1995
Ball, James Stutsman
University of Utah
For contributions to the theoretical understanding of the strong interactions. His development of theoretically based phenomenology and its comparison with experiment have allowed rapid testing of theoretical ideas.
Hwa, Rudolph C.
University of Oregon
For contributions to the study of soft hadronic processes in high energy collisions, signatures of quark gluon plasma, fractal structure in multiparticle production and phase transition.
Mackenzie, Paul Blanchard
Fermilab
For his substantial contributions to the application of lattice field theory to the solution of particle physics problems. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Orr, Robert Steell
University of Toronto
For co-discovery of B° - B° mixing, contributions to the understanding of charged and neutral current neutrino scattering and for leadership in the development of the ZEUS and SDC experiments. Nominated by: Particles & Fie
Stoler, Paul
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
For many important experimental contributions, using electromagnetic and hadronic probes, to our understanding of the properties of pions, nucleons and excited baryons and their interactions in nuclei. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
1996
Hagopian, Vasken
Florida State University
For significant contributions to high energy physics including the discovery of the f(1270) meson and the detailed analysis of many other meson resonances. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Jacak, Barbara V.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
For her contributions to the development of identified-hadron spectroscopy as a means of probing the space-time evolution of hot hadronic matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Mallik, Usha
The University of Iowa
For making significant contributions to the field of experimental high energy physics, particularly related to measurements of the J/Psi particle produced from electron-positron and electron-proton collisions. Nominated by: Particles & Fiel
Marlow, Daniel Robert
Princeton University
For important contributions to the physics of rare decays of the K meson, and to the integration of electronics into the design of large detectors. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Radyushkin, Anatoly V.
Old Dominion Univ./Jefferson Acc. Lab
For pioneering studies of exclusive processes in quantum chromodynamics and applications of QCD sum rules to hadronic form factors. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Richman, Jeffrey D.
Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara
For contributions to our knowledge of B-meson decays, especially the semileptonic decays used to measure the parameters of the quark-mixing matrix. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Shuryak, Edward V.
State University of NY, Stonybrook
For his seminal contributions to the study of the quark-gluon plasma. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Tandy, Peter Charles
Kent State University
For significant contributions to the study of composite particles in nuclear and particle physics. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
1997
Drell, Persis S.
Cornell University
For her many important contributions to elementary particle physics, including a systematic program to understand semileptonic decays of b quarks and measure the CKM matrix element Vcb. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Liu, Keh-Fei Frank
University of Kentucky
For pioneering work in lattice gauge calculations which checked nuclear models quantitatively. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Shifman, Mikhail A.
University of Minnesota
For his seminal contributions to nonperturbative dynamics in gauge theories (QCD and supersymmetric theories), and their observational consequences. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Skopik, Dennis Michael
University of Saskatchewan
For his research in nuclear and nucleon structure using the electromagnetic interaction and his leadership role in the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory 300 MeV electron facility. Nominated by: Forum on International Physics
Strikman, Mark
Pennsylvania State University
For developing light cone techniques for nuclear systems, applying these to deep inelastic scattering and for original contributions related to understanding and measuring the effects of color transparency. Nominated by: Nuclear Physic
Toussaint, Doug
University of Arizona
For innovative and broad ranging contributions to computational physics including the development of special purpose computers, numerical studies of strongly correlated electron systems, and especially quantum chromodynamics. Nominated by: Computational Physic
Vainshtein, Arkady
University of Minnesota
For his seminal contributions to the confrontation of the Standard Model with experiment, and contributions to nonperturbatic methods, among them QCD sum rules, and exact results in SUSY gauge theories. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Weerts, Hendrick Josef
Michigan State University
For contributions to the building, commissioning and operation of the D-Zero detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, and using data to confront QCD predictions in new regions of phase space. Nominated by: Particles & Field
West, Geoffrey B.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
For contributions to the understanding of scaling in Deep Inelastic Scattering and for the elucidation of glueball spectrum in QCD. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
1998
Bernard, Claude
Washington University
For his many contributions to the numerical study of quantum chromodynamics, particularly of the weak decays of strongly interacting particles. Nominated by: Computational Physics
Cotanch, Stephen Robert
North Carolina State University
For sustained contributions to hadronic and electromagnetic studies of strangeness and theoretical advancements in nuclear and photonuclear reactions and hadron structure. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
Detar, Carleton Edward
University of Utah
For wide ranging contributions to hadronic and computational physics from the MIT bag model, to lattice studies of the spectrum, and especially for study of the quark-gluon plasma. Nominated by: Computational Physics
Ellis, Paul John
University of Minnesota
For his diverse contributions to the study of light nuclei using nuclear shell model methods; and to the study of pion-nucleon scattering using chiral Lagrangians. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Goshaw, Alfred T.
