The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.,then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors.
Eugen Merzbacher was an American physicist.
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship was the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. It was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951 and was named for its benefactors,John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. The Morehead-Cain is among the most prestigious undergraduate educational opportunities worldwide,with only 3 percent of candidates gaining admission each year.
Alexey A Petrov is an American physicist known for his theoretical research in the area of physics of heavy quarks. Petrov is a USC Endowed Chair in Physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was a professor of physics at Wayne State University. He is the first particle theorist in the State of Michigan to receive National Science Foundation's CAREER award
Peter R. McCullough is an American astronomer,founder of the XO Project and discoverer of extrasolar transiting planets,such as XO-1b. Soon after the U.S. declassification of the laser beacon adaptive optics technique in 1991,he identified dusty disks around newborn stars,later referred to as proplyds,in observations of the Orion Nebula made with the Starfire Optical Range. Astronomers John Gaustad,McCullough,and David Van Buren with engineer Wayne Rosing mapped the entire southern sky in the hydrogen alpha transition with sufficient sensitivity for decontamination of the Milky Way from the cosmic microwave background. McCullough's modification to the Stromgren sphere model often produces more realistic results than the original.
Kennedy J. Reed is an American theoretical atomic physicist in the Theory Group in the Physics &Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a founder of the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC),a group of about 30 universities that provides physics fellowships for women and minorities.
Homer Alfred Neal was an American particle physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of Michigan. Neal was president of the American Physical Society in 2016. He was also a board member of Ford Motor Company,a council member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,and a director of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Neal was the interim President of the University of Michigan in 1996. Neal's research group works as part of the ATLAS experiment hosted at CERN in Geneva.
Keith Alison Olive is a theoretical physicist,and director at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute,University of Minnesota,specializing in particle physics and cosmology. His main topics of research are:big bang nucleosynthesis,which is an explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes through 7Li;particle dark matter;big bang baryogenesis,which is an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature;and inflation which is a theory constructed to resolve many outstanding problems in standard cosmology.
Nina Marković is a Croatian-American physicist. Her work focuses on quantum transport in low-dimensional systems,superconductivity,nanostructures,and quantum computing. She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004. Markovićworked at Delft University of Technology,Harvard University,and Johns Hopkins University before joining the Goucher College Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2015.
Janet Marie Conrad is an American experimental physicist,researcher,and professor at MIT studying elementary particle physics. Her work focuses on neutrino properties and the techniques for studying them. In recognition of her efforts,Conrad has been the recipient of several highly prestigious awards during her career,including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow,a Guggenheim Fellow,and the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award.
G. Peter Lepage is a Canadian American theoretical physicist and an academic administrator. He was the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University from 2003 to 2013.
Heather Lewandowski is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She looks to understand the quantum mechanical processes in making chemical bonds. She uses time-varying inhomogeneous electric fields to achieve supersonic cooling. She also studies how students learn experimental skills in instructional physics labs and help to improve student learning in these environments. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Karen E. Daniels is an American physicist who is a professor of physics at North Carolina State University. Her research considers the deformation and failure of materials. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,and serves on their Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Monika Schleier-Smith is an American experimental physicist studying many-body quantum physics by precisely assembling systems of ultracold atoms. These atomic,molecular,and optical physics (AMO) engineered systems have applications in quantum sensing,coherent control,and quantum computing. Schleier-Smith is an associate professor of physics at Stanford University,a Sloan Research Fellow,and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. Schleier-Smith also serves on the board of directors for the Hertz Foundation.
Leslie Ann Kolodziejski is an American professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on fabricating novel photonic devices after synthesizing the constituent material via molecular-beam epitaxy. She is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and is a fellow of The Optical Society.
Mark Owen Robbins was an American condensed matter physicist who specialized in computational studies of friction,fracture and adhesion,with a particular focus on nanotribology,contact mechanics,and polymers. He was a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University at the time of his death.
Jesse Thaler is an American particle physicist who is a professor at the MIT Department of Physics. He was named director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) upon its creation in August 2020.
Lawrence John Hall is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at the University of California,Berkeley and the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.
Andrei V. Gritsan is an American-Siberian particle physicist. He was a member of a team of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider,who,in 2012,announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle,a Higgs boson.
Protik "Tiku" Majumder is a physicist who is the Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy at Williams College. He was the interim president of Williams from December 2017 to July 2018,replacing Adam Falk,who left to become president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was replaced by Maud Mandel.
