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The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Academician Steven G. Louie, Academia Sinica, as the 2015 recipient of the Materials Theory Award for his seminal contributions to the development of ab initio methods for, and the elucidation of, many-electron effects in electronic excitations and optical properties of solids and nanostructures.
The award presented at the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston on December 2. Academician Steven G. Louie also delivered his award talk there on December 3.
Throughout his career Prof. Louie has won many awards including the US Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics; the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics and the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics of the American Physical Society; and the Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology from the Foresight Institute. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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