2009 Compton Award - S. Mochrie, M. Sutton, and G. Grubel

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) and APS Users Organization has announced that the 2009 Arthur H. Compton Award has been presented jointly to Simon Mochrie, Mark Sutton, and Gerhard Grubel for their pioneering efforts in X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), which exploits the coherent properties of synchrotron X-rays to study the slow dynamics of condensed matter at short length scales. For more information on their pioneering work, see the paper, "Observation of speckle by diffraction with coherent X-rays", M. Sutton, S. G. J. Mochrie, T. Greytak, S. E. Nagler, L. E. Berman, G. A. Held, and G. B. Stephenson, Nature 352, 608-610 (1991). Former recipients of this award are: Andrzej Joachimiak and Gerold Rosenbaum (2007); Gunter Schmahl and Janos Kirz (2005); Martin Blume, Doon Gibbs, Kazumichi Namikawa, Denis McWhan (2003); Wayne A. Hendrickson (2001); Sunil K. Sinha (2000); Donald H. Bilderback, Andreas K. Freund, Gordon S. Knapp, Dennis M. Mills (1998); Philip M. Platzman, Peter M. Eisenberger (1997); Nikolai Vinokurov, Klaus Halbach (1995).