Carlos Bustamante, head of the Advanced Microscopies Department, received received the Richtmyer Award for conveying physics to public audiences at the January 10 meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Bustamante, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology, physics and chemistry, has worked on new methods of manipulating just one molecule at a time, and is the creator of optical tweezers, which use light to move objects as small as a single atom. The Richtmyer Award, which includes a gift of $7,500, is named after Floyd K. Richtmyer, a distinguished physicist, teacher, and administrator who served the physics community in many ways. read UCB press release -->