Wayne B. Nottingham Prize

The Wayne B. Nottingham Prize is awarded annually at the Physical Electronics Conference (PEC), a conference that focuses on new research results in the field of surface science and in the sub-fields of physics and chemistry of interfaces. It was established from contributions given in memory of Professor Wayne B. Nottingham of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by many of his friends and associates. The prize currently consists of a certificate and in 1974 was $200 but has increased recently to $1,500, and is awarded to the best student paper presented at the conference. A student paper is defined as a paper based on a Ph.D. thesis whose date of submission to the faculty is no earlier than one year before the meeting at which the Prize is given.

It was first given in March 1966 at MIT and in March thereafter until February 1974 when the PEC was held at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. This adjustment was to avoid overlap in time with the American Physical Society's March meeting which in the 1970s was about 30 times larger than the PEC. Due to the weather in February leading to icy roads and delays in the scheduled events, in 1975 the PEC was moved to June where it still is today.

Recipients Year Winner(s) Location Thesis advisor(s) 1966 L.F. CordesUniversity of Minnesota W.T. Peria 1967 D. Steiner & J.V. HollwegM.I.T & M.I.T E.P. Gyftopoulous 1968 E. Ward PlummerCornell University T.N. Rhodin 1969 John C. Tracy Cornell University J.M. Blakely 1970 J.M. Baker Cornell University J.M. Blakely 1971 D.P. SmithUniv. of Minnesota W.T. Peria 1972 W. Henry WeinbergUniv. of California, Berkeley R. Merrill 1973 J.R. Bower Bartol Research Foundation J.M. Chen 1974 N.J. Dionne & Torgny Gustafsson Cornell University & Chalmers Univ. of Technology T.N. Rhodin & P.O. Nillson 1975 L.C. Isett Cornell University J.M. Blakely 1976 J.A. KnappMontana State University G.A. Lapeyre 1977 S.-L. WengUniv. of Pennsylvania E.W. Plummer 1978 Gwo-Ching WangUniv. of Wisconsin, Madison M.G. Lagally 1979 Wilson Ho Univ. of Pennsylvania E.W. Plummer 1980 R. Difoggio & Harry J. LevinsonUniv. of Chicago & Univ. of Pennsylvania R. Gomer & E.W. Plummer 1981 Ruud M. Tromp FOM Institut F.W. Saris 1982 P.O. HahnLeibniz University Hannover M. Henzler 1983 R. Raue Cologne and KFA Julich G. Guntherodt & M. Campagna 1984 M. OnellionRice University G.K. Walters 1985 K. Gibson & J.W.M. Frenken Univ. of Chicago & FOM Institut S.J. Sibener & J.F. van der Veen 1986 S.M. YalisoveUniv. of Pennsylvania W.R. Graham 1987 John D. BeckerleM.I.T. S.T. Ceyer 1988 Lee J. Richter Cornell University W. Ho 1989 J.-K. Zuo R.P.I. G.-C. Wang 1990 Y.-W. Mo Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison M.G. Lagally 1991 Brian S. Swartzentruber Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison M.B. Webb 1992 Thomas Michely KFA, Julich G. Comsa 1993 Anna K. SwanBoston University M. El-Batanouny 1994 G. Rosenfeld KFA, Julich G. Comsa 1995 Marcus K. WeldonHarvard University C. Friend 1996 J. Carpinelli & B. KohlerUniv. of Tennessee & Fritz Haber Inst. E.W. Plummer & M. Scheffler 1997 D. GragsonUniv. of Oregon G. Richmond 1998 Barry C. Stipe & M.S. Hoogeman Cornell University & FOM Inst./Leiden Univ. W. Ho & J.W.M. Frenken 1999 Kalman PelhosRutgers University T.E. Madey 2000 Lincoln Lauhon Cornell University W. Ho 2001 Gayle Thayer Sandia Livermore & UC Davis R. Hwang & S. Chiang 2002 Denis Potapenko Rutgers University B.J. Hinch 2003 John P. Pierce Univ. of Tennessee & ORNL E.W. Plummer & Jian Shen 2004 Peter WahlMax Planck Inst. for Solid State Physics K. Kern 2005 Nathan GuisingerNorthwestern UniversityMark C. Hersam 2006 Mustafa Murat Özer & Paul C. Snijders University of Tennessee and Delft University of Technology J.R. Thompson and H.H. Weitering & H.H. Weitering 2007 Peter MaksymovychUniversity of Pittsburgh J. T. Yates, Jr. 2008 Brett GoldsmithUniv. of California, Irvine P.G. Collins 2009 Alpha T. N'DiayeUniv. of Cologne T. Michely 2010 Heather L. TierneyTufts University E. Charles H. Sykes 2011 Tanza Lewis Univ. of California, Irvine J. Hemminger & B. Winter 2012 Daniel SchwarzUniversity of Twente B. Poelsema 2013 Benjamin A. GrayUniversity of Arkansas J. Chakhalian 2014 Donna A. KunkelUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln A. Enders 2015 Christoph Große & Amanda Larson Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research & University of New Hampshire K. Kern & K. Pohl2016 Charlotte Herbig University of Cologne T. Michely2017 Erik S. Skibinski Cornell University Melissa A. Hines2018 Felix Lüpke FZ Jülich B. Voigtländer2019Xiaolong LiuNorthwestern UniversityM.C. Hersam2020Mounika VutukuruBoston UniversityAnna Swan2021Jeremy F. SchultzUniversity of Illinois ChicagoNan Jiang2022Anuva AishwaryaUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignVidya Madhavan2023Sayantan MahapatraUniversity of Illinois ChicagoNan Jiang

See also

List of chemistry awards

References Footnotes

General references