{"73994":{"#nid":"73994","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Uzi Landman Wins Rahman Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhysics Professor Uzi Landman is the recipient of the American Physical Society\u0027s (APS) 2005 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics. He accepted the award at the society\u0027s annual meeting in Los Angeles last month. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAPS\u0027s citation recognized Landman \u0022for pioneering computations that have generated unique insights into the physics of materials at the nanometer length scale, thereby fostering new theoretical and experimental research.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown across the globe for his trademark phrase \u0022small is different,\u0022 Landman is a pioneer of using computer simulations to discover new phenomena on the nanoscale. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We cannot use the way physical systems behave on the large scale to predict what will happen when we go to levels only a few atoms in size,\u0022 said Landman. \u0022In this size regime, electrons transport electricity in a different way, crystallites have different mechanical properties and gold nanowires have strength twenty times larger than a big bar of gold, and inert metals may exhibit remarkable catalytic activity. But we know the rules of physics, and we can use them to create model environments in which we can discover new phenomena through high-level computer-based simulations.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong Landman\u0027s research interests are artificial atoms, known as quantum dots, which can be used to store massive amounts of information in a compact space. Other areas include nanowires, nanojets, and nanotribology, the study of friction at the nanoscale.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELandman is a Regents\u0027 and Institute Professor. He holds the Callaway Chair in Physics and serves as the director of the Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Science. His honors include the Beams Award for Excellence in Research from the American Physical Society in 1999 and the 2002 Materials Research Society Medal.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Physics Professor Uzi Landman is the recipient of the American Physical Society\u0027s (APS) 2005 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"American Physical Society honors Tech physicist"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2005-04-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73995":{"id":"73995","type":"image","title":"Uzi Landman","body":null,"created":"1449178037","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:17","changed":"1475894683","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:43"}},"media_ids":["73995"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/ulandman.html","title":"Uzi Landman"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}