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Home   |   Programs   |   Prizes, Awards and Fellowships   |   Awards, Medals & Lectureships   |   Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach

Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach

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To recognize the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists. Recognition consists of the Nicholson medal and a certificate which includes the citation for which the recipient has been recognized. Up to $1,500 will be available for the recipient's travel expenses to the meeting at which the Medal is presented. It will be presented annually.

Establishment & Support

This medal was previously named the Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service and was established in 1994 by the Division of Plasma Physics and the Forum on Physics and Society. It is sponsored by friends of Dwight Nicholson.

Rules & Eligibility

The Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach shall be awarded to a physicist who either through teaching, research, or science related activities,

    1. has demonstrated a particularly giving and caring relationship as a mentor to students or colleagues, or has succeeded in motivating interest in physics through inspiring educational works, or

    2. has created special opportunities that inspire the scientific development of students or junior colleagues, or has developed programs for students at any level that facilitated positive career choices in physics, or

     3. has successfully stimulated the interest and involvement of the general public on the progress in physics. 

Nominations are active for up three years.

Nomination & Selection Process

The deadline for submission of nominations for the 2008 prize is July 1, 2008.
 
Five (5) copies of nominations and supporting documentation for the 2008 Prize should be sent to the Chair of the 2008 Selection Committee:
 
Peter Meszaros
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
525 Davey Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
Phone (814) 865-0418
Email pmeszaros@astro.psu.edu   

Other Selection Committee Members: Hyuk Yu, David Landau, Dan Dahlberg, Jolie Cizewski
 
  Nomination Guidelines

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2007 Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach Recipient:
David P. Landau
University of Georgia

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Past Recipients:

2006: Shlomo Havlin
2005: Padma Kant Shukla
2004: Joel L. Lebowitz
2003: H. Eugene Stanley
2002: Ramon Lopez
2001: D. Allan Bromley
2000: Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth
1999: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
1998: Vitaly L. Ginzburg
1997: Henry W. Kendall
1996: Li-Zhi Fang
1995: Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov
1994: Andrew M. Sessler
 
 
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