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2012 recipients of the Adler and Bardeen awards
2012 award recipients (left to right): Wah Kai Ngai (Feliz T. Adler Fellowship)
Weicheng Lv and Serena Eley (John Bardeen Award)
2012 recipients of the Drickamer and Edelheit awards
2012 award recipients (left to right): Nir Friedman and Harrison Mebane (Drickamer Research Award)
Tyler Earnest and Maksim Sipos (L.S. Edelheit Biological Physics Fellowship)
2012 recipients of the Pandharipande and Anderson awards
2012 award recipients (left to right): Tomoki Ozawa (Vijay Pandharipande Prize in Nuclear Physics)
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2012 recipients of the Anderson award
2012 award recipients of the Scott Anderson Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistants (left to right): James Lee, Scott Scharfenberg, Huihuo Zheng

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