Nominations are sought for the Division of Nuclear Physics' Distinguished Service Award.

Purpose: This APS Unit Award is intended to recognize those who have made
substantial and extensive contributions to the nuclear physics community through the activities of the DNP.

Nature: The award will consist of a plaque and a certificate with the citation specified by the selection committee and approved by the DNP Executive Committee. Nominees should be active or emeritus members of the DNP. There are no time limitations on contributions that can be recognized by this award. Nominations will remain active for three years. The award need not to be given each year. No more than two recipients will be selected in a given year.

Selection committee: The selection committee will consist of the DNP Chair, Chair-Elect, Vice-Chair, Past-Chair, and Secretary- Treasurer. The DNP Chair will serve as the chair of the selection committee.

Rules and Eligibility: Nominations should be limited to a one page description of the candidate's contributions to nuclear physics through the DNP, plus an optional listing of positions held, major committee memberships, and the like. Duplicate nominations are not helpful.

Recipients

2006: Noemie Benzcer Koller
"For her sustained and exceptional contributions to the Division of Nuclear Physics and to the American Physical Society on behalf of the Division, for her creative promotion of education and the climate for women in nuclear science, and for her vigorous efforts to develop the Division's initial Nuclear Physics brochure and to fund the Bonner Prize."

2005: B.C. Clark
"For her exceptional contributions to the Division of Nuclear Physics, her leadership of the Division and of the American Physical Society on behalf of the Division, and her tireless effort to promote science and the status of women in nuclear physics, including the initiation of many programs to enhance the participation of under-represented groups in nuclear science." 

2004: Ernest M. Henley
"For his exceptional leadership of the Division of Nuclear Physics, his sage advice to the Division and the American Physical Society, his creative efforts in science outreach and his vigorous leadership in the creation of the Hans Bethe Prize and the Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award."

2003: Virginia R. Brown
"For substantial and extensive contributions to the nuclear physics community through her commitment to the Division of Nuclear Physics, particularly for her very successful efforts to strengthen the financial standing of the Division, for building up the divisional archive, and for her role in bringing to fruition the historic first joint meeting of the nuclear physicists of the American and Japanese Physical Societies as the Chair of HAWAII 2001."