<p>2011</a> American Physical Society Awards</p>
<p>The American Physical Society is the leading U.S. scholarly association of physicists. Each year it appoints new fellows and awards prizes to the leading physicists in the country.</p>
<p>Princeton faculty members dominated the prize list again this year. </p>
<p>For 2011, among the 48 prize winners (in 36 categories), an impressive four 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 Yale each had a faculty member who won a prize. Last year, Princeton also led the nation with five faculty members winning an award.</p>
<p>The four Princeton professors who won this year are:</p>
<p>Professor James Stone
(Astrophysics Dept.)</p>
<p>Winner of the 2011 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics</p>
<p>"For his pioneering work in computational magnetohydrodynamics, including the development and dissemination of widely used codes, and the application of those codes to important problems in astrophysics."</p>
<p>James</a> Stone--Aneesur Rahman Prize</p>
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<p>Professor Michael Romalis
(Physics Dept.)</p>
<p>Winner of the 2011 Francis M. Pipkin Award</p>
<p>"For using ingenious high precision measurements of spin-precession to search for a nuclear electric dipole moment and other new fundamental spin interactions, and also for using such measurements to achieve the most sensitive magnetometry to date and demonstrate its utility for research in biomagnetism and medicine."</p>
<p>Michael</a> Romalis--Pipkin Award</p>
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<p>Professor Alexander Polyakov
(Physics Dept.)</p>
<p>Winner of the 2011 Lars Onsager Prize</p>
<p>"For outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, and especially for the remarkable ideas that they introduced concerning conformal field theory and soluble models of statistical mechanics in two dimensions."</p>
<p>Alexander</a> Polyakov--Onsager Prize</p>
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<p>Professor Stewart Smith
(Physics Dept.)</p>
<p>Winner of the 2011 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics</p>
<p>"For leadership in the measurement of kaon decay properties and in particular for the discovery and measurement of K+→π+vv."</p>
<p>Stewart</a> Smith--Panofsky Prize</p>
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