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Compton
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The Arthur H. Compton award was established in
1995 by the APS Users Organization (APSUO) to
recognize an important technical or scientific
accomplishment at, or beneficial to, the Advanced
Photon Source. The award consists of a certificate
and $2500.
The awards are generally made at APS User
Meetings, which are held approximately every 18
months. A call for nominations is sent at least six
months prior to the meeting, and the winner is
notified at least two months in advance and invited
to give an award lecture at the meeting.
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
Award
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Awardee(s)
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Recognized
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October 1995
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Nikolai Vinokurov
Klaus Halbach
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Development of hybrid undulator x-ray
sources.
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April 1997
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Philip M. Platzman
Peter M. Eisenberger
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Theoretical and experimental
contributions to the fields of x-ray
scattering.
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October 1998
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Donald H. Bilderback
Andreas K. Freund
Gordon S. Knapp
Dennis M. Mills
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Development of cryogenically cooled
x-ray optics for handling undulator x-ray
beams.
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May 2000
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Sunil K. Sinha
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Development of the general theory of
off-specular surface scattering
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October 21
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Wayne A. Hendrickson
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Development and use of multiwavelength
anomalous diffraction (MAD) methods.
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Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia
University (far right) was
awarded the fifth APS Arthur H.
Compton Award for his important
contributions to the development
of multiwavelength anomalous
diffraction as a technique for
structural biology research using
synchrotron radiation.
Hendrickson was joined by (from
left to right) Gopal Shenoy, Eric
Isaacs, and David Moncton as he
was presented with his award.
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