Faculty Awards

Nobel Prize
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.

Born: 26 March 1951, Corvallis, OR, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, CO, USA
Prize motivation: “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”
Prize share: 1/3
Work
One of the fundamental numbers in the world of quantum mechanics is the spin quantum number. Particles and atoms that have whole-number spin are described by other rules and equations than those that have half-number spin. Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted in 1924 that at very low temperatures atoms with whole-number spin would be able to concentrate themselves in the lowest energy state and form a Bose-Einstein condensate. In 1995 Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell succeeded in proving the phenomenon in a rarefied gas of rubidium atoms at an extremely low temperature.
Carl E. Wieman – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 1 November 1950, Visalia, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”
Prize share: 1/3
Work
The Hall effect refers to the fact that if an electrical current flows lengthwise through a metal band and a magnetic field is placed against the surface of the band at a right angle, a charge arises diagonally in the band. In interfaces in certain materials a quantum Hall effect occurs. After Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui discovered that changes in the magnetic field result in changes in Hall conductance that vary in steps that represent fractions of a constant, Robert Laughlin explained the phenomenon in 1983 with the formation of quasiparticles and a kind of quantum fluid.
Robert B. Laughlin – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

Born: 28 February 1948, St. Louis, MO, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”
Prize share: 1/3
Life
Stephen Chu was born in St. Louis, Missouri, into an academic family of Chinese heritage. He excelled at school and as a child liked to build models before becoming interested in chemistry experiments. He studied physics at the University of Rochester and continued his studies at UC Berkeley. There he began with theoretical physics until he realized that experimental physics was his calling. After Berkeley he did his Nobel Prize-awarded work at Bell Labs. Chu served as United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. He is married to physicist Jean Fetter, and the couple has two sons, Geoffrey and Michael.
Work
At room temperature atoms and molecules in the air move about at breakneck speed. In order for them to be studied, they need to be slowed down or chilled. During the 1980s Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William Phillips developed different methods for this. When atoms come in contact with light particles with fixed energies, photons, their movement is affected as if they had been bumped. With the aid of laser light from different directions and adjustment of the photon’s energy for Doppler effects, the atoms can be cooled to extremely low temperatures and captured in a trap.
Steven Chu – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

Born: 1 August 1945, Aberdeen, WA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”
Prize share: 1/3
Life
Douglas Osheroff was born in Aberdeen, Washington, into a family with Eastern European roots and many medical professionals. He became interested in science early and engaged in dangerous experiments in his free time. He studied at Caltech, an inspiring environment where Richard Feynman lectured, and continued his education at Cornell, where he studied low temperature physics and met his wife, Phyllis Liu. After a subsequent 15 years at Bell Labs, he moved to Stanford to pursue his talent as a teacher.
Work
When certain substances are cooled to extremely low temperatures, they become superfluid, flowing without any friction. This applies to helium-4, the most common form of helium, but for a long time the superfluidity of helium-3 was in dispute. The different types of helium are described by different quantum mechanical rules and equations under which helium-4 has a whole-number spin while helium-3 has a half-number spin. In 1972 Douglas Osheroff, David Lee and Robert Richardson verified that helium-3 also becomes superfluid at extremely low temperatures.
Douglas D. Osheroff – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 2 November 1932, New York, NY, USA
Died: 28 August 2006, Twin Falls, ID, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Digital Pathways, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”
Prize share: 1/3
Work
In decays of certain elementary particles, neutrinos are produced; particles that occasionally interact with matter to produce electrons. Melvin Schwartz, Leon Lederman, and Jack Steinberger managed to create a beam of neutrinos using a high-energy accelerator. In 1962, they discovered that, in some cases, instead of producing an electron, a muon (200 times heavier than an electron) was produced, proving the existence of a new type of neutrino, the muon neutrino. These particles, collectively called “leptons”, could then be systematically classified in families.
Melvin Schwartz – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 5 May 1921, Mount Vernon, NY, USA
Died: 28 April 1999, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”
Prize share: 1/4
Work
Electrons in atoms and molecules have fixed energy levels, according to the principles of quantum physics. When there are transitions among different energy levels, light with certain frequencies is emitted or absorbed. This allows atoms and molecules to be analyzed with the help of the absorbed light’s spectrum. With the laser’s coherent and intense light, the measurement phenomenon can occur. In the 1960s, Arthur Schawlow made use of this to eliminate the Doppler effect, allowing him to determine energy levels with great precision.
