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.

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Chester Alexander Jr. [1983]
University of Alabama
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the effects of ionizing irradiation on biologically important molecules.
Nominated by: DBIO

Hans Christian Andersen [1983]
Stanford University
Citation: For pioneering work in theory of liquids, energy transfer in random materials, molecular dynamics, and model biological membranes.
Nominated by: DCP

Hans Christian Anderson [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For pioneering work in theory of fluids, energy transfer in random materials, molecular dynamics, and model biological membranes.
Nominated by: DCP

John Bryant Bates [1983]
Not available
Citation: For infrared and Raman spectroscopy studies on the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of molecular and ionic solids and for contributions to the understanding of fast ionic transport in superionic conductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Brian Shephard Berry [1983]

Citation: For contributions to the study of solids by anelastic relaxation measurements, and for the application of such measurements to thin-layer materials.
Nominated by: DCMP

Heinz Bilz [1983]
Not available
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theory of virtually every aspect of lattice dynamics and the electron-phonon interaction in solids.
Nominated by: DCMP

Alan Reginald Bishop [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For scientific leadership in developing new areas of nonlinear science and revealing the paradigmatic role of strongly nonlinear phenomena in condensed matter and statistical physics.
Nominated by: DCMP

John Blackwell [1983]
Case Western Reserve University
Citation: In recognition of outstanding research on the structure of biological and synthetic polymers of x-ray diffraction methodology.
Nominated by: DPOLY

Kenneth Brecher [1983]
Boston University
Citation: For original contributions to theoretical high energy astrophysics and cosmology.
Nominated by: DAP

Christopher Richard Brundle [1983]
Not available
Citation: For pioneering work in the area of molecular photoelectron spectroscopy and in the application of electron spectroscopies to adsorption and oxidation processes at surfaces.
Nominated by: DCMP

Maurice Campagna [1983]
Not available
Citation: For his pioneering work in the field of spin-polarized photoemission and his studies of mixed valence systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Anthony Joseph Campillo [1983]
Naval Research Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions toward understanding the propagation and spatial breakup of high power laser beams and for his extensive application of novel picosecond techniques toward understanding molecular energy transfer processes.
Nominated by: DBIO

George Slade Cargill [1983]
Lehigh University
Citation: For his critical experiments and calculations concerning atomic scale structure, magnetic excitations, and magnetic anisotropies in amorphous metallic alloys, and for his role in developing electron-acoustic microscopy.
Nominated by: DCMP

William Jeffries Childs [1983]
Argonne National Laboratory
Citation: For his outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of hyperfine interactions in atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Alfred Y. Cho [1983]
Agere Systems
Citation: For the development of the molecular beam technique for epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials, which has resulted in significant scientific and technological advances in semiconductor physics and semiconductor device development.
Nominated by: DCMP

Patricia Elizabeth Cladis [1983]
Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies
Citation: For outstanding contributions: to the experimental investigation of liquid crystal systems which has revealed novel and significant phenomena; to their theoretical interpretation; and to the growing field of liquid crystal science in general.
Nominated by: DCMP

Enrico Clementi [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For development of ab initio methods for dealing with solvated biological molecules, ionic solutions, and other large chemical systems.
Nominated by: DCP

David Coward [1983]
Stanford University
Citation: For his role in the design, execution, and interpretation of the electron scattering experiments at SLAC in which the quark-parton structure of the proton and neutron was discovered.
Nominated by: DPF

David H. Crandall [1983]
Department of Energy
Citation: For his major role in establishing the field of study of collisions of multiply charged ions with electrons and atoms, and for his definitive and revealing measurements in that field.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Lloyd Craig Davis [1983]

Citation: For his contributions to understanding the electronic properties of solids, in particular for his detailed studies of photoemission and photoabsorption in transition metals and their compounds.
Nominated by: DCMP

Dan Dill [1983]
Boston University
Citation: For innovative theoretical research on photoionization and electron-molecule collisions, including extensions of the quantum-defect theory, establishment of the angular-momentum-transfer formulation, and elucidation of molecular shape resonances.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Donelli J Dimaria [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Gordon William Frederick Drake [1983]
University of Windsor
Citation: For profound original studies of the quantitative effects of quantum electrodynamics in atomic physics.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Frank Joseph Feigl [1983]
Not available
Citation: For his delineation of basic defect structures in both crystal and amorphous forms of silicon dioxide, and establishment of the relationships of these structures to technologically important phenomena.
Nominated by: DCMP

