APS Fellow Archive

The APS Fellow Archive contains records of many APS Fellows from 1921 to the present. Please note some Fellows may not be displayed or may display with limited information.

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Bruce Ackerson [2007]
Oklahoma State University
Citation: For theoretical and experimental advances in the physics of colloidal liquids and crystals.
Nominated by: DCMP

Herzl Aharoni [2007]
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Citation: Pioneering contributions to the invention, research, and development of two- and multi-terminal Single Crystal Silicon Light Emitting Devices (SiLED's) for all-silicon intergrated optoelectronic systems, combining semiconductor physics and standard IC technology.
Nominated by: FIAP

Henri Alloul [2007]
University of Paris, Sud
Citation: For nuclear magnetic resonance studies of strongly correlated electronic materials including the pseudogap phase of the cuprates through Knight shift measurements, local magnetic moments in cuprates, and studies of Kondo effect and spin-glasses.
Nominated by: DCMP

Dan Amidei [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of b-quark tagging at hadron colliders, and for application of b-tagging to the discovery and study of the top quark.
Nominated by: DPF

Lynden Archer [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of interfacial properties and bulk viscoelasticity of polymer liquids.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Marina Artuso [2007]
Syracuse University
Citation: For achievements in building RICH and silicon detectors for high energy experiments and for studies of heavy quark decays.
Nominated by: DPF

Andre Bandrauk [2007]
Universite de Sherbrooke
Citation: For pioneering theoretical contributions to elucidating intense laser interactions with molecules, including predictions of the existence of new molecules and of enhanced molecular ionization in intense laser fields, and of the usefulness of chirped pulses to control photochemical processes.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Gang Bao [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Gang Bao [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering contributions in the field of molecular biomechanics and seminal impacts in developing molecular sensors for diagnosis of cellular functions
Nominated by: DBIO

Harold Baranger [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For contributions to mesoscopic and nanoscale physics, especially the manifestations of classical chaos in quantum properties and the interplay of quantum interference and electron-electron interactions.
Nominated by: DCMP

Alexis Baratoff [2007]
University of Basel
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the theory of tunneling in superconductors and in scanning probe microscopes.
Nominated by: DCMP

Amy Barger [2007]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For her pioneering observations and fundamental insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes.
Nominated by: DAP

Klaus Bohnen [2007]
IFP - Forschungszentrum
Citation: For his ground breaking work in theoretical calculations of the dispersion of surface phonon using ab initio methods.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Massimo Boninsegni [2007]
University of Alberta
Citation: For the development of a novel methodology enabling accurate, large-scale Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of interacting many-body systems, and for its application to the investigation of the supersolid phase of helium and of superfluidity of molecular hydrogen.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Michael Borland [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding contributions to fourth generation light sources, particularly for development and support of the program ELEGANT, the first integrated accelerator code to realistically model coherent synchrotron radiation effects.
Nominated by: DPB

Elliott R. Brown [2007]
University of California, Los Angeles
Citation: For breakthroughs in THz science and technology including new solid-state coherent sources: (1) resonant-tunneling oscillators, and (2) photomixers; new detectors based on single-crystal, semimetal-semiconductor junctions; and high-resolution spectroscopy of solids.
Nominated by: FIAP

Gail Brown [2007]
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Citation: For contributions to the fundamental physics and development of "quantum confined" or "quantum well" semiconductor heterostructure materials for applications in high-performance infrared detectors
Nominated by: FIAP

John Budai [2007]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal materials physics contributions to the structure and synthesis of quasicrystals, nanocrystals formed by ion-implantation, and epitaxial high-temperature superconductors using advanced synchrotron x-ray techniques.
Nominated by: DMP

Kieron Burke [2007]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the development and application of the density functional theory of ground and excited electronic states, and electronic dynamics in condensed matter.
Nominated by: DCMP

David Nelson Burrows [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

David Burrows [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to high energy astrophysics, including his early development of CCD detectors for X-ray astronomy and his leadership of the XRT instrument on SWIFT.
Nominated by: DAP

Tucker Carrington [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Tucker Carrington [2007]
Queen's University
Citation: For the development and application of new iterative tools for solving the time-independent Schrödinger equation.
Nominated by: DCP

Peter Celliers [2007]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For developing a new generation of high-precision ultra-fast diagnostics, which have enabled accurate laboratory measurements of shock compressed condensed matter in the ~1 to 100 Mbar regime.
Nominated by: GCCM

Massimo Cerdonio [2007]
University of Padova
Citation: For his commitment to and leadership in establishing an international gravitational wave network and for promoting international collaborations through his leadership of the Gravitational Wave International Committee.
Nominated by: FIP

Britton Chance [2007]
University of Pennsylvania
Citation: For prodigious contributions to biological optics over more than seventy years, and for the use of physical methods in fundamental discoveries concerning cell metabolism.
Nominated by: APS

Shih-Lin Chang [2007]
National Tsing Hua University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions in developing X-ray multiple diffraction methods for solving the X-ray phase problem in crystallography, in developing Fabry-Perot resonators for hard X-rays, and in promoting international collaborations.
Nominated by: FIP

Michael Chapman [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For developing an all-optical method for creating atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, and for seminal experimental work in the fields of quantum degenerate gases, cavity quantum electrodynamics and atom optics.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Dante Chialvo [2007]
Northwestern University
Citation: For advances in the understanding of physiological mechanisms using the methods of nonlinear dynamics, in particular of the bifurcations leading to cardiac sudden death and the constructive role of noise in neural coding of information.
Nominated by: DBIO

Leonardo Civale [2007]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of anisotropic electrical and magnetic properties of superconductors and vortex physics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Nigel Clarke [2007]
University of Durham
Citation: For contributions made to the field of soft condensed matter, and in particularly the phase behavior and dynamics of polymer systems.
Nominated by: DPOLY

John C Collins [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

John C. Collins [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the foundation of quantum chromodynamics, including the proofs of a series of factorization theorems, and the analysis of high energy scattering.
Nominated by: DPF

