Academy Names Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members

In October, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences will induct 187 fellows and 29 foreign honorary members at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following new fellows are physicists or work in physics-related fields:

Fred Anson, Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Caltech

Phaedon Avouris, manager of nanometer-scale science and technology, IBM Corp’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York

Carolyn Bertozzi, Howard Hughes Investigator and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

Alan Boss, research staff member in the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, DC

Paul Chaikin, Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University

Percy Deift, professor of mathematics at New York University’s Courant Institute

Michel Devoret, professor of applied physics and of physics at Yale University

William Dietrich, professor in the department of Earth and planetary science at UCB

Ray Dolby, founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories, Inc, in San Francisco

Lawrence Craig Evans, professor of mathematics at UCB

Matthew P. A. Fisher, professor of physics and a permanent member at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Donald Glaser, professor of physics and neurobiology at UCB

Paul Houston, professor of chemistry at Cornell University

Randall Hulet, Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics at Rice University Thomas Katz, professor in the department of chemistry at Columbia University

Joseph Kirschvink, professor in the division of geological and planetary sciences at Caltech

Michael L. Klein, director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter at the University of Pennsylvania

Donald Lamb Jr, Louis Block Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago

Julio Ottino, professor in the department of chemical engineering at Northwestern University

S. George Philander, professor of geosciences at Princeton

George Rieke, professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson

R. G. Hamish Robertson, professor of physics at the University of Washington, Seattle

Alexander Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

Lynne Talley, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Kathleen Taylor, chair of the board of directors of the Centre of Automotive Materials and Manufacturing in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Ellen Williams, director of the materials research science and engineering center, University of Maryland, College Park.

These foreign honorary members are physicists or work in physics-related fields:

J. Richard Bond , director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto

Konrad Mauersberger, director of atmospheric physics at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany

William Unruh, professor of theoretical physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.