as fatty plaques that form in arteries which can help treat atherosclerosis and heart disease. Military FEL technology is being evaluated by the US Navy as a candidate for an antiaircraft and anti-missile directed-energy weapon. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's FEL has demonstrated over 14 kW power output. Compact multi-megawatt class FEL weapons are undergoing research. On June 9, 2009 the Office of Naval Research announced it had awarded Raytheon a contract to develop a 100 kW experimental FEL. On March 18, 2010 Boeing Directed Energy Systems announced the completion of an initial design for U.S. Naval use. A prototype FEL system was demonstrated, with a full-power prototype scheduled by 2018. FEL Prize Winners The FEL prize is given to a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement of the field of Free-Electron Lasers. In addition, it gives the international FEL community the opportunity to recognize one of its members for her or his outstanding achievements. 1988 John Madey 1989 William Colson 1990 Todd Smith and Luis Elias 1991 Phillip Sprangle and Nikolai Vinokurov 1992 Robert Phillips 1993 Roger Warren 1994 Alberto Renieri and Giuseppe Dattoli 1995 Richard Pantell and George Bekefi 1996 Charles Brau 1997 Kwang-Je Kim 1998 John Walsh 1999 Claudio Pellegrini 2000 Stephen V. Benson, Eisuke J. Minehara, and George R. Neil 2001 Michel Billardon, Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie, and Jean-Michel Ortega 2002 H. Alan Schwettman and Alexander F.G. van der Meer 2003 Li-Hua Yu 2004 Vladimir Litvinenko and Hiroyuki Hama 2005 Avraham (Avi) Gover 2006 Evgueni Saldin and Jörg Rossbach 2007 Ilan Ben-Zvi and James Rosenzweig 2008 Samuel Krinsky 2009 David Dowell and Paul Emma 2010 Sven Reiche 2011 Tsumoru Shintake 2012 John Galayda 2013 Luca Giannessi and Young Uk Jeong 2014 Zhirong Huang and William Fawley 2015 Mikhail Yurkov and Evgeny Schneidmiller 2017 Bruce Carlsten, Dinh Nguyen and Richard Sheffield 2019 Enrico Allaria, Gennady Stupakov, and Alex Lumpkin 2022 Brian McNeil and Ying Wu Young Scientist FEL Award The Young Scientist FEL Award (or "Young Investigator FEL Prize") is intended to honor outstanding contributions to FEL science and technology from a person who is less than 35 years of age. 2008 Michael Röhrs 2009 Pavel Evtushenko 2010 Guillaume Lambert 2011 Marie Labat 2012 Daniel F. Ratner 2013 Dao Xiang 2014 Erik Hemsing 2015 Agostino Marinelli and Haixiao Deng 2017 Eugenio Ferrari and Eléonore Roussel 2019 Joe Duris and Chao Feng 2022 Zhen Zhang, Jiawei Yan,