Lance R. Collins [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For new physical understandings of the dynamics of aerosol particles, droplets, polymer molecules, and reacting gases in turbulence through novel direct numerical simulations and insightful theories.
Nominated by: DFD

Paul B Corkum [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Paul Corkum [2007]
National Research Council
Citation: For developing the ideas and concepts that led to the field of attosecond science, to the understanding of high harmonic emission and recollision physics.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robin Cote [2007]
University of Connecticut
Citation: For contributions to the study of ultracold systems, and the effect of long-range interactions in ultracold Rydberg gases, atom-ion mixtures, and the formation of ultracold molecules.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert Crease [2007]
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Citation: For his extensive historical writings on physics, including "The Second Creation", "Making Science: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory" and his completion of Robert Serber's memoirs and Abraham Pais' biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Nominated by: FHPP

Vincent Crespi [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For creative ideas and innovative computations enhancing our understanding of nanoscale matter and predicting new structures and materials with properties possessing technological and/or fundamental scientific value.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Mark Croft [2007]
Rutgers University
Citation: For seminal contributions to correlated electron physics and electronic structure of rare earth and transitional metal compounds; novel applications of synchrotron radiation.
Nominated by: DCMP

Michael F Crommie [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Michael Cuneo [2007]
Sandia National Laboratories
Citation: For systematic wire-array plasma physics experiments and optimization of x-ray sources for indirect drive inertial confinement fusion driven by z-pinches.
Nominated by: DPP

Bogdan Dabrowski [2007]
Northern Illinois University
Citation: For developing the design rules of synthesis and determination of the structure - properties relationships for a vast range of novel superconducting, magnetic, and magneto-resistive perovskites.
Nominated by: GMAG

Dipankar Das Sarma [2007]
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Center for Advanced Materials
Citation: Prof. D. D. Sarma is an internationally known leader of Physics in India with outstanding papers in leading journals on electronic and magnetic properties of strongly correlated materials based on in-depth experimental and theoretical investigations.
Nominated by: FIP

Dipankar Das Sarma [2007]
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Center for Advanced Materials
Citation: Professor Sarma is an internationally known leader of Physics in India with outstanding papers in leading journals on electronic and magnetic properties of strongly correlated materials based on in-depth and experimental and theoretical investigations.
Nominated by: FIP

James J De Yoreo [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Roger Dixon [2007]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: For critical leadership of the Tevatron Run II Luminosity Upgrade Program, and outstanding leadership in the construction and initial operation of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.
Nominated by: DPF

Aristide Dogariu [2007]
University of Central Florida
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the extraction of information on the random medium and for the development of the innovative technique of variable coherence tomography.
Nominated by: DLS

Michel Dupuis [2007]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For his significant contributions to the development of electronic structure methods and computer codes for the simulation of molecular properties and reactivity.
Nominated by: DCP

John Dutcher [2007]
University of Guelph
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the understanding of polymers at the nanoscale; particularly to the development of novel experimental techniques for the study of ultrathin films.
Nominated by: DPOLY

C.W. Everitt [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

C.W. Francis Everitt [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For his pioneering role as scientist, visionary, and leader in the development and successful operation of Gravity Probe B, a mission to measure the general relativistic dragging of inertial frames by the rotating Earth.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Gregory Ezra [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: For his deep contributions to the analysis of the classical, semi-classical, and quantum molecular mechanics of systems of multiple degrees of freedom, with applications to their linear and non-linear spectroscopies.
Nominated by: DCP

Mikhail Feigelman [2007]
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Citation: For contributions to the theory of disordered materials, in particular to pinned charge density waves, spin glasses, pinned vortices in superconductors, glass formation in systems without quenched disorder, and disordered superconductor-normal metal structures.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jonathan Feng [2007]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the properties of supersymmetric particles and the possible role of these particles in forming the dark matter of the universe.
Nominated by: DPF

Paul Fenter [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For innovative application of x-ray scattering to the study of complex molecular-scale structures and processes at organic-inorganic and mineral-water interfaces.
Nominated by: DCMP

Wolfram Fischer [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For the successful commissioning of high luminosity high energy collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and outstanding contributions to the understanding of high-energy accelerator and collider properties.
Nominated by: DPB

Eanna Flanagan [2007]
Cornell University
Citation: In recognition of his contributions to gravitational physics, ranging from the physics of gravitational waves and their detection, to the astrophysics of neutron stars, and to cosmology and quantum gravity.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Michael Flatte [2007]
University of Iowa
Citation: For contributions to the theory of spin-dependent properties of semiconductors, especially transient and inhomogeneous magnetic and optical properties, and applications to spintronic devices.
Nominated by: DCMP

Geoffrey Forden [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For Innovative and important contributions to arms control and international security, in areas such as proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, military space programs, early warning systems, and ballistic missile defenses.
Nominated by: FPS

Rodney Fox [2007]
Iowa State University
Citation: For ground-breaking contributions to the field of turbulent reacting flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Leonid Frankfurt [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.
Nominated by: DNP

Miguel Furman [2007]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering development and application of simulation tools for the beam-beam and electron cloud effects in colliders and storage rings.
Nominated by: DPB

Haiyan Gao [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For her extensive contributions to understanding the quark/hadron transition region and for determinations of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors.
Nominated by: DNP

Peter Garnavich [2007]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For pioneering work on the discovery of dark energy and the cosmic equation of state, along with important observvational discoveries regarding the nature of gamma ray bursts and the physics of supernova light curves.
Nominated by: DAP

S Gary [2007]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his fundamental and definitive contributions to our understanding of collisionless wave-particle interactions and their effects on plasma properties in the solar atmosphere, the interplanetary medium, and all astrophysical plasmas.
Nominated by: GPAP

Jan Genzer [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For the design, synthesis, and modeling of engineered surfaces and interfaces.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Neil Gershenfeld [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For significant contributions ranging from quantum computing to advanced technologies for global development and for leadership in bringing science out of the laboratory and into the real world.
Nominated by: FPS

