Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

The Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics is an annual award for theoretical nuclear physics by the American Physical Society that has been awarded since 2014 . It is endowed with 10,000 dollars and is named after the well-known theoretical nuclear physicist Herman Feshbach from MIT.

Award winners

2014 John W. Negele for his lifetime achievement in the field of the nuclear many-body problem including the identification of mechanisms for the saturation of the nuclear force and the connection of the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces and for initiating and directing efforts towards the nucleon using the lattice QCD understand (laudation)
2015 Larry McLerran for pioneering work on understanding QCD at high energy densities and for the theoretical foundations of our understanding of ultra-relativistic heavy ion scattering (laudation).
2016 Xiangdong Ji for pioneering the development of tools to characterize the structure of nucleons within the QCD and how its properties can be explored in experiments .
2017 Joseph Carlson for his pioneering work in the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques for the solution of key problems in the nuclear structure, systems of atoms at low temperatures and the theory of very dense matter with application to neutron stars (laudation).
2018 Edward Shuryak for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of matter under extreme conditions, which is subject to the strong interaction, and for laying the foundations for the theory of the quark-gluon plasma and its hydrodynamic behavior .
2019 Barry R. Holstein for outstanding theoretical studies on fundamental symmetries in atomic nuclei, including radioactive decays, parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions, and chiral dynamics of mesons and baryons .
2020 Ubirajara van Kolck for pioneering contributions to effective field theories in nuclei that transformed theoretical low-energy nuclear physics .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ For lifetime contributions to nuclear many-body theory including identifying mechanisms for saturation and relating the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces; and for initiating and leading efforts to understand the nucleon using lattice QCD (laudation).
↑ For his pioneering contributions to our understanding of quantum chromodynamics at high energy density and laying the theoretical foundations of experimental ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. His work has been a crucial guide to experiments at RHIC and LHC, and he has mentored a generation of young theorists. (Laudatory speech)
↑ For pioneering work in developing tools to characterize the structure of the nucleon within QCD and for showing how its properties can be probed through experiments; This work not only illuminates the nucleon theoretically but also acts as a driver of experimental programs worldwide. (Laudatory speech)
↑ For pioneering the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques to solve key problems in nuclear structure physics, cold atom physics, and dense matter theory of relevance to neutron stars (laudation)
↑ For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, and for establishing the foundations of the theory of quark-gluon plasma and its hydrodynamical behavior. (Laudatory speech)
↑ For seminal theoretical studies of fundamental symmetries in nuclei, including radioactive nuclear decays, parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions, and chiral dynamics of mesons and baryons. (Laudatory speech)

[1] For lifetime contributions to nuclear many-body theory including identifying mechanisms for saturation and relating the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces; and for initiating and leading efforts to understand the nucleon using lattice QCD (laudation).

[2] For his pioneering contributions to our understanding of quantum chromodynamics at high energy density and laying the theoretical foundations of experimental ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. His work has been a crucial guide to experiments at RHIC and LHC, and he has mentored a generation of young theorists. (Laudatory speech)

[3] For pioneering work in developing tools to characterize the structure of the nucleon within QCD and for showing how its properties can be probed through experiments; This work not only illuminates the nucleon theoretically but also acts as a driver of experimental programs worldwide. (Laudatory speech)

[4] For pioneering the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques to solve key problems in nuclear structure physics, cold atom physics, and dense matter theory of relevance to neutron stars (laudation)

[5] For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, and for establishing the foundations of the theory of quark-gluon plasma and its hydrodynamical behavior. (Laudatory speech)

[6] For seminal theoretical studies of fundamental symmetries in nuclei, including radioactive nuclear decays, parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions, and chiral dynamics of mesons and baryons. (Laudatory speech)