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Hispanic engineering organization honors two Argonne researchers
By DOE/Argonne National Laboratory,
Aug 27, 2007 - 3:59:37 AM
Two researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory won coveted 2007 achievement awards from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation (HENAAC).
Juan Carlos Campuzano, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, was named a recipient of an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and Monica C. Regalbuto, head of Argonne's Process Chemistry and Engineering Department, won a Professional Achievement Award.
The HENAAC Awards, presented annually for the past 18 years, recognize some of the nation's top engineers, scientists and technologists of Hispanic heritage. The winners are selected, in part, based on their professional accomplishments and potential as a role model for young people in the Hispanic community.
Campuzano, Regalbuto and other 2007 award winners will be honored at the 19th annual HENAAC conference, to be held Oct. 11-13 in San Diego.
As an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Campuzano holds the highest of all ranks at the laboratory. The title is comparable in stature to an endowed chair at a top-ranked university and recognizes exceptional contributions in a person's field. Only two dozen Argonne employees currently hold the rank.
Campuzano, who works in the Synchrotron Radiation Studies Group in the laboratory's Materials Science Division, is credited with landmark advances in the field of high temperature superconductivity.
Dr. Campuzano's accomplishments in condensed matter physics span surface science, correlated electron materials and angle resolved photoemission, said George W. Crabtree, director of Argonne's Materials Science Division. His research in high-temperature superconductivity has laid many of the foundations of our knowledge of this forefront field. He has built a world-renowned program at Argonne integrating experiment and theory, trained and mentored an outstanding group of young condensed matter scientists and dramatically expanded the reach of photoemission as an experimental tool to probe correlated electron behavior in solids.
Campuzano came to Argonne in 1987 after serving in several research positions at university laboratories in the United Kingdom. During his tenure at Argonne, he also served as a member of the physics faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His widely cited work has won Campuzano numerous awards and honors, including the University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory and election as Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has received funding of more than $3 million in competitive grants from federal agencies.
Campuzano earned a Ph.D. degree in physics, an M.Sc. degree in physics and a B.S. degree in applied mathematics and physics, all from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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