Duke University
For broad contributions to the study of the strong interactions in high energy hadron collisions, and for his leadership in particle physics. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Kaplan, David B.
University of Washington
For his insightful and original contributions to nuclear and particle physics, spanning topics such as kaon condensation, strangeness in the nucleon, weak scale baryogenesis, and chiral fermions on the lattice. Nominated by: Nuclear Physic
Landau, Rubin Harold
Oregon State University
For innovative developments and practical applications of computational quantum physics to the scattering and exotic bound states of elementary particles, and for original books in quantum mechanics and computational physics. Nominated by: Computational Physics
Manohar, Aneesh V.
Univ. of Calif., San Diego
For contributions to the development of effective field theories and their applications in our understanding of the fundamental properties of elementary particles. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Poling, Ronald A.
University of Minnesota
For contributions to the experimental understanding of b-quarks and his leadership role in the CLEO collaboration. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Polyzou, Wayne Nicholas
The University of Iowa
For contributions to understanding the formulation of Poincaré invariant few body models. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
1999
Goldman, Jack Terrance
Los Alamos National Laboratory
For his many noteworthy contributions to our understanding of the structure and interactions of hadrons, and particularly for his work on the charge dependence of nuclear forces. Nominated by: Nuclear Physic
Love, Sherwin T.
Purdue University
For the introduction and calculation of electron-positron annihilation energy-energy correlations in quantum chromodynamics and for contributions to the study of dynamical symmetry breaking in quantum field theory. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Perry, Robert James
The Ohio State University
For the development of renormalization group coupling coherence and the identification of a simple confinement mechanism, which led to a constituent picture in light-front QCD. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Schellman, Heidi Marie
Northwestern University
For her leadership in QCD physics and as spokesperson of E-665, the Tevatron muon scattering experiment. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Wiringa, Robert B.
Argonne National Laboratory
For the development of realistic models of nuclear forces and their use in studies of the structure of nuclei and neutron stars with variational methods. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
2000
Aronson, Samuel Harry
Brookhaven National Laboratory
For contributions to nuclear and particle physics, including the physics of neutral Kaons, and the leadership, design and construction of the major experiments, D0 at Fermilab and PHENIX at RHIC. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Bodwin, Geoffrey Thomas
Argonne National Laboratory
For definitive contributions to the systematic understanding of heavy quarkonia in terms of QCD, to the proof of factorization in QCD, and to the understanding of chirality in lattice gauge theory. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Braaten, Eric Alan
The Ohio State University
For his contributions to our understanding of finite temperature and heavy quark quantum chromodynamics, and in particular, for the development of hard thermal loop resummation techniques and NRQCD. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Ji, Xiangdong
University of Maryland
For fundamental contributions to the understanding of the structure of the nucleon and the process of deeply virtual Compton scattering. Nominated by: Nuclear Physic
Pisarski, Robert D.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
For important contributions to the study of QCD at high temperatures. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Ramsey-Musolf, Michael Jeffrey
University of Connecticut
For his theoretical work on semileptonic weak interactions, including weak radiative corrections, strangeness contributions, and parity violation, that have helped interpret experiments ranging from atomic scales, through CEBAF energies, to the Z pole. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Shigemitsu, Junko
The Ohio State University
For her contributions to determining properties of the Standard Model using the methods of Lattice Gauge Theory. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Skwarnicki, Tomasz
Syracuse University
For original work in the areas of rare b decays and Upsilon spectroscopy and outstanding achievements in detector reconstruction software and detector construction. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
2001
Burchat, Patricia R.
