Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 5, 2002

Volume 30, Number 24

D. Allan Bromley

Bromley honored by physics society

The American Physical Society awarded the 2002 Nicholson Prize to D. Allan Bromley, Sterling Professor of the Sciences, in recognition of his roles as a research scientist, an outstanding teacher, a supportive mentor and colleague, a leader of the physics community in this country and worldwide, and adviser to governments.

Founded in 1899, the APS is the major professional society for physics in this country, with members throughout the world. Bromley was one of the organizers of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, as well as the first nuclear physics councilor and the APS president in 1997.

A renowned nuclear physicist, Bromley is known as the father of modern heavy ion physics.The first Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale, he was dean of engineering 1994-200, and was the first Cabinet-level assistant to the U.S. president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy 1989-1993.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1988 was awarded the National Medal of Science.

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