Michael Gershenson [2007]
Rutgers University
Citation: For experimental studies of quantum transport and dephasing processes in disordered low-dimensional electronic systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Russell Giannetta [2007]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For significant advances in experimental techniques for measuring the superconducting penetration depth and their application for elucidating the pariing symmetry and electronic structure of unconventional superconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

George Gillies [2007]
University of Virginia
Citation: For enduring contributions to the development of magnetic stereotaxis. His inventions already are guiding catheters to critical regions of the human heart. Current research may lead to delivery of medications to the brain as well.
Nominated by: GIMS

Sharath Girimaji [2007]
Texas A & M University
Citation: For important contributions to the fundamental understanding of elementary turbulence processes; and, based on this improved knowledge, for the development of widely-used engineering closure models for turbulence and turbulent mixing.
Nominated by: DFD

Peyman Givi [2007]
University of Pittsburgh
Citation: For pioneering computational research on turbulent reactive flows, and especially for the development of the filtered density function methodol-ogy.
Nominated by: DFD

Mark Glauser [2007]
Syracuse University
Citation: For his innovative use of multi-point low-dimensional methods to elucidate key physics associated with time dependent flow phenomena for flow control applications in turbulent jets, shear layers and separated flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Ari Glezer [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For in-depth insight into flow structure through innovative experiments, and the creation of fundamentally new approaches to flow control, leading to the dramatic alteration of the underlying physics.
Nominated by: DFD

Robert Golub [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For pioneering research in studies of the neutron electric dipole moment, for development of the superthermal technique for production of ultracold neutrons, and for development of new methods in neutron spin echo research.
Nominated by: DNP

Valeri Goncharov [2007]
University of Rochester
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and for development of a technique to reduce the growth of these instabilities by means of adiabat shaping, enhancing the potential of direct-drive ICF to achieve very high performance.
Nominated by: DPP

Gabriela Gonzalez [2007]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For her experimental contributions to the field of gravitational wave detection, her leadership in the analysis of LIGO data for gravitational wave signals, and for her skill in communicating the excitement of physics to students and the public.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Xavier Gonze [2007]
University of Catholique de Louvain
Citation: For contributions to density-functional perturbation theory and its application to dielectric properties, and for leadership in open-source software development for the electronic structure community.
Nominated by: DCOMP

A Gover [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

A. Gover [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For outstanding scientific achievements and leadership in international cooperation in the area of Free Electron Lasers.
Nominated by: FIP

Giorgio Gratta [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For leadership and vision in the development of experiments to probe neutrino phenomena, including lepton mixing, geoneutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay.
Nominated by: DPF

Stephen Gray [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For major contributions to theoretical chemical dynamics and to the understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with nanoparticles.
Nominated by: DCP

Martin Greven [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For establishing a stellar record in growth and perfection of high quality crystals of oxide superconductors, which have permitted both his inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering experiments, and a host of other experiments (STM, ARPES, and optical measurements) by his collaborators which led to a number of important advances in the field.
Nominated by: DMP

Rudolf Grimm [2007]
Institute for Experimental Physics
Citation: For fundamental contributions in experimental atomic physics with quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi gases, in particular Bose Einstein condensation of molecules, Cooper pairing of cold fermionic atoms, Efimov states, and repulsively bound atom pairs in optical lattices.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Marilyn Gunner [2007]
City College of New York
Citation: For her work in both experimental and theoretical studies of electron and proton transfer processes in proteins, in particular for her beautiful work coupling the theory of electrostatic interactions to the dynamics of charge transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers , and in recognition of her service to the Division of Biological Physics.
Nominated by: DBIO

Carol Hall [2007]
North Carolina State University
Citation: For creating a new paradigm to simulate protein aggregation through a combination of intermediate-resolution molecular models and the discontinuous molecular dynamics method.
Nominated by: DBIO

Joseph Haus [2007]
University of Dayton
Citation: For his seminal contributions to nonlinear and quantum optics of heterogeneous materials, especially photonic band gap structures.
Nominated by: DLS

Paula Heron [2007]
University of Washington
Citation: For her leadership in the physics education research community and development and active dissemination of research-based curricula that significantly impact physics instruction throughout the world.
Nominated by: FED

Ady Hershcovitch [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For inventing and developing original plasmas devices, as well as improving existing devices for applications in research and industry that led to new technologies and new physics.
Nominated by: DPP

Joanne Hewett [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For her contributions to our understanding of constraints on and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, and service to the particle physics community leading studies of future experiments.
Nominated by: DPF

Denise Hinkel [2007]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For extensive contributions to laser-plasma interaction physics and radiation hydrodynamic design of inertial-confinement fusion targets, and to the fundamental physics of linear and nonlinear wave propagation in plasma.
Nominated by: DPP

Morten Hjorth-Jensen [2007]
University of Oslo
Citation: For his seminal developments in nuclear many-body theory and its applications in various nuclear many-body calculations ranging from finite nuclear structure, to level densities, to infinite nuclear matter.
Nominated by: DNP

James Hollenhorst [2007]
Agilent Labs
Citation: For outstanding contributions to measurement science and low noise electronics and for leadership of physical science based research and development in support of electronics and life science businesses.
Nominated by: FIAP

Christopher Homes [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of infrared spectroscopy, and its application to strongly correlated systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Don Howard [2007]
University of Notre Dame
Citation: For his ground-breaking studies of the interplay between physics and philosophy of science in the 20th century, especially in connection with the work of Einstein and Bohr, and for organizing conference series and editing book series fostering the dialogue between physicists and philosophers and historians of science.
Nominated by: FHPP

Emlyn Hughes [2007]
Columbia University
Citation: For leadership in forefront experimental research that elucidated the spin structure of the nucleon and provided unique precision tests the Standard Model.
Nominated by: DPF

Jeffrey Hunt [2007]
Boeing Info Spc & Def Sys
Citation: For significant contributions in nonlinear surface spectroscopy, and ground-breaking applications of laser physics in the aerospace industry.
Nominated by: FIAP

