Edward A. Bouchet Award

Each year, the APS bestows the Edward A. Bouchet Award upon an African American, Hispanic American or Native American physicist who has made remarkable contributions to physics. Edward Bouchet was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. at an American University (Yale) and it happened to be in physics in 1874. The Bouchet Award is generously sponsored by the Research Corporation. Every two years, COM and the APS Awards Committee form a special selection committee to choose a Bouchet Award winner.

Past Bouchet Award winners include Professors Jim Gates of Maryland, Joseph Johnson III of Florida A&M University, Anthony Johnson of UMBC, Larry Gladney of the University of Pennsylvania, J.D. Garcia of Arizona, and Alfred Msezane of Clark-Atlanta University.