Summary of APS and AIP Awards to Rochester Faculty and Alumni (October 31, 2004)

American Physical Society (APS/AIP) Selected Awards

(with Rochester Physics and Astronomy Faculty and Alumni Highlighted)

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 see: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/OJIsummary.html

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
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J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/sakurai/index.cfm

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.

2005 J. J. Sakurai  Prize in Theoretical  Particle Physics to Susumu Okubo Professor of Physics University of Rochester (and Rochester PhD) "For  ground breaking investigations into the pattern of hadronic masses and decay rates, which provided essential clues into the development of the quark model, and for demonstrating that CP Violations permits partial decay rate asymmetries" http://www.aps.org/praw/sakurai/05winner.cfm

APS W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/index.cfm
To recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in Experimental Particle Physics

2004 APS W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimetal Particle Physics to Arie Bodek Professor of Physics University of Rochester For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many Laboratories. http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/04winner.cfm

2002 APS W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimetal Particle Physics to Masatoshi Koshiba University of Tokyo Rochester Physics PhD 1955   "For compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos." http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/02winner.cfm http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2002/koshiba-cv.html

1999 APS W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimetal Particle Physics to Edward H. Thorndike Professor of Physics University of Rochester Citation: "For a leading role in milestone advances in the study of the b quark with the CLEO collaboration; particularly the discovery and measurement of b semileptonic decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and the b to u weak transition. In addition, his contributions led to substantial improvements in understanding the flavor sector of the Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings." http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/99winner.cfm

APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/isakson/index.cfm

To recognize outstanding optical research that leads to breakthroughs in the condensed matter sciences

1980 APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids to David L. Dexter Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/plasma/index.cfm

recognize a particular recent outstanding achievement in plasma physics research.

1995 APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research James Philip Knauer Laboratory for Laser Energetics University of Rochester Citation: "For outstanding theoretical work, computational design and analysis, and experimental work leading to quantitative and predictive understanding of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in high energy density plasmas." http://www.aps.org/praw/plasma/95winner.cfm

APS Biological Physics Prize

Purpose:   http://www.aps.org/praw/biologic/index.cfm
To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in biological physics research.

1998 APS Biological Physics Prize to Rangaswamy Srinivasan UVTech Associates Rochester Postdoc 1958-1960 Citation: "For the development of an understanding of the effects of intense ultraviolet light on biological materials, leading to an ability to 'photoetch' tissue surfaces precisely and safely, and for his role in developing applications to medicine in angioplasty, ophthalmology, and dermatology." http://www.aps.org/praw/biologic/98winner.cfm

1994 APS Biological Physics Prize to Robert S. Knox Professor of Physics University of Rochester

APS Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize

Purpose: http://www.aps.org/praw/lilienfe/index.cfm

To recognize a most outstanding contribution to physics

2004 APS Lilienfeld Prize to H. Jeff Kimble California Institute of Technology Rochester Physics PhD 1977 “For his pioneering work in quantum optics, for his innovative experiments in single-atom optical experiments, and for his skill in communicating the scientific excitement of his research to a broad range of audiences.”

APS Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service

Purpose:http://www.aps.org/praw/nicholso/index.cfm

To recognize the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists

2001 APS Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service to D. Allan Bromley Yale University Rochester Physics PhD 1952 "For his roles as a research scientist, an outstanding teacher, a supportive mentor and colleague, a leader of the physics community in this country and worldwide, and advisor to governments." D. Allan Bromley is the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale; from 1994 to 2000 he served as Yale's Dean of Engineering. He was the first Cabinet level Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1989-1993). He received the B.Sc. degree from Queen's University in Canada in 1948 and the Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1952. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1988 was awarded the National Medal of Science. He has served as President of the AAAS, of IUPAP, and of APS and holds 32 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa and the United States. A distinguished nuclear physicist he is known as the father of modern heavy ion physics.

APS Robert R. Wilson Prize

http://www.aps.org/praw/wilson/index.cfm

Purpose: To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the physics of particle accelerators.

1987 APS Robert R. Wilson Prize    Ernest D. Courant   (BNL) UR Physics PhD 1943

Goldhaber (left) Courant (Right)

APS Joseph A. Burton Forum Award http://www.aps.org/praw/forum/index.cfmTo recognize outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society.

1976 APS Joseph A. Burton Award Herbert F. York UR Physics BS/MS 1943 ( York also Wins Fermi Award in 2004 APS :Leo Szilard Award in 1994
1991 APS Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Victor F. Weisskopf Rochester Physics faculty  1937-1943 Dr. Weisskopf's international honors included 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.
1990 APS Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Richard Wilson   Research Associate in Physics,   University of Rochester  50-51 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/cv.html

APS Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Purpose: http://www.aps.org/praw/heineman/index.cfm
To recognize outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physics.

1964 APS Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Tulli Regge Rochester Physics PhD 1957 Also Dirac Medal  1996 of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~sci_info/awards/Dirac/DiracMedallists/DiracMedal96.html   Also MARCEL GROSSMANN AWARD  1997 for his contributions to the interface between mathematics and physics leading to new fields of research of paramount importance in relativisic astrophysics and particle physics http://www.icra.it/MG/awards/ Also 1979 Einstein Medal of the Levi Strauss Fundation Also 1987 Cecil Power Medal of the European Society of Physics Also 2003 Silver Banner Award   Tullio Regge is been born to Turin in 1931. Graduated in physics to the University of the same city and PhD to the Rochester University, from 1961 he is teaching of Theoretical Physics, chair to which recently that one of Quantistica Physics of the Matter has joined to the Polytechnic of Turin. From 1964 to 1969 it has been member of the Institute of Advanced Study. Member of prestigious scientific scientific academies, is president of the Institute for Scientific Interscambio (I.S.I.) and of the Turinese section of the Association for the search and the prevention of handicaps (AIRH). He has written numerous banns, not only scientific: between these also the Dialogue, fruit of a long interview with First Levi on topics acclimatizes them, ethical and social. Eurodeputato from 1989 to 1994. It has received various prizes, between which the Dennie Heineman (1964) of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, the City of Como (1968) of the Somaini Foundation, the medal Einstein (1979) of the Foundation Levi Strauss and the medal Cecil Powel (1987) of the European Society of Physics

APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/buckley/index.cfm
To recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.

1955 APS Oliver E.  Buckley  Prize Leroy Apker Rochester Physics PhD 1941

APS LeRoy Apker Award

Purpose: http://www.aps.org/praw/apker/index.cfm

"to recognize outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students,
and thereby provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated
great potential for future scientific accomplishment." The award was established

as a memorial to LeRoy Apker who received this Ph.D. from the
UR Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1941.

1999 LeRoy Apker Award  Winner Govind Krishnaswami University of Rochester Physics BS 1999, PhD. 2004 ""For his achievements as an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester and particularly his research entitled, A Model of Interacting Partons for Hadronic Structure Functions." (with Professor S. Rajeev) http://www.aps.org/praw/apker/99winphd.cfm
1999 LeRoy Apker Award Finalist Govind Krishnaswami University of Rochester Physics BS 1999, PhD. 2004
2002 LeRoy Apker Award Finalist Albert Wang, Physics BS 2001, University of Rochester (Advisor Prof. Steve Teitel) Albert T. J. Wang, “Simulation of The Driven Lattice Two Dimensional Coulomb Gas”, advisor - S. Teitel **, 2001. (Physics Senior Thesis, 2001). (winner of the Stoddard Prize, 2001; finalist APS Apker Award, 2001; 2nd place winner of NY APS Conference Poster Competition, Buffalo, NY, 2001).
1983 APS LeRoy Apker Award Finalist Robert Kowalewski (currently Prof. of Physics U Victoria, CA) Physics BS 1983, University of Rochester (Advisor Prof. Tom Ferbel), PhD. Cornell Robert Kowalewski, "Elastic Pion Compton Scattering at Fermilab Energies", advisor - T. Ferbel, 1983. (Physics Senior Thesis, 1983). (winner of the Stoddard Prize, 1983).
1980  APS LeRoy Apker Award Finalist  Robert H. Wentworth (currently at Bell Labs) Physics BS 1978, University of Rochester (Advisor Prof. Joe Eberly), PhD.  Stanford  Robert Wentworth, "Interactions of Stochastically Polarized Laser Light with Atoms",  advisor - J. H. Eberly, 1980, Rev. A23, 2525 (1980). (Physics Senior Thesis, 1980). (winner of the Stoddard Prize, 1980).

APS Prize for a Faculty Member for

Research in an Undergraduate Institution

Purpose: http://www.aps.org/praw/undergrad/index.cfm

To honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide
recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially
to the professional development of undergraduate physics students.

