2015 John Wheatley Award to Uppsala physicist
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Professor Per Nordblad from the Division of Solid State Physics at the Department of Engineering Sciences has recently been announced as the recipient of the American Physical Society’s John Wheatley Award for 2015, for his strong and prolific collaboration with scientists in low-income countries. Per Nordblad’s collaboration with these scientists was in many cases supported by the International Science Programme (ISP) at Uppsala University.
The motivation as follows: "For his enormous and sustained efforts of nearly three decades in nurturing physics research and education in several Third World countries, including Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand and Eritrea, leading to the establishment of several prominent groups pursuing internationally competitive physics today."
See also APS web site