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September 30, 2009 - Herman Winick Awarded Andrei Sakharov Prize for Upholding Human Rights. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource physicist Herman Winick has been awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize, an honor given every two years by the American Physical Society in recognition of scientists who have worked to uphold human rights. Winick, who is assistant director emeritus at SSRL and professor emeritus in the applied physics department at Stanford University, will receive the prize February 14 at the American Physical Society’s general meeting in Washington, D.C. He will share the award with City College of New York physicist Joseph Birman and National Science Foundation Elementary Particle Physics Program Director Moishe Pripstein. The award is named for Andrei Sakharov, a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate who campaigned extensively against nuclear proliferation in the former Soviet Union. The prize was first given in 2006 to Cornell University physicist and Soviet exile Yuri Orlov, who, in the 1970s and 80s, was imprisoned and subsequently deported for criticizing human rights violations by the Soviet government. Full SLAC Today article

July 31, 2009 - IXAS Award to Britt Hedman. The International X-ray Absorption Society (IXAS) announced its 2009 Awards for achievement in the field of XAFS.  Professor Britt Hedman, a member of the SLAC Photon Science faculty and Deputy Director of SSRL, was named as co-recipient of the IXAS Outstanding Achievement Award.  The Award is shared with Professor Frank de Groot, Utrecht University, Netherlands.  This is the highest award of the International XAFS Society and is given every three years for outstanding accomplishments across all x-ray absorption spectroscopy disciplinary areas, including experimental and theoretical studies.  The award, formally named the IXAS Edward Stern Outstanding Achievement Award, recognizes the contributions of Britt in the development of technology and methodologies for low- and hard- energy XAFS and extensive applications to the study of metalloprotein active sites.  Britt’s research has been carried out primarily at SSRL, within its Structural Molecular Biology program, which is funded by DOE-BER and NIH-NCRR.

July 27, 2009 - Ed Solomon honored in inaugural class of ACS Fellows. Two faculty members of the Stanford Chemistry Department have been chosen to be in the first class of American Chemical Society Fellows for excellence in chemistry: Professor Edward I. Solomon and Professor Richard N. Zare. They will join 162 other members who "share a common set of accomplishments, namely true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise coupled with distinctive service to ACS or to the broader world of chemistry," says Immediate Past-President Bruce E. Bursten, who championed creation of the program and shepherded it through board approval last year. Learn more by clicking here.

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