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PeoplePresident Clinton named Princeton University professor John Bahcall to receive the National Medal of Science, citing his "creativity, resolve and a restless spirit of innovation to ensure continued U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge." Bahcall was a key figure in pioneering the development of neutrino astrophysics. A 12-member presidential committee reviews nominations for the annual awards. Mari Lou Balmer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is a 1998 winner of DOE's prestigious Energy Research Young Independent Scientist Award. Balmer received the award in recognition of her seminal contributions to the study of novel materials that can be used to selectively isolate radioactive materials from large volumes of extremely hazardous wastes stored at DOE sites, and the study of new catalytic processes that can be used to reduce air pollutants emitted in automobile exhaust. University of Tennessee professor Peter Cummings recently received the 1998 Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, given to the Institute member with the most significant research accomplishments over the last decade. Cummings' research interests include the study of thermophysical properties and phase behavior of matter, particularly under extreme pressure and conditions. He holds a joint appointment as a distinguished scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the university, and his research is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Philip Jardine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, received the 1998 Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Award at the Soil Science Society of America's annual meeting. The award recognizes mid-career soil scientists who have made outstanding contributions in soil chemistry and mineralogy. Jardine's research focuses on experimental and theoretical aspects of subsurface solute transport at multiple scales. He currently receives Office of Biological and Environmental Research funding for a project on subsurface transport of mixed-waste plumes. He is also a co-principal investigator on a Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research project to investigate the biodegradation of chelated radionuclides, and he is principal investigator on an Environmental Management Science Program project to examine the geochemical processes governing the mobility of other chelated radionuclides. Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences grantee Larry Curtis, University of Toledo, will receive an honorary doctorate degree in May from the University of Lund in Sweden. He is the second American atomic physicist to be so honored, the first one being Bob Cowan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, in 1982. Curtis is known internationally for his theoretical and experimental work in atomic structure, particularly for those atoms with complex electronic structures. He has long been a collaborator with the University of Lund, which has an extensive history in studies of atomic structure. BES's long-term support for Curtis' research was a deciding factor in his selection. John Nicholas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been awarded a Visiting Miller Research Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. The mainstay of Nicholas' research is his close collaboration with experimental scientists, which has allowed him to attack problems related to surface chemistry and catalysis--areas generally avoided by theoreticians because of their inherent complexity. He has recently worked on the important and controversial subject of acidic sites on heterogeneous catalysts and is preparing an extensive theoretical treatise on the nature of hydrogen bonding in zeolites. At Berkeley, he will work with Gabor Somorjai, Alex Bell and other forefront investigators in catalysis. Nicholas is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences. University of Michigan professor Alexander Halliday received the Bowen Award from the American Geophysical Union at their fall meeting. The award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of volcanology, geochemistry and petrology during the past 5 years. Halliday's research using isotope geochemistry to identify the sources and transport processes of trace elements and radionuclides in the earth's crust is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Geosciences Research Program. In June, Halliday joined the faculty of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), maintaining his affiliation with the University of Michigan. Newly elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences include three researchers supported by the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington; Darleane Hoffman, Glenn T. Seaborg Institute of Transactinium Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and John Schiffer, Argonne National Laboratory. The following Office of Science researchers were named Fellows of the American Physical Society at its November meeting: from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chris Hammel "for nuclear magnetic resonance studies of superconducting cuprates" and Robert A. Robinson "for elastic and inelastic neutron scattering of magnetic structure." Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of one percent of membership each year. The Metallurgical Society recently recognized the following Office of Basic Energy Sciences researchers as Fellows: Subhash Mahajan, Arizona State University; Jagdish Narayan, North Carolina State University; and Vaclav Vitek, University of Pennsylvania. The Society recognizes distinguished scientific research achievements by conferring the rank of Fellow, and there may be no more than 100 living Fellows of The Society at any time. The Office of Basic Energy Sciences has much of the research of ten of the 12 Fellows conferred by the Society over the past 3 years. Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences-supported researchers William Smryl, University of Minnesota, and Zoltan Nagy, Argonne National Laboratory, recently received Fellowships from the Electrochemical Society for unique experimental and theoretical studies of fundamental electrochemical processes and for devoted service to the Society. DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program and the American Meteorology Society's Industry and Government Scholarship and Fellowship Program provided graduate fellowships for the 1999-2000 academic year to Amanda Adams, University of Wisconsin, and David Tucker, University of Washington. The awards carry $15,000 stipends for a 9-month period and are awarded to students entering their first year of graduate study. The program is now in its ninth year and is designed to attract promising young scientists to prepare for careers in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic fields. Diana Lee and Janis Dairiki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, received the second annual J. M. Nitschke Awards for Technical Excellence from the East Bay Community Foundation. The awards are in honor of the late physicist J. M. (Mike) Nitschke, who joined LBNL in 1966 and made many contributions to the study of nuclear physics before his death in 1995. Lee was cited for her participation in nuclear studies at LBNL and the University since 1961, including the search for super heavy elements with Glenn Seaborg's group from 1974-84 and "atom-at-a-time" studies of the chemical and nuclear properties of the heaviest elements. Dairiki was cited for her key role as a member and leader of the lab's isotope project, her seminal contributions to the national and international program in data evaluation and dissemination and her contributions to the Nuclear Science Wall Chart. Matthew Sieger, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, received the 1998 M. T. Thomas Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievement of the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). He was selected for his contributions to the understanding of water ice under radiation bombardment and for theoretical and experimental investigations of electron diffraction in stimulated surface chemistry. The interaction of radiation with water ice is of fundamental importance to astrophysics, atmospheric science, and radiation biology and is of practical concern in the storage of radioactive wastes. Sieger's lab measurements of low-energy electron bombardment of ice have led to an atomic-scale mechanism for oxygen formation in irradiated ice [Nature 394, 554 (1998)]. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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