Theory students win Dirac-Hellman awards

Professor Joseph Owens presents the Dirac-hellman award to Steven Mitchell (left) and Matthias Mayr.

The 2001 Dirac-Hellman Award in Theoretical Physics has been given to Matthias Mayr and Steven Mitchell. Mayr, who is a graduate student of Professor Elbio Dagotto, was cited "for his work in developing a random resistor network to elucidate the physical properties of manganites." Mitchell received the award "for his contribution to the development of models and computational tools to solve problems at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology." Mitchell is a student of Professor Per Rikvold.

The Dirac-Hellman Award was endowed by Dr. Bruce Hellman in 1997 to reward outstanding work in theoretical physics by FSU researches.