Physics major wins Goldwater Scholarship, Schwarz award

Professor Kromhout presents the Gunther Schwarz Award to Daniel E. Roberts. An undergrad physics major, Roberts also won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship this past year.

Daniel E. Roberts, an FSU undergraduate physics major, has been named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarships cover college expenses up to $7,500 per year.

Roberts is developing a computer code to study the effects of diffusion on the dynamics of the adsorption of ions onto an electrode in an electrochemical cell. He will be giving a talk on his results in the Society of Physics Students session at the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting at Brookhaven this summer.

Roberts also won the Physics Department's Gunther Schwarz Award. This award is given to an outstanding physics major who has additionally demonstrated a keen interest in the areas of music, literature, art, dance or student government.

Goldwater Scholars are selected on the basis of academic merit. This year, only 302 Goldwater Scholarships were awarded nationwide. These included only five Florida residents and one other FSU student. The FSU Physics Department has a tradition of success in the Goldwater competition reaching back to the program's inception in 1986.