Joey Huston [2007]
Michigan State University
Citation: For scientific leadership and fundamental contributions to the study of the strong interaction of quarks and gluons through definitive experiments at hadron colliders and important phenomenological calculations.
Nominated by: DPF

Yves Idzerda [2007]
Montana State University
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of soft x-ray spectroscopies to the study of magnetic systems.
Nominated by: DMP

Jisoon Ihm [2007]
Seoul National University
Citation: For his fundamental contributions to the theory of solids, surfaces and nanostructures, especially his development of the momentum-space formalism for total energy of solids.
Nominated by: DMP

Kent Irwin [2007]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For world-leading technical contributions and leadership in applying transition-edge superconducting sensors to materials and nuclear analysis and astronomical observations.
Nominated by: GIMS

Charles Jaffe [2007]
West Virginia University
Citation: For fundamental discoveries in the theory of transport in atomic, molecular, and celestial mechanical systems.
Nominated by: GFB

Mark Jarrell [2007]
University of Cincinnati
Citation: For seminal contributions to the development of computational condensed matter physics including dynamical mean field theory and the dynamical cluster approximation applied to advancing the understanding of strongly correlated electron systems.
Nominated by: DCOMP

William Jeffrey [2007]
Institute for Defense Analysis
Citation: For excellence in management of scientific and technical programs, particularly those of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Nominated by: APS

Poul Jessen [2007]
University of Arizona
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the development of optical lattices of laser cooled atoms, quantum information processing, and quantum control experiments with atomic spins.
Nominated by: DAMOP

David Jonas [2007]
University of Colorado
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to phase-resolved nonlinear optics and the demonstration and subsequent development of femtosecond two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy.
Nominated by: DLS

Kevin M Jones [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Kevin Jones [2007]
Williams College
Citation: For seminal contributions to the study of cold collisions and to the development of photoassocation spectroscopy in ultracold gasses.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Igor Kaganovich [2007]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the kinetic modeling of plasmas, including collisionless electron heating, negative ion dynamics, Hall thrusters, and intense ion beam dynamics.
Nominated by: DPP

Rajiv K Kalia [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Rajiv Kalia [2007]
University of Southern California
Citation: For contributions to the development of multimillion-atom multiscale simulation methods on parallel computers and their application to the fundamental understanding of atomistic mechanisms for broad properties and processes in nanostructured materials.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Mehran Kardar [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For pioneering work in a broad range of topics in statistical physics, including the dynamics of growing interfaces, directed polymers in random media, tethered surfaces, stability of charge polymers and, more recently, biophysical systems.
Nominated by: GSNP

Alain Karma [2007]
Northeastern University
Citation: For innovative ideas and results in the study of nonequilibrium spatially-extended processes, especially the phase-field method for solidification and the role of restitution in the excitable dynamics of cardiac tissue.
Nominated by: GSNP

Safa Kasap [2007]
University of Saskatchewan
Citation: For contributions to the science and technology of amorphous semiconductors and devices; in particular, for advances in x-ray photoconductors used in direct conversion flat panel x-ray image detectors.
Nominated by: FIAP

Howard Katz [2007]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For introducing designed organic materials as active platforms in electronic and optical devices including transistors and electro-optic modulators, innovations in synthesis and device design, and serving the physical science community through society leadership, editorship, and government outreach.
Nominated by: DMP

Edward Kearns [2007]
Boston University
Citation: For contributions in neutrino physics and particle astrophysics, particularly using the Super-Kamiokande experiment to reveal atmospheric neutrino oscillations and set stringent limits on proton decay.
Nominated by: DPF

Steven Kettell [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his leadership in rare kaon decay experiments.
Nominated by: DPF

Shiv Khanna [2007]
Virginia Commonwealth University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the theoretical understanding of electronic and magnetic properties of clusters as well as work on superatoms forming a new dimension to the periodic table.
Nominated by: DCP

Philip Kim [2007]
Columbia University
Citation: For the creation of single layer graphite (graphene) and the study of its unusual two-dimensional electronic transport properties.
Nominated by: DCMP

Yoshifumi Kimura [2007]
Nagoya University
Citation: For contributions to the development of our understanding of turbulent flows and the dispersion of scalars in a variety of geophysical settings through the numerical simulations and a comparison of these to theory and experiment.
Nominated by: DFD

Edward Kinney [2007]
University of Colorado
Citation: For his contributions to the experimental study of the spin structure of the nucleon in polarized deep inelastic electron scattering from internal polarized gas targets and for his experimental and theoretical elucidation of pion reaction mechanisms in pion double charge exchange in light nuclei.
Nominated by: DNP

David Kirkby [2007]
University of California, Irvine
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the experimental study and understanding of mixing and CP violation in the neutral B meson system, and for the development of data modeling and analysis software used throughout the high energy physics community.
Nominated by: DPF

Paul Kleiber [2007]
University of Iowa
Citation: For contributions to the study of excited state interactions in ion-molecule clusters and in molecular collisions.
Nominated by: DCP

Lev Kofman [2007]
University of Toronto
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of inflation and preheating in the early universe, the role of cosmological constant on the microwave background, and the emergence of the cosmic web from Gaussian density fluctuations.
Nominated by: DAP

Robert Krasny [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For his many achievements in advancing particle methods and tree-code algorithms to allow exceptionally precise computations of vortex dynamics, and his insightful use of the resulting methods to increase the fundamental understanding of regular and chaotic phenomena in fluid flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Karl Krushelnick [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering contributions to experimental high-intensity laser plasma physics including the production of high-quality relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams and the development of techniques to measure very large magnetic fields in intense laser-produced plasmas.
Nominated by: DPP

Sebastian Kuhn [2007]
Old Dominion University
Citation: For his leadership on measurements of the nucleon structure functions, in particular in the non-perturbative and valence region.
Nominated by: GHP

