the applications of lasers to in diverse areas from the detection of gravitational waves to the ultrafast response of matter.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Resta, Raffaele [2006]
Universita di Trieste, Italy
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the development of theoretical methods for the calculation of dielectric response and electronic polarization and localization in insulators.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Reucroft, Stephen [2006]
Northeastern University
Citation: For leadership and outstanding contributions to the precision determination of fundamental quantities in particle physics.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Ritz, Steven M. [2006]
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Citation: For his leadership role in particle astrophysics, including his major contributions to the design and construction of the Large Area Telescope for the GLAST Mission.
Nominated by: Division of Astrophysics

Rogers, John A. [2006]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Citation: For contributions to the fields ofPhysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a premier institution to promote international collaborations.
Nominated by: Forum on International Physics

Wang, Hailin [2006]
University of Oregon
Citation: For contributions to the study of coherent optical processes in semiconductors, especially the pioneering experimental work on electromagnetically induced transparency via exciton correlations.
Nominated by: Division of Laser Science

Wang, Lin-Wang [2006]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions in computational nanoscience, especially for the development of new computational algorithms in electronic structure calculations of large nanostructures.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Whisnant, Kerry Lewis [2006]
Iowa State University
Citation: For important contributions to the study of neutrino mass and neutrino oscillations and to the phenomenology of electroweak gauge models.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Whyte, Dennis Gordon [2006]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For major contributions to the understanding of physical processes in