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Principal Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem
Professor M. Lisa Manning, MMLS Investigator and PI of the Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem, has been awarded the Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize of the American Physical society “for her use of computational and analytical tools to develop microscopic understanding of flow in disordered materials, ranging from metallic glasses to biological tissues.” For more information on Professor Manning’s groundbreaking science, please see her webpage.
