June 30, 2005

NSLS Scientists Recognized by the American Physical Society

Jan Genzer

Three NSLS user researchers - Jan Genzer, Thomas Russell, and Gabriel Aeppli - have been honored with prestigious American Physical Society (APS) awards. Additionally, two other NSLS scientists - user Robert Bartynski and the NSLS' own Li-Hua Yu - were elected as fellows of the APS.

Thomas Russell

"For his highly creative manipulation of surface properties via monolayer and macromolecular films," Genzer, a materials scientist at North Carolina State University, was awarded the Dillon Medal.

Gabriel Aeppli

The Polymer Physics Prize went to Russell, a polymer scientist with the University of Massachusetts. He is cited "for his pioneering research and fundamental elucidation of the surface and interfacial behavior of polymers."

Aeppli, a condensed matter physicist with University College London, received the Oliver Buckley Prize "for fundamental contributions to experimental studies of quantum spin dynamics and spin coherence in condensed matter systems."

Robert Bartynski

Li-Hua Yu

Bartynski, a condensed matter physicist at Rutgers University, was elected "for pioneering experiments to determine the electronic properties of surfaces, especially for leadership in developing Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy (APECS) with synchrotron radiation as a tool for local electronic structure."

Yu, a beam physicist at the Deep Ultraviolet Free-Electron Laser at the NSLS, was elected "for creative contributions to the theory of self-amplified spontaneous emissions and high-gain harmonic-generation, and the experimental demonstration of the high-gain harmonic-generation free-electron laser."

Congratulations to all!

More information on the awards is available at http://www.aps.org/praw/05winners.cfm.

ARTICLE BY: Laura Mgrdichian