Presidential Early Career Awards for
Scientists and EngineersThe Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, established in 1996, honors the most promising beginning researchers in the nation within their fields. Eight federal departments and agencies annually nominate scientists and engineers at the start of their careers whose work shows the greatest promise to benefit the nominating agency's mission. Participating agencies award these beginning scientists and engineers a citation, a plaque, and a commitment for five years of funding to further their research in support of critical government missions.
Provided below are the recipients that Nuclear Physics provides funding to for the five years and links to past News Release Announcements/ Information. Additional general information is available on the Office of Science website under the Accomplishments / Awards section.
Recipients Which Nuclear Physics Provides Awarded Funds
Year Name Laboratory Brief Description 2008 Gianluigi Ciovati Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
...for his work on the dependence of cavity Q-value on accelerating gradient and the causes of degradation of Q-value at higher gradients that is making a significant impact on the international superconducting accelerator applications community; and for outstanding mentoring of graduate students. 2008 Paul Sorensen Brookhaven National Laboratory ...for original research demonstrating quark number scaling in the elliptic flow of hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions that together with theoretical studies indicated the formation of a new form of matter - the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma; and for service on the governing council of the STAR experiment. 2008 Ivan Vitev Los Alamos National Laboratory ...for seminal theoretical research on energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, providing clear insights on crucial properties of the high energy-density regime of quantum chromodynamics as explored at the Department of Energy’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facility; and for the organization of international physics workshops and colloquia. 2007 Mickey Chiu Brookhaven National Laboratory ...For developing the use of neutral pions to identify hot, dense nuclear matter and to study transverse proton spin asymmetries; and for mentoring of graduate students in building advanced instrumentation. 2005 Daniel Bardayan Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...for innovative precision nuclear spectroscopy measurements clarifying the production of elements and radioisotopes in exploding stars, and for mentoring undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral associates as well as organizing a summer school for graduate students to explore exotic beam physics. 2004 John Arrington Argonne National Laboratory ...for his research into the quark distributions of nuclei which has provided a compelling new look into the short-range structure of nuclei 2004 Zhangbu Xu Brookhaven National Laboratory ...for his research techniques and technical developments applied to the search for a new state of matter at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a world-class accelerator for nuclear physics 2003 Saskia Mioduszewski Brookhaven National Laboratory ...for her studies of the properties of the unusual matter formed in extremely high-energy nuclear collisions produced at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. 2002 Jeffrey C. Blackmon Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...for his pioneering work in implementing a program of measurements at the ORNL Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility with radioactive nuclear beams to understand stellar explosions. 2001 Vincent Cianciolo Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...for developing a scientific program and detector instrumentation for experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory to understand the existence of quark-gluon plasma 2000 Zheng-Tian Lu Argonne National Laboratory ...for the development of the Atom Trap Trace Analysis technique which has provided a powerful new tool for ultra-sensitive trace isotope analysis in fundamental research and technological applications 1998 Anthony Mezzacappa ...for his work identifying the explosive mechanism of core-collapse and associated nucleosynthesis in supernovae 1997 David J. Dean Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...for his research in nuclear structure physics and critical contributions to the development of the Shell Model Monte Carlo methods, making possible the extension of shell model calculations to heavier nuclei 1996 Michael Smith Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...for establishing an astrophysics program at the first facility devoted fully to radioactive ion beam physics, and for contributing to the collection and evaluation of nuclear reaction data applicable to astrophysics phenomena News Release Announcements/Information:
Last updated 11/19/09