LeRoy Apker Award

The LeRoy Apker Award recognizes outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students and encourages those who have demonstrated strong potential for future scientific accomplishment. Two awards are presented each year, one to a student from a Ph.D.-granting institution and one to a student from a non-Ph.D.-granting institution. Each award includes a monetary prize for the recipient, a monetary award to the recipient's undergraduate physics department to support research, a certificate, and reimbursement for travel to an APS meeting to give an invited talk.

$5,000 prize for recipient; $5,000 to recipient's undergraduate physics department for undergraduate research; certificate; reimbursement for travel to an APS meeting to give an invited talk.

Nominations are open to students at colleges and universities in the United States who were enrolled as undergraduates during at least part of the 12-month period preceding the submission deadline. Only one candidate may be nominated per department; the candidate should have completed or be completing the requirements for an undergraduate degree and have demonstrated exceptional potential for scientific research by an original contribution to physics. Nominations are active for one year.

Nomination by department (only one nominee per department). Nominations remain active for one year.