APS Fellow Archive

The APS Fellow Archive contains records of many APS Fellows from 1921 to the present. Please note some Fellows may not be displayed or may display with limited information.

The archive is a historical record and is not updated to reflect current information. All institutional affiliations reflect the Fellows’ affiliations at the time of election to APS Fellowship.

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Harold Baranger [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For contributions to mesoscopic and nanoscale physics, especially the manifestations of classical chaos in quantum properties and the interplay of quantum interference and electron-electron interactions.
Nominated by: DCMP

Steffen A. Bass [2014]
Duke University
Citation: For his pioneering work on the development of transport models for the description of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and their application to the extraction of the properties of the quark gluon plasma.
Nominated by: DNP

Robert Paul Behringer [1993]
Duke University
Citation: For the discovery of chaos near onset for large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bernard convection, and the discovery of propagating waves in simple granular flows: and for the development of non-invasive techniques for imaging convection in porous media.
Nominated by: DFD

David Nathan Beratan [2001]
Duke University
Citation: For establishing molecular-level theories of electron tunneling interactions in proteins and DNA.
Nominated by: DCP

Edward G Bilpuch [1969]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: DNP

Martin M Block [1960]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

April Brown [2011]
Duke University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to development and application of molecular beam epitaxy to the formation advanced device structures, with particular contributions to the advancement of the strained heterostructures forming modern microwave devices.
Nominated by: FIAP

Kenneth R. Brown [2018]
Duke University
Citation: For the development of quantum control and quantum error-correction routines and the experimental implementation of these ideas in trapped atomic ion qubits and molecular ions.
Nominated by: DQI

Shailesh Chandrasekharan [2018]
Duke University
Citation: For developing new ideas to solve sign problems in strongly correlated massless Dirac fermion systems, and for constructing new fermion Monte Carlo algorithms that have helped to accurately study fermionic quantum critical behavior in 2+1 dimensions and to discover exotic quantum critical points.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Patrick Charbonneau [2021]
Duke University
Citation: For seminal contributions to the understanding of glassy materials, in particular the elucidation of the Gardner Transition and the use of dimensionality in computer simulation as a means to uncover universal features of the dynamics of supercooled liquids and glasses.
Nominated by: DCOMP

F Woodbridge Constant [1937]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Stefano Curtarolo [2013]
Duke University
Citation: For pioneering automatic high-throughput computational materials science, and for the creation of on-line materials development techniques, the ingredients of the Materials Genome Initiative.
Nominated by: DCOMP

Glenn S. Edwards [2006]
Duke University
Citation: For seminal research in the rapid thermodynamics governing infrared-laser ablation of tissue and for quantifying force producing proceses in tissue dynamics during dorsal closure, a stage of Drosophilia morphogenesis.
Nominated by: DBIO

W M Fairbank [1957]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Gleb Finkelstein [2015]
Duke University
Citation: For significant experimental studies of quantum transport in nanostructures, especially electron correlation effects in artificial quantum impurity systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Haiyan Gao [2007]
Duke University
Citation: For her extensive contributions to understanding the quark/hadron transition region and for determinations of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors.
Nominated by: DNP

Daniel Joseph Gauthier [2002]
Duke University
Citation: For fundamental studies in nonlinear and quantum optics, including the development of the Raman two-photon laser and the investigation of multi-photon optical amplification processes in laser-driven atomic vapors.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Alfred T. Goshaw [1998]
Duke University
Citation: For broad contributions to the study of the strong interactions in high energy hadron collisions, and for his leadership in particle physics.
Nominated by: DPF

Edward E. Gross [1983]
Duke University
Citation: For noteworthy studies in areas of medium-energy and heavy-ion nuclear physics and for his effective leadership of the Holifield Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics Group.
Nominated by: DNP

Paul M Gross [1939]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

M H Hebb [1941]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Calvin R. Howell [2006]
Duke University
Citation: For precision measurements of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in few-body systems using polarization observables and for service to the scientific community, especially, by mentoring students at historically black colleges and universities.
Nominated by: DNP

Jungsang Kim [2021]
Duke University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the research, development, invention, and entrepreneurship in trapped ion-based quantum computing, large-scale optical switches, and gigapixel-scale cameras.
Nominated by: FIAP

Ashutosh Kotwal [2008]
Duke University
Citation: For his precision measurements of the mass of the W boson at the Tevatron.
Nominated by: DPF

William R Krigbaum [1962]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Harold Walter Lewis [1960]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Vladimir N Litvinenko [2003]
Duke University
Citation: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the physics of beams in electron storage rings and free-electron lasers, including demonstrating the optical klystron and advancing the short wavelength limit of FEL oscillators.
Nominated by: DPB

Jie Liu [2013]
Duke University
Citation: For contributions to nanoscale chemistry, especially the controlled synthesis and chemical modification of carbon nanotubes with enhanced properties for numerous applications.
Nominated by: DMP

Fritz London [1941]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

J C Mouzon [1937]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Berndt Mueller [1994]
Duke University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of pair production in strong electromagnetic fields and for studies of relativistic heavy ion collisions, including the formation mechanism and signatures of quark-gluon plasma.
Nominated by: DNP

Walter M Nielson [1937]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Willie J. Padilla [2018]
Duke University
Citation: For co-discovery of negative refractive index, the development of dynamic metamaterials and devices, and the development and understanding of metamaterial and metasurface absorbers in the microwave, terahertz and infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Nominated by: DLS

Nathan Russell Roberson [1981]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: DNP

Hugh G Robinson [1973]
Duke University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Kate Scholberg [2013]
Duke University
Citation: For work with atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos that established the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation, and for leadership in the worldwide effort of the supernova neutrino detection.
Nominated by: DPF

John Douglas Simon [2003]
Duke University
Citation: For pioneering work in the study of dynamical processes in solution and biological systems.
Nominated by: DCP

Roxanne Patricia Springer [2017]
Duke University
Citation: For significant contributions to understanding the low-energy properties of hadrons, nuclei, and especially for pioneering contributions to the use of low-energy effective field theory techniques in the quest to identify and understand the fundamental symmetries of nature.
Nominated by: GFB

John Edward Thomas [1997]
Duke University
Citation: For fundamental studies of collisions in atomic vapors using methods of laser spectroscopy and for suboptical wavelength position measurements and atom imaging.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Werner Tornow [1998]
Duke University
Citation: For his contributions to few-nucleon physics, especially his measurements with polarized neutron beams and their precise determination of the n-n scattering length.
Nominated by: DNP

Christopher William Walter [2017]
Duke University
Citation: For experimental study of neutrino oscillation physics including the first observations of neutrino flavor appearance and the systematic study of neutrino flavor disappearance, using atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos with the Super-Kamiokande, K2K, and T2K experiments.
Nominated by: DPF

Warren Sloan Warren [1994]
Duke University
Citation: For theoretical and experimental contributions to coherent laser spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. In both fields, he has shown that enhanced control over radiation fields (pulse shaping and phase shifting) uncovers new physics, permits preparation of novel molecular states, and enhances spectroscopic sensitivity and selectivity.
Nominated by: DCP

Henry Richard Weller [1991]
Duke University
Citation: For contributions to the understanding of the structure of light nuclei by use of capture reactions with polarized projectiles, especially with regard to D-state properties of few-body nuclei.
Nominated by: DNP

Ying Wu [2018]
Duke University
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the Duke University storage ring Free-Electron Laser and High Intensity Gamma Source upgrades.
Nominated by: DPB

Weitao Yang [2003]
Duke University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the development of linear-scaling methods for electronic structure calculations and for his fundamental contributions to density functional theory.
Nominated by: DCP