John S. Stemple Memorial Prize WInners

A prize is awarded annually to a graduate student in physics for outstanding progress in research as demonstrated by an excellent performance on the oral Ph.D. candidacy exam. John S. Stemple was a Caltech physics graduate student when he died; a memorial fund was established from contributions made by the community of Falls Church, Virginia, John's hometown.

2023 - Hyunjin Kim, Nabha Shah, Yuiki Takahashi

2022 - Keefe Mitman

2021 - Nikita Sopenko, Tanner Trickle

2020 - Arian Jadbabaie, Omar Mehio, Cora Went

2019 - Olmo Cerri, Ivaylo Madjarov

2018 - Xiangcheng Ma, Maria Okounkova

2017 - Petr Kravchuk

2016 - Grant Remmen

2015 - Siying Peng

2014 - Alexander Mott

2013 - Kevin Engel, Jeongwan Haah

2012 - Brian Willett

2010 - David Moore, Christopher Rogan

2008 - Adrienne Erickcek, Zachary  Marshall

2007 - Juan Pedro Ocha-Ricoux

2006 - Hsin (Cynthia) Chiang

2004 - Kris Sigurdson

2003 - Ben Toner

2002 - Melinda Kellogg

2001 - Ching-Tzu Chen

2000 - Theresa Lynn

1999  - Elliot Lipeles

1998 - Frederick Jenet

1997  - Yury Levin

1996 - Hideo Mabuchi

1995 - David Hogg

1994 - Aaron Gillespie, James Larkin, Soren Pederson

1993 - Mark C. Chen

1992 - Peter Day, Daniel Reed

1991 - Thomas Buettgenbach

1990 - Douglas Collins

1989 - Jonathan Miller

1988 - Sandip P. Trivedi

1987 - Stephen Spicklemire

1986 - Sheryl L. Smith

1985 - Roger W. Romani

1984 - Shahram Hamidi

1983 - Markus Meister, Michael S. Pettersen