ABB has recently announced that after 31 years of the running of this very prestigious and successful award the time has come to draw an end to the Bomem-Michelson award. No further nominations are being solicited at this time. The Coblentz Society is in discussions to startup a similar award under new sponsorship.
2017 Award Recipient
Professor Keith Nelson received the 2017 Bomem-Michelson Award at Pittcon in Chicago. Keith Nelson received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University in 1981, and after a postdoctoral stint at UCLA he joined the faculty at MIT in 1982. He has worked on discovery of new light-matter interactions and their exploitation for spectroscopy and control of coherent acoustic waves, lattice and molecular vibrations, excitons, spins, and their admixtures with light. He has developed novel methods for study of solid-state chemical reactions, crystals near phase transitions, glass-forming liquids, electronic excited-state dynamics, thermal transport, and matter far from equilibrium. He has pioneered tabletop generation of strong terahertz-frequency fields and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy.
History
This award was dedicated to the memory of Professor A. A. Michelson, developer of the Michelson interferometer. ABB sponsored the award for 31 years (1987-2017)to honor scientists who advanced the technique(s) of vibrational, molecular, Raman, or electronic spectroscopy. Contributions may have been theoretical, experimental, or both. The recipient must have been actively working and at least 37 years of age. To ensure that the award was based on an independent evaluation of the candidate’s achievements, the selection was made by a committee chosen by the Coblentz Society. The Award was presented each year at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, and consisted of a crystal symbol of the Bomem–Michelson award and an honorarium. The ABB sponsored Bomem-Michelson Award Symposium was held in honor of the awardee and immediately followed the presentation.
2017 | Keith Nelson | |
2016 | Saul Mukamel | |
2015 | David Jonas | |
2014 | Yuki Ozaki | |
2013 | Brooks Pate | |
2012 | Joel Harris | |
2011 | Isao Noda | |
2010 | Richard Van Duyne | |
2009 | Martin Quack | |
2008 | Geraldine Richmond | |
2007 | David F. Bocian | |
2006 | Robert W. Field | |
2005 | Paul Bohn | |
2004 | Dave Haaland | |
2003 | Peter Griffiths | |
2002 | Dan Nevmark | |
2001 | Larry Nafie | |
2000 | John F. Rabolt | |
1999 | Sandy Asher | |
1998 | Bruce Chase | |
1997 | William H. Woodruff | |
1996 | Ira W. Levin | |
1995 | Terry A. Miller | |
1994 | Herbert L. Strauss | |
1993 | Jack L. Koenig | |
1992 | Jyrki Kauppinen | |
1991 | Alan Pine | |
1990 | William Klemperer | |
1989 | Richard Saykally | |
1988 | No Award Presented | |
1987 | W. Carl Linberger | |
1986 | Thomas G. Spiro |