In Brief

Two former presidents of the American Physical Society are among the five recipients of this year’s Heinz Award. The $250 000 award is bestowed annually in five categories by the Heinz Family Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in honor of the late US Senator John Heinz. Sidney D. Drell, professor emeritus of theoretical physics at SLAC, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a founding and active member of JASON, received the public policy award for “championing a doctrine that reduced the threat of nuclear war while ensuring US security.” Mildred S. Dresselhaus, former director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chair of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics, and an MIT professor in the physics and the electrical engineering and computer science departments, received the award in technology, the economy, and employment for her “investigations into superconductivity, the electronic properties of carbon, [her work on] the new physics at the nanometer scale, [and her] abiding commitment to support the advancement of women in the sciences.”