2008 Walter Boas Medal in Physics awarded to Professor Peter Drummond
By Lauren Roden
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Professor Peter Drummond from Swinburne's Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy has been awarded the 2008 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics
The Walter Boas award was established in 1984 and recognises original research and the most important contribution to physics. The award is for physics research carried out in the five years prior to the date of the award, as demonstrated by both published and unpublished papers.
Professor Drummond's research in relation to ultra-cold atoms and quantum optics, has led to the development of new theoretical calculations in both fields.
This theoretical work has been characterised by testable predictions and consequently Professor Drummond's work has been adopted by a range of experimental groups.
The importance of Professor Drummond's work is evidenced by exceptional citation rates, even within the relevant field of research, indicating a high degree of visibility for the theoretical work.
In addition, the high level of adoption by experimentalists of the published results as well as use of the developed theoretical results to explain existing experimental results indicates a significant impact of the work on the community.
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