HAMMETT AWARDS
Perhaps best known for joining together physical and organic chemistry as the field of physical organic chemistry, Columbia chemistry Professor Louis Hammett defined a new level of rigor in understanding chemical reactivity. The awards given in his name are for the most outstanding Ph.D. students in their final year in recognition of their excellent fundamental studies in chemical research.
Qian MIAO (Nuckolls)
Zhongping TAN (Cornish)
PEGRAM AWARDS
Professor and Dean George Pegram received the second Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University and perhaps is singularly responsible for physics at Columbia as Chandler is for chemistry. As Chairman of the department for 25 years, and then Dean of the Graduate School, he was responsible for modeling graduate studies as we know them today. Brought Bohr, Einstein, and Fermi to Columbia for the first time in the 1920s. The awards given in his name are for meritorious achievements by graduate students in their progress towards the Ph.D.
Mark BISCOE (Breslow)
Mark BUSHEY (Nuckolls)
Hairong GUAN (Norton)
Guang ZHU (Parkin)
JACK MILLER AWARDS
Professor Jack Malcolm Miller was a nuclear chemist who greatly influenced the field by his concerns for the teaching of it to a generation of undergraduates, graduate students and colleagues. He wrote beautiful papers and an outstanding textbook that is still in use 30 years after his death. The awards given in his name recognize excellence in teaching by the graduate students in this department.
Eric McARTHUR (Eisenthal)
Simone GIESCHLER (McDermott)
Mary FROEMMING (Sames)
Daniella BUCCELLA (Parkin)
Morgan MIHOK (Valentini)
Li TIAN (McDermot)
Amit REDDI (Gibney)
Peter PARK (Leighton)
BRIAN BENT AWARDS
The influence Professor Brian Bent had on his colleagues – many of them here today - and his students through his research and especially through his teaching is extraordinary. In the 9 years since his untimely death, the awards given in his name for excellence in teaching by undergraduates remind us of how special he was.
Christopher MORTEN
Amanda RAMSDALL
