LeRoy Apker Award (APS)
The LeRoy Apker Award (APS) is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1978, named after the experimental physicist LeRoy Apker. The recipients are chosen for "outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students" in order to "provide encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment." The Apker award is the highest honor awarded to undergraduate physicists in the United States. Generally, two prizes are awarded each year: one to a student Ph.D. granting institution and one to a student from a non-Ph.D. granting institution. The award consists of a $5,000 prize, allowance for traveling to the APS March Meeting to present the work, and a certificate.
Recipients
- 2015 Benjamin Augenbraun, Adam Jermyn
- 2014 Kevin Seltzer, Michael Veit
- 2013 Guy Geyer Marcus, Hao Shi
- 2012 Theodore Yoder, Yuliya Dovzhenko
- 2011 Bethany Jochim, Djordje Radicevic
- 2010 Chia Wei Hsu, Christopher Chudzicki
- 2009 Bilin Zhuang, Kathryn Greenberg
- 2008 Byron C. Drury, Sujit S. Datta
- 2007 Bryce Gadway, Matthew Becker
- 2006 Huanqian Loh, Hugh Churchill, Stephanie Moyerman
- 2005 David W. Miller, Matthew Paoletti, Nathaniel Craig
- 2004 Jonathan Heckman, Nathan Oken Hodas
- 2003 Nathaniel Stern, Peter Onyisi
- 2002 Jason Alicea, S. Charles Doret
- 2001 Kathryn Todd, Robert Wagner
- 2000 Heather J. Lynch, Jacob Jonathan Krich, Steven J. Oliver
- 1999 Brian Gerke, Govind Krishnaswami
- 1998 Brian Richard D'Urso, Gwendolyn Rae Bell
- 1997 Anna Lopatnikova, Cameron Geddes
- 1996 Benjamin S. Williams, Christopher Schaffer
- 1995 Benjamin F. Williams, Frederick B. Mancoff
- 1994 Arthur Chu, Brandon C. Collings, Steven Gubser
- 1993 David I. Kaiser
- 1992 Christopher Barnes, Justin Mortara
- 1991 Dean Lee, Stephen Quake
- 1990 Charles J. Brabec
- 1989 Deborah L. Kuchnir, Steven H. Simon
- 1988 Leo R. Radzihovsky
- 1987 Gerard C.L. Wong, C. James Yeh
- 1986 Terrence L. Hwa
- 1985 Julia W.P. Hsu
- 1984 Tak Leuk Kwok
- 1983 Raymond E. Goldstein
- 1982 Subir Sachdev
- 1981 Mark B. Ritter
- 1980 Richard P. Binzel
- 1979 Louis A. Bloomfield
- 1978 David E. Heckerman
External links
- LeRoy Apker Award, American Physical Society
