Five Princeton Alumni Honored With Physics Prizes (news item)

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<p>The American Physical Society has announced its major prizes for 2009 along with its new class of fellows. Among the new fellows (named in December) are two Princeton professors and a researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. This brings the total number of Princeton Fellows to 41 since 1995, the second highest number for any U.S. university. Leading the nation are MIT and Stanford, each of which have 48. This year Stanford had an impressive seven new fellows, followed by the U. of Wisconsin with four. Princeton, MIT and eleven other U.S. universities each had three. Princeton led the Ivies with three followed by Columbia and Penn with two. Harvard and Dartmouth each had one for a total of nine.</p>

<p>Leading U.S. Universities for APS Fellows:</p>

<p>48—MIT, Stanford
41—Princeton
31—Cornell, U. of Wisconsin Madison
24—Northwestern
23—Michigan State
20—Harvard, Purdue
19—Berkeley, CatTech
18—Penn
14—Columbia</p>

<p>Within the Ivy League</p>

<p>41—Princeton
31—Cornell
20—Harvard
18—Penn
14—Columbia
11—Yale
6—Brown
3—Dartmouth</p>

<p>This year’s new Princeton APS Fellows are “Erick Fredrickson, a principal research physicist at PPPL; Annabella Selloni, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry; and Shivaji Sondhi, a professor of physics.” </p>

<p>Princeton</a> University - American Physical Society names three Princeton fellows</p>

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<p>The American Physical Society has also announced its 2009 prize winners. Among the 50 honorees an impressive four of them did their undergraduate work in physics at Princeton. No other undergraduate institution was represented by more than one award winner. The four Princeton graduates who won this year were the following:</p>

<p>Yves Chabal ’74 = Winner of the Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Physics
Prize</a> Recipient Yves Chabal</p>

<p>James Hartle ’60 = Winner of the Einstein Prize
Prize</a> Recipient James Hartle</p>

<p>Steve Granick ’78 = Winner of the Polymer Physics Prize
Prize</a> Recipient Steve Granick</p>

<p>Robert Schoelkopf ’86 = Winner of the Keithley Award For Measurement Science
Prize</a> Recipient Robert Schoelkopf</p>

<p>In addition to winners who did their undergraduate work at Princeton, a Princeton PhD graduate was also a winner:</p>

<p>Robert McKeown (Princeton PhD in Physics ’79) = Winner of the Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Prize</a> Recipient Robert McKeown</p>

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<p>Princeton has a long and impressive history of physics research. For those interested in studying physics at Princeton, more information can be found here:</p>

<p>Academics:</a> Department of Physics, Princeton University</p>