Kenneth Fox [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For innovative and creative contributions to theory, experiment, and astrophysical studies involving highly symmetric spherical-top molecules like methane; revealing unexpected and significant physical and astrophysical phenomena.
Nominated by: DCP

Theodore Alan Fulton [1983]
Alcatel Lucent, Bell Laboratories
Citation: For his contributions to the development of Electron Spectroscopy of Chemical Analysis (ESCA).
Nominated by: DCMP

Crispin William Gardiner [1983]
University of Otago
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the statistical mechanics of open systems, far from equilibrium, particularly in the case of chemical reactions.
Nominated by: DCP

John W Gary [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Benjamin F. Gibson [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions furthering the understanding of the bound and continuum states of three- and four-baryon systems in nuclear physics.
Nominated by: DNP

Jerry Paul Gollub [1983]
Haverford College
Citation: For his imaginative research on Rayleigh-Benard convection which has contributed significantly to the understanding of the transition to turbulence.
Nominated by: DFD

Elias Greenbaum [1983]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Citation: For his application of high temperature solid state electrolytes and gas sensitive semiconductors to fundamental studies on the kinetics and mechanism of light activated water splitting in photosynthetic systems.
Nominated by: DBIO

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

Howard Grotch [1983]
Not available
Citation: For important contributions in application of relativistic quantum electrodynamics to the determination of energy levels, lifetimes, and magnetic interactions of elementary composite systems.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert Cameron Haight [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to the acquisition, evaluation, and interpretation of nuclear data for several applications especially for the fusion research program.
Nominated by: DNP

Victor E. Henrich [1983]
Yale University
Citation: For imaginative use of modern and sophisticated experimental tools on the study of electronic properties of transition metal oxide surfaces.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jack Gilbert Hills [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal theoretical work on the physics of dense stellar systems and in particular for proposing and developing his model of the energy source of quasars.
Nominated by: DAP

Paul Siu-Chung Ho [1983]
University of Texas, Austin
Citation: For his contributions to the basic understanding and technical development of electromigration in thin films and silicide-silicon interfaces.
Nominated by: DCMP

Stephen S. Holt [1983]
Olin College of Engineering
Citation: For important contributions to knowledge of X-ray sources through studies of their variability and spectra carried out with advanced satellite instrumentation.
Nominated by: DAP

Chao-Yuan Huang [1983]
National Taiwan Normal University
Citation: For contributions to spin-lattice relaxation; thermal fluctuations and pair-breaking times in superconducting microbridges; muon spin relaxation in magnets; and anomalous properties in magnetic superconductors at high pressures and magnetic fields.
Nominated by: DCMP

John Dimitrs Joannopoulos [1983]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For outstanding contributions to research and to developing young theorists in condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Mikkel Borlaug Johnson [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his contribution to the understanding of the connections between nuclear forces and macroscopic observables in nuclear systems, and for his contributions to the understanding of the interplay between nuclear structure and reaction dynamics in pion scattering.
Nominated by: DNP

Alvin Sheldon Kanofsky [1983]
Lehigh University
Citation: For original studies of novel experimental techniques, numerous experiments advancing our knowledge of elementary particles, and experiments and calculations on the effects of quarks on particle collisions.
Nominated by: APS

Faqir Chand Khanna [1983]
University of Victoria
Citation: For his work on effective operators which had led to deeper understanding of physical phenomena in a broad range of many-body problems including quasiparticle aspects in nuclear structure, the interplay between nucleons and mesons, and excitation in normal liquid He.
Nominated by: DNP

James C. King [1983]
Not available
Citation: For imaginative basic research on interactions between radiation induced and lattice defects, impurities and the anelastic properties of quartz leading to the development of the synthetic quartz resonators now in use.
Nominated by: DCMP

Roger Koch [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

James John Krebs [1983]

Citation: For important original contributions in the field of magnetic resonance in semiconductor materials, and particularly for studies of deep level centers in GaAs and InP.
Nominated by: DCMP

Stamatios M. Krimigis [1983]
Johns Hopkins University
Citation: For significant contributions to the measurement and understanding of plasmas in planetary magnetospheres and the heliosphere.
Nominated by: DAP

Donald Quincy Lamb [1983]
University of Chicago
Citation: For original theoretical contributions on the physics of degenerate dwarfs and neutron stars through the interpretation of relevant observations in the X-ray and UV bands.
Nominated by: DAP

