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Home   |   Programs   |   Prizes, Awards and Fellowships   |   Prizes   |   Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

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To recognize and encourage outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics, including the development of a method, technique, or device that significantly contributes in a general way to nuclear physics research. The prize consists of $10,000 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. It will be presented annually.

Establishment & Support

This prize was endowed in 1964 as a memorial to Tom W. Bonner by his friends, students and associates.

Rules & Eligibility

Nominations are open to physicists whose work in nuclear physics is primarily experimental or a particularly outstanding piece of theoretical work. There is no time limitations on work described. The prize shall ordinarily be awarded to one person but may be shared when all the recipients have contributed to the same accomplishment. Nominations are active for three years.

Nomination & Selection Process

The deadline for submission of nominations for the 2009 prize is July 1, 2008.

Five (5) copies of nominations and supporting documentation for the 2009 Prize should be sent to the Chair of the 2009 Selection Committee:

June L. Matthews
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 26-443
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone (617) 253-0111
E-mail: matthews@mit.edu

Other Selection Committee Members: Berndt Mueller, Arthur Poskanzer, Bradley Sherrill, XiangDong Ji

Nomination Guidelines

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2008 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient:
Arthur M. Poskanzer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Past Recipients:

2007: Stuart J. Freedman
2006: Ian Towner
John Hardy
2005: Roy James Holt
2004: George Bertsch
2003: Arthur Bruce McDonald
2002: J. David Bowman
2001: Claude Lyneis
Richard Geller
2000: Raymond G. Arnold
1999: Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande
1998: Joel M. Moss
1997: Hamish Robertson
1996: John Dirk Walecka
1995: Felix Boehm
1994: Ernest K. Warburton
1993: Akito Arima and Francesco Iachello
1992: Henry G. Blosser and Robert E. Pollock
1991: Peter J. Twin
1990: Vernon Hughes
1989: Ernest M. Henley
1988: Raymond Davis, Jr
1987: Bernard Frois and Ingo Sick
1986: Lowell M. Bollinger
1985: Eric G. Adelberger
1984: Harald A. Enge
1983: Charles D. Goodman
1982: G. E. Brown
1981: Bernard L. Cohen
1980: Frank S. Stephens and Richard M. Diamond
1979: Roy Middleton and Willy Haeberli
1978: Sergei Polikanov and V. M. Strutinsky
1977: Stuart T. Butler and G. Raymond Satchler
1976: John P. Schiffer
1975: Chien-Shiung Wu
1974: Denys Wilkinson
1973: H. Feshbach
1972: John D. Anderson and Donald Robson
1971: M. Goldhaber
1970: W. A. Fowler
1969: Gregory Breit
1968: R. G. Herb
1967: C. C. Lauritsen
1966: R. J. Van de Graaff
1965: H. H. Barschall
 
 
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