Below is a replication of the plaque which hangs in the entrance hallway of Nielsen Hall.
The Nielsen Prize Award
Established by former students to
recognize excellence in doctoral research in physics.
In honor of Research Professor Jens Rud Nielsen
who served the University of Oklahoma from 1924 to 1965.
Earl E. Lafon
1966
George A. Shelton
1967
Oliver S. Spencer
1968
Stanley L. Robertson
1969
Harold G. Kirk
1970
Charles C. Habeger
1971
David M. Wilson
1972
William C. Paske
1973
Arthur W. Dudenhoeffer
1974
Clifford Bettis
1975
Parmesh Dwivedi
1976
James E. Potter
1978
Nick C. Steph
1979
Andrew N. Feldt
1979
Loc B. Tran
1981
Terry D. Bradfield
1981
Thomas L. Gibson
1982
Mostafa Hemmati
1983
Haydeh Dejbakhsh
1983
Ronald P. Olowin
1986
Billy J. Archer
1987
Gregory L. Snitchler
1987
Douglas M. Mach
1987
Steven R. Lorentz
1989
Tienbao Xie
1989
Anzhen Zhang
1990
Wayne K. Trail
1990
Douglas A. Roberts
1992
Moustafa Y. Bahran
1993
Mark A. Lambrecht
1994
Timothy Young
1995
Marios Lymberopoulos
1995
Carmen Pantoja
1996
Peter E. Nugent
1997
Whitney E. Mason
1998
Eric H. Smith
1999
Georg Steinbrueck
2000
Giti Khodaparast
2001
Eric Lentz
2001
Christopher J. Stockdale
2002
Rollin C. Thomas
2003
Niti Goel
2005
Ines Cavero-Pelaez
2006
Preston R. Larson
2006
Richard Overstreet
2009
Kuloth Shajesh
2009
Bin Chen
2010
Jeffrey Wagner
2011
Christopher McRaven
2011
Chia-Hsun Chuang
2012
Andre Lessa
2012
Arne Schwettmann
2012