Scientists, engineers honored with E. O. Lawrence Award.(ENERGY)

The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Samuel Bodman, recently named eight winners of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award which honors scientists and engineers at mid-career for their contributions in R&D. The winners are: Materials Research: Paul Alivisatos, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley, and Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, jointly for chemical synthesis and characterization of functional semi-conducting nanocrystals.

National Security: Malcolm Andrews, Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., for development of a world-class laboratory at Texas A&.M Univ., College Station, for buoyancy-driven mixing research.

Life Sciences: Arup Chakraborty, MIT, for applied statistical mechanical methods. His work has had a major impact on...

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