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Jeff Brinker is the winner of the
2002 Lawrence Award in the Category "Materials Research"
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today named the seven
winners of the E.O. Lawrence Award. Each winner will receive a gold medal, a
citation and $25,000. The award is given for outstanding contributions in the
field of atomic energy, which today has influenced many fields of science such
as environmental research, materials science and nuclear medicine that were in
their infancy in 1960 when the first Lawrence Award was given.
"We are all enriched by the contributions these researchers have made
ranging from understanding the genetic code to measuring the expansion of the
universe itself," Secretary Abraham said.
Brinker, a chemist, will receive the award in the MATERIALS RESEARCH
category for his innovations in sol-gel chemistry to create nanostructured
materials that have applications to energy, manufacturing, defense and
medicine. Brinker is a senior scientist at Sandia Labs, professor of chemistry
and chemical and nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico and co-director
of the University's Center for Micro-Engineered Materials.
The Lawrence Award was established in 1959 to honor the memory of the late
Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence who invented the cyclotron (a particle accelerator)
and after whom two major Energy Department laboratories in Berkeley and
Livermore, Calif., are named. The award is given in seven categories for
outstanding contributions in the field of atomic energy, broadly defined. The
Lawrence Awards will be presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on
October 28.
The other winners are:
- LIFE SCIENCE: Claire M. Fraser, The Institute for Genomic Research,
Rockville, Md.
- NATIONAL SECURITY: Bruce T. Goodwin, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.
- CHEMISTRY: Keith O. Hodgson, Stanford University and the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford, Calif.
- PHYSICS: Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, Calif.
- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Benjamin D. Santer, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.
- NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: Paul J. Turinsky, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, N.C.
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