Edward A. Bouchet Award
Each year, the APS bestows the Edward A. Bouchet Award upon an African American, Hispanic American or Native American physicist who has made remarkable contributions to physics. Edward Bouchet graduated as valedictorian of the Hopkins Grammar School class of 1870, and in 1874, became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. at an American University (Yale), and it happened to be in physics.
The Bouchet Award is generously sponsored by the Research Corporation. Every two years, COM and the APS Awards Committee form a special selection committee to choose a Bouchet Award winner.
2010 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient:
Herman B. White
Fermilab
Herman B. White
Fermilab
Past Recipients:
| 2009: | Gaston R. Gutierrez |
| 2008: | Ronald E. Mickens |
| 2007: | Gabriela Gonzalez |
| 2006: | Angel Garcia |
| 2005: | Godfrey Gumbs |
| 2004: | Juan M. Maldacena |
| 2003: | Homer Alfred Neal |
| 2002: | Oliver Keith Baker |
| 2001: | Jorge Pullin |
| 2000: | Philip W. Phillips |
| 1999: | Alfred Z. Msezane |
| 1998: | Jose D. Garcia Jr. |
| 1997: | Larry Donnie Gladney |
| 1996: | Anthony Michael Johnson |
| 1995: | Joseph Johnson III |
| 1994: | Sylvester James Gates, Jr. |
