Tom W. Bonner Prize
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The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's
Division of Nuclear Physics
. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $7,500 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memory of physicist Tom W. Bonner. The aim of the prize, as stated by the American Physical Society is:
The Bonner Prize is generally awarded for individual achievement in experimental research, but can be awarded for exceptional theoretical work and to groups who have contributed to a single accomplishment.
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...
Division of Nuclear Physics
Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei. The most commonly known applications of nuclear physics are nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons technology, but the research has provided application in many fields, including those...
. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $7,500 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memory of physicist Tom W. Bonner. The aim of the prize, as stated by the American Physical Society is:
- 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 Bonner Prize is generally awarded for individual achievement in experimental research, but can be awarded for exceptional theoretical work and to groups who have contributed to a single accomplishment.
Recipients
- 2012 Witold NazarewiczWitold NazarewiczDr. Witold Nazarewicz is a nuclear physicist born in Warsaw, Poland, currently teaching at the University of Tennessee. He is also the scientific director of the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He earned his doctorate in physics from the Warsaw Institute of...
- 2011 Richard F. Casten
- 2010 Steven C. Pieper and Robert B. Wiringa
- 2009 Robert D. McKeown
- 2008 Arthur M. Poskanzer
- 2007 Stuart J. Freedman
- 2006 Ian Towner and John Hardy
- 2005 Roy Holt
- 2004 George F. Bertsch
- 2003 Arthur Bruce McDonald
- 2002 J. David Bowman
- 2001 Richard Geller and Claude Lyneis
- 2000 Raymond G. Arnold
- 1999 Vijay Raghunath PandharipandeVijay Raghunath PandharipandeVijay Raghunath Pandharipande was an Indian-American physicist, who played a leading role in the development of the nuclear many-body problem....
- 1998 Joel M. Moss
- 1997 Hamish Robertson
- 1996 John Dirk Walecka
- 1995 Felix Boehm
- 1994 Ernest K. Warburton
- 1993 Akito ArimaAkito Arimais a Japanese nuclear physicist, known for the interacting boson model.Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, the University of Tokyo in 1956. He became a...
and Francesco IachelloFrancesco IachelloFrancesco Iachello is an Italian theoretical physicist, who works mainly on nuclear and molecular physics. He and his collaborator Akito Arima are the creators of the "Interacting Boson Model".... - 1992 Henry G. Blosser and Robert E. Pollock
- 1991 Peter J. Twin
- 1990 Vernon Hughes
- 1989 Ernest M. HenleyErnest M. HenleyDr. Ernest M. Henley is an American atomic and nuclear physicist.In 1944 Henley received a B.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York. He worked at the Airborne Instruments Laboratory as an electrical engineer from 1946 to 1948. Between 1948 and 1951 he worked at Stanford...
- 1988 Raymond Davis Jr.Raymond Davis Jr.Raymond Davis, Jr. was an American chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.-Early life and education:...
- 1987 Bernard Frois and Ingo SickIngo SickIngo Sick is a Swiss experimental nuclear physicist.Sick earned his PhD in 1968 at the University of Basel. He became in 1983 an ausserordentlicher Professor for Experimental Physics at Basel and there starting in 1993, as successor to Eugene Baumgartner, ordentlicher Professor. In 2004 he...
- 1986 Lowell M. Bollinger
- 1985 Eric G. Adelberger
- 1984 Harald A. Enge
- 1983 Charles D. Goodman
- 1982 Gerald E. BrownGerald E. BrownGerald Edward "Gerry" Brown is an American theoretical physicist who works on nuclear physics and astrophysics. Since 1968 he has been a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently a distinguished professor emeritus of the C. N...
- 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 WuChien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project...
- 1974 Denys WilkinsonDenys WilkinsonSir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS is a British nuclear physicist. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He holds the higher degree of ScD, an HonFilDr degree and an HonLLD degree...
- 1973 Herman FeshbachHerman FeshbachHerman Feshbach was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M...
- 1972 John D. AndersonJohn D. AndersonJohn D. Anderson, Jr. is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Anderson is active and known for his...
and Donald Robson - 1971 Maurice GoldhaberMaurice GoldhaberMaurice Goldhaber was an Austrian-born American physicist, who in 1957 established that neutrinos have negative helicity.-Early Life and Childhood:...
- 1970 William A. Fowler
- 1969 Gregory BreitGregory BreitGregory Breit was a Russian-born American physicist and professor at universities in New York, Wisconsin, Yale, and Buffalo...
- 1968 Raymond G. Herb
- 1967 Charles C. Lauritsen
- 1966 Robert J. Van de GraaffRobert J. Van de GraaffRobert Jemison Van de Graaff, was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high voltage generators, who taught at Princeton University and MIT.-Biography:...
- 1965 Henry H. BarschallHenry H. BarschallHenry Herman Barschall was a German-American physicist.Barschall was born as Heinrich Hermann Barschall in Berlin, Germany; his father was a patent attorney who had received a Ph.D. in chemistry after studying with Nobel Laureates Emil Fischer and Fritz Haber...
External links
- Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
- APS Division of Nuclear Physics