Professor of Physics S. Lance Cooper has been named the 2008 recipient of the Arnold T. Nordsieck Award for Teaching Excellence for "his total dedication to teaching excellence, the outstanding content of his courses, and his complete availability to students at all levels."
The Nordsieck Award is named after Arnold T. Nordsieck, a professor in this department from 1947 to 1961. It is made possible by an endowed gift from the Nordsieck family. A theorist in the mathematics of computation, Nordsieck had an uncommon affinity for experiment and built here in Urbana the first computer to be used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Nordsieck Analog Computer.