PAI award to Prosper

Professor Harrison Prosper (right), winner of the 2001 PAI Award

The 2001 PAI Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research was given to Professor Harrison Prosper, an experimentalist in FSU's High Energy Physics Group. Prosper's primary research effort is at the D0/ experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He played a critical role in the discovery of the top quark in 1995. Prosper is also involved in a proposal to build a solar neutrino observatory with cold compressed helium gas.

Prosper's teaching has been focused on astronomy and cosmology. His popularity in the introductory astronomy course and the more advanced cosmology course has brought many new students in FSU's Physics Department and made science fans of many FSU non-science majors.

The PAI Award was endowed in 1997 by FSU Physics alumnus Dr. Doan Phung.

Professor Plendl presents the PAI Award to Professor Harrison Prosper (right).