1999 Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution Prize to Robert Edson Warner Oberlin College PhD Physics Rochester 1959 "For his research contributions in experimental nuclear physics, including the precise measurement of reaction cross sections for exotic light nuclei, and for his active and enthusiastic collaboration with Oberlin students. " http://www.aps.org/praw/undergrad/99winner.cfm

APS George E. Pake Prize

Purpose:  http://www.aps.org/praw/pake/index.cfm

To recognize and encourage outstanding work by physicists combining original research
accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry.
Established by Xerox in memory of George Pake director of  industrial research at Xerox
 (and life trustee of the University of Rochester)

2002APS George E. Pake Prize to Paul M. Horn IBM Rochester Physics PhD 1973 "For his innovative contributions to the understanding of 1/f noise, the elucidation of surface phases and phase transitions, and his signal achievements in managing IBM Corporation's global research team." http://www.aps.org/praw/pake/02winner.cfm

Fluid Dynamics Prize

Purpose:http://www.aps.org/praw/fluid/index.cfm
To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in fluid dynamics research.

2001 APS Fluid Dynamics Prize to Howard Brenner MIT University of Rochester,  Departmental Chair, Chemical Engineering (1977-1981) "For his outstanding and sustained research in physico-chemical hydrodynamics, the quality of his monographs and textbooks, and his long-standing service to the fluid mechanics community." http://www.aps.org/praw/fluid/01winner.cfm

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy Purpose:http://www.aps.org/praw/plyler/index.cfm To recognize and encourage notable contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy. 1996 APS Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy to Charles Stedman Parmeter  Indiana University Rochester Chemistry PhD 1962 "For his many important contributions to molecular spectroscopy, energy transfer, and reaction dynamics following his inventions and developments of fluorescence labeling and chemical timing spectroscopies." http://www.aps.org/praw/plyler/96winner.cfm Charles Parmenter completed his B.A. in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Following two years in the US Air Force with DuPont, he completed his Chemistry Ph.D in 1962 at the University of Rochester with W.A. Noyes, Jr. After postdoctoral research with G.B. Kistiakowsky at Harvard, he began his academic career at Indiana University in 1964. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the AAAS and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His development of single vibronic level fluorescence spectroscopy in the 1960's provided a general method for reliable vibrational assignment of polyatomic electronic absorption spectra. The technique also led to discovery of the high sensitivity of nonradiative excited electronic state decay rates to vibrational excitation and provided a general approach to single-collision state-to-state vibrational energy transfer in large molecules. His chemical timing fluorescence spectroscopy provided one of the first time-resolved spectroscopic views of intramolceular vibrational redistribution (IVR). His present research includes cross molecular beam probes of state-to-state energy transfer in large molecules, the vibrational dissociation dynamics of polyatomic van der Waals complexes and investigations of how methyl internal rotation on aromatic rings can so greatly influence IVR.

High Polymer Physics Prize  of the American Physical Society (1984) Prof. William J. MacKnight BS Chemistry, University of Rochester Professor William J. MacKnight received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry (with Distinction) from the University of Rochester, and his master's in Chemistry and Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from Princeton. He was a Research Associate at Princeton with A. V. Tobolsky (1964-5). Professor MacKnight has been at the University of Massachusetts since 1965, serving as the Head of the Polymer Science and Engineering Department for 16 years, holding the rank of Distinguished University Professor since 1996, and Wilmer D. Barrett Distinguished Professor since 1998. Professor MacKnight has served on many committees, review and editorial boards, and has received a number of international and national awards. These include the High Polymer Physics Prize (co-recipient) of the American Physical Society (1984), American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry (1997), Distinguished Service Award in Advancement of Polymer Science administered by The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (1998), and the Herman F. Mark Award administered by the Division of Polymer Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (2002). In 1998 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, 7 patents, and co-authored 2 books.

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

Purpose:http://www.aps.org/praw/rahman/index.cfm
To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in computational physics research.

1997 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics to Donald H. Weingarten IBM. Watson Research Center Postdoc Physics, University of Rochester 1974-1976 "For his seminal work on lattice quantum chromodynamics including algorithmic innovations, massively parallel computer software development and hardware implementation that led to calculations of hadron masses and the mass and decay couplings of the scalar glueball." http://www.aps.org/praw/rahman/97winner.cfm Dr. Weingarten is a native of Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1965 and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1970. From 1969 to 1976 he held research positions at Fermilab (then National Accelerator Laboratory), the University of Copenhagen, the University of Paris, and the University of Rochester. From 1976 to 1983 he was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor at Indiana University. During the Fall of 1982 and the Spring of 1983 he was on leave at Brown University. In 1983 he joined the Research Division of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he still works today.

APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

  Purpose: To recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for
the benefit of society in such areas as the environment, arms control, and science policy. The lecture
 format is intended to increase the visibility of those who have promoted the use of physics for the benefit of society.
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