2008 APS Prizes and Awards

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 PrizeLiangying Xu

Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

Gary S. Grest

Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser ScienceJames Bergquist

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsMitchell Feigenbaum

David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials PhysicsKarin Rabe

Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface PhysicsHorst Schmidt-Böcking

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular SpectroscopySteven G. Boxer

Edward A. Bouchet AwardRonald E. Mickens

Excellence in Physics Education AwardUniversity of Washington Physics Education Group

Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in SolidsJoseph Orenstein Zeev Valentine Vardeny

George E. Pake PrizeJulia M. Phillips

Hans A. Bethe PrizeFriedrich K. Thielemann

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle PhysicsStanislav Mikheyev Alexei Smirnov

James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsJun Akimitsu Robert C. HaddonArthur F. Hebard

John H. Dillon MedalKari Dalnoki-Veress

Joseph A. Burton Forum AwardPierre Goldschmidt

Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement ScienceBjorn Wannberg

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld PrizeH. Eugene Stanley

Lars Onsager PrizeTin-Lun Ho

Gordon Baym Christopher Pethick

Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

Anatoli DiakovPavel Podvig

Maria Goeppert Mayer AwardVassiliki Kalogera

Max Delbruck Prize in Biological PhysicsSteven M. Block

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeMildred Dresselhaus

Polymer Physics PrizeKenneth S. Schweizer

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate InstitutionMichael R. Brown

Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle AcceleratorsLyndon R. Evans

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear PhysicsArthur M. Poskanzer

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

George CassidayPierre Sokolsky

Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized GasesKenneth Kulander

Nicholson Medal (2007)David P. Landau