December 2009 Archives

Physicist Omar Hurricane has been named a winner of the Department of Energy's prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today.

Hurricane is being honored for his work in national security and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Deborah Jin has recently won the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement.

New York — AVS named Dr. Frances A. Houle, Manager of Materials Development, Semiconductor Startup, as the 2009 recipient of the John A. Thornton Memorial Award and Lecture "for pioneering studies of fundamental physical and chemical mechanisms of surface and thin film modifications."