The purpose of the American Physical Society award is to honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students.

Research Corporation sponsors this award, which is made annually.

Winners include:

2021 Gordon Jones

2020 Katherine Aidala

2019 Robert C. Forrey

2018 Warren F. Rogers

2017 Protik K. Majumder

2016 Gregory S. Adkins

2015 L. Donald Isenhower

2014 Thomas Solomon

2013 Mario Affatigato

2012 David S. Hall

2011 Janet Seger

2010 Enrique Galvez

2009 James C. Eckert

2008 Michael R. Brown

2007 William K. Wootters

2006 Q. Charles Su

and Rainer Grobe

2005 Murtadha Khakoo

2004 Nancy Haegel

2003 Dhiraj K. Sardar

2002 James Cederberg

2001 Paul DeYoung

2000 Donald Thomas Jacobs

1999 Robert Edson Warner

1998 Richard W. Peterson

1997 Robert C. Hilborn

1996 David Peak

1995 Michael E. Sadler

1994 Peter J. Collings

1993 Steven Feller

1992 Joseph Trivisonno Jr.

1991 Larry R. Hunter

1990 Jacob J. Leventhal

1989 Stuart B. Crampton

1988 R. Bruce Partridge

1987 Roger W. Bland

1986 Jerry P. Gollub