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Honors and Awards

Professor Emeritus James Cronin, University of Chicago, is one of 12 researchers named by President Clinton to receive the 1999 National Medal of Science (see details in the "News in Brief" page of this issue).

The 2000 Wolf Prize in Physics will be shared by Raymond Davis, Jr., University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Masatoshi Koshiba, University of Tokyo, Japan. They are being honored for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, which created the emerging field of neutrino astronomy. Davis and Koshiba, who will share the $100,000 prize, developed complementary methods that have yielded important scientific results and inspired the development of new neutrino detection experiments. The Wolf Prize is bestowed annually for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, mathematics and the arts by the Wolf Foundation, established to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind. The prizes will be awarded by the President of Israel, Ezer Weizman, in ceremonies at the Knesset (Parliament), Jerusalem in May.

Alexandre Chorin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, received the 2000 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics from the American Mathematics Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at their January meeting held in Washington, D.C. The Wiener Prize is one of the highest distinctions given in applied mathematics, and it recognizes Chorin's "seminal work in computational fluid dynamics, statistical mechanics, and turbulence. His work has stimulated important developments across the entire spectrum from practical engineering applications to convergence proofs for numerical methods...From the 1960s to the present day, Chorin…has done more than anyone else to create and shape the important discipline of computational applied mathematics." Chorin is supported by SC's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Brian Maple, University of California at San Diego, received the James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials for 2000 from the American Physical Society for the synthesis of novel d and f electron materials and for the study of their physics. Maple has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Engineering for more than a decade, and is recognized as one of the leading investigators in the field of high-temperature superconductivity.

Nora Volkow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, received the Joel Elkes International Award at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) in Acapulco, Mexico, December 13. She was also promoted to a fellow of the ACNP at this meeting. The award is given to a young scientist in recognition of an outstanding clinical contribution to psychopharmacology. Volkow was recognized for her groundbreaking research using brain imaging to delineate the mechanisms underlying human addiction. She is currently the associate laboratory director for life sciences at Brookhaven.

Jean Futrell, director of the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, received the Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements in the field of mass spectrometry, especially applications to ion-molecule reactions. The award was presented in February at the Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics in Folgaria, Italy.

University of Southern California professor James Haw received the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding research achievements in hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry. Haw is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences.

John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology, received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the American Chemical Society Board of Directors for excellence in organic chemistry. Bercaw is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division.

Edward Stiefel, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, has received the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry in recognition of his fundamental research in the field of inorganic chemistry. Stiefel is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences program via an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation, which supports the Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry at Princeton University.

University of Minnesota professor Donald Truhlar received the American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research for outstanding achievement in the use of computers in research, development or education in the chemical and biological sciences. Truhlar was honored for his accomplishments in the development of computational techniques for accurate quantum mechanical dynamics calculations of chemical reactivity. His research has been supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences program.

George Samara, Sandia National Laboratories, has received the American Chemical Society's Earle B. Barnes Award for visionary leadership in managing research in the national interest at the frontiers of materials science. He is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

Graham Cooks, Purdue University, received the 2000 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh "for seminal contributions to mass spectrometry, most notably your demonstration of the capabilities of tandem mass spectrometry for complex mixture analysis and your fundamentals contributions to the desorption ionization methods." The award recognizes Cooks' innovative work to combine a magnetic sector instrument with a quadrupole mass filter to generate an economical approach to increased mass resolution and high transmission in a tandem instrument. His experiments have enabled the use of ion-molecule collisions within a quadrupole ion trap to reveal macromolecular structural information by mass analysis of the fragments produced by collisions. His work on ion traps is sponsored by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division.

Ian Robinson, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, received the B. E. Warren Diffraction Physics Award from the American Crystallography Association for his innovative application of diffraction techniques to the study of crystal surfaces. Since his earlier discovery of the importance of crystal truncation rods for understanding surface structure, he has continued to introduce new ideas for the physics of surface structures and transitions, including the recent use of reflectivity measurements with coherent x-rays to obtain a new kind of information about crystal surfaces. Robinson is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory staff David Dixon, Ray Bair, Thom Dunning, Deborah Gracio, Jeffrey Nichols, Theresa Windus and Rebecca Wattenburger will receive the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Technology Transfer of the Molecular Science Software Suite (MS3). The award recognizes laboratory staff who have accomplished outstanding transfer of a technology to the commercial marketplace. MS3 is a suite of integrated software tools that enable scientists to couple advanced computational chemistry techniques with high-performance, massively parallel computing systems. Additional information is available on the MS3 webpage.

Thomas Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the Fred Basolo Medal from Northwestern University's Department of Chemistry for his "brilliant research in diverse areas of inorganic chemistry." His research on charge transfer excited states and energy conversion in polymeric assemblies, which is relevant to solar photochemical energy conversion, has been sponsored by SC's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division since 1978. Meyer was recently named associate laboratory director for strategic and supporting research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Several High Energy Physics-supported researchers were elected to fellowships in the American Physical Society for 1999. They include Thomas Banks (Rutgers University), Michael Downer (University of Texas), Donald Groom (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Sharon Hagopian (Florida State University), Tony Liss (University of Illinois), Joseph Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Michael Levi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Sherwin Love (Purdue University), David Neuffer (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Michael Riordan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Leslie Rosenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University), Todd Smith (Stanford University), David Whittum (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), and Dieter Zeppenfeld (University of Wisconsin).

Samuel Picraux, Sandia National Laboratories, has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science for national leadership in materials science and for pioneering contributions to ion beam analysis and modification of materials. Picraux is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

William Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society for his distinguished career related to fundamental ceramics research. He holds one patent and has more than 215 publications related to radiation effects and the properties of electroceramics. His research is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

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