Former Members Alain Rouet and Raymond Stora Among Recipients of 2009 Heineman Prize

Former Members Alain Rouet (1981-82) and Raymond Stora (1961-62) are among the winners of the 2009 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Mathematical Physics, awarded by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. Rouet, President and CEO of Science & Tec, and Stora, a researcher at Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH), both in France, share the prize with Carlo Becchi of the University of Genoa, and Igor Tyutin of the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow "for discovery and exploitation of the BRST symmetry for the quantization of gauge theories providing a fundamental and essential tool for subsequent developments."