Das and Meyerhofer Named Fellows of the American Physical Society in 2002.
Professor Ashok Das and David Meherhofer have been
elected Fellows of the American Physics Society in 2002.
See: http://www.aps.org/fellowship/2002/index.html
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 level, 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 192 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.
From: http://www.aps.org/fellowship/2002/02fell-a.html
Das, Ashok Kumar University of Rochester Citation: For contributions in the areas of supergravity, integrable models and finite temperature field theory Nominated by: Particles & Fields
From: http://www.aps.org/fellowship/2002/02fell-i.html
Meyerhofer, David Dietrich University of Rochester Citation: For his significant contributions and leadership in the areas of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion and high-intensity laser-matter interactions, including the observation of photon-photon pair production. Nominated by: Plasma Physics
For a Summary of Awards given Physics and Astronomy Faculty, Graduate Students and Undergraduates see: http://server-mac.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/distinctions.html
Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
11/21/02; 1:29:11 PM