The Herbert P. Broida Award is awarded every two years by the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

for outstanding work for experimental advances in the field of atomic and molecular

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...

or chemical physics. The prize was established in 1979 and is named after the physicist . The winner receives $5000 and travel expenses to the award ceremony.

Winners

* 1980: Robert W. Field * 1981:

William Carl Lineberger William Carl Lineberger (born December 5, 1939) is an American chemist. A native of Hamlet, North Carolina, William Carl Lineberger was born to parents Caleb Henry and Evelyn Pelot Cooper Lineberger on December 5, 1939. His mother was a former tea ...

* 1983:

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...

* 1985:

Richard Bersohn Richard Bersohn (May 13, 1925 – November 18, 2003) was an American chemical physicist and Higgins Professor of Natural Science at Columbia University. He was known for his research in molecular photodissociation and chemical kinetics. Early lif ...

* 1987:

Steven Chu Steven ChuStephen Leone Stephen Robert Leone (born May 19, 1948) is an American physical chemist and the John R. Thomas Endowed Chair in Physical Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Leone was born in Queens, New York City on ...

* 1991:

David E. Pritchard David Edward Pritchard (born October 15, 1941 in New York City) is physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Pritchard carried out pioneering experiments on the interaction of atoms with light that led to t ...

* 1993:

Curt Wittig Curt Franklin Wittig is a Professor of Chemistry and the holder of the Paul A. Miller Chair in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC). Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Curt Wittig rece ...

* 1995: Ahmed Zewail * 1997:

William Happer William Happer (born July 27, 1939) is an American physicist who has specialized in the study of atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, and a long-term memb ...

* 1999: * 2001: , Paul Houston * 2003: George W. Flynn * 2005: Hanna Reisler * 2007: * 2009: * 2011:

Warren S. Warren Warren Sloan Warren is the James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging at Duke University. He is also a Professor of Physics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at the same institution. ...

* 2013: Daniel M. Neumark * 2015:

Michael Ashfold Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol. He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. He graduated B.Sc in 1975 and Ph.D in 1978 from Birmingham ...

* 2017: * 2019:

Marsha I. Lester Marsha Isack Lester is an American physical chemist. She is currently the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Lester uses both theoretical and experimental methods to study the physical chemistry ...

* 2021: John M. Doyle * 2023:

Lai-Sheng Wang Lai-Sheng Wang (, born 1961 in Henan, China) is an experimental physical chemist currently serving as the Chair of the Chemistry Department at Brown University. Wang is known for his work on atomic gold pyramids and planar boron clusters. Educ ...

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