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Albert Holland Prize for Public Presentations of Physics 1999

The winner of the 1999 Albert Holland Prize is Greg Baker!

The second Albert Holland Prize competition was held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. An audience of students, faculty, and community members heard an array of impressive students lectures. Each lecture derived an important result in Physics. The six student contestants represented the diversity of the Hobart and William Smith Natural Science Division. The contestant and their lectures, in order of presentation, were:

• Greg Baker '00, a junior Physics major
  Harmonic Oscillators Everywhere
• Erik Russell '99/'00, a senior Physics and Engineering major
  One dimensional lattice vibrations
• Andy Dougherty '99, a senior Physics major
  The Precession of the Equinoxes
• Jamie Brown '99, a senior Math major
  Motivating Gauge Invariance via the Schrodinger Equation
• Jamie Hurlbert '00, a junior Biochemistry major
  Static Cling in a Dielectric
• Scott Runyon '99, a senior Geoscience major
  A Model for Heat Flow in the Earth

Prof. Larry Campbell moderated the event. The judges were Prof. Donald Spector (Physics), Prof. Peggy Nikolopoulou (English), and Prof. Jim Spates (Sociology).

Greg Baker was chosen the winner!  

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For more information, contact: Donald Spector, Professor of Physics/Philip J. Moorad '28 and Margaret N. Moorad Professor of Science, ext. 3594, 106 Eaton Hall Dept. Secretaries: Ann Warner 781-3586 (8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Laura Sposato* 781-3587 (1 - 5 p.m.) FAX: (315) 781-3860