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Research conducted at the Omega Laser Facility by the University of Chicago, Oxford, and LLE has won the prestigious John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society. The award is in recognition of “innovative experiments that demonstrate turbulent dynamo in the laboratory, establishing laboratory experiments as a component in the study of turbulent magnetized plasmas, and opening a new path to laboratory investigations of other astrophysical processes.” The recipients include Donald Lamb and Petros Tzeferacos (University of Chicago, Flash Center for Computational Science), Dustin Froula (University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics), and Alexander Schekochihin (not pictured) and Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory). The recipients and their research team are shown here. This is the second time in the last three years that this award has been given for work carried out on the Omega Laser Facility.