Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)-affiliated researchers were elected members to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this week. The four make up a class of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates this year from 14 different countries. The election recognizes their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The NAS membership is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. This year the elected are:
Robert Glaeser, a Berkeley Lab senior scientist in the Molecular...
Chemistry professor Graham R. Fleming has won the Royal Chemistry Society’s Faraday Lectureship Prize 2016.
Says Fleming, “It is an honor to join the very select company of previous College of Chemistry winners of this award.” The other CoC winners are Y.T. Lee (1992), Alex Pines (2004) and Richard Saykally (2012).
The prize was awarded for experimental and theoretical achievements that have redefined the study and understanding of fundamental chemical and photobiological processes in liquids, solutions and proteins.
Fleming, 67, studied chemistry at Bristol University...
Chemistry professor Naomi Ginsberg has been named one of thirteen Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2016. The award recognizes young faculty members at U.S. universities who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and are deeply committed to education.
“The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award is the Dreyfus Foundation’s flagship program,” says Dr. Mark Cardillo, Executive Director of The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. “The award supports exceptional young academic researchers at an early and crucial stage of their careers. They are selected based on...
This year’s Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics for outstanding research in materials science and its applications was awarded to Roland Wiesendanger (Hamburg) and Xiang Zhang (Berkeley, CA). The award, accompanied by US$ 5,000, was presented to the scientists at the Haus der Patriotischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg on 27 May 2016 during the “Julius Springer Forum on Applied Physics.”
Roland Wiesendanger received the award for his pioneering work on spin-...
Former Lab Director and materials scientist Paul Alivisatos attended a special White House ceremony on May 19 to receive the National Medal, the nation’s highest honor for lifetime achievement in science. More>
UC Berkeley will help lead the new Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, which aims to tackle major scientific challenges by improving imaging technology.
The center, which includes scientists from UC Berkeley, UCLA and the University of Colorado Boulder, will receive $24 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) over a five-year period, with the possibility of a continuation for five additional years. Naomi S. Ginsberg, associate professor of chemistry and physics and member of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at Berkeley, will lead the...
The New England Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) has awarded Berkeley chemistry professor Gabor Somorjai its prestigious 2016 Richards Medal. The award will be presented to Somorjai on March 23, 2017, at Harvard University.
The award honors the memory of Theodore William Richards (1868‑1928), the first American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements. He was also the doctoral adviser to G.N. Lewis, who earned his Ph.D. under Richards in 1899....
President Obama hosted the White House Frontiers Conference on Oct. 13, which brought together top innovators to discuss advances in science and technology. Lab researchers Etosha Cave and Peidong Yang participated in the panel on Global Frontiers to discuss climate change and the clean energy...
The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) has awarded one of three 2016 Academy Prizes to Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi.
Yaghi won in the category of basic and engineering sciences, in recognition of his work in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Şerif Mardin of Istanbul City University received the prize in the category of social sciences and humanities, while Mary-Claire King of the University of Washington has been awarded the health and life sciences prize, in recognition of her studies in the field of breast-cancer genetics.
The Lab’s Paul Alivisatos, Amy Herr, and Enrique Iglesia were among 175 inductees. Election is a “distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” More>