APS announces the recipients of the 2008 Prizes and Awards. Most of the following awards will be presented at the 2008 APS March or April Meeting. Biographical information about the recipients will be posted on the APS Prize and Awards website at http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/index.cfm
The recipients are:
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Gerald Holton
Andrei Sakharov Prize
Liangying Xu
Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
Gary S. Grest
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
James Bergquist
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum
David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Karin Rabe
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Horst Schmidt-Böcking
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy
Steven G. Boxer
Edward A. Bouchet Award
Ronald E. Mickens
Excellence in Physics Education Award
University of Washington Physics Education Group
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Joseph Orenstein
Zeev Valentine Vardeny
George E. Pake Prize
Julia M. Phillips
Hans A. Bethe Prize
Friedrich K. Thielemann
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Stanislav Mikheyev
Alexei Smirnov
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Jun Akimitsu
Robert C. Haddon
Arthur F. Hebard
John H. Dillon Medal
Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
Pierre Goldschmidt
Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science
Bjorn Wannberg
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
H. Eugene Stanley
Lars Onsager Prize
Tin-Lun Ho
Gordon Baym
Christopher Pethick
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Anatoli Diakov
Pavel Podvig
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
Vassiliki Kalogera
Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
Steven M. Block
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Mildred Dresselhaus
Polymer Physics Prize
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
Michael R. Brown
Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Lyndon R. Evans
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Arthur M. Poskanzer
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
George Cassiday
Pierre Sokolsky
Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases
Kenneth Kulander
Nicholson Medal (2007)
David P. Landau
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