Department I Visiting Scholar Dieter Hoffmann has won the American Physical Society's 2020 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, for his "insightful, determined, often courageous biographical and institutional studies of the history of German physics and technology, from Weimar through the Nazi and East German regimes."

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