APS Arthur H. Compton Award
2011 Compton Winners: Edward Stern, Farrel Lytle, Dale Sayers (posthumously), and John Rehr
The Arthur H. Compton award was established in 1995 by the APS Users Organization (APSUO) to recognize an important scientific or technical accomplishment at the Advanced Photon Source. The award consists of a plaque and $2500.
The awards are generally made at APS User Meetings, which are held every spring. A call for nominations is sent out four months before the meeting, and the winner is notified at least two months in advance and invited to give an award lecture at the meeting. Awards are not necessarily made each year.
Compton was an
American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for
discovering and explaining changes in x-ray wavelengths resulting
from x-ray collisions with electrons, the so-called Compton effect.
This important discovery in 1922 confirmed the dual nature (wave and
particle) of electromagnetic radiation. A Ph.D. from Princeton
University, Compton held many prominent positions including professor
of physics at The University of Chicago and chairman of the committee
of the National Academy of Sciences that studied the military
potential of atomic energy. His position on that committee made
Compton instrumental in initiating the Manhattan Project, which
created the first atomic bomb.
Arthur H. Compton Awards
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October 1995 |
Nikolai Vinokurov |
Development of hybrid undulator x-ray sources. |
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April 1997 |
Philip M. Platzman |
Theoretical and experimental contributions to the fields of x-ray scattering. |
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October 1998 |
Donald H. Bilderback |
Development of cryogenically cooled x-ray optics for handling undulator x-ray beams. |
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May 2000 |
Sunil K. Sinha |
Development of the general theory of off-specular surface scattering. |
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October 2001 |
Wayne A. Hendrickson |
Development and use of multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) methods. |
| April 2003 | Martin Blume |
Pioneering theoretical and experimental work in resonant magnetic x-ray scattering, which has led to important applications in condensed matter physics. |
| May 2005 | Günter Schmahl Janos Kirz |
Pioneering and developing the field of x-ray microscopy using Fresnel zone plates. |
| May 2007 | Andrzej Joachimiak Gerold Rosenbaum |
Pioneering advances and leadership in establishing the APS as a premier location worldwide for protein crystallography research |
| May 2009 | Gerhard Grübel Simon Mochrie Mark Sutton |
Pioneering efforts in x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), which exploits the coherent properties of synchrotron x-rays to study the slow dynamics of condensed matter at short length scales. |
| May 2011 | Edward Stern, Farrel Lytle, Dale Sayers (posthumously), and John Rehr | Development of the technique of x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) |
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