Arthur L. Schawlow – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 5 February 1915, New York, NY, USA
Died: 17 November 1990, Stanford, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons”
Prize share: 1/2
Work
Matter is composed of atoms with small nuclei surrounded by electrons. Robert Hofstadter developed apparatus for studying nuclei’s internal structure. A high-energy electron beam from an accelerator was directed towards nuclei and by examining the scattering of the electrons, he could investigate how charges were distributed. He could also investigate how the magnetic moment within the nuclei’s protons and neutrons was distributed. Nuclei were thereby proven not to be homogeneous, but to have internal structures.
Robert Hofstadter – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 12 July 1913, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Died: 15 May 2008, Tucson, AZ, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”
Prize share: 1/2
Work
According to Niels Bohr’s atomic model, a photon is emitted when an electron descends to a lower energy level. This results in a spectrum with lines corresponding to the different energy levels of different atoms. It appeared that the lines were divided into several lines close to one another, which Paul Dirac tried to explain in a theory. However, in 1947 Willis Lamb used precise measurements to establish what became known as the Lamb shift: what ought to have been a single energy level in the hydrogen atom according to Dirac’s theory actually was two nearby levels with a small difference in energy.
Willis E. Lamb – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.

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Born: 23 October 1905, Zurich, Switzerland
Died: 10 September 1983, Zurich, Switzerland
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”
Prize share: 1/2
Life
Felix Bloch was born in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of a merchant, and studied at ETH and elsewhere. When the Nazis took power in 1933, he left Europe to work at Stanford University. After becoming an American citizen, he worked on atomic energy in Los Alamos during World War II and later on radar at Harvard University. Immediately after the war, he did his Nobel Prize-awarded work at Stanford. He became the first head of CERN outside Geneva in 1954-1955. Bloch was married and had four children.
Work
Protons and neutrons in nuclei act like small, rotating magnets. Atoms and molecules therefore align in a magnetic field. Radio waves can disturb their direction of rotation, but only in certain stages, in accordance with quantum mechanics. When the atoms return to their original positions, they emit electromagnetic radio waves with frequencies characteristic of different elements and isotopes. In 1946, Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell developed methods for precise measurement, making it possible to study different materials’ compositions.
Felix Bloch – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The Academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
2023 - Risa Wechsler
2022 - Shamit Kachru
2021 - Robert L. Byer
2020 - Eva Silverstein
2018 - Renata Elizaveta Kallosh
2017 - Zhixun Shen
2013 - Peter F. Michelson
2012 - Philip Howard Bucksbaum, Steven Michael Kahn
2011 - Andrei Linde , Shoucheng Zhang
2009 - Aharon Kapitulnik
2007 - Persis Sydney Drell
2006 - Savas Dimopoulos, Stephen H. Shenker
2001 - Steven Allan Kivelson
2000 - Michael E. Peskin
1999 - Daniel S. Fisher
1998 - Helen R. Quinn, Carl E. Wieman
1997 - Martin L. Perl
1995 - Charles Young Prescott
1994 - Leonard Susskind
1993 - Roger David Blandford
1992 - Steven Chu, Richard E. Taylor
1991 - Malcolm Roy Beasley
1990 - Robert B. Laughlin
1989 - Burton Richter
1982 - Douglas Dean Osheroff
1978 - Theodore Henry Geballe
1974 - James Daniel Bjorken
1970 - Robert Hofstadter, Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1967- William Martin Fairbank
American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAS Fellows are a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching, and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.
In a tradition stretching back to 1874, these individuals are elected annually by the AAAS Council. Newly elected Fellows are recognized for their extraordinary achievements at the ceremonial Fellows Forum, a time-honored event at the AAAS Annual Meeting where they are presented with a certificate and blue and gold rosette.
2022 - David Goldhaber-Gordon & Yuri Suzuki
2021 - Philip Bucksbaum, Persis Drell, Tony Heinz, & Aharon Kapitulnik
2020 - Risa Wechsler
2015 - Steven Kahn
2012 - Patricia Burchat
2009 - David Coward & Michael Peskin
2006 - Steven Block
2005 - C. Everitt
2002 - James Bjorken
2001 - Robert Siemann & Lucy Tompkins
2000 - Sidney Drell & Steven Chu
1999 - Douglas Osherhoff
1997 - Michael May
1995 - Sebastian Doniach & Herman Winick
1994 - Stephen Harris
1992 - Robert Byer, Malcolm Bearsley, & Richard Taylor
1989 - Arthur Bienenstock & Ronald Bracewell
1988 - Martin Perl
1982 - Walter Meyerhof
1981 - Alexander Fetter
1980 - Burton Richter, Peter Sturrock, & John Wilcox
1977 - Calvin Quate
1975 - Richard Bube
1971 - F. Crawford
1966 - Steven Robinson, Arthur Schawlow, & William Tiller
1963 - Rudolph Marcus
1959 - Frederick Terman
1958 - Marsden Blois
1957 - Robert Hofstadter
1951 - Henry Kaplan
1901 - Fernando Sanford
AIP Karl Compton Medal
The Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics was established by the American Institute of Physics in 1957 to recognize distinguished physicists who have made outstanding contributions to physics through statesmanship in science.
2024 - Steven Chu
American Physical Society Honors, Prizes & Awards
APS Honors recognize excellence in contributions to physics research, service, and teaching.
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize
2025 - Steven A. Kivelson
2015 - Aharon Kapitulnik
2012 - Shoucheng Zhang
2011 - Zhi-Xun Shen
1986 - Robert B. Laughlin
1981 - Douglas D. Osheroff
1970 - T. H. Geballe
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
2011 - Joachim Stohr
1994 - Carl Wieman
Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics
2016 - Stephen R. Quake
2008 - Steven M. Block
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
2006 - Daniel Freedman
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
2015 - Stanley G. Wojcicki
2013 - Blas Cabrera
1989 - Richard E. Taylor
Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries
2020 - Philip H. Bucksbaum
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
2006 - Savas Dimopoulos
1998 - Leonard Susskind
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
2000 - Richard Neil Zare
1999 - Carl E. Wieman
1994 - Steven Chu
Herbert P. Broida Award
1987 - Steven Chu
Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science
2000 - Calvin Forrest Quate
George E. Valley, Jr. Prize
2021- Vedika Khemani
2002 - David Goldhaber-Gordon
I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
2021 - Monika Schleier-Smith
2003 - Mark A. Kasevich
Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
2025 - Jeongwan Haah
APS Fellows (Alphabetically)
Andreas Acrivos [1981]
Hans Christian Andersen [1983]
Malcolm R. Beasley [1980]
Daniel Bershader [1967]
Arthur i Bienenstock [1971]
Felix Bloch [1937]
Steven Block [2011]
Arnold L Bloom [1970]
Elliott Daniel Bloom [1985]
Norris E Bradbury [1936]
Martin Breidenbach [1985]
Mark Brongersma [2010]
Joseph G Brown [1933]
Patricia R. Burchat [2001]
David Lyle Burke [1992]
Robert L. Byer [1991]
Blas Cabrera [1996]
Brian J. Cantwell [1996]
Gilbert Chu [2018]
David Coward [1983]
Thomas Devereaux [2008]
Lance Jenkins Dixon [1995]
Sebastian Doniach [1985]
Paul A. Durbin [1996]
John Kelly Eaton [2005]
C.W. Francis Everitt [2007]
Shanhui Fan [2008]
Michael David Fayer [1981]
Joel H Ferziger [1972]
Alexander L Fetter [1972]
Steven Alan Fetter [1994]
Daniel Sebastian Fisher [1986]
Ian R. Fisher [2013]
John Fox [2008]
Gerald G. Fuller [1993]
Hilton F Glavish [1975]
David J. Goldhaber-Gordon [2018]
Kenneth E. Goodson [2014]
Giorgio Gratta [2007]
Martin Greven [2007]
Theodor W Hansch [1973]
William W Hansen [1939]
James Stewart Harris [1992]
Stephen E Harris [1974]
Siegfried S. Hecker [2009]
Joanne Hewett [2007]
Maurice L Huggins [1931]
Harold Hwang [2011]
Gianluca Iaccarino [2019]
Umran Inan [2009]
John A. Jaros [1993]
Aharon Kapitulnik [1994]
Mark A. Kasevich [2005]
John Robert Kirtley [1988]
Jeffrey Koseff [2015]
Robert Bettes Laughlin [1998]
Robert B. Laughlin [1986]
Sanjiva Keshava Lele [2001]
Benjamin L. Lev [2021]
Elliott Charles Levinthal [1981]
