awards and prizes
March 2013
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March 22, 2013signal to background: Great minds lauded at physics prize ceremonyA crowd full of stars from the field of particle physics—along with one from Hollywood—celebrated recent achievements.
February 2013
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February 3, 2013breaking: Drell and Gates receive National MedalTwo scientists whose work has made a lasting impact on particle physics received the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony.
December 2012
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December 11, 2012breaking: Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes Higgs huntersThe Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honor leaders at the Large Hadron Collider and its CMS and ATLAS experiments with a special $3 million prize.
October 2012
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October 9, 2012breaking: Nobel honors research by particle trappersSerge Haroche and David Wineland, who opened a new era of research by building particle traps and experimenting with individual particles without destroying them, were honored with the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.
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October 2, 2012breaking: Panofsky Prize honors researchers' underground hunt for dark matterThe search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
September 2012
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September 18, 2012breaking: ATLAS collaboration gains real recognition for virtual visits programA jury of 30 experts judged the ATLAS Virtual Visits program as the top online event of 2012 in European public relations and communication.
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September 5, 2012gallery: SLAC at 50SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory honors its five-decade history as it forges ahead into new areas of scientific research.
May 2012
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May 29, 2012breaking: DOE awards $2.5 million to Fermilab’s Brendan CaseyThis month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 million over five years.
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May 22, 2012breaking: Driving the next magnet revolutionThe Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.
October 2011
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October 13, 2011breaking: Gamma-ray telescope designer awarded 2012 Panofsky PrizeWilliam Atwood, a leading member of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope collaboration, will receive the 2012 W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society for his work as co-designer of the Large Area Telescope, the main instrument on Fermi, and for using the LAT to investigate the universe in gamma rays.
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October 4, 2011breaking: Astronomers win Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universeThe 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists: Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess. Their observations of distant exploding stars led them to the startling discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This discovery laid the groundwork for the idea that a mysterious force called dark energy, which makes up 75 percent of the universe – yet has never been detected – is fueling the acceleration
June 2011
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June 21, 2011breaking: Tribute to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Nobel medical physicistDr. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who passed away last month on May 30, was a mother, wife, educator, and dedicated medical physicist. She received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977 while working for the Veterans Administration Hospital in New York for her contributions to the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones. Today scientists utilize this technology to further diagnostics in the medical field for cancer research and Type II diabetes.
November 2010
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November 9, 2010breaking: Fermilab physicist transforms dark energy lens into dark matter detectorA Fermilab physicist recently took technology used to search for signs of dark energy and transformed it into the best detector in the world for spotting low-mass dark matter particles.
August 2010
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August 20, 2010breaking: Math's highest honor given for work in mathematical physicsIt was a good week for mathematical physics. Three of the four winners of the 2010 Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize for mathematics, were honored for studies in the field.
April 2010
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April 1, 2010logbook: Nobel meetingToward the end of June 1962, a virtual pantheon of modern physics descended on a tiny island just off the shores of Lake Constance, in Germany’s rolling Bavarian countryside.
February 2010
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February 18, 2010breaking: Fermilab physicists honored for uniting physics and cosmologyThree decades ago, no one had ever heard of particle astrophysics. How could the tiniest pieces of matter and the biggest objects in the universe coexist in a single field of science? Last month, the American Institute of Physics and the American Astronomical Society honored two scientists who, more than any others, made particle astrophysics, if not a household name, a new scientific discipline.
November 2009
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November 17, 2009breaking: Not available at Hallmark: Nobel thanksWhen physicist Leon Lederman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988, he found himself responsible for writing thank-you notes to a couple of hundred well-wishers. In his typical cheeky fashion, Lederman composed a form letter to cover his bases.
April 2009
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April 14, 2009breaking: Particle physics Peeps, oh my!Americans have many Easter traditions, none probably as odd as our hobby of doing quirky things with Peeps, colored, sugar-coated marshmallow staples of most Easter baskets.
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April 14, 2009breaking: Big Bang Theory comedy gets Nobel LaureateSo much for the stereotype that seriously smart people can't have a sense of humor. The acclaimed CBS prime-time comedy Big Bang Theory had a guest appearance by a Nobel Laureate on its March 9 show.
March 2009
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March 1, 2009essay: Brian Malow: Science yuksIf someone had told me when I was in high school that one day I would meet Stephen Hawking and have a meeting at NASA, I never could've guessed the trajectory I'd follow to get there. I would've assumed I had become a physicist.
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