#  Harvard Physics Student Awards  

 



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## 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.

[List of Winners](#davis)

### > 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.

[List of Winners](#sanderson)

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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.

[List of Winners](#goldhaber)

### > 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).

[List of Winners](#merit)

### > 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.

[List of Winners](#robbins)

### > 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.

[List of Winners](#cutting)

### > White Teaching Prize

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

[List of Winners](#white)

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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

SortYEARSTUDENT RECIPIENTS FACULTY HONORAND2025

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

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### 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