LeRoy Apker Award (APS)
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The LeRoy Apker Award is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society
since 1978, named after the experimental physicist LeRoy Apker
. The recipients are chosen for "outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students" in order to "provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment." Generally, two prizes are awarded each year: one to a student Ph.D. granting institution and one to a student from a non-Ph.D. granting institution. The award consists of a $5,000 prize, allowance for traveling to the APS March Meeting to present the work, and a certificate.
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
since 1978, named after the experimental physicist LeRoy Apker
LeRoy Apker
LeRoy W. Apker was an American experimental physicist. Along with his colleagues E. A. Taft and Jean Dickey, he studied the photoelectric emission of electrons from semiconductors and discovered the phenomenon of exciton-induced photoemission in potassium iodide. In 1955, he received the Oliver E...
. The recipients are chosen for "outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students" in order to "provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment." Generally, two prizes are awarded each year: one to a student Ph.D. granting institution and one to a student from a non-Ph.D. granting institution. The award consists of a $5,000 prize, allowance for traveling to the APS March Meeting to present the work, and a certificate.
Recipients
- 2010 Chia Wei Hsu, Christopher Chudzicki
- 2009 Bilin Zhuang, Kathryn Greenberg
- 2008 Byron C. Drury, Sujit S. Datta
- 2007 Bryce Gadway, Matthew Becker
- 2006 Huanqian Loh, Hugh Churchill, Stephanie Moyerman
- 2005 David W. MillerDavid W. MillerDavid W. Miller is on the faculty of Princeton University , Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative , and scholar of the "faith at work" movement. Previously he taught for five years at the Yale School of Management and the Yale Divinity Schooland was the founding Executive...
, Matthew Paoletti, Nathaniel Craig - 2004 Jonathan Heckman, Nathan Oken Hodas
- 2003 Nathaniel SternNathaniel SternNathaniel Stern is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, net.art and printmaking...
, Peter Onyisi - 2002 Jason Alicea, S. Charles Doret
- 2001 Kathryn Todd, Robert WagnerRobert WagnerRobert John Wagner is an American actor of stage, screen, and television.A veteran of many films in the 1950s and 1960s, Wagner gained prominence in three American television series that spanned three decades: It Takes a Thief , Switch , and Hart to Hart...
- 2000 Heather J. Lynch, Jacob Jonathan Krich, Steven J. Oliver
- 1999 Brian Gerke, Govind Krishnaswami
- 1998 Brian Richard D'Urso, Gwendolyn Rae Bell
- 1997 Anna Lopatnikova, Cameron Geddes
- 1996 Benjamin S. Williams, Christopher Schaffer
- 1995 Benjamin F. Williams, Frederick B. Mancoff
- 1994 Arthur Chu, Brandon C. Collings, Steven GubserSteven GubserSteven S. Gubser is a professor of physics at Princeton University. His research focuses on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He is a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas....
- 1993 David I. Kaiser
- 1992 Christopher Barnes, Justin Mortara
- 1991 Dean Lee, Stephen Quake
- 1990 Charles J. Brabec
- 1989 Deborah L. Kuchnir, Steven H. SimonSteven H. SimonSteven H. Simon is an American theoretical physics professor at Oxford University and tutorial fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Between 2000 and 2009 he was a director at Bell Laboratories. He is known for his work on Topological Phases of Matter, Topological Quantum Computing, and...
- 1988 Leo R. Radzihovsky
- 1987 Gerard C.L. Wong, C. James Yeh
- 1986 Terrence L. Hwa
- 1985 Julia W.P. Hsu
- 1984 Tak Leuk Kwok
- 1983 Raymond E. Goldstein
- 1982 Subir SachdevSubir SachdevSubir Sachdev is a Professor of Physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He is known for his research on quantum phase transitions, and for a textbook on the subject...
- 1981 Mark B. Ritter
- 1980 Richard P. BinzelRichard P. BinzelRichard "Rick" P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets.Binzel was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize...
- 1979 Louis A. Bloomfield
- 1978 David E. Heckerman
External links
- LeRoy Apker Award, American Physical Society