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National physics society presents two professors with prizes

Both Shankar and Schoelkopf win American physical society awards, a rarity for a single university

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The American Physical Society honored two Yale physicists with prestigious prizes this year: one who has “taught it all” and one who built the “world’s fastest counter of the smallest beans.”

This month, the APS awarded the $10,000 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize to physics professor Ramamurti Shankar and the $5,000 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science to applied physics and physics professor Robert Schoelkopf.

The Lilienfeld Prize — an award given “for outstanding contributions to physics by a single individual who also has exceptional skills in...

#1 By Yale '07 12:48p.m. on October 9, 2008

Congrats to Dr. Shankar, one of the finest professors I had in any subject. A well-deserved award, for sure.

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