March 9, 2007
Summary of DOE OJI Awards to Rochester Faculty and Alumni
Department of Energy (DOE) selected Awards, and Members of National Academies
(with Rochester Faculty and Alumni Highlighted)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
For APS Awards see : http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/APSsummary.html
For OSA Awards see: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/OSAsummary.html
for DOE OJI Awards Web pages see:
http://www.science.doe.gov/hep/oji_program_announcement.shtm
For list of awardees see:
http://www.science.doe.gov/hep/OJIALLAwards.pdf
For Posters see: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/Poster-APS-summary.ppt
and http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/Poster-OSA-summary.ppt
Also: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/Poster-APS-summary.jpg
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/Poster-OSA-summary.jpg
DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award In High Energy Physics
Purpose: http://www.science.doe.gov/hep/oji_program_announcement.shtm
The Outstanding Junior Investigator program was started in 1978 to provide research funds for outstanding
unestablished scientists. Since its debut, the program has initiated support for between five and ten new
DOE HEP Outstanding Junior Investigators each year: http://www.science.doe.gov/hep/OJIALLAwards.pdf
DOE Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Award
Purpose: http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/Fr04-04.html
TThe purpose of this program is to support the development of the individual research programs of exceptionally talented scientists and engineers early in their careers.
DOE Plasman Junior Faculty award list by year see: http://www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov/News/JrFacAward.pdf
This Presidential Award is the oldest science and technology award given by the U.S. government, and it continues to be one of the most prestigious. The Award is a symbol of our Nation's admiration and appreciation for a lifetime of achievements in the development, use, control, or production of energy (broadly defined to include the science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle interactions and their effects on mankind and the environment). The Fermi Award consists of a citation signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, a gold medal, and a $375,000 honorarium.DOE Enrico-Fermi Award
http://www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/index.htm
2000
DOE Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Award 2002-2005
Eric BlackmanProfessor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
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1983 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Theoretical Particle Physics
Ashok DasProfessor of Physics
University of Rochester
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1992 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Paul L. TiptonProfessor of Physics
University of Rochester(Rochester Physics PhD - CLEO)
Heavy Quark Physics with CDF
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1995 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Theoretical Particle Physics
Lynne H. OrrProfessor of Physics
University of Rochester
Top Quark Phyisics and Related Issues in Phenomenology
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2001 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Regina DeminaAssociate Professor of Physics
University of Rochester
Radiation Hard Silicon Layer 0 and D0 Discovery Potential
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1999 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Kevin S. McFarlandAssociate Professor of Physics
University of Rochester
Design of the CDF Rund Level-e Trigger and the Search for New Physics of Top Quarks
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2006
DOE Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Award 2006-2009
Chuang RenProfessor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics
University of Rochester
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Rochester Faculty (Physics and Astronomy)
Rochester Alumni: Postdocs and Graduate Students
1998 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Richard E Hughes (Professor of Physics, Ohio State)Physics Research Associate Alumnus
University of Rochester (CDF)
Top Physics and the CDF-II Track Processor
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1997 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Brian L. Winer (Professor of Physics, Ohio State)Physics Research Associate Alumnus
University of Rochester (CDF)
Top Physics and Track Finding in CDF -II
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1995 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Sarah Eno (Professor of Physics U Maryland)Physics PhD Alumnus '92
University of Rochester (AMY)
Physics with the Dzero Detector and Dzero Upgrade
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1991 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Karol Lang (Professor of Physics, U Texas, Austin)Physics PhD Alumnus '87
University of Rochester (CCFR)
Design of the CDF Rund Level-e Trigger and the Search for New Physics of Top Quarks
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1986 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Carl R. Rosenfeld (Professor of Physics, South Carolina)Physics Senior Research Associate Alumnus
University of Rochester (AMY)
Explarotory Particle Physics using the AMY Detector
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1985 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Richard Kass (Professor of Physics Ohio State)Physics Research Associate Alumnus
University of Rochester (CLEO)
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1984 DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Experimetal Particle Physics
Harris Kagen (Professor of Physics, Ohio State)
Physics Research Associate Alumnus
University of Rochester (CLEO)
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DOE Fermi Award![]()
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DOE Fermi Award 2000
Herbert F. York
BS and MS degrees in Physics, University of Rochester in 1943
For his contributions to formulating and implementing arms control policy under four Presidents; for his founding direction of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his leadership in Research and Engineering at the Department of Defense; and for his publications analyzing and explaining these complex issues with clarity and simplicity.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/html/Laureates/2000s/herberf.htmAlso:
APS Joseph A. Burton Award 1976
APS Leo Szilard Award in 1994
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DOE Fermi Award 1988
Victor F. Weisskopf
Rochester Physics faculty 1937-1943
For many unique contributions to particle and nuclear physics, and to physics in general as a researcher, educator, and statesman of science.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/html/Laureates/1980s/victorf.htm
Dr. Weisskopf's international honors included the APS Joseph A. Burton Award in 1991, the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 1956, the Boris Pregal Medal of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1970, the Prix Mondial Cino de Duca (France) for humanism in science in 1972, the Order pour le Merite (German) in 1978, the Smolukowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society in 1979, the national Medal of Science (US) in 1980 and the Wolf Prize in Physics (Israel) in 1981,the J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal in 1983, the 1988 Enrico Fermi Award of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Organization in 1990, and the 1991 Public Welfare Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Weisskopf was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Federation of American Scientists. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and its president in 1960-61, and he was president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1976 to 1979.