Christian Kurtsiefer [2007]
National University of Singapore
Citation: For pioneeering contributions to practical quantum cryptography.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Kris Kwiatkowski [2007]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his central role in experimental studies of energy dissipation in nuclear reactions which have provided evidence of the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, and in development of new detector techniques.
Nominated by: DNP

Albert Lazzarini [2007]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For leadership in the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its scientific program, and in the development of large-scale computational grids for gravitational wave physics and other fields of science.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Jennifer Lewis [2007]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For seminal contributions to the fields of colloidal science and directed assembly of materials.
Nominated by: DMP

Daniel Lidar [2007]
University of Southern California
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method.
Nominated by: DQI

Yu Lin [2007]
Auburn University
Citation: For her trailblazing global hybrid simulations of the dynamics and structures of solar wind-magnetosphere boundary layers; particularly, at the dayside magnetopause and the bow shock.
Nominated by: DPP

Seth Lloyd [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of quantum computation and quantum communication and their physical implementations.
Nominated by: DQI

Lyle Long [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For the advancement and teaching of computational science. In particular, for the use of high performance computers for computational fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics, and rarefied gas dynamics.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Ellen Longmire [2007]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For innovative experiments in turbulent and particle-laden flows, and the development of new and improved flow diagnostic techniques.
Nominated by: DFD

Jorge Lopez [2007]
University of Texas
Citation: For contributions to nuclear physics, in particular for the understanding of the liquid-gas nuclear phase transition, and for support of the development of physics in Latin America through research and development collaborations, organization of symposia, and recruitment of students.
Nominated by: FIP

Marshall Luban [2007]
Iowa State University
Citation: For long-term significant contributions to condensed matter theory, including pioneering work on the Lifshitz multicritical point, on Bloch oscillations of electrons in semiconductor superlattices, and the modeling of magnetic molecules.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jianpeng Ma [2007]
Baylor College of Medicine
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the field of biophysics are in developing novel computational methods that have substantially expanded one's ability to simulate, model and refine flexible biomolecular systems based on experimental data at low to intermediate resolutions. He is one of the pioneers and leading experts in the field.
Nominated by: DBIO

Augusto Macchiavelli [2007]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his essential role in the development and use of Gammasphere and for his seminal contributions to the understanding of the phenomenon of magnetic rotation and to the study of neutron-proton pairing correlations.
Nominated by: DNP

Chris Macosko [2007]
University of Minnesota
Citation: For pioneering work on the rheology, compatibilization, processing, and properties of polymer blends.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Albert Macrander [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For advancement of x-ray science, x-ray optics, and x-ray measurements on crystals and for his leadership as Editor of the Review of Scientific Instruments.
Nominated by: GIMS

Sadamichi Maekawa [2007]
Tohoku University
Citation: For seminal contributions to understanding spin-dependent transport in magnetic materials and nanostructures, high Tc superconductivity, transition metal oxides, the basic physics of spin-electronics, and developing exact numerical many-body techniques to study strongly-correlated electronic systems.
Nominated by: GMAG

Dick Majeski [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Richard Majeski [2007]
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Citation: For fundamental studies of radio-frequency heating and plasma-wall interactions, including the first observation of Alfvén wave heating in a tokamak, the first demonstration of mode-conversion current drive, and pioneering work in the use of liquid lithium as a plasma-facing component.
Nominated by: DPP

Sara Majetich [2007]
Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For innovative research on magnetic nanoparticles and their interactions, the development of novel self-assembly techniques to prepare ordered nanoparticle assemblies, and the design of plasmonic magnetic nanoparticles for biomedicine.
Nominated by: GMAG

Protik Majumder [2007]
Williams College
Citation: For precision measurements of atomic structure that test atomic theory and probe the basic laws and symmetries of nature, and for engaging talented undergraduate physics students in making such measurements.
Nominated by: GPMFC

Arjun Makhijani [2007]
Institute for Energy & Environmental Research
Citation: For his tireless efforts to provide the public with accurate and understandable information on energy and environmental issues.
Nominated by: FPS

F Bary Malik [2007]
Southern Illinois University
Citation: For his extensive contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, mathematical phynuclear physics, and in developing physics research programs and education around the world, particularly in emerging nations.
Nominated by: FIP

Luz Martinez-Miranda [2007]
University of Maryland
Citation: For sustained achievements in recruiting, mentoring, and advancing women and minorities in physics; for engaging K-16 students in the excitement of research; and for being a superb role model through her elegant research to understand liquid crystal systems and further their application.
Nominated by: FED

Thom Mason [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Thomas E. Mason [2007]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering inelastic neutron scattering measurements on high temperature superconductors and Kondo insulators. Outstanding contributions to neutron instrumentation and leadership of the Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source project.
Nominated by: DCMP

Anne McCoy [2007]
Ohio State University
Citation: For contributions to the development of theoretical and computational insight into the spectroscopy and dynamics of molecules and molecular complexes that exhibit large amplitude motions.
Nominated by: DCP

Stephen McKeever [2007]
Oklahoma State University
Citation: For major contributions to solid-state radiation dosimetry using thermally and optically stimulated luminescence from wide band-gap insulators, including the development of novel luminescence techniques for radiation measurement.
Nominated by: DCMP

Gareth McKinley [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For the development of methods for characterization of the rheology of complex liquids and improved understanding of elastic effects and instabilities.
Nominated by: DFD

Thomas Charles McLeish [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Tom McLeish [2007]
University of Leeds
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of dynamics and rheology of entangled polymers, especially polymers with long-chain branching.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Anita Mehta [2007]
S. N. Bose Nat Ctr Basic Sci
Citation: For being a pioneer in granular physics, and contributions to many and diverse areas in complex systems and nonlinear dynamics; for her efforts to help 'invisible scientists' in emergent countries become globally visible, with special reference to women in international science.
Nominated by: FIP

Alan Migdall [2007]
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Citation: For the development of parametric down conversion and correlated-photon generation for metrology, cryptography, communications, and fundamental physics applications.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Richard Milner [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his leadership in the HERMES/DESY and BLAST/Bates experiments which have advanced our understanding of the spin structure of strongly interacting systems.
Nominated by: DNP