Stanford University
For her contributions to the understanding of heavy quark physics, particularly in semileptonic weak decays, in mixing of neutral D and B mesons, and in CP violation. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Cohen, Thomas David
University of Maryland
For significant contributions to nuclear physics, including the use of QCD sum rules to understand the interaction of a nucleon with a nucleus. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
DeGrand, Thomas Alan
University of Colorado
For contributions to our understanding of the strong interactions- particularly for the development of innovative techniques in the numerical study of quantum chromodynamics. Nominated by: Computational Physics
Furnstahl, Richard J.
The Ohio State University
For pioneering contributions to the nuclear many-body problem, including developments in relativistic many-body theory, QCD sum roles at finite density, and effective field theory at finite density. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Mecking, Bernhard Alfred
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
For his contributions to electromagnetic nuclear physics, including leadership in the design and construction of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer, CLAS. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Roberts, Craig Darrian
Argonne National Laboratory
For significant contributions to continuum modeling of QCD for hadron physics, linking both quark-gluon confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking with light meson observables. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
Tuts, Philip Michael
Columbia University
In recognition of his contributions to elementary particles as a leader in the CUSB and D0 collaborations in designing, implementation of experiments and analysis of important data, including efforts that directly resulted in observation of the Upsilon do Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Wieman, Howard Henry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
For the development of the time projection chamber into an essential tool for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. Nominated by: Nuclear Physic
2002
Beck, Donald H.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For pioneering work in the use of parity-violating electron scattering to elucidate the quark structure of the nucleon. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Debevec, Paul Timothy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For novel development of instrumentation and deep intellectual contributions to a broad range of photonuclear experiments, hadron spectroscopy, and precision muon physics. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Falk, Adam Frederick
Johns Hopkins University
For his contributions to the theoretical understanding of hadrons containing bottom and charm quarks. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Galik, Richard S.
Cornell University
For his many contributions to our understanding of the tau lepton, his insightful two-photon work, and his leadership in understanding and explaining the potential of the Upsilon resonances to probe meson structure and test QCD. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Kronfeld, Andreas S.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
For his contributions to lattice quantum chromodynamics and its application to the phenomenology of the standard model. Nominated by: Particles & Fields
Perdrisat, Charles F.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
For broad contributions to experimental particle physics, especially studies of the B meson system, and for the invention of the DIRC, a novel Cherenkov detector for particle identification. Nominated by: Particles & Field
Savage, Martin John
University of Washington
For development of effective field theories for the nucleon and deuteron, for work on parity and CP violation, and for partially quenched chiral perturbation theory in lattice QCD. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
Wang, Xin-Nian
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
For his contributions to the understanding of perturbative hard QCD processes in nuclear collisions at very high energies, especially the roles of gluon shadowing, multiple interactions and jet quenching. Nominated by: Nuclear Physics
2003
Arenhoevel, Hartmuth
Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany
For his contribution in understanding photo- and electrodisintegration of the deuteron, especially with incorporation of isobar degrees of freedom and meson exchange currents. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
Gale, Charles
McGill University
For theoretical investigations of the nuclear equation of state and electromagnetic probes of high temperature nuclear matter in heavy ion collisions. Nominated by: Forum on International Physics
Gilman, Ronald
Rutgers University
For his studies of the transition region between pion/nucleon and quark/gluon degrees of freedom via recoil proton polarization measurements. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
Van Orden, Jay Wallace
Old Dominion University
For contributions to the understanding of relativistic effects in few- and many-body nuclei with particular emphasis on covariant calculations of the electromagnetic properties of the deuteron. Nominated by: Few Body Systems Topical Group
Wei, Jie
Brookhaven National Laboratory
For his outstanding and creative contributions to the design and development of RHIC and SNS. Nominated by: Physics of Beams
Wise, Mark Brian
California Institute of Technology
For the discovery of heavy quark symmetry in QCD, and the development of heavy quark effective theory. Nominated by: Particles & Fields