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Home   |   Programs   |   Prizes, Awards and Fellowships   |   Prizes   |   Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy

Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy

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To recognize and encourage notable contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy. The prize consists of $10,000, an allowance for travel expenses to attend the meeting at which the prize is to be presented and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. It is presented annually.

Establishment & Support

This prize was established in 1976 and is now co-sponsored by Newport Corporation and the George E. Crouch Foundation.

Rules & Eligibility

The prize may be given for experimental or theoretical achievements, for a single dramatic innovation, or for a series of research contributions which, when integrated, amounts to a major contribution to the field of molecular spectroscopy. The prize shall ordinarily be awarded to one person but a prize may be shared when all the recipients have contributed to the same accomplishments. 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:
 
Tomas Baer
University of North Carolina
Department of Chemistry
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone (919) 962-1580
Fax (919) 962-2388
E-mail: baer@unc.edu 

Other Selection Committee Members: Jin Z. Zhang, Steven G. Boxer, David Perry, Robert Continetti
 
  Nomination Guidelines

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2008 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy Recipient:
Steven G. Boxer
Stanford University

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Past Recipients:

2007: Timothy S. Zwier
2006: Mark Johnson
2005: Robert Tycko
2004: Richard Van Duyne
2003: Giacinto Scoles
Kevin K. Lehmann
2002: Graham Fleming
2001: W. E. Moerner
2000: Michael David Fayer
1999: David Wixon Pratt
1998: Forrest Fleming Crim
1997: David J. Nesbitt
Roger Ervin Miller
1996: Charles S. Stedman
1995: James L. Kinsey
1994: C. Bradley Moore
1993: Ahmed Zewail
1992: William C. Lineberger
1991: Kenneth M. Evenson
1990: Andreas C. Albrecht
1989: Richard J. Saykally
1988: Robert W. Field
1987: Donald H. Levy
1986: James K.G. Watson
1985: Gerhard Herzberg
1984: John T. Hougen
1983: William Aloys Klemperer
1982: Takeshi Oka
1981: Richard N. Zare
1980: Walter Gordy
1979: George C. Pimentel
1978: E. Bright Wilson, Jr
1977: Charles H. Townes
 
 
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