Herman Feshbach Prize

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The Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics is a prize awarded annually by the American Physical Society to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in theoretical nuclear physics. The $10,000 prize is in honor of Herman Feshbach of MIT. The prize, inaugurated in 2014, is awarded to one person or is shared among two to three persons when all of the recipients are credited with the same accomplishment. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Physics". American Physical Society.
  2. For lifetime contributions to nuclear many-body theory including identifying mechanisms for saturation and relating the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces; and for initiating and leading efforts to understand the nucleon using lattice QCD (Laudatio).
  3. For his pioneering contributions to our understanding of quantum chromodynamics at high energy density and laying the theoretical foundations of experimental ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. His work has been a crucial guide to experiments at RHIC and LHC, and he has mentored a generation of young theorists. (Laudatio)
  4. For pioneering work in developing tools to characterize the structure of the nucleon within QCD and for showing how its properties can be probed through experiments; this work not only illuminates the nucleon theoretically but also acts as a driver of experimental programs worldwide. (Laudatio)
  5. For pioneering the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques to solve key problems in nuclear structure physics, cold atom physics, and dense matter theory of relevance to neutron stars (Laudatio)
  6. For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, and for establishing the foundations of the theory of quark-gluon plasma and its hydrodynamical behavior. (Laudatio)
  7. For seminal theoretical studies of fundamental symmetries in nuclei, including radioactive nuclear decays, parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions, and chiral dynamics of mesons and baryons. (Laudatio)
  8. "Berndt Mueller Awarded 2021 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  9. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Kaplan&first_nm=David&year=2022 [ bare URL ]
  10. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Ramsey-Musolf&first_nm=Michael&year=2023 [ bare URL ]
  11. https://aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=McLaughlin&first_nm=Gail&year=2024 [ bare URL ]