Klopsteg Memorial AwardEstablished 1990The Klopsteg Memorial Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the communication of the excitement of contemporary physics to the general public. The Klopsteg Memorial Award recipient is asked to make a major presentation at an AAPT Summer Meeting on a topic of current significance suitable for non-specialists. A $7,500 monetary award, an Award Certificate, and travel expenses to the meeting are presented to the recipient.
Award Winners| 2007 | Neil de Grasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York
"Adventures in Science Illiteracy"
| | 2006 | Lisa Randall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
"Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions" | | 2005 | Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA
"The Accelerating Universe" | | 2004 | Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
"Quantum Experiments: From Philosophical Curiosity to a New Technology" | | 2003 | Sylvester Gates, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
"Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics" | | 2002 | Barry C. Barish, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
"Catching the Waves with LIGO" | | 2001 | Virginia Trimble, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe" | | 2000 | Terrence P. Walker, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
"The Big Bang: Seeing Back to the Beginning" | | 1999 | Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago
"Cosmology: From Quantum Fluctuations to the Expanding Universe" | | 1998 | Sidney R. Nagel, The James Franck Institute
"Physics at the Breakfast Table - Or Waking Up to Physics" | | 1997 | Max Dresden, Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator
"Scales, Macroscopic, Microscopic, Mesoscopic: Their Autonomy and Interrelation" | | 1996 | Margaret Geller, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Optical Infrared Astronomy Division | | 1995 | Peter Franken, University of Arizona
"Municipal Waste, Recycling, and Nuclear Garbage" | | 1994 | David Mermin, Cornell University
"More Quantum Magic" | | 1993 | Charles P. Bean, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
"An Invitation to Table-Top Physics Inside and in the Open Air" | | 1992 | Gabriel Wienreich, University of Michigan at Anne Arbor
"What Science Knows about Violins And What It Doesn't Know," Am. J. Phys. 61, 1067 (1993). | | 1991 | Paul K. Hansman, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Seeing Atoms with the New Generation of Microscopes," Am. J. Phys. 59, 1067 (1991). |
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