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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Edmund Bertschinger [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his outstanding contributions to theoretical cosmology, especially in the understanding of structure formation in the universe.
Nominated by: DAP

Donald E. Heiman [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For studies of excitons in the quantum Hall regime and exchange interactions in magnetic semiconductors, using optical spectroscopy at the extremes of high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
Nominated by: DCMP

Walter H. G. Lewin [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his outstanding observational work on the time variations and spectra of galactic x-ray sources, and in particular for his studies and interpretations of bursting and pulsating phenomena in binary x-ray sources.
Nominated by: DAP

Rainer Weiss [1996]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation: For his pioneering work in the development of laser-interferometric detectors for gravitational radiation, and his contributions to the study of the spectrum and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background.
Nominated by: DGRAV