Physical Electronics Conference

The Nottingham Prize

The Nottingham Prize was originally established in 1966 from contributions given in memory of Professor Wayne B. Nottingham of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by his many friends and associates. The prize, currently consisting of a certificate and $1000, is awarded to the best student paper presented at the conference. This prize represents a seminal honor, as many Nottingham winners have gone on to become leaders in the field of surface science.

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Competing for the Nottingham Prize

A student paper is defined as a paper based on a Ph.D. thesis whose date of submission is no earlier than one year before the meeting at which the Prize is given. In other words -- all students who have not yet completed their Ph.D. work are eligible. In addition, you are also eligible to compete if you have completed your Ph.D. work but your thesis was submitted less than one year ago. In this case, your talk must be on your Ph.D. thesis work, not on work done afterwards.

The committee requests that a paper submitted for competition have no more than two authors - the student and his/her professor. If the adviser is not a co-author, his/her name should be provided. From those who submit, we will select a set of finalists based on the extended abstract, and will inform all applicants of their status approximately May 1st.  For those who are selected as finalists, the registration fee will be waived. All Nottingham contestants must complete and submit the registration form and the housing form (if you intend to use university housing). They must also submit:

1. A regular 1-page abstract submitted as a Word Document for easy compilation. The competitor's name should be marked with an asterisk (*), and the accompanying footnote should read, "Nottingham Contestant." (Download WORD Template HERE.)

2. A Nottingham Prize competition package, submitted as a single pdf file, including:
(a) A cover letter indicating your interest in the Nottingham Prize competition. Include in the letter (expected) thesis submission and graduation dates.
(b) A brief vita.
(c) An extended abstract of approximately 1500 words. (Download WORD Template HERE.)

These items should be sent by email (as attachments) to Carol Lerner. We will continue to accept abstracts until 5:00 PM PST Friday, April 18, 2008. Although the competition will be judged largely on the oral presentation, the 1,500-word extended abstract is needed to provide additional information to the judges and to identify the finalists. Submission of a thesis or of a manuscript to be published is not acceptable. The committee will limit the number of competitors to those who can be accommodated in one day. Published material may be included in the paper providing that the thesis submission date meets the previous specifications.

Prior Nottingham Winners

Year	Winner	Institution	PI
1966	L. F. Cordes	University of Minnesota	W. T. Peria
1967	D. Steiner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	E. P. Gyftopoulos
	J.V. Hollweg
1968	E. Ward Plummer	Cornell University	T. N. Rhodin
1969	John C. Tracy	Cornell University	J. M. Blakely
1970	J. M. Baker	Cornell University	J. M. Blakely
1971	D. P. Smith	University of Minnesota	W. T. Peria
1972	W. Henry Weinberg	University of California, Berkeley	R. Merrill
1973	J. R. Bower	Bartol Research Foundation	J. M. Chen
1974	N. J. Dionne	Cornell University	T. N. Rhodin
	Torgny Gustafsson	Chalmers University of Technology	P. O. Nillson
1975	L. C. Isett	Cornell University	J. M. Blakely
1976	J. A. Knapp	Montana State University	G. A. Lapeyre
1977	S.-L. Weng	University of Pennsylvania	E. W. Plummer
1978	Gwo-Ching Wang	University of Wisconsin, Madison	M. G. Lagally
1979	Wilson Ho	University of Pennsylvania	E. W. Plummer
1980	R. DiFoggio	University of Chicago	R. Gomer
	Harry J. Levinson	University of Pennsylvania	E. W. Plummer
1981	Ruud M. Tromp	FOM Institute for Atomic & Molecular Physics	F. W. Saris
1982	P. O. Hahn	University of Hanover	M. Henzler
1983	R. Raue	Cologne and KFA Julich	G. Guntherodt M. Campagna
1984	M. Onellion	Rice University	G. K. Walters
1985	K. Gibson	University of Chicago	S. J. Sibener
	J. W. M. Frenken	FOM Institute for Atomic & Molecular Physics	J. F. van der Veen
1986	S. M. Yalisove	University of Pennsylvania	W. R. Graham
1987	John D. Beckerle	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	S. T. Ceyer
1988	Lee J. Richter	Cornell University	W. Ho
1989	J.-K. Zuo	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	C.-C. Wang
1990	Y.-W. Mo	University of Wisconsin., Madison	M. G. Lagally
1991	Brian S. Swartzentruber	University of Wisconsin, Madison	M. B. Webb
1992	Thomas Michely	KFA, Julich	G. Comsa
1993	A. K. Swan	Boston University	M. El-Batanouny
1994	G. Rosenfeld	KFA, Julich	G. Comsa
1995	Marcus K. Weldon	Harvard University	C. Friend
1996	J. Carpinelli	University of Tennessee	E. W. Plummer
	B. Kohler	Fritz Haber Institute	M. Scheffler
1997	D. Gragson	University of Oregon	G. Richmond
1998	Barry C. Stipe	Cornell University	W. Ho
	M. S. Hoogeman	FOM Institute & Leiden Univ.	J. W. M. Frenken
1999	K. Pelhos	Rutgers	T. E. Madey
2000	Lincoln Lauhon	Cornell University	W. Ho
2001	Gayle Thayer	University of California, Davis & Sandia Livermore	S. Chiang R. Hwang
2002	Denis Potapenko	Rutgers University	B. J. Hinch
2003	John Pierce	University of Tennessee	E. W. Plummer J. Shen
2004	Peter Wahl	Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Physics	Klaus Kern
2005	Nathan Guisinger	Northwestern University	Mark Hersam
2006	Mustafa Murat Ozer	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	J. R. Thompson H. H. Weitering
	Paul C. Snijders	Delft University of Technology	H.H. Weitering T.M. Klapwijk
2007	Peter Maksymovych	University of Pittsburgh	J. T. Yates, Jr.