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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 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
Award
Date
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Awardee(s)
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Recognized
for:
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October 1995 |
Nikolai
Vinokurov
Klaus Halbach |
Development
of hybrid undulator x-ray
sources. |
April
1997 |
Philip
M. Platzman
Peter M. Eisenberger |
Theoretical
and experimental contributions to the
fields of x-ray scattering. |
October
1998 |
Donald
H. Bilderback
Andreas K. Freund
Gordon S. Knapp
Dennis M. Mills |
Development
of cryogenically cooled x-ray optics for
handling undulator x-ray beams. |
May 2000 |
Sunil
K. Sinha |
Development
of the general theory of off-specular
surface scattering. |
October
2001 |
Wayne
A. Hendrickson |
Development
and use of multiwavelength anomalous
diffraction (MAD) methods. |
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