NAE Adds to Its Ranks

In February, the National Academy of Engineering elected 77 new members and nine foreign associates. Those who are physicists or who work in physics-related fields include the following:

Rod Alferness, senior vice president of the optical networking research division at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey

James R. Asay, associate director of the Institute for Shock Physics at Washington State University, Pullman

Bernard Cohen, professor emeritus in the University of Pittsburgh’s physics and astronomy department

Stephen Forrest, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University

Glenn Fredrickson, director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert Fugate, senior scientist for atmospheric compensation at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Joseph Greene, director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tatsuo Itoh, TRW Chair in Microwave Electronics and professor of electrical engineering at UCLA

Charles Jakowatz, manager of the signal processing and research department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Michael King, senior project scientist of the Earth Observing System at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland

Oliver Kingsley Jr, president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corp in Chicago

David C. Larbalestier, Grainger Professor of Superconducting Materials and L. V. Shubnikov Professