Klopsteg Memorial Award

The Klopsteg Memorial Award is an annual prize given to a notable physicist in memory of Paul E. Klopsteg. Established in 1990, it is awarded by the American Association of Physics Teachers.[1] 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.

## Award Winners

Year | Awardee[1] | Institution | Topic

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2020  | James Kakalios | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN  | Physics of Superheroes
2019  | Jodi Cooley[2] | Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX  |
2018  | Clifford V. Johnson | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA  | Black Holes and Time Travel in Your Everyday Life
2017  | John C. Brown  | University of Glasgow, Scotland  | Black Holes and White Rabbits
2016  | Margaret Wertheim[3] | Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles, CA  | Of Corals and the Cosmos: A Story of Hyperbolic Space
2015  | David Weintraub[4] | Vanderbilt University | Exoplanets: The Pace of Discovery and the Potential Impact on Humanity
2014  | Donald W. Olson  | Texas State University, San Marcos, TX  | Celestial Sleuth: Using Physics and Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature
2011  | James E. Hansen  | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies  | Halting Human-Made Climate Change: The Case for Young People and Nature
2010  | Robert Scherrer  | Vanderbilt University | Science and Science Fiction
2009  | Lee Smolin | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | The Role of the Scientist as a Public Intellectual
2008  | Michio Kaku | City University of New York | Physics of the Impossible
2007  | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York  | Adventures in Science Literacy
2006  | Lisa Randall[5] | 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 James Gates | University of Maryland, College Park, MD  | Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics
2002  | Barry C. Barish[6] | 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  | N. 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. Hansma[7] | University of California at Santa Barbara  | Seeing Atoms with the New Generation of Microscopes, Am. J. Phys. 59, 1067 (1991).

## See also

* List of physics awards
* List of prizes named after people

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Klopsteg Memorial Lecture". American Association of Physics Teachers. http://www.aapt.org/Programs/awards/klopsteg.cfm. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
2. ↑ "SMU physicist Jodi Cooley will receive the 2019 Klopsteg Award". SMU Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences. 17 April 2019. https://blog.smu.edu/dedmancollege/2019/04/17/smu-physicist-jodi-cooley-will-receive-the-2019-klopsteg-award/.
3. ↑ "Bookstore Online Exhibitions Coral Reef Contact Donate Post navigation American Association of Physics Teachers Award". Institute for Figuring. 2016. http://theiff.org/current/news/american-association-of-physics-teachers-award/.
4. ↑ "Weintraub receives 2015 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award". Vanderbilt University. 13 March 2015. https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/03/13/weintraub-klopsteg-award/.
5. ↑ "Faculty: LISA RANDALL". Harvard University. https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
6. ↑ "Vice President Barry C. Barish". APS News 14 (7): 6. July 2008. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200807/upload/July-2008-Volume-14-Number-7-Entire-Issue.pdf.
7. ↑ "AAPT Presents First Klopsteg Award to Hansma". Physics Today 44 (10): 104–105. 1991. doi:10.1063/1.2810280. ISSN 0031-9228.

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