Professor Baha Balantekin.
Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society.
This award is one of the handful given each year by the Division and is clear recognition of Balantekin's many years of dedicated service to the community.
The citation for the award reads:
"For his sustained and extensive contributions to the Division of Nuclear Physics over two decades that have enhanced its strength and vitality, especially in areas such as education and communication, while promoting its relationship with the American Physical Society."
Balantekin currently serves as the Chair of the Physics Department; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physics G: Particle and Nuclear Physics, published by the Institute of Physics of United Kingdom; and as a member of the international advisory committees of the European Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Canadian National Laboratory TRIUMF, and Japan-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics of Exotic Nuclei.
Congratulations, Baha!