.
Nominated by: Physics of Beams (DPB)