Richard Madey ’43 received the Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) Fellows Award from the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy on Friday, Nov. 11. The award was presented during the 10th Robert Resnick Lecture at Rensselaer, where Kip Thorne of California Institute of Technology delivered a lecture on “Einstein’s General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005: Warped Spacetime, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves.”

Madey is the spokesperson for experiments to probe the charge and current distributions within the neutron at the Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Va., and the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center in Boston, Mass. He received a B.S. is electrical engineering from Rensselaer in 1943.

A member of the B.F. Greene Society of Patroons, he created the Richard Madey ’43 Physics Prize, established in 2000 to award the undergraduate physics major with the highest grade point average at the end of his or her junior year.

Madey is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The RAA Fellows Award honors alumni or friends of Rensselaer who set an example by their professional or personal achievements and by their service to Rensselaer.

Published November 14, 2005