Ames Lab physicist wins European Union's highest science prize

Costas Soukoulis leads team that will share portion of 1 million euro Descartes Prizes
Costas Soukoulis, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and an Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, coordinates the research team that has won the Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research, the European Union's highest honor in the field of science. He and his collaborators received the prestigious award for creating a novel class of artificial metamaterials called left-handed materials, or LHMs, which exhibit fascinating properties that cannot be found in naturally occurring materials.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news8924.html">Ames Lab physicist wins European Union's highest science prize</a></p> <p>Costas Soukoulis leads team that will share portion of 1 million euro Descartes Prizes <br>Costas Soukoulis, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and an Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, coordinates the research team that has won the Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research, the European Union's highest honor in the field of science. He and his collaborators received the prestigious award for creating a novel class of artificial metamaterials called left-handed materials, or LHMs, which exhibit fascinating properties that cannot be found in naturally occurring materials.</p>