Gregory A. Loew [1992]
Vera G. Luth [1984]
Alison L. Marsden [2020]
Todd J. Martinez [2005]
L Marton [1941]
L Marton [1942]
Peter F. Michelson [2009]
David Andrew Barclay Miller [1988]
William Escro Moerner [1992]
Kenneth Charles Moffeit [1992]
Parvitz Moin [1992]
Kathryn Moler [2008]
Stephen Monismith [2019]
Igor Moskalenko [2010]
R F Mozley [1960]
Mark G. Mungal [2006]
Alexander Novokhatski [2012]
Nicholas T. Ouellette [2022]
Vijay Pande [2008]
James McEwan Paterson [1991]
Robert Pecora [1980]
Heinz Pitsch [2012]
Eric Pop [2022]
Arian Pregenzer [2012]
Stephen R. Quake [2009]
Calvin F. Quate [1996]
Srinivas Raghu [2021]
Roy E Rand [1975]
John Robert Rees [1987]
David M Ritson [1965]
Thomas G. Rizzo [2013]
Norna Robertson [2008]
Peter C. Rowson [2014]
Juan Santiago [2010]
Monika Schleier-Smith [2021]
Harry Alan Schwettman [1998]
Andrei Seryi [2008]
Eric Stefan G. Shaqfeh [2000]
Zhi-Xun Shen [2003]
Stephen H Shenker [2003]
Eva Silverstein [2016]
Arnold L Smith [1970]
Todd I. Smith [1999]
Wm. E. Spicer [1967]
Hans Staub [1944]
Richard Edward Taylor [1986]
F E Terman [1946]
John Turneaure [2007]
Konstantin L. Vodopyanov [2009]
Jelena Vuckovic [2015]
Arthur B.C. Walker [1999]
Shan X. Wang [2012]
Risa Wechsler [2017]
Helmut Wiedemann [1987]
John M Wilcox [1976]
Dean Wilkening [2008]
William Wisniewski [2007]
Yoshihisa Yamamoto [2007]
Shoucheng Zhang [2005]
Astronomy Awards
2025 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy - Susan Clark
2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy - Roger Blandford
2016 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy - Roger Blandford
2013 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Roger Blandford
1998 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics - Roger Blandford
1982 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy - Roger Blandford
AAS Fellows
Roger Blandford
Roger Romani
Philip Scherrer
Peter Sturrock
Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award
Through its Awards Program, The Franklin Institute seeks to provide public recognition and encouragement of excellence in science and technology.
The Franklin Institute’s newest award is the Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award, established in 2021. It is the first award in The Franklin Institute’s history specifically intended to honor an early-career researcher in science and engineering for an exceptional discovery, development, invention, or innovation.
2023 - Monika Schleier-Smith
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Insights from fundamental physics have overturned our assumptions about the world around us. Last century, general relativity reshaped our picture of space and time, and quantum mechanics replaced the march of cause and effect with a dance of probabilities. Recently scientists have discovered that dark matter and dark energy account for most of the contents of the Universe.
This century is likely to produce more surprises. From the Planck length to the cosmic scale, physicists are opening windows into the deep structure of reality.
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was founded in 2012 by Yuri Milner to recognize those individuals who have made profound contributions to human knowledge. It is open to all physicists – theoretical, mathematical, experimental – working on the deepest mysteries of the Universe.
2022 - Vedika Khemani (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2019 - Daniel Z. Freedman
2019 - Aron Wall (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2018 - Douglas Stanford (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2017 - Peter W. Graham (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2016 - Xiao-Liang Qi, Leonardo Senatore (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2015 - Sean Hartnoll (New Horizons in Physics Prize)
2012 - Andrei Linde
Dirac Medal
ICTP's Dirac Medal, first awarded in 1985, is given in honour of P.A.M. Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch friend of the Centre. It is awarded annually on Dirac's birthday, 8 August, to scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics.
