Professor Susumu Okubo Selected to Receive the 2005 APS J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics
Susumu Okubo, Professor of Physics and the University of Rochester, will receive the 2005 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics of the American Physical Society (APS) . This prize was set up to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.
The citation for Okubo's award reads:
"For ground breaking investigations into the pattern of hadronic masses and decay rates, which provided essential clues into the development of the quark model, and for demonstrating that CP Violations permits partial decay rate asymmetries" ."
The Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a reception in Okubo's honor on Thursday , Oct. 21, 2004, 3:00-3:30 pm in BL271.
Th Prize will be presented at the APS April 2005 meeting at a special Ceremonial session. Prof. Okubo has also been invited to present a lecture at the meeting on the work for which the Prize is being awarded.
The following are previous recepients of the APS Sakurai Prize in theoretical particle physics:
2005 Susumu Okubo
2004 Ikaros Bigi and Anthony Sanda
2003 Alfred Mueller and George Sterman
2002 William J. Marciano and Alberto Sirlin
2001 Nathan Isgur, Mikhail Voloshin, Mark Wise
2000 Curtis G. Callan, Jr.
1999 Mikhail Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein, and Valentine Zakharov
1998 Leonard Susskind
1997 Thomas Appelquist
1996 William A. Bardeen
1995 Howard Georgi
1994 Yoichiro Nambu
1993 Mary K. Gaillard
1992 Lincoln Wolfenstein
1991 Vladimir N. Gribov
1990 Toichiro Kinoshita
1989 Nicola Cabibbo
1988 Stephen L. Adler
1987 Luciano Maiani and John Iliopoulos
1986 David Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek
1985 Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi
For a list of selected APS, OSA and DOE-OJI awards given to University of Rochester faculty and alumni see:
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/APSsummary.html
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/OSAsummary.html
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bodek/dept/OJIsummary.html
As an aside, Professor Okubo is the third faculty member at Rochester (joining Professors Bodek and Thorndike) to receive a national APS award in the Particle Physics.
The 2004 APS Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics was awarded to Arie Bodek (faculty member at the University of Rochester) "For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many laboratories."
The 1999 APS Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics was awarded to Edward H. Thorndike (faculty member at University of Rochester) "For a leading role in milestone advances in the study of the b quark with the CLEO collaboration; particularly the discovery and measurement of b semileptonic decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and the b to u weak transition. In addition, his contributions led to substantial improvements in understanding the flavor sector of the Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings."
In addition, the 2002 APS Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics was awarded to Kajita Takaaki, Masatoshi Koshiba (Rochester PhD Alumnus) and Yoji Totsuka (University of Tokyo) "For compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos."
Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
10/14/04; 6:49:02 PM