Winners of the Gaede-Langmuir Award
The
Gaede-Langmuir Award was established in 1977, by an endowing grant from Dr.
Kenneth C.D. Hickman,
to recognize and encourage outstanding discoveries and inventions. The recipient
must have made a major unit
contribution to the sciences and technologies of interest to the American Vacuum
Society. The award is
conferred biennially but only when a specifically worthy candidate appears. It
consists of an inscribed plaque,
a cash award which is currently $10,000 and an honorary lectureship at a regular
session of the International Symposium.
1978 Pierre
V. Auger
“For establishing
the fundamental principle of Auger spectroscopy which has led to the most widely
used surface analysis
technique of importance to all aspects of vacuum science and technology.”
1980 Daniel Alpert
“For his contributions to the production, measurement, and utilization of
ultrahigh vacuum.”
1982 Alfred H. Sommer
“For inventions and development of photocathodes and secondary emitters used
in a variety of applications such as vacuum
tubes, high-energy physics, medicine and biology, astronomy, night vision, and
television.”
1984 Alfred Benninghoven
“For the development of concepts and instrumentation in static secondary ion
mass spectrometry and the demonstration of its
usefulness in manifold applications.”
1986 Rointan F. Bunshah
“For his scientific and technical insight, demonstration, and continuing
involvement in the worldwide implementation of
low-temperature vapor-phased deposition of refractory films.”
1988 Alfred Y. Cho and John R. Arthur, Jr.
“For pioneering research in the invention and development of MBE and its
application to advanced materials and devices.”
1990 Francois M. d’Heurie
“For contributions to the science of electronic materials, in particular the
understanding of electromigration and silicide materials.”
1992 Russell D. Young
“For his invention of the Topografiner, an instrument which led to the
development of the scanning tunneling microscope.”
1994 Robert J. Celotta and Daniel T. Pierce
“For their innovative development of advanced, spin-polarized electron beam
technology and their scientific contributions to
atomic, surface, and microstructure physics.”
1996 Gerald J. Lapeyre
"For the
outstanding contributions to the development of photo-emission spectroscopy with
synchrotron radiation,
and in particular for his innovative use of photon tunability and angle
resolution, which influenced several generations of surface scientists."
1998 Paul W. Palmberg
"For his
innovative and revolutionary inventions that resulted in the development of
practical energy analyzers for
surface analysis by Auger-electron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy."
2000 Gary W. Rubloff
"For the inventive application of surface science and vacuum
technology to the semiconductor industry, and for fostering an
effective bridge between AVS research and manufacturing"
2002 Christoforo Benvenuti,
“For the development of advanced gettering technology for
particle accelerators, its application to efficient ultra-high vacuum
pumping and its impact on the design of large systems”