Harvard Physics Student Awards

Undergrad Awards

> Carol Davis Prize

Awarded to a Physics concentrator in recognition of their efforts to build a more inclusive and welcoming environment in the Physics Department.

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> Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics

From the gift of family, friends, and colleagues in memory of Jack T. Sanderson '58, A.M. '67, an annual prize is awarded to the graduating senior with the highest grade point average in Physics.

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Graduate Awards

> Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize

This prize is awarded annually to the outstanding theoretical and experimental graduate students who have passed their qualifying oral examinations in the preceding year.

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> Merit Scholarship

The Harvard Merit/Term Time Research Awards are available to outstanding GSAS students in all fields, including GSAS departments in the natural sciences. These fellowships are normally to be held in the fourth or fifth year, or earlier, and are for the purpose of allowing the students to devote a greater portion of their time to research, fieldwork, and writing than would otherwise be possible if they have a heavy teaching load or other employment. Students must have passed Generals and have an approved dissertation prospectus at the time of nomination, or be scheduled to have approval by the time the award begins (the award otherwise will be forfeited if approval does not materialize).

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> David J. Robbins Prize

From the income of a fund was established in 1956 by Dr. and Mrs. Milton E. Robbins in memory of their son, David J. Robbins, A.B. 1955. The purpose of the prize is to enable recipients to enjoy the cultural activities and recreation that enriched David J. Robbins' short life.

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> The Cutting Prize

The prize was established by bequest of W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., 1900, and is awarded to two students "of the very highest intellectual attainments." Winners are chosen by the faculty of the Physics Department.

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> White Teaching Prize

The prize is awarded by the Physics Department for excellence in teaching introductory courses.

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Carol Davis Prize Winners

2025: Elizabeth Kozlov and Meghan Marangola
2024: Mincheol Park, Emma Weller, Victoria Zhang, and Qijia Zhou
2023: Denisse Cordova Carrizales and Ilona Demler

Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize Winners

YEAR	STUDENT RECIPIENTS	FACULTY HONORAND
2025	Miaochen Jin, Liza Rozenberg
2024	Junkai Dong, Nishad Maskara, Sukru Furkan Ozturk, Muqing Xu
2023	Rodrigo Araiza Bravo, Maine Christos, Sepehr Ebadi, Barbara Skrzypek
2022	Patrick Ledwith, Grace Pan
2021	Alek Bedroya, Iris Cong, Nicolò Foppiani, Zeyu Hao, Jacob McNamara, Taylor Patti
2020	Harris Pirie, Rhine Samajdar, Houri Tarazi, Hengyun Zhou
2019	Harry Levine, Ann Wang, Stephen Carr, Georges Obied
2018	Alex Keesling, Alex Thomson, Victor Buza
2017	Shannon Harvey, Shiang Fang
2016	Michael Coughlin, Christopher Frye
2015	Dennis Huang, Siyuan Sun, Bo Liu, Shu-Heng Shao
2014	Florian Huber, Ilya Feige
2013	Norman Yao, Nicholas Schade
2012	Ashwin Rastogi, Benjamin Spaun
2011	Susanne Pielawa, Vivek Venkatachalam
2010	Michael Kagan, Tracy Slatyer
2009	Dionysios Anninos, Maxim Metlitski, Adam Pivonka	Paul Martin
2008	Ben Smith, Kirill Korolev, Alexey Gorshkov	n/a
2007	Jacob Krich, Yiming Zhang	n/a
2006	Naomi Ginsberg, Natalia Toro	Michael Tinkham
2005	Lillian Childress, Jess Thaler	n/a
2004	Can Kili, Andrew Speck	Sheldon Glashow
2003	Daniel Podolsky, Liang Yang	Henry Ehrenreich
2002	Jiri Vanicek, Nathaniel Bowden	Costas Papaliolios
2001	Brian D’Urso, Alexander Maloney	William Paul
2000	Carter Hall, Marcus Spradlin	Richard Wilson
1999	David Lubensky, Alexey Ershov	Gerald Holton
1998	None	n/a
1997	Rosalba Perna, Paul Callan	Karl Strauch
1996	Shilpa Jain, Carol Livermore	Nicolaas Bloembergen
1995	Daniel Eisenstein, Mark Eriksson	Norman Ramsey
1994	Vladimir Sadov, Charles Black	Kenneth Bainbridge, Edward Purcell

