To whom it may
concern:
- It is a pleasure for me to introduce the AAPPS Chen Ning
Yang Award of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical
Societies (AAPPS).
The AAPPS is the umbrella organization of 17 Physical
Societies in Asia Pacific region which was created in 1990.
The AAPPS aims to promote the advancement of knowledge in
physics in the Asia Pacific region, including research,
application and teaching, especially through international
collaboration in these activities in the region.
Chen Ning Yang is Professor Emeritus, State University of
New York,at Stony Brook and a recipient of Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1958. He was Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Group for
Formation of the AAPPS and the first President of the AAPPS.
The first donation of this prize was in 1997. The recipients
were Mr. Wu Jian (Department of Physics, Tsinghua
University) and Mr. Yang Haitao (Institute of Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Attached is a more detailed explanation.
Michiji Konuma
Professor Emeritus, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
and
The Second President of AAPPS
Contact:
Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies,
Musashi Institute of Technology,
Yokohama, Japan 224-0015
Fax: +81-45-910-2600
e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp
The AAPPS Chen Ning Yang
Award
Michiji Konuma
President (1994 – 1997), AAPPS
November 2004
The idea to create the AAPPS (Association of Asia Pacific
Physical Societies) Prize or Award was first discussed at the
Third Council meeting held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in August
1992. It was noticed that it is important to encourage young
physicists in the Asia/Pacific region and to introduce excellent
activities in the region around.
In the second term of the AAPPS Council (1994 – 1997) creation
of the AAPPS Award of Physics was approved as follows:
a. The AAPPS Award is given at the occasion of the Asia
Pacific Physics Conference (APPC) to
outstanding young
physicists in the country/region where the APPC is held.
b. The candidates of awardees are selected by the member
society of the AAPPS organizing the APPC
(the host society).
c. The criteria for selection are decided by the host
society.
d. The awardees are approved by the Ordinary General
Meeting following to the recommendation by the
host society.
e. The President of the AAPPS awards the AAPPS Award at the
APPC.
The Seventh APPC was decided to be held in Beijing, China in
August 1997. Then the Chinese Physical Society (the Executive
Committee of the 7APPC chaired by Professor Zhao Zhong Xian)
selected two candidates of awardees. Both candidates were
approved by the Third Ordinary General Meeting of the AAPPS held
on 18 August 1997.
The first AAPPS Award was given to two graduate students in
China from the AAPPS President at the Closing Ceremony of the
7APPC.
The awardees and their subjects were Mr. Wu Jian (Department of
Physics, Tsinghua University) by his contribution on “the
electron transport through mesoscopic systems” and Mr. Yang
Haitao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) by
his contribution on “the development of 4.2K high vacuum
scanning tunneling microscope and its applications to high
temperature superconductors”.
Professor Chen Ning Yang was the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Group
for the Formation of the AAPPS from 1988 to August 1990 and the
First President of the AAPPS from 11 August 1990 to 2 July 1994.
He worked as a Council member of the AAPPS in the Second term
and retired from the Council at the end of 1997. The Council
acknowledged his long-standing contribution for the AAPPS and
conferred him the title of Honorary President. At the same time
the AAPPS Award of Physics was renamed as the AAPPS Chen Ning
Yang Award.
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