EPS Board Hands Out Prizes to Five

The European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics Board honored five scientists for 2001 at the HEP-EPS conference in Budapest, Hungary, in July.

Donald Perkins, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Oxford in the UK, garnered the EPS-HEP Prize for “his outstanding contributions to neutrino physics and for implementing the use of neutrinos as a tool to elucidate the quark structure of the nucleon.”

The Young Physicist Prize went to Arnulf Quadt for research on the ZEUS experiment, which he did while at the University of Oxford. He specifically was recognized for “his outstanding contribution to the measurement of the F ₂ structure function in deep inelastic scattering and extending its measurement to low values of momentum transfer and fractional momentum x.” Quadt is now an assistant professor of physics at the University of Bonn in Germany.

Steven Gubser, a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, was honored with the Gribov Medal for “his outstanding work that has revealed a deep connection between gauge theories and gravitational interactions in the framework of string theories. This made it possible to compute and understand interesting properties of a gauge theory in 3 + 1 dimensions from a gravitational theory in 4 + 1 dimensions.”

Erik Johansson and Christine Sutton shared the Outreach Prize in High Energy Physics and Particle Astrophysics for “their innovative use of electronic and printed media to bring HEP to the wider public, including professional colleagues, students and schools, and, in particular, for their collaboration developing computer interactive packages for educational master classes.” Johansson is a professor of particle physics at Stockholm University in Sweden. Sutton is a member of the particle physics group at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.