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APS HonorsNew APS Prizes and Awards Recipients Announced
Three new honors join roster of Society’s awards

Zhuang-thumbAPS Members Win 2019 Breakthrough Prizes
Several APS members, Fellows, and past APS award recipients receive top prizes.

MacArthur Fellows thumb imageAPS Members Named as 2018 MacArthur Fellows
Two APS members are among the winners of coveted grants from the MacArthur Foundation


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Spring 2019 American Physical Society Prizes and Awards Announced
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the Society’s Spring 2019 prize and award recipients, and the 2018 Apker Award and Nicholson Medal recipients.
Laser Tweezers and Intense, Ultrashort Laser Pulses win 2018 Nobel in Physics
Half the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin for optical tweezers, and half shared between Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for technology to create high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
Record Number of Women Physicists Elected Fellows in American Physical Society
Nearly a quarter of the 155 APS members distinguished as 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society are women
$2.2M Project to Establish Effective Practices for Undergrad Physics Programs
The newly-funded Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Project is a 5-year, $2.2M effort to produce guidelines providing physics programs a collection of knowledge, experience, and proven-effective educational practices, led by the American Physical Society (APS) in collaboration with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

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