I Richard Lapidus [1983]
No company provided
Citation: For mathematical and experimental contributions to the field of sensory transduction, chemotaxis and motility in bacteria and other micro-organisms, and mathematical investigation of the microbial cell cycle.
Nominated by: DBIO

Sydney Leach [1983]
University de Paris
Citation: For pioneering the spectroscopy of molecular ions and elucidating their internal dynamics.
Nominated by: DCP

William Alexander Lester [1983]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For contributions to the application of computers to chemistry.
Nominated by: DCP

Marvin Leventhal [1983]

Citation: For the discovery of positron-electron annihilation radiation from the Galactic Center with a high resolution Ge telescope flown on a balloon.
Nominated by: DAP

Frank S. Levin [1983]
Brown University
Citation: For his contributions to the theory of many-particle scattering and its applications to nuclear reactions, the few-body problem, and atomic and molecular physics.
Nominated by: DNP

Raphael D. Levine [1983]
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theory of chemical reaction dynamics, including quantal and semi-classical aspects of inelastic and reactive molecular scattering, and applications of information theory to energy partitioning (in elementary chemical reactions).
Nominated by: DCP

Richard Emery Lingenfelter [1983]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For pioneering work in the astrophysics of cosmic ray interactions, particularly in the field of theoretical gamma-ray line astronomy.
Nominated by: DAP

Andrew J. Lovinger [1983]
National Science Foundation
Citation: For outstanding contributions to understanding of the structure and properties of crystalline polymers, and particularly of the ferroelectric polymer, poly-(vinylidene fluoride).
Nominated by: DPOLY

Thomas Benjamin Lucatorto [1983]
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Citation: For leadership in atomic physics, especially in joining laser techniques with conventional VUV spectroscopy to provide new fundamental studies of atoms and ions.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert Marc Mazo [1983]
University of Oregon
Citation: For his many contributions to the statistical mechanics of transport processes, especially to the understanding of Brownian motion and the couplings of moving molecules.
Nominated by: DCP

Thomas James McIlrath [1983]
American Physical Society
Citation: For his pioneering use of laser to crate large populations of state-selected atoms, work which has led to the discoveries of resonant laser ionization and important atomic structure effects.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Dale Joseph Meier [1983]
Michigan Molecular Instittue
Citation: For developing the statistical thermodynamics theory of block copolymers
Nominated by: DPOLY

Paul H.E. Meijer [1983]
Catholic University of America
Citation: For contributions to the fields of irreversible thermodynamics (1), group theory (2), Ising series, low temperature physics (3), and for sustained teaching and lecturing of theoretical physics and encouraging people to pursue this type of career.
Nominated by: DCMP

Terry Alan Miller [1983]
Ohio State University
Citation: For innovative experimental contributions that have produced deeper understanding of the spectroscopy and dynamics of reactive atoms and molecules.
Nominated by: DCP

William Hughes Miller [1983]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For the development and application of semi-classical scattering theory to chemical and molecular phenomena, as well as theoretical contributions to many other aspects of chemical dynamics.
Nominated by: DCP

Joel M. Moss [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his contributions to both experimental and theoretical basic nuclear physics research including studies of giant multipole resonances, spin excitation, polarization phenomena and pion condensation precursors.
Nominated by: DNP

William Don Myers [1983]
University of California, Berkeley
Citation: For his significant research on macroscopic aspects of nuclear physics, including especially his pioneering development of the Droplet Model of atomic nuclei.
Nominated by: DNP

Russell T. Pack [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For contributions to molecular scattering theory and intermolecular potentials.
Nominated by: DCP

Charles Stedman Parmenter [1983]
Indiana University, Bloomington
Citation: For pioneering studies of energy transfer and spectroscopy involving electronically excited states of small organic molecules.
Nominated by: DCP

Philip Pechukas [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Laurence Elmer Peterson [1983]
University of California, San Diego
Citation: For pioneering work in gamma-ray astrophysical observation and instrumentation.
Nominated by: DAP

John Milo Poate [1983]
Colorado School of Mines
Citation: For his pioneering work in application of nuclear physics and ion beam techniques to solid state and materials science.
Nominated by: DCMP

Melvin Pomerantz [1983]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: For the creation and study of literally two-dimensional magnets. For the discovery of heat pulse and microwave phonon interactions in Si and Ge, and phonon excitation of spin-waves.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jianwei Qiu [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Chris Quigg [1983]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Aneesur Rahman [1983]
Not available
Citation: For development of molecular dynamics methods to model the structure and dynamics of a variety of condensed systems. These studies are fundamental contributions to statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
Nominated by: DCP

