PAST Prize 2003 Recipients

Awarded at a ceremony on May 14, 2003 during the biennial Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC03) held in Portland, Oregon, May 12-16, 2003.

Keith SymonUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison,
For many fundamental accelerator concepts which include invention of Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators (FFAG), most notably incorporated into spiral sector cyclotrons; for defining a formalism describing motion under the influence of RF as required for stacking and other particle manipulations; and for techniques for analyzing collective instabilities.

Dr. Symon is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Milton.jpg (46141 bytes)Stephen Milton, Argonne National Laboratory, For contributions to coherent radiation sources especially his leading role in achieving saturated operation at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in a self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser.

Dr. Milton is a Senior Scientist at ANL and was recently appointed to lead the ANL contribution to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
2003 PAST Prize Committee:  Matthew A. Allen, Bruce C. Brown (Chair), Norbert R. Holtkamp, Gerald P. Jackson, Patrick O'Shea, Stanley O. Schriber, Alan Todd, Wu-Tsung W. Weng