Shirley award for outstanding scientific achievement awarded to M. Zahid Hasan
The Shirley award for outstanding scientific achievement was awarded to M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University) "for the discovery of topological order in the solid state and quantum Hall-like behavior without magnetic fields (bulk topological insulators)".
For more information, see http://www.als.lbl.gov/als/als_news/news_archive/vol.303_102809.html
and http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/90/55G21/
and http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S23/49/78A93/index.xml?section=topstories
and http://www.princeton.edu/physics/people/display_person.xml?netid=mzhasan&display=faculty