Fellowship and Award Nominations

Please remember that the Forum can nominate every year a certain number of its members to become APS Fellows. Please send suggestions to Joel Primack joel@ucsc.edu. People nominated should have made significant Physics and Society, as well as Physics research, contributions.

Also the Forum gives two special awards, the Burton Forum Award, “to recognize outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society”, and the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award “to recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society in such areas as the environment, arms control, and science policy”. In addition, the Nicholson Medal was established in 1994 by both the Forum and the Division of Plasma Physics "to recognize the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists". Please see https://www.aps.org/units/fps/awards/index.cfm for details and nomination procedures.

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