Faculty Women’s Forum
The Faculty Women’s Forum recognizes faculty and staff for outstanding work supporting women at Stanford through role modeling, allyship, leadership, and sponsorship.
2023 Outstanding Leader Award - Risa Wechsler, director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) and professor of physics and of particle physics and astrophysics, School of Humanities & Sciences
2023 Deborah Rhode Lifetime Achievement Award - Persis Drell, provost, James and Anna Marie Spilker Professor and Professor in the School of Engineering, professor of materials science and engineering and of physics, and Kathryn “Kam” Moler, vice provost and dean of research, Marvin Chodorow Professor and Professor of Applied Physics, of physics and of energy science engineering, School of Humanities & Sciences
Humboldt Research Award
Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards to internationally leading researchers of all disciplines from abroad in recognition of their academic record to date.
2014 - Prof. Dr. Steven A. Kivelson
2011 - Prof. Dr. Roger David Blandford, Prof. Dr. Aharon Kapitulnik
2005 - Prof. Dr. Renata Kallosh
2004 - Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde
1996 - Prof. Dr. Tony Heinz
1985 - Prof. Dr. Herman Winick
1982 - Prof. Dr. Elliott D. Bloom
1981 - Prof. Dr. Walter A. Harrison
Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences
The Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust, was set up in 2009 by Infosys and members of its Board, with the objective of encouraging, recognizing, and fostering world class scientific research connected to India.
2024 - Vedika Khemani
Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize
2024 - Andrei Linde
The Lars Onsager Medal
2023 - Roger Blandford
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community.
2022 - Mark Kasevich
2021 - Savas Dimopoulos, Kathryn A. Moler, Daniel Z. Freedman
2020 - Blas Cabrera
2019 - Todd J. Martinez
2015 - Daniel S. Fisher, Aharon Kapitulnik, Stephen H. Shenker, Shoucheng Zhang, Zhi-Xun Shen
2013 - Stephen R. Quake
2010 - Persis S. Drell, Steven A. Kivelson
2008 - Andrei Linde
2007 - Steven M. Block
2005 - Roger D. Blandford
2004 - Philip H. Bucksbaum
2000 - Leonard Susskind, Robert L. Byer
1995 - Carl E. Wieman
1994 - Robert B. Laughlin
1993 - Steven Chu
1988 - Anthony E. Siegman
1987 - Douglas D. Osheroff
1981 - Stephen E. Harris
1973 - James Daniel Bjorken
1970 - Arthur L. Schawlow
1969 - Sidney D. Drell
1968 - W. Conyers Herring
1963 - William M. Fairbank
1958 - Robert Hofstadter
1954 - W. K. H. Panofsky
Oskar Klein Medal
Since 1988, the Oskar Klein Centre organizes the yearly Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture. The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures are sponsored by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Committee for Physics and by Stockholm University.
2024 - Renata Kallosh
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
In 1988, the Packard Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation’s most promising professors to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers with few funding restrictions and limited reporting requirements. The program arose out of David Packard’s commitment to strengthening university-based science and engineering programs in recognition that the success of the Hewlett-Packard Company, which he cofounded, derived in large measure from the research and development in university laboratories.
2021 - Vedika Khemani
2017 - Amir Safavi-Naeini
2011 - Xiaoliang Qi
2010 - Benjamin Lev
2004 - David Goldhaber-Gordon
2001 - Kathryn A. Moler
2000 - Shamit Kachru
1999 - Stephen R. Quake
1998 - Yuri Suzuki
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognizes the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhances connections between research and impacts on society, and highlights the importance of science and technology for our nation’s future.
2025 - Vedika Khemani , Douglas Stanford
Simons Investigators
Each year, the Simons Foundation requests nominations from a targeted list of institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland for the Simons Investigator programs. Simons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the foundation, enabling them to undertake the long-term study of fundamental questions.
2022 - Douglas Stanford
2021 - Shanhui Fan, Peter Graham
2019 - Sean Hartnoll
2018 - Xiao-Liang Qi
2017 - Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein
2014 - Patrick Hayden
TOPTICA BEC Award for Lifetime Achievements
The TOPTICA BEC Award for Lifetime Achievements 2023 recognizes longstanding important contributions to the field of Experimental and/or Theoretical Physics of Quantum Degenerate Atomic Gases.
2023 - Alexander Fetter