ORNL’s Shen receives Presidential Early Career award

美国国立橡树岭实验所的沈获得美国总统奖

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 9, 2004 — Jian Shen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a Department of Energy recipient of the latest Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), presented today in a White House ceremony.

2004年9月9日，橡树岭国立实验所的沈健获得了最近的美国科学工程总统奖，今天在白宫被授予奖。

Shen, a member of ORNL's Condensed Matter Sciences Division, is being cited for his pioneering approach to the study of magnetism in nanostructured materials synthesis.

沈，美国国立橡树岭实验所科学领域的精英之一，是研究原料合成磁学的领先人物。

The Presidential Early Career Awards program was established in 1996 to encourage and recognize the work of the nation's young scientists and engineers and is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. In those years, ORNL researchers have received 12 of the awards.

美国总统奖是1996年设立的，鼓励和认可国家年轻科学家和工程师的工作，是美国政府给予杰出科学家和工程师的最高奖。这些年来，国立橡树岭实验所已有12位研究员获得此奖。

"The work of these young scientists and engineers is an excellent example of the kind of innovative and forward-looking research that our nation needs to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said. "Their work will help to contribute to our energy security and independence far into the future."

“这些年轻科学家和工程师所做的工作为我们国家迎接21世纪的挑战做出了创新的、前瞻性的研究工作。”能源部秘书长斯宾塞·亚伯拉罕说。“他们的工作对我们将来的能源安全和独立有突出贡献。”

ORNL Director Jeff Wadsworth said that Shen's recognition underscores the laboratory's efforts to attract the next generation of top scientists.

"Jian's award signifies not only his own achievements but also the value to the laboratory of the Eugene P. Wigner fellowships, which brought him to ORNL as a leading postdoctoral researcher. Jian represents the path ORNL is taking toward becoming the research institution of choice for the scientists who will chart the breakthroughs in emerging fields of research such as nanotechnology," Wadsworth said.

Shen's nanostructure research integrates novel fabrication procedures with sophisticated fabrication techniques and theoretical modeling to the design of nanostructured magnetic materials and complex oxides. As a member of the Low-Dimensional Materials by Design Group at ORNL, Shen has recorded a major nanotechnology breakthrough by using his novel growth procedures to form one-, two- and zero-dimensional iron nanostructures that open the way to advanced studies of nanomaterials' properties.

A key signature of Shen's research program is his mentoring and training of postdoctoral research associates and graduate students in nanoscience. Since arriving at ORNL, he has advised three Ph.D. students, one of whom received the prestigious National Nottingham Prize. He has also mentored five postdoctoral associates and two summer intern undergraduate students.

Shen, who collaborates closely with faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has presented a number of invited talks, workshops and seminars to professional societies and has organized a nationwide collaboration in nanomagnetism research. His work represents a model for the research that will be carried out in the Office of Science's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, currently under construction adjacent to ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source.

A native of Beijing, China, Shen came to ORNL in 1998 as a Wigner Fellow. He did his undergraduate work at Zheiiang University in Hangzhou, China. He received his master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and his doctorate degree from the Max Planck Institut, Halle, Germany.

沈是中国北京人，1988作为魏格纳合作者来到美国橡树岭实验所。他在浙江大学取得学士学位，在中国科学院取得硕士学位，在德国马克斯·普朗克学院获得博士学位。

Shen's several honors and awards for his research include the 1997 Otto-Hahn-Medaille, given each year for outstanding theses; the 1993 Presidential Prize from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, given to the top 100 master and Ph.D. students; and the 2002 ORNL Awards Night Early Career Award for Scientific Accomplishment.

沈在研究上获得的荣誉和奖励有：1997年获得每年颁一次的奥托·哈恩奖章；1993年获得中国科学院授予前100位研究生和博士的政府奖；2002年获得橡树岭国立实验所的科学成就奖。

Shen resides in Knoxville, Tenn., with his wife, Lei Cao, and two children.

沈和他的妻子雷超（Lei Cao）、两个孩子定居在美国田纳西州的诺克斯维尔市，

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram laboratory managed for the Department of Energy by UT-Battelle.