Rodolfo Miranda [2007]
University Autonoma de Madrid
Citation: For his contributions to surface and thin film magnetism, including new methods of epitaxial growth using surfactants or controlling the morphology at the atomic scale, the identification and characterization of model systems for magnetism in low dimensions, and the observation of magic heights in metallic islands.
Nominated by: DMP

Noemi Mirkin [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For her leadership in establishing productive international collaborations, her many achievements in biological molecular physics and for her long service to the international community as an officer and Executive Committee member of the Forum on International Physics.
Nominated by: FIP

Noor Mohammad [2007]
Affiliation not available
Citation: For sustained contribution to the development of nanowire technology and ohmic contacts to semiconductors.
Nominated by: FIAP

Victor Moshchalkov [2007]
Institute for Nanoscale Physics & Chemistry
Citation: For important contributions to the study of vortex matter and nano-structured superconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Meenakshi Narain [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Meenakshi Narain [2007]
Brown University
Citation: For important contributions to the measurement of the properties of the top quark.
Nominated by: DPF

Mark Newman [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering work on the statistical physics of complex systems, especially the theory and characterization of networks.
Nominated by: GSNP

Thomas Nordlund [2007]
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Citation: In recognition of his pioneering work in protein dynamics, DNA dynamics and service to the biological physics community.
Nominated by: DBIO

Edward O'Brien [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For leadership in the construction, operation and continuous improvement of the PHENIX detector since the start of RHIC, notably for the successful implementation of significant annual upgrades of the detector as part of a systematic program to extend its physics reach.
Nominated by: DNP

Edward John O'Brien [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Jurg Osterwalder [2007]
University of Zurich
Citation: For development of photoemission techniques for surface and solid-state studies, including advances in angle-resolved photoemission for Fermi surface mapping and photoelectron diffraction for determining surface structure.
Nominated by: DCMP

Clinton Petty [2007]
General Atomics
Citation: For accurate measurements of rf-driven non-inductive current profiles leading to the validation of theory in unprecedented detail, and for innovative developments in heat transport scaling with dimensionless parameters.
Nominated by: DPP

C Craig Petty [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Richard Thomas Phillips [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Richard Phillips [2007]
University of Cambridge
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of coherent quantum optical processes in semiconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Eugene Polzik [2007]
University of Copenhagen
Citation: Development of robust light and matter entanglement and their use in teleportation protocols.
Nominated by: DLS

Vladimir Prigodin [2007]
Ohio State University
Citation: For his pioneering studies of electronic properties of low-dimensional systems, proposal and development of fundamentals of charge transport in quasi-one-dimensional disordered structures, and also of operating principals of new organic-based electronic materials/devices and fully spin polarized organic spintronic materials/devices.
Nominated by: DCMP

Thomas Prince [2007]
California Institute of Technology
Citation: For his broad contributions to the fields of astrophysics and space science, including his leadership role as the LISA Mission Scientist and his service as the Chief Scientist at JPL from 2001 to 2006.
Nominated by: DAP

Mohit Randeria [2007]
Ohio State University
Citation: For seminal theoretical contributions to strongly-correlated superconductors, to the analysis of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and to the BCS-BEC crossover.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jean Marcel Rax [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Jean-Marcel Rax [2007]
Ecole Polytechnique
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of alpha particles and fast electrons in tokamaks, basic plasma physics, and technological plasmas, and for exceptional leadership in plasma physics administration and education.
Nominated by: DPP

Lucia Reining [2007]
CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique
Citation: For her fundamental contributions to ab initio computation of spectroscopic properties of solids, employing many-electron Green¿s function and time-dependent density functional approaches.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Edward Rezayi [2007]
California State University
Citation: For fundamental theoretical contributions to the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Nominated by: DCMP

Robert Rimmer [2007]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Citation: For advances in the science and technology of RF structures and beam stability in high-current accelerators.
Nominated by: DPB

Winston Roberts [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Winston Roberts [2007]
Florida State University
Citation: For significant contributions to hadron physics using models of QCD as well as effective field theories and phenomonological Lagrangians, for the development of polarization observables in photoproduced three-body final states, and for continued service to the nuclear science community.
Nominated by: DNP

Jan Rost [2007]
Max Planck Institute
Citation: For seminal investigations of correlated doubly excited states, threshold fragmentation in few-body Coulombic systems and small clusters, pendular states of linear molecules, and for elucidating the role of correlation and relaxation in ultracold plasmas and Rydberg gases.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Krzysztof Rykaczewski [2007]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his many pioneering achievements in studies of radioactive nuclei.
Nominated by: DNP

Van Saarloos [2007]
University of Leiden
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the understanding of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, spatiotemporal chaos, pattern formation, and front propagation
Nominated by: GSNP

Anders Sandvik [2007]
Boston University
Citation: For contributions to the development of quantum Monte Carlo methods and their applications to problems in quantum magnetism.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Hendrik Schatz [2007]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to our theoretical and experimental understanding of the r-process, the rp process, x-ray bursts, and the modification of neutron star crusts by the ashes of nuclear processes.
Nominated by: DNP

van Schilfgaarde [2007]
Arizona State University
Citation: For the development of electronic structure methods, in particular in computational magnetism, the first all-electron self-consistent quasiparticle GW method and novel implementations of the linear muffin-tin orbital approach.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Michael Perry Schmidt [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Michael Schmidt [2007]
Yale University
Citation: For pioneering work in the technology and analysis of neutral B meson decays at the Tevatron Collider, leading to precision measurements of the mass matrix of the neutral B mesons.
Nominated by: DPF

Reinhardt Schuhmann [2007]
American Physical Society
Citation: In recognition of his distinguished and dedicated service as an Editor of Physical Review Letters, and for his leadership and advocacy in his position as Managing Editor of Physical Review Letters.
Nominated by: APS

Peter Searson [2007]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For advances in the fundamental physics associated with growth at the solid/liquid interface and pioneering work in multifunctional metallic nanowires.
Nominated by: DMP

