Betti, Boyd, Foster and Tipton elected Fellows of the American Physical Society in 2001
Betti, Boyd, Foster and Tipton elected APS Fellows in 2001 See: http://www.aps.org/fellowship/2001/index.html
2001 APS FELLOWS:
The American Physical Society is proud to present a list of its newest members to be elected to Fellowship. Each new fellow is elected after careful and competitive review and recommendation by a fellowship committee on the unit lev el, additional review by the APS Fellowship Committee and final approval by the full APS Council. Only 1/2 of 1% of the total APS membership is selected for Fellowship in the Society each year. This year a total of 190 new fellows are listed below in alphabetical order by last name.
Please join us in congratulating these newly elected fellows of the American Physical Society. Each name is linked to the appropriate citation.
Riccardo Betti
Betti, Riccardo, University of Rochester,
Citation: For seminal contributions to the analytic theory and understanding of ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in inertial confinement fusion and Alfven eigenmodes in magnetic fusion energy research. Nominated by: Plasma Physics
Robert Boyd
Boyd, Robert William, University of Rochester,
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the nonlinear interaction of light with matter. Nominated by: Laser Science
Tom Foster)
Foster, Thomas Harrison, University of Rochester,
Citation: For his unique and successful applications of physical concepts to the understanding and advancement of magnetic resonance imaging, photodynamic therapy, and diffuse-light optical studies of tissues. Nominated by: Biological Physics
Paul Tipton)
Tipton, Paul L, University of Rochester,
Citation: "For playing a lead role in the discovery and study of the top quark, and for his part in the construction of the SVX detector used in that discovery." Nominated by: Particles & Fields
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Arie Bodek
11/29/01; 12:10:26 PM