Awards & Winners

Berni Alder

Date of Birth 1925
Place of Birth Germany
(Western Europe, Europe, Eurasia)
Nationality United States of America
Berni Julian Alder is an American physicist specialized in statistical mechanics, and a pioneer of numerical simulation in physics.

Awards by Berni Alder

Check all the awards nominated and won by Berni Alder.

2008


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For establishing powerful computer methods useful for molecular dynamics simulations, conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations to obtain properties of fluids and solids at very high pressures, and developing Monte Carlo methods for calculating the properties of matter from first principles, all of which contributed to major achievements in the science of condensed matter.)