COLLEGE PARK, MD – The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the Society’s 2016 Prize and Award winners. APS Prizes and Awards recognize outstanding achievements in research, education and public service. With few exceptions, they are open to all members of the scientific community in the U.S. and abroad. The nomination and selection procedure, involving APS-appointed selection committees, guarantees their high standards and prestige.
“The APS is proud to honor the exceptional physicists who make up the Society’s 2016 Prize and Award recipients,” said APS President Samuel Aronson. “As I look through the list of honorees, I am simultaneously humbled by the breadth and magnitude of their accomplishments and delighted that we have the means to recognize such a diverse selection of researchers for work that spans the spectrum of physical science.”
A list of 2016 honorees and their affiliations, as it currently stands, is available below.
APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Allan Franklin
University of Colorado, Boulder
Andrei Sakharov Prize
Zafra Lerman
Malta Conferences Foundation
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Matthias Troyer
ETH Zürich
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Andrew E. Strominger
Harvard University
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Randall G. Hulet
Rice University
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics
Donald G. Truhlar
University of Minnesota
Edward A. Bouchet Award
Pablo Laguna
Georgia Institute of Technology
Excellence in Physics Education Award
Robert John Beichner
North Carolina State University
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
David Burnham Tanner
University of Florida, Gainesville
Dirk van der Marel
University of Geneva
George E. Pake Prize
Robert R. Doering
Texas Instruments Inc
Hans A. Bethe Prize
Vassiliki Kalogera
Northwestern University
Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
Stefan Hoeche
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Xiangdong Ji
University of Maryland, College Park / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
G. Peter Lepage
Cornell University
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Northwestern University
John H. Dillon Medal
Thomas H. Epps, III
University of Delaware
Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction
Van D. Bistrow
University of Chicago
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
Ernest Moniz
U.S. Department of Energy
Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science
Albert Migliori
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
David Pines
University of California, Davis
Lars Onsager Prize
Marc Mezard
Ecole Normale Superieure
Giorgio Parisi
Sapienza Universita di Roma
Riccardo Zecchina
Politecnico di Torino
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Joel Primack
University of California, Santa Cruz
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Henriette Elvang
University of Michigan
Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
Stephen R. Quake
Stanford University
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize
Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley
Polymer Physics Prize
Anna C. Balazs
University of Pittsburgh
Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
Gregory S. Adkins
Franklin & Marshall College
Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Vasili Parkhomchuk
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
I-yang Lee
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Jonathan Dorfan
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
David Hitlin
California Institute of Technology
Fumihiko Takasaki
High Energy Physics Laboratory (KEK)
Stephen L Olsen
Institute for Basic Science
Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases
Klaus Bartschat
Drake University
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