Eli Rotenberg awarded first Kai Seigbahn Prize

The editors of the scientific journal, “Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A,” have awarded to Eli Rotenberg (ALS Scientific Support Group Deputy Leader) the first Kai Siegbahn Prize, named in honor of the journal’s founder.

The award citation recognizes Eli for “the creation and development of the ‘Electronic Structure Factory’ end-station at the Advanced Light Source, which could legitimately be called the most useful ARPES end-station in the World. This endstation has been used to tease out many first results in a wide variety of complex and exotic materials. Eli Rotenberg’s artful application of ARPES has greatly contributed to the understanding of some of the quantum electronic properties of nano-phase and reduced dimensionality materials. His scientific achievements are reported in tens of publications on the most prestigious journals of physics and scientific magazines.”

The Kai Siegbahn Prize was established to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental achievement in synchrotron radiation research with a significant component of instrument development, particularly of synchrotron radiation spectroscopies. The selection committee consisted of Fulvio Parmigiani, committee chair, Universita di Trieste, editor, NIMA; William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, coordinating editor, NIMA; Erik Karlsson, Uppsala University; Friso van der Veen, ETH Zurich; and Ingolf Lindau, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.