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Honors and Awards

Roger Beachy, president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, is R&D Magazine's 1999 Scientist of the Year, based on his pioneering application of fundamental research in plant molecular genetics and biotechnology to improve agriculturally important plant species (http://www.rdmag.com/features/11soy.htm). As leader of a research team at Washington University in St. Louis in the mid-1980s, and with colleagues at the Monsanto Company, he demonstrated that virus genes could be used to "immunize" tomato plants against the virus. These virus-resistant tomatoes were the first example of disease resistance produced by using genetic engineering technologies rather than through traditional plant-breeding techniques. At The Scripps Research Institute, Beachy led a multifaceted research program on the mechanisms of viral movement and replication, plant cell-cell communication and the molecular regulation of gene expression. His research has been funded through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences Energy Biosciences Program.

University of Chicago professor Roland Winston received the first Solar Personality of the Year Award October 30 in Banglore, India, for his outstanding contributions to research, development, education and leadership in solar energy during the past 36 years. The Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India sponsors the award. Winston was cited for his leadership in research that spans solar-energy collection, non-imaging optics and experimental, high-energy physics. He has led research groups in solar energy at Argonne National Laboratory and at the University. He holds 30 patents on non-imaging, radiant energy concentration and illumination and is author of more than 150 publications and co-author of two definitive books on non-imaging optics. Winston has been supported by SC's Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics since 1979.

Raymond Fonck, University of Wisconsin, Madison, received the Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Award in November from the American Physical Society Division of Plasma and Physics. He was honored for his work in developing and implementing diagnostic instrumentation for high-temperature plasmas, specifically, the implementation, development, and exploitation of Beam Emission Spectroscopy for measuring fluctuations and their relations to anomalous transport in hot, fusion-relevant plasmas.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center physicist Marty Breidenbach has won the 2000 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society's Division of Particles and Fields "for his many contributions to electron-positron physics, especially with the Stanford Linear Collider Large Detector. His deep involvement in all aspects of the project led to important advances both in the measurement of electroweak parameters and in accelerator technology."

Michael Creutz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, was awarded the 2000 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics by the American Physical Society for "first demonstrating that properties of quantum chromodynamics could be computed numerically on the lattice through Monte Carlo methods, and for numerous contributions to the field thereafter." Creutz's work is supported by SC's Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics.

Tom Clark, Naval Research Laboratory, was awarded the 1999 American Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Dissertation Award for his doctoral dissertation in experimental physics and his comprehensive explanation of the hydrodynamics and the optical mode structure of the plasma waveguide. Clark's research at the University of Maryland was supported by SC's Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics.

University of Florida professor Charles R. Martin has received the Carl Wagner Award from the Electrochemical Society, in recognition of mid-career achievement and excellence in research areas of interest to the Society and significant contributions in the teaching or guidance of students or colleagues in education, industry or government. Martin's research interests include the study of the effect of nanofabrication on electrode processes. His methodology for fabricating nanoscale electrode assemblies with a unique membrane template process has stimulated a broad interest in nanoscale electrochemical and optical devices. He is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences.

Richard Hahn, Brookhaven National Laboratory, will receive the 2000 American Chemical Society Award in Nuclear Chemistry, sponsored by the Gordon & Breach Publishing Group. Hahn's research has focused on solar neutrinos (in GALLEX and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory). He is co-discoverer of more than 20 radioactive isotopes. The award will be presented at the Spring 2000 ACS Meeting in San Francisco in March. An award symposium in his honor will feature invited talks in areas such as neutrino oscillations, superheavy elements, radioactive beams, relativistic heavy ions and chemical properties of the heaviest elements.

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center post-doctoral associate Leonid (Lenny) Oliker received the Best Paper award during the Supercomputing '99 Conference held in Portland, Oregon, in November. The paper he co-authored with Rapak Biswas of NASA Ames is entitled, "Parallelization of a Dynamic Unstructured Application Using Three Leading Paradigms." This research is sponsored by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division within SC's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Patricia Dehmer, associate director of SC's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, is the new Chair-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Physics (B). The Section Chair serves a 3-year term, first as Chair-Elect, then as Chair and the third year as Retiring Chair. Dehmer's term of office begins February 23, 2000, following the AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition in Washington, D.C.

Ned Sauthoff, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been elected president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Sauthoff is head of off-site research activities at PPPL, such as PPPL participation on DIII-D, C-MOD, and foreign experiments (see http://www.pppl.gov/docs/news/pages/sauthoff.html).

The following Office of Science staff and SC-sponsored researchers were recently elected Fellows of the American Physical Society in recognition of their contributions to the application and/or teaching of physics and/or participation in the APS:

William Oosterhuis, SC Office of Basic Energy Sciences, for his steady support of materials-condensed matter physics and large national user facilities; Puru Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University, for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic structure, equilibrium geometries, stability and electronic and magnetic properties of atomic clusters; Arthur Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), for his leadership role in the basic science of semiconductor-molecule interfaces, quantization effects in semiconductors and applications of these interdisciplinary sciences to photon conversion; Su-Huai Wei, NREL, for his contributions to the understanding of electronic structures and stabilities of compounds, alloys, interfaces, superlattices and impurities using first-principles calculations and for development of the methods for such calculations; Alex Zunger, NREL, for his work on the theoretical basis for first-principles electronic structure theory of materials and for its imaginative use in the advancement of our knowledge of alloys, nanostructures, and prediction of new materials; Norman Bartelt, Sandia National Laboratories, for his pioneering work on the theory of thermal fluctuations and dynamic surface structure; Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University, for her high-resolution work on few and many electron systems using lasers and synchrotron radiation leading to a better understanding of the interaction of light with matter; Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for his contributions to the development of rate theories for polyatomic reactions in the gas-phase and the study of the kinetics of important environmental processes; Alfred Msezane, Clark Atlanta University, for his continuing outstanding contributions to theoretical atomic physics, particularly the elucidation of small-angle electron scattering through innovative theoretical approaches; Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory, for her precision measurements in atomic structure and the development of laser-driven polarized hydrogen and deuterium sources; David Schissel, a staff scientist in the fusion program at General Atomics, for developing innovative video and web-based K-12 resources for plasma physics and for providing student access to experimental facilities at the cutting edge of plasma physics research; Claude Lyneis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), for his fundamental contributions and recognized leadership in the development of ion source technology, which enabled new and exciting cutting-edge science to be carried out; Eric Norman, LBNL, for experimental studies of the influence of astronomical environments on nuclear decay rates and their implications for nucleosynthesis; Jorgen Randrup, LBNL, for significant theoretical contributions toward the treatment and understanding of the dynamics of nuclear systems over a wide range of energies with particular attention to its basic quantal nature; Michael Key, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), for his pioneering work in the invention of the X-ray laser, for developing techniques to maximize laser output and for originating the technique of X-ray backlighting, which uses a laser plasma flash X-ray source to backlight laser plasma experiments so cameras can capture images of hydrodynamic phenomena; Peter Young, LLNL, for his research into how intense laser pulses move through plasma; Kennedy Reed, LLNL, for his efforts to promote collaboration in atomic, molecular, and optical physics among U.S. European, and African laboratories, and for his success in organizing international workshops to showcase these collaborations; Stephen Libby, LLNL, for his work in three areas: high-energy physics - for developing a method for extracting new, unambiguous predictions for how the basic consituents of nuclei--quarks and gluons--interact at very high energies; condensed matter - for formulating a complete theory for a key part of the quantum Hall effect, which describes electrical conductivity at very low temperatures; and plasma physics - for developing new X-ray lasers and applications, and a new, novel way to enormously speed up the calculation of light driven processes in experiments with hot, dense, ionized gases; Steven Paul Hirshman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), for his fundamental contributions to the theory of neoclassical transport in toroidal plasmas, theory and computation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional MHD equilibrium, and for analysis and optimization of three-dimensional toroidal systems; and Gene Emery Ice, ORNL, for his advances in x-ray resonant scattering techniques to study the many body problems of atomic electron rearrangements, local atomic disorder and magnetism, and for innovations in synchrotron x-ray optics.

Jill Trewhella, Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science based on her fundamental structural studies of intracellular signaling and enzyme activation via second messengers, and for the development of neutron scattering applications in structural molecular biology.

Ari Patrinos, associate director of SC's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, has been elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the atmospheric sciences. Patrinos has been at DOE since 1986 and has been associate director of OBER since 1993. He oversees DOE's research programs in human and microbial genomics, structural biology, nuclear medicine and health effects, global environmental change and basic research underpinning DOE's environmental restoration effort.

John Elmer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was elected to the 2000 Class of Fellows by the American Welding Society in recognition of his "outstanding professional contributions to the [welding] industry and the many accomplishments of [his] distinguished career." He is the co-principal investigator on an Office of Basic Energy Sciences Materials Sciences Division-funded project investigating the kinetics of phase transformations in the heat affected zone of welds.

Three researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory received the 1999 Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics and Technology Development. The prize is awarded by Princeton University for outstanding technical achievements in plasma physics or technology development by PPPL staff. Masayuki Ono and Michael Williams were cited for their role in constructing the National Spherical Torus Experiment, which was completed within budget and ahead of schedule. Zhihong Lin was honored for his work on advanced simulations of turbulence and transport in tokamak plasmas.

Burton Richter, former Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), was honored on January 21st with a celebration held in the W.K.H. Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC. A number of eminent speakers reflected on Richter's illustrious career including his early days at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, his science in experimental particle physics, his leadership in accelerator technologies, and his influence on the academic, national, and international scenes.

Deborah Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named one of the top 25 "Women on the Web" by San Francisco Women on the Web, a networking and professional development organization for women involved with the Internet, new media, and web technology. Agarwal was cited for her work to provide reliable multicast communication in support of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. She spent three months in Vienna working on the project after conducting extensive research at various sites around the U.S. Her work is supported in part by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Richard J. Goldstein, University of Minnesota, was elected as a Foreign Member by the Royal Academy of Engineering at the November 1999 meeting in London, England, in recognition for his exceptional contributions to engineering. The Royal Academy comprises the United Kingdom's most eminent engineers of all disciplines. Goldstein is a principal investigator on the Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering project on Heat Transfer Enhancement in Separated and Vortex Flow.

Stuart Freedman, has been appointed to Luis W. Alvarez Chair in Experimental Physics at University of California, Berkeley, effective July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2004. Freedman is a nuclear physicist with a joint appointment on the University of California campus and in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Alvarez Professor is an exceptional experimentalist, recognized as such in the international physics community and chosen for his or her capability to carry on in the tradition of ingenious and broad interdisciplinary research exemplified by Professor Luis Alvarez. Freedman's work is supported by the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics.

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