Christian Mailhiot from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after they were nominated by their Division of Materials Physics in 2003, [3] for his outstanding contributions and scientific leadership in theoretical and computational condensed matter and materials physics, with particular emphasis on innovative discoveries related to quantum-confined semiconductor structures and high-pressure research.
Edwin Lorimer Thomas is the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering at Rice University and served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering from 2011-2017. Thomas earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1963 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 1974. Thomas was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 1985, for being a leading authority on the application of electron microscopy and scattering techniques to problems in polymer structure-property relations and for contributions on mosaic block structure of semicrystalline polymers as well as on the structure of the noncrystalline solid state of glassy polymers.
Warren Bruce Jackson from Xerox PARC, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Materials Physics in 1995, for pioneering research in the fundamental properties of amorphous semiconductors, including seminal studies of the intrinsic electronic density of states and metastable mechanisms and processes, and for the application of photothermal deflection spectroscopy to address a wide range of problems in hydrogenated amorph
Steven M. George from the University of Colorado, Boulder, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Chemical Physics in 1997, for "advancements in our understanding of gas-surface energy transfer dynamics, surface kinetics and diffusion processes, environmental chemistry at gas-surface interfaces, heterogeneous catalysis, and chemically controlled eptiaxy of novel thin film materials."
Arunava Gupta from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 1998, for contributions to the development of pulsed laser deposition techniques, the use of this technique for the production of materials with novel physical properties, and for original contributions to the understanding of nonequilibrium film-growth mechanisms.
Donald Ray Wiff from the Kent State University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 1999, for research in solving mathematically ill-posed problems in polymer molecular weight and mechanical relaxation time distribution functions, and in developing molecular, in situ molecular and nanocomposite polymer concepts for high performance materials and micoelectromechanical system devices.
Roderick V. Jensen from the Wesleyan University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Materials Physics in 2000, for pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly perturbed quantum systems that are classically chaotic, like Rydberg atoms in strong fields, and for the extension of the methods of nonlinear dynamics across many disciplines, from atomic physics and mesoscopic solid-state physics to biophysics and neuros.
Rashmi C. Desai is an Indian-American physicist, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto.
Gregory Lawrence Eyink is an American mathematical physicist at Johns Hopkins University.
Alamgir Karim, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 2004, for pioneering research on polymer thin films and interfaces, polymer brushes, blend film phase separation, thin film dewetting, pattern formation in block copolymer films, and the application of combinatoric measurement methods to complex polymer physics.
Guang-Yu Guo from the National Taiwan University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Computational Physics in 2005, for his contributions to our understanding of relativity-induced phenomena in magnetic solids and physical properties of materials including transition metal oxides and carbon nanotube structures, through first-principles electronic structure calculations.
Mikhail Viktorovich Feigelman is a Russian physicist from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Condensed Matter Physics in 2007, for contributions to the theory of disordered materials, in particular to pinned charge density waves, spin glasses, pinned vortices in superconductors, glass formation in systems without quenched disorder, and disordered superconductor-normal metal structures.
Vladimir Nikolayevich Prigodin is a Russian physicist and academic from Ohio State University. He was previously at Ioffe Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Condensed Matter Physics in 2007, for his pioneering studies of electronic properties of low-dimensional systems, proposal and development of fundamentals of charge transport in quasi-one-dimensional disordered structures, and also of operating principals of new organic-based electronic materials/devices and fully spin polarized organic spintronic materials/devices.
Luz Martinez-Miranda is an American-Puerto Rican physicist. She is currently an associate professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland. Martinez-Miranda is an APS Fellow and was the first female president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
Chong Long Fu from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Materials Physics in 2008, for outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of metallic and intermetallic systems based on accurate first-principles calculations and to the development of novel high temperature intermetallics and nanocluster strengthened alloys for structural
Joseph Anthony Zasadzinski, also known as "Joe Z", is an American chemical engineer from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Biological Physics in 2008, for "applying physical principles of self-assembly, directed assembly and bio-mimicry to create well-controlled lipid structures such as unilamellar vesicles and "vesosomes" for biomedical applications such as targeted drug-delivery vehicles and treatments for respiratory diseases, and for developing new microscopies." Zasadzinski currently works in the department of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Robert L. Hengehold is an American physicist from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 2008, for pioneering contributions to semiconductor material characterization, over 30 years of distinguished and dedicated leadership in the development of graduate applied physics programs for military officers, and service to the physics community through APS sectional meetings specifically on applied and industrial phy
Udo Pernisz from the Dow Corning Corporation, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 2008, for his contributions to making siloxane resins a commercial success as spin-on dielectrics in the IC industry, and his investigations of the luminescence of Si-containing organic and inorganic compounds that led to the development of novel materials for photonics applications.
Ci-Ling Pan from the National Tsing Hua University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Laser Science in 2009, for pioneering studies of the physics and technology of ion-planted semiconductor and liquid-crystal devices for ultrafast and THz applications, and for significant contributions toward developing tunable and ultrafast laser systems for applications in communications, sensing, spectroscopy and materials diagnostics a
Donald G. Crabb from the University of Virginia, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by the Division of Nuclear Physics in 2009, for "his contributions to the use of high field polarized targets and development of high polarization and radiation resistant polarized target materials and his role in using them in seminal particle physics experiments and advancing the knowledge of the behavior in high intensity beams".
Franco Cacialli is an Italian physicist affiliated with the University College London. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 2009, for "his significant contributions to the science and technology of organic semiconductors and related applications, and especially for seminal contributions to the scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) assisted lithography of organic semiconductor nanostructures.