A single award will normally be given to no more than one individual and will be presented at the biennial Topical Group Conference. Nominations are active for three consecutive reviews. The 2001 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials was created to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials. This includes the discovery of new classes of materials, the observation of novel phenomena in known materials leading to both fundamentally new applications and scientific insights, and shall also include theoretical and experimental work contributing significantly to the understanding of such phenomena. The prize is open to scientists of all nationalities irrespective of where their work has been carried out.
Nominations are active for three years.
Please send your nominations to Alan B. Fowler, IBM T. J. Watson Res. The 2001 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded to one person who made an outstanding contribution in the field of chemical physics or physical chemistry within ten years prior to the prize. The prize is granted without restriction, except that the recipient must be a resident of the United States at the time of selection and the prize funds must be used in the United States or its territories. Nominations are active for three years. The 2001 Francis M. Pipkin Award is intended to honor exceptional research accomplishments by a young scientist in the interdisciplinary area of precision measurement and fundamental constants and to encourage the wide dissemination of the results of that research.