Beller Lectureship

The Beller Lectureship was endowed by Esther Hoffman Beller for the purpose of bringing distinguished physicists from abroad as invited speakers at APS meetings.  APS units are invited each fall to submit nominations for the Beller Lectureship.

The awardees for 2008 are:

APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana:

1. Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Austria)
   Nominated by the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP)
   
   
2. Jay Fineberg (Israel)
   Nominated by the Division of Materials Physics (DMP)
   

APS April Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri:

The awardees for 2007 were:

APS March Meeting:

1. Eliezer Rabinovici (Israel)
   Nominated by the Forums on International Physics (FIP) and Physics and Society (FPS)
   
   
2. Jian-Wei Pan (Germany)
   Nominated by the Topical Group on Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation (GQI)

APS April Meeting:

Read more about the Beller and Marshak Lectureships and the 2007 recipients in the April 2007 issue of APS News.

The awardees for 2006 were:

APS March Meeting:

Pierre-Giles de Gennes (France)
Nominated by the Division of Polymer Physics (DPP)

APS April Meeting:

Albrecht Wagner (Germany)
Nominated by the Divisions of Particles and Beams (DPB) and  Particles and Fields (DPF)

Read more about the Beller and Marshak Lectureships and the 2006 recipients in the February 2006 issue of APS News.