Thomas-Lain Fund Essay Contest

This award is issued to undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The awardees are chosen by a committe evaluating essays the applicants supply. These essays are written based on a topic chosen for the contest each year.

Year	Awardee	Topic

2009	Matthew Kosko	Examine the impact on science of the major scientific achievements of a Nobel Prize winner in physics whose prize winning work occurred between 1960 and 1990.
2008	Jun Wu Gary Lander	Write a paper on what you consider to be the three or four most important unsolved problems in physics/astrophysics and why."
2007	Shanti Wendler Suchetana Chatterjee Jonathan S. Withers	Briefly discuss an area of research actively being pursued by faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.


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