William Hill Reid [1983]
Indiana University
Citation: For his many significant and lasting contributions to the field of hydrodynamic stability, especially for his development of elegant asymptoic techniques for the analysis of the stability of shear flows.
Nominated by: DFD

Eberhard K. Riedel [1983]
University of Washington
Citation: In recognition of his leadership role in advancing our knowledge of phase transitions.
Nominated by: DCMP

Jose Ellis Ripper, Jr [1983]
Not available
Citation: For contributions to the field of semiconductor lasers and optical communications.
Nominated by: DCMP

Allan Rosencwaig [1983]
Therma-Wave Inc
Citation: For pioneering work in the development of photoacoustics for solid-state spectroscopy and in the development of thermal-wave physics.
Nominated by: DCMP

John Anthony Schellman [1983]
University of Oregon
Citation: For the application of rigorous physical theory and the development of novel experimental techniques to increase our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids.
Nominated by: DBIO

Edward William Schlag [1983]
Technische Universitat Munchen
Citation: For distinguished contributions to the laser spectroscopy of molecules and ions.
Nominated by: DCP

David Nathaniel Seidman [1983]
Northwestern University
Citation: For the application of the field-ion and atom-probe microscopes to the quantitative study of the fundamental properties of point defects and point defect clusters in irradiated or quenched metals.
Nominated by: DCMP

Bruce W. Shore [1983]
Not available
Citation: For contributions to theoretical developments in physics on a wide front, from atomic scattering theory to coherent dynamics of laser-excited systems.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert H. Socolow [1983]
Princeton University
Citation: For actively developing technical knowledge of energy usage, and making this knowledge available to a broad public.
Nominated by: FPS

John W Stout [1983]

Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Daniel David Strottman [1983]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For his significant research in theoretical nuclear physics, including especially his outstanding contributions toward our understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus.
Nominated by: DNP

Carlos R. Stroud [1983]
University of Rochester
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of quantum radiation phenomena.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Robert H. Swendsen [1983]
Carnegie Mellon University
Citation: For his contributions to our understanding of phase transitions and critical behavior in lattice models in statistical mechanics.
Nominated by: DCMP

Norman Henry Tolk [1983]
Vanderbilt University
Citation: For pioneering studies of: the electronic excitation (its quantum mechanical interference and its polarization) of atoms in ion-atom collisions and of atoms sputtered or scattered from solid surfaces; the electron and photon stimulated desorption of atoms from solids into excited electronic states.
Nominated by: DAMOP

James S. Trefil [1983]
Georg Mason University
Citation: For his inspired exposition in books and articles which made the excitement and beauty of modern physics available to educated Americans, resulting in enormous popular support for the discipline.
Nominated by: FPS

Yasutada Uemura [1983]
Not available
Citation: For contributions that have played a leading role in the understanding of the electronic properties of two-dimensional systems.
Nominated by: DCMP

Steven E. Vigdor [1983]
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Citation: For excellence in the measurements and interpretations of nuclear reactions induced by light heavy ions, and of pion production by protons near threshold.
Nominated by: DNP

Stephen von Molnar [1983]
Florida State University
Citation: For his contributions towards an understanding of the physical properties of rare earth compounds and alloys, in particular, his pioneering transport studies of magnetic semiconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP

Frank von Hippel [1983]
Princeton University
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of the relationship between physics and society and for his many perceptive papers on subjects from nuclear war to the fuel efficiency of automobiles.
Nominated by: FPS

Richard Frederick Voss [1983]
Florida Atlantic University
Citation: For original contributions to the understanding of random processes, fluctuations, and 1/⨍ noise in normal and superconducting films, junction devices, and music; and the experimental verification of macroscopic quantum tunneling.
Nominated by: DCMP

William W. Willmarth [1983]
University of Michigan
Citation: For advances in the art of experimental research on the structure of turbulence and fluid mechanics.
Nominated by: DFD

William Hinshaw Wing [1983]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his highly innovative and ingenious studies of very simple molecules by ultrahigh resolutions laser spectroscopic methods.
Nominated by: DAMOP

Israel J. Wygnanski [1983]
University of Arizona
Citation: For his superb experimental work, clarifying the structure of turbulent shear flows.
Nominated by: DFD