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Donald H. Bilderback, associate adjunct professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University and associate director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), has received the 1998 Compton Award from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. The award was established by the APS Users Organization to recognize an important technical or scientific advance beneficial to the APS, which is the latest and largest synchrotron radiation source in the United States. Bilderback, who received a plaque at Argonne on Oct. 13, shared the $4,600 award with Andreas K. Freund from the European Synchrotoron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, and Gordon S. Knapp and Dennis M. Mills from Argonne. Mills is a former researcher at CHESS. The researchers were cited "for their innovation and leadership in developing cryogenically cooled X-ray optics suitable for handling the high power density of undulator X-ray beams, thus allowing users to perform scientific research at the third-generation synchrotron facilities."