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DOE Fermi Award 1986
Ernest D. Courant
PhD Physics, University of Rochester, 1943
For his many contributions, for over three decades, to the physics of acceleration of charged particles; including his role in the invention of alternating gradient focusing which is the essential mechanism of strong focusing now used in accelerators of the highest energies; and for his many studies of beam interactions and instabilities that have been of critical importance in accelerator design.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/sc-5/fermi/html/Laureates/1980s/ernestd.htm
1987:First Annual Robert R. Wilson Prize,American Physical Society; Boris Pregel Prize, New York Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences, Member 1976-
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Members of the National Academies
Current and former faculty
Conwell, Esther M.
Professor of Chemistry and Physics University of Rochester
National Academy of Science
Also member of the National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Conwell has been a major figure in semiconductor physics, starting in l950 with the Conwell-Weisskopf formula for impurity scattering. Her most important contributions have been to our understanding of hot carrier phenomena in transport theory, integrated optics and devices, and, more recently, transport phenomena in conducting polymers
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N3PT?opendocument&count=500000
Elected to NAS: 1990 Scientific Discipline: Biophysics Membership Type: Member
DuBridge, L. A.http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58MVHT?opendocument&count=500000
Professor of Physics and Chair, University of Rochester
National Academy of Science
Biographical Memoir: HTML PDF
Date of Birth: September 21, 1901 Elected to NAS: 1943 Date of Death: January 23, 1994
Duke, Charles B.
Xerox Corporation
(Professor of Physics, University of Rochester)
National Academy of Science
Duke has pioneered advances in electron tunneling, surface science, and organic solids. His most notable research has concerned resonant tunneling, electron-solid and positron-solid scattering, semiconductor surface structure, and the electronic properties of polymers. Recently he has worked on designing distributed systems to generate hard copies of digital color documents
.http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N4H7?opendocument
Elected to NAS: 2001 Scientific Discipline: Engineering Sciences Membership Type: Member
Huizenga, John R.
Professor of Chemistry and Physics
University of Rochester
National Academy of ScienceMy primary research interests are nuclear chemistry and physics, specifically, heavy-ion-induced nuclear reaction mechanism studies and nuclear fission.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N3AF?opendocument
Also ACS Award in Nuclear Chemistry
Elected to NAS: 1976 Scientific Discipline: Chemistry Membership Type: Member
http://www.cofc.edu/~nuclear/ACSNuclAward.htm
Also: National Academy of Arts and Sciences
http://www.amacad.org/members/h_pg2.htm
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Marshak, Robert E.http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58MVP7?opendocument&count=500000
Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
Biographical Memoir: HTML PDF
Date of Birth: October 11, 1916 Elected to NAS: 1958 Date of Death: December 23, 1992
Mandel, Leonardhttp://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N2AC?opendocument&count=500000
Lee Dubridge Professor of Physics
University of Rochester
National Academy of Science
Date of Birth: May 9, 1927 Elected to NAS: 2001 Date of Death: February 9, 2001
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Moore, Duncan
Professor of Optics
Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester
National Academy of Engineering
elected 1998
Moore, Duncan
Professor of Optics
Ching W Tang
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering (and Chemistry)
Tang was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for "the invention of the organic light-emitting device and organic bilayer solar cell, the bases of modern organic electronics.".
National Academy of Engineering
elected 2006 Weisskopf, Victor F.
Professor of Physics, University of Rochester 1937-43
National Academy of Science
Biographical Memoir: HTML PDF
Date of Birth: September 19, 1908 Elected to NAS: 1952 Date of Death: April 22, 2002
Physics and Astronomy U of R Alumni
Bromley, D. Allan
PhD Physics
National Academy of Science
University of Rochester 1952
Bromley is a leading nuclear physicist who has made important contributions to the field. His pioneering work on the exploration of 'nuclear molecules' have changed our perspectives of symmetries in nuclear systems. His contributions to understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus have been seminal; his work, ideas, and students have had a major impact on the development of nuclear physics.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N46Y?opendocument
Elected to NAS: 1990 Scientific Discipline: Physics Membership Type: Member
Chu, Steven
BS Physics and Math
University of Rochester 1970National Academy of Science
Chu is known for observing and measuring the optical spectra of the leptonic atoms positronium and muonium, together with A.P. Mills, Jr.; for pioneering three dimensional laser cooling and trapping of free atoms; for using ultracold atoms to create an atomic fountain and an atom interferometer for measurements of unprecedented precision.
( also Wins Nobel Prize in 1997, King Feisal Prize ...+more))
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N4DK?opendocument
Elected to NAS: 1993 Scientific Discipline: Physics Membership Type: Member
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Courant, Ernest D.
PhD Physics
National Academy of Science
University of Rochester 1943
Beam dynamics of particle accelerators.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N2JQ?opendocument
Elected to NAS: 1976 Scientific Discipline: Physics Membership Type: Member
Dicke, Robert H.
PhD Physics
University of Rochester 1941National Academy of Sciencehttp://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58N27Q?opendocument&Start=1&Count=1000&ExpandView
Date of Birth: May 6, 1916 Elected to NAS: 1967 Date of Death: March 4, 1997
Kimble, H. Jeffrey
PhD Physics
National Academy of Science
University of Rochester 1977
Kimble is a physicist who is an authority on quantum information science. He has elucidated some of the strangest features of the physical world by studying interactions between atoms and photons taken one by one. His landmark experiments include using non-classical light to perform measurements better than the standard quantum limits, as well as the teleportation of quantum states using entangled photons.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/naspub.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-5B2PA8?opendocument
Elected to NAS: 2002 Scientific Discipline: Physics Membership Type: Member
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Richard Wilson
Research Associate in Physics U of R 1950-51
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/cv.html