Edmund Seebauer [2007]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For the discovery of a new suite of physical mechanisms for controlling the behavior of point defects in semiconductors using surfaces, photostimulation and ions, with applications in transistor manufacture for integrated circuits.
Nominated by: FIAP

Edward Seidel [2007]
Louisiana State University
Citation: For his leadership in the development of collaborative computational frameworks and for contributions in the numerical solution of the Einstein equations of general relativity.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Roseanne Sension [2007]
University of Michigan
Citation: For pioneering work on dynamic in the condensed phase, steady state and ultrafast measurements of excited state dynamics, and optical control of chemical reaction dynamics.
Nominated by: DLS

Donald Shapero [2007]
National Academy of Sciences
Citation: For his seminal contributions in framing the field of physics in a persuasive and compelling manner so as to broaden its understanding and support; and for his dedicated commitment to physics and astronomy through service with the National Academies.
Nominated by: FPS

Michael Shelley [2007]
New York University
Citation: For his broad-ranging contributions to computational fluid mechanics, including boundary integral techniques for interface dynamics, singularity formation in topological transitions, and fluid-body interactions.
Nominated by: DFD

Chih-Kang Shih [2007]
University of Texas
Citation: For his original and innovative contributions to the understanding of growth and properties of quantum nanostructures, in particular his pioneering contributions to quantum growth of metal thin films and optical coherence in semiconductor quantum dots.
Nominated by: DMP

Pushpendra Singh [2007]
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of efficient algorithms for the direct numerical simulations (DNS) of multiphase fluids, and for using the DNS technique in conjunction with experiments as a tool for understanding the physics of a broad range of multiphase systems.
Nominated by: DFD

Lee Smolin [2007]
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Citation: For his influential contributions to quantum gravity and for his tireless outreach efforts to communicate the excitement of contemporary physics to philosophers, artists and the lay public.
Nominated by: DGRAV

Alexei P Sokolov [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Alexei Sokolov [2007]
University of Akron
Citation: For outstanding contributions in polymer and protein dynamics including the discovery of a dynamical crossover and the relation between fragility and Poisson's ratio.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Paul Sommers [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his significant contributions to experimental cosmic ray physics, for his major part in designing and building the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, and his leadership role in using it to obtain novel and important insights into the nature and properties of the highest energy cosmic rays.
Nominated by: DAP

Nicola Spaldin [2007]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Citation: For her development and implementation of new computational and theoretical tools for computing the properties of complex solids and their application to the rational design and understanding of new multifunctional materials, and for her profound and diverse contributions to Physics education.
Nominated by: DMP

Harold Spinka [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to spin physics and leadership of symmetry experiments at ZGS, LAMPF, AGS, and RHIC.
Nominated by: DNP

S Sridhar [2007]
Northeastern University
Citation: For elegant experiments providing seminal insights on left-handed metamaterials, quantum chaos, vortex and quasiparticle electrodynamics in superconductors, and collective excitations in low-dimensional materials.
Nominated by: DCMP

Henrik Stapelfeldt [2007]
University of Aarhus
Citation: For his pioneering work in the use of ultrashort laser pulses to align molecules and to study their dissociation dynamics.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Giovanni Stefani [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Giovanni Stefani [2007]
University of Roma
Citation: For his pioneering works in electron-electron coincidence experiments (e,2e) on atoms, molecules and surfaces and the development of innovative instrumentation.
Nominated by: GFB

Thomas Stoehlker [2007]
GSI Darmstadt
Citation: For significant contributions to the understanding of the atomic structure and excitation processes of highly charged ions through precision spectroscopy on few-electron high Z ions.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Matthew Strassler [2007]
University of Washington
Citation: For work extending the AdS/CFT gravity/gauge duality to QCD-like confining theories, and for insights into novel aspects of the physics of strongly coupled supersymmetric theories.
Nominated by: DPF

Stephen Streiffer [2007]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For experimental studies of ferroelectric thin film physics, that have established the relationships between epitaxial strain, ferroelectric phase transition behavior and domain structure, and size effects, and for advancing the fundamental understanding of complex oxide thin film microstructure.
Nominated by: DMP

Svetlana Sukhishvili [2007]
Steven Institute of Technology
Citation: For fundamental contributions to the science of polymer monolayers and multilayers adsorbed at water/solid interface, and for understanding the correlations of polymeric self-assembly in solutions and at surfaces.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Jonathan Sun [2007]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For his many contributions to the understanding and application of magnetic and superconducting devices, including those based on spin-momentum transfer and high-temperature superconductivity.
Nominated by: GMAG

Attila Szabo [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Attila Szabo [2007]
National Institutes of Health
Citation: For development of the model-independent theoretical analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation experiments, development of powerful methods to analyze and interpret a range of single molecule experiments, and for major contributions to the theory of diffusion-influenced reactions.
Nominated by: DBIO

Raza Tahir-Kheli [2007]
Temple University
Citation: Distinguished for his contributions over a long research career to the theory of condensed matter, particularly in the fields of magnetism in perfect and disordered materials and of correlated atomic diffusion.
Nominated by: DCMP

Stavros Tavoularis [2007]
University of Ottawa
Citation: For contributions to turbulence, turbulent mixing, vortex dynamics, aerodynamics, thermo-hydraulics, bio-fluid dynamics, and design of flow apparatus and instrumentation. Also, for contributions to education in fluid dynamics and for promoting international collaboration and understanding.
Nominated by: DFD

Barbara Terhal [2007]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For her fundamental contributions to the theory of entanglement, quantum information theory, and quantum computational complexity.
Nominated by: DQI

John Terning [2007]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For seminal contributions to studies of electroweak symmetry breaking beyond the standard model, and cosmology in extra dimensions.
Nominated by: DPF

James Layton Terry [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

James Terry [2007]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For significant contributions in the areas of volume recombination in plasmas, plasma impurity transport, wall-conditioning with lithium, plasma transport, and plasma turbulence in magnetic fusion confinement devices.
Nominated by: DPP

Naresh Thadhani [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For global leadership in shock compression, distinguished service to APS; and important research elucidating new mechanisms.
Nominated by: GCCM

Alan Todd [2007]
Advance Energy Systems
Citation: For his leadership and contributions to the development and Industrial production of high-average-current particle accelerator components and for advances in the understanding of plasma MHD stability.
Nominated by: FIAP

DeJan Trbojevic [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For his original contributions in the design, commissioning and operations of the Tevatron and RHIC colliders, and for the development of new concepts for future accelerators.
Nominated by: DPB

Michel Trudeau [2007]
Inst de Recherche d'Hydro
Citation: For his sustained and highly original contributions to the synthesis of metastable and nanostructural materials and the study of their physical properties, with the emphasis in their uses for improved energy efficiency related applications.
Nominated by: FIAP

Din Ping Tsai [2007]
National Taiwan University
Citation: For his contributions in nanophotonics, plasmonics and near-field optics especially on near-field scaning optical microscopy, nano storage and nano imaging.
Nominated by: FIAP

John Turneaure [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For pioneering the development of ultrahigh-Q superconducting microwave cavities and their application to fundamental physics experiments, and for development of the Gravity Probe B science instrument to test General Relativity.
Nominated by: GPMFC

Sergio Ulloa [2007]
Ohio University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of transport and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor systems and complex molecules, and his many contributions to international physics as organizer of schools, workshops, and conferences, in particular in Latin America.
Nominated by: FIP

Patrick Vaccaro [2007]
Yale University
Citation: For the development and application of linear/nonlinear spectroscopic techniques to elucidate the structure, dynamics, and chiroptical response of molecules.
Nominated by: DLS

Wim Van Saarloos [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Mark van Schilfgaarde [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Raju Venugopalan [2007]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal work elucidating the parton substructure of nucleons and nuclei at low x.
Nominated by: DNP

Boudewijn J Verhaar [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Boudewyn Verhaar [2007]
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Citation: For seminal and wide-ranging theoretical contributions to the field of ultra-cold atomic gases.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Yurii Vlasov [2007]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the photonic nanostructures including photonic crystals and silicon nanophotonics.
Nominated by: DLS

Dimitri Vvedensky [2007]
Imperial College London
Citation: For original, sustained, and diverse theoretical contributions toward understanding the morphological evolution of epitaxial thin films.
Nominated by: DMP

Francois Waelbroeck [2007]
University of Texas
Citation: For his work on the effect of velocity shear on ballooning modes, on the formation of current ribbons, and on the effect of the polarization current in magnetic islands.
Nominated by: DPP

Lijun Wang [2007]
Affiliation not available
Citation: In recognition of his original experimental work on the propagation of light and on coherence phenomena.
Nominated by: DLS

David Weiss [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For seminal contributions to laser cooling, precision measurements, the study of atoms in optical lattices, and for the experimental implementation of one-dimensional gases.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert Westervelt [2007]
Harvard University
Citation: For seminal contributions to our understanding of the quantum behavior of electrons inside nanoscale semiconductor structures, including imaging the coherent flow of electron waves.
Nominated by: DCMP

J. Craig Wheeler [2007]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: In recognition of his work on supernova astrophysics and related topics. Throughout his career, Wheeler has synthesized disparate areas and thus catalyzed new research directions.
Nominated by: DAP

William Wisniewski [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For outstanding contributions and leadership in the design, construction and operation of the BABAR detector, that have enabled the accumulation of a unique data sample for addressing precision physics in the heavy flavor sector.
Nominated by: DPF

Henryk Witala [2007]
Jagellonian University
Citation: For his ground-breaking work in solving the three-nucleon continuum system using the Faddeev scheme in a numerical accurate manner with realistic nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces.
Nominated by: GFB

Xiaoxing Xi [2007]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For his extensive and seminal contributions to the science and applications of thin film materials including high temperature superconductors, ferroelectrics, and magnesium diboride.
Nominated by: DMP

Yoshihisa Yamamoto [2007]
Stanford University
Citation: For field opening contributions to quantum optics and mesoscopic physics.
Nominated by: DAMOP

De Yoreo [2007]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Citation: For his pioneering work using in situ force microscopy to understand the physical principles underlying biocrystallization, particularly the control of biomolecules and other modifiers on energy landscapes, step dynamics and morphological evolution during crystal formation.
Nominated by: DBIO

Li You [2007]
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citation: For contributions to the theoretical study of atomic quantum gases, atom-atom interactions, and atom-photon interactions.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Sufi Zafar [2007]
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Citation: For her contribution to the understanding of electrical degradation and charge transport mechanisms in high permittivity and SiO2 dielectric thin films, with a focus on advanced CMOS and memory device applications.
Nominated by: FIAP

Leonid Zakharov [2007]
Princeton University
Citation: For contributions to the theory and numerical calculation of megnetohydrodynamic equilibria, stability, and transport in toroidal plasma confinement devices and for innovative ideas concerning the development of a lithium walled tokamak as an approach to an economic reactor.
Nominated by: DPP

Eli Zeldov [2007]
Weizmann Institute of Science
Citation: For pioneering experiments that uncovered the nature of vortex lattice melting and elucidated the vortex phase diagram in high temperature superconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Xiangdong Zhu [2007]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Xiangdong Zhu [2007]
University of California, Davis
Citation: For innovative study of physical and chemical processes and ultrathin films, including those of biological significance, on solid surfaces, using real-time/spectroscopic linear and nonlinear optical techniques.
Nominated by: DCP

Annette Zippelius [2007]
Universitaet Goettingen
Citation: For her many deep, innovative and lasting contributions to statistical physics, especially in the areas of spin glasses, neural networks, vulcanized matter and granular media.
Nominated by: GSNP

Max Zolotorev [2007]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For the invention of methods to generate ultra-cold and ultra-fast sources of electron and ion beams using lasers and optical techniques.
Nominated by: DPB