<p>2011</a> American Physical Society Awards</p>
<p>The American Physical Society has just announced its award recipients for 2011. </p>
<p>Princeton led the nation with four faculty members receiving the award. Stanford was second with two and no other university had more than a single award winner. The Ivies were also represented by Harvard and Yale each of which had a single winner.</p>
<p>The American Physical Society is the nation's leading organization for fostering the study of physics and these awards reflect the strength of Princeton's faculty in this area.</p>
<p>Princeton's winners this year are James Stone, Michael Romalis, Alexander Polyakov and Dean for Research Stewart Smith.</p>
<p>"Four Princeton faculty members have been honored by the American Physical Society with national awards for 2011. James Stone, professor of astrophysical sciences and applied and computational mathematics, will receive the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics for, in part, "his pioneering work in computational magnetohydrodynamics." Michael Romalis, professor of physics, will receive the Francis M. Pipkin Award for, in part, "using ingenious high precision measurements ... and other new fundamental spin interactions." Alexander Polyakov, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, will receive the Lars Onsager Prize for, in part, "outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, and especially for the remarkable ideas concerning conformal field theory." A. J. Stewart Smith, dean for research, will receive the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for "leadership in the measurement of kaon decay properties and in particular for the discovery and measurement of K+→π+vv." (continued)</p>
<p>American</a> Physical Society honors four Princeton faculty members</p>
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