Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics

The winners of the 2007 Dissertation Award are

Deepshikha Choudhury of Ohio University
"For her dissertation investigating neutron polarizabilities and nucleon-nucleon scattering in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory."

and

Nikolai Tolich of Stanford University

"For his dissertation presenting an experimental investigation of
terrestrial electron anti-neutrinos with KamLAND."

Purpose: To recognize a recent Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics.

Nature: The award consists of $2,000 and an allowance for travel to the annual Spring Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of The American Physical Society, at which the award will be presented.

Establishment & Support: This award was endowed in 1985 by members and friends of the Division of Nuclear Physics.

Rules & Eligibility: Nominations are open to any person who has received a Ph.D. degree in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics from a North American university within the two-year period preceeding the deadline of 1 July each year. Nominations should include:

The name of the proposed candidate,
A statement of her/his contribution to the thesis research as well as that of others,
A letter of support from the nominee's research advisor,
Two additional letters of support from physicists who are familar with the candidate and the research.

Nominations remain in effect for two years and need not be resubmitted.

Previous winners and their citations are listed here.

Nominations for the Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics are due on 1 July for the following year's prize.

Updated August 11, 2008

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