<p>2010</a> Physics Prizes
New</a> Class of Fellows of the American Physical Society</p>
<p>The American Physical Society has announced its major prizes for 2010 along with its new class of fellows. Among the new fellows (named in December) are two Princeton professors. This brings the total number of Princeton Fellows to 43 since 1995, the third highest number for any U.S. university. Leading the nation is Stanford with 53, followed by MIT with 50. </p>
<p>This year Princeton and Harvard led the Ivies with two each followed by Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth which each had one. No other Ivies were represented.</p>
<p>Leading U.S. Universities for APS Fellows Through the December 2009 Class:</p>
<p>53---Stanford
50---MIT
43---Princeton
34---U. of Wisconsin Madison
32---Cornell
25---Michigan State, Northwestern
23---Berkeley, Harvard
21---CalTech
20---Purdue
18---Penn
14---Columbia</p>
<p>Within the Ivy League</p>
<p>43---Princeton</p>
<p>32---Cornell</p>
<p>23---Harvard
18---Penn
14---Columbia
11---Yale
7----Brown
4----Dartmouth</p>
<p>This years new Princeton APS Fellows are:</p>
<p>Professor Raffi Nazikian
Princeton University
Citation: For seminal experimental contributions leading to the first observation of alpha particle driven Alfvén waves in deuterium-tritium plasmas and for the development of innovative diagnostics leading to major progress in understanding the internal structure of energetic particle driven instabilities and turbulent fluctuations in fusion plasmas.
Nominated by: Plasma Physics (DPP)</p>
<p>Professor Ali Yazdani
Princeton University
Citation: For electronic structure studies of high-temperature superconductors and magnetic semiconductors through scanning-tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy.
Nominated by: Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)</p>
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<p>The American Physical Society has also announced its 2010 prize winners. </p>
<p>Among the 30 awards, an impressive five of them are professors at Princeton. Two Stanford and two Berkeley professors were also honored and no other institution had more than a single faculty member represented. Within the Ivy League, Harvard, Brown and Penn each had a faculty member who won a prize. </p>
<p>The five Princeton professors who won this year are:</p>
<p>Frans Pretorius, Professor of Physics, 2010 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics "for his brilliant computational solution of a fundamental problem in Einstein's theory of General Relativity, the collision of two black holes, with implications for fundamental physics, astrophysics, and gravitational wave observations." </p>
<p>Frans</a> Pretorius, Prize Recipient</p>
<p>Michael Aizenman, Professor of Mathematics, 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, "for his development of the random current approach to correlations which has had an impact on a wide variety of problems, especially his rigorous non-perturbative proof of the triviality of φ4 field theory." </p>
<p>Michael</a> Aizenman, Prize Recipient</p>
<p>Yueh-Lin Loo (Princeton PhD '01), Professor of Chemical Engineering, John H. Dillon Medal, "for insightful experiments connecting structure with performance in conducting polymers, organic electronics, and functional block copolymers."</p>
<p>Yueh-Lin</a> Loo, Prize Recipient</p>
<p>Frank von Hippel, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award "for his outstanding work and leadership in using physics to illuminate public policy in the areas of nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear energy, and energy efficiency." </p>
<p>Frank</a> von Hippel, Prize Recipient</p>
<p>Paul Steinhardt, Professor of Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize "for pioneering contributions to the theory of quasicrystals, including the prediction of their diffraction pattern."</p>
<p>Paul</a> Steinhardt, Prize Recipient</p>
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