Merit Scholarship Winners

2025: Rahul Sahay (Alt: Marcin Kalinowski )
2024: Maine Christos, Patrick Ledwith
2023: Erin Crawley, Katie Fraser
2022: Qianshu Lu, Nathaniel Vilas
2021: Haoyu Guo, Elizabeth (Mina) Himwich
2019: Trond Andersen and Hofie Hannesdottir
2018: Ana-Maria Raclariu
2017: Aavishkar Patel
2016: Shubhayu Chatterjee and Monica Pate
2015: Ruffin Evans and Tomo Lazovich
2014: Elizabeth Jerison, Debanjan Chowdhury
2013: Elise Novitski
2012: Chi-Ming Chang, Peter Maurer
2011: Eddie Schlafly, Clay Cordova

David J. Robbins Prize

2023: Rodrigo Araiza Bravo, Noah Toyonaga, and Justina Yang
2022: Cari Cesarotti and Erin Crawley
2021: Taylor Contreras, Katie Fraser, Madelyn Leembruggen, Grace Pan, and Grace Zhang
2020: LaNell Williams
2019: Christie Chiu, Ellen Klein, and Anne Hébert

Sanderson Memorial Prize Winners

2025: Tasuku Ono
2024: Mincheol Park
2023: Avery Parr
2022: Radu Andrei, Richard Allen, and Wenjie Gong
2021: Sambuddha Chattopadhyay and Yunchao Zhang
2020: Dan Stefan Eniceicu and Maya Miklos
2019: Brian Marinelli
2018: Adam Frim
2017: Henry Lin
2016: Olivier Simon
2015: John Sturm
2014: Daniel Ranard
2013: Jason Wien
2012: Aaron Szasz
2011: Zachary Frankel
2010: Timothy Hsieh
2009: Lin Cong
2008: Kevin Grosvenor
2007: Steven Byrnes
2006: Jonathan Blazek
2005: Kevin Weil
2004: Alexey Gorshkov
2003: Jaroslaw Labaziewic

Cutting Prize Winners

2025: Thao Dinh and David Wu

White Prize Winners

Spring 2025
Aizhan Akhmetzhanova
Aidan Chambers
Chandrika Chandrashekar
Shu-Fan Chen
Louis Colson
Kellianne Kornick
Caroline Martin
Noah McNeal
Filip Niewinski
Paige Robichaud
Liza Rozenberg
Debmalya Sarkar
Hiromitsu Sawaoka
DaLi Schaefer
Pavel Stroganov
Adam Tropper
Conner Williams
Jason Yu
Gemma Zhang
Spring 2023
Caelan Brooks
Miles Butler
Chandrika Chandrashekar
Dominic Chang – not sure if attending
Diyaselis Delgado Lopez
Aurelien Dersy
Fan Du
Elise Koskelo
Joyce Kwan
Madelyn Leembruggen
Moriah Lim
Ted Liu
Noah Miller
Anmol Raina
Barbara Skrzypek
Ophelia Sommer
Shivesh Sood
Noah Toyonaga
Arthur Tsang
Gemma Zhang
Spring 2022
Nathan Agmon
Ananya Bansal
Kees Benkendorfer
Maine Christos
Aurelien Dersy
Katie Fraser
Roy Garcia
Miaochen (Andy) Jin
Elise Koskelo
Jerry Ling
Tianli Wang
Spring 2021
Brendon Bullard
Helena Casademunt
Maine Christos
Erin Crawley
Eliot Fenton
Soumya Ghosh
Richard Huang
Madelyn Leembruggen
Nathan Leitao
Jerry Ling
Richard Liu
Lauren Niu
Paloma Ocola
Hyungmok Son
Alyson Spitzig
Houri Christina Tarazi
Noah Toyonaga
Zoe Zhu
Spring 2019
Andrejevic, Jovana
Chen, Yu-Ting
Faaborg, Miles
Frye, Christopher
Gallegos, Isaura J.
Goldfain, Aaron Michael
Hannesdottir, Hofie Sigridar
Keenan, Mary
Klein, Ellen Doyle
Milbourne, Timothy William
Mitchell, James Kameron
Narayanan, Sruthi
Oei, Theresa
Orona, Lucas Augustin
Raymond, Alexander
Rhine Samajdar
Tripathi, Anjali
Webb, Tatiana A.
Mobolaji Williams
Yang, Helen Marjorie
Yodh, Jeremy
Spring 2017
Anderegg, Loic
Bauch, Erik
Chan, Stephen
Chen, Mingyue
Coughlin, Michael
Frost, William
He, Temple
Huang, Dennis
Langellier, Nicholas
Lovchinsky, Igor
Memet, Edvin
Milbourne, Timothy
Miller, Olivia
Nande, Anjalika
Plumb-Reyes, Thomas
Shi, Yichen (Lily)
Turner, Matthew
Spring 2015 & 2016
Bauch, Erik
Drayna, Garrett Korda
Feige, Ilya Eric Alexander
Frost, William Thomas
Harvey, Shannon Pasca
Huang, Dennis
Kivlichan, Ian David
Klales, Anna M.
Lee, Jae Hyeon
Munoz, Philip
Nguyen, Mai Thi
Pittman, Suzanne
Phelps, Gregory Alan
Phillips, Katherine
Russell, Jonathan
Saklayen, Nabiha
Shi, Yichen
Spring 2014
Santiago, Marina
Bracher, David Olmstead
Spearman, William R
Fang, Shiang
Goodknight, Joseph Sean Cahill
Callaghan, Kristina Marie
Phelps, Gregory Alan
Fang, Jieping
Langellier, Nicholas Ryan
DiPetrillo, Karri Folan
Popa, Cristina
Mitra, Prahar
Wang, Tout
Miller, Kelly
Klales, Anna
Loschak, Paul
Spring 2013
Barr, Matthew
Dimiduk, Thomas
Fung, Jerome
Kestin, Greg
Mashian, Natalie
Murdaugh, Kimberly
Nicolaisen, Lauren
Nowojewski, Andrzej
Patton, Matthew
Russell, Emily
Sher, Meng-Ju (Renee)
Spring 2012
Bruneaux, Luke
Chew, Justin
Farhi, David
Gotlieb, Kenneth
Kahawala, Dilani
Petersen, Sierra
Setiawan, Widagdo
Shuve, Brian
Tsoncheva, Evelina
Vlassarev, Dimitar
Wintz, Daniel
Xu, George
Spring 2011
Aubrecht, Donald
Bruneaux, Luke
Churchill, Hugh
Fogwell, Shannon
Gardel, Emily
Hou, Jennifer
Kestin, Gregory
Pivonka, Adam
Visbal, Elijah
Wissner-Gross, Zachary
Young, Adrian
Spring 2010
Benjamin, David
Bittner, Jonathan
Chung, Hyeyoun
Dowd, Jason
Foletti, Sandra
Hill, Alison
McGorty, Ryan
Millman, Eleanor
Peng, Amy
Peterson, Courtney
Sanders, Jacob
Shuve, Brian
Zou, Sirui
Spring 2009
Benjamin, David
Connolly, Colin
French, Timothy
Gillen, Jonathon
Jeanty, Laura
Jensen, Katharine
Klein, Mason
Lau, Billy
Lee, Corry
McCord, Rachel
Qi, Yang
Sorenson, Nils
Spring 2008
Dibos, Alan
Hoogerheide, David
Kagan, Michael
Kats, Yevgeny
Klein, Mason
Lau, Billy
Lee, Corry
Main, Elizabeth
Pahk, Joon
Pinnaduwage, Dilini
Winkler, Mark
Spring 2007
Cheung, Clifford
Goldman, Joshua
Hatch, Kristi
Kats, Yevgeny
Kolthammer, William Steve
Krich, Jacob
Pashin, Andrii
Pepper, Rachel
Peterson, Courtney
Real, Esteban
Seo, Jihye
Wissner-Gross, Alexander
Spring 2006
Copete, Antonio
Ernebjerg, Morten
Goldman, Joshua
Grant, Lars
Guise, Nicholas
Larson, Daniel
Pashin, Andrii
Rousseau, Suzanne
Seo, Jihye
Svacha, Geoffry
Vitelli, Vincenzo
Spring 2005
Bowles, Anita
Dolivet, Yacine
Gero, Peter
Guise, Nicholas
Hailu, Girma
Mahbubani, Rakhi
Mathey, Ludwig
Saraikine, Kirill
Sherman, Daniel
Subin, Zachary
Tao, Winston
Spring 2004
Bowles, Anita
Cyrier, Michelle
Doret, Stephen Charles
Gero, Jonathan
Glenday, Alexander
Liu, Jiayu
Pastras, Georgios
Real, Esteban
Rousseau, Suzanne
Serej, Shaun
Thambyahpillai, Shiyamala
Tsai, Leo
Spring 2003
Hanneke, David
Robinson, Mike
Marsan, Joe
Kilic, Can
Jones, Greg
Sherman, Daniel
Mahbubani, Rakhi
Gershow, Marc
Gardel, Margaret
Carey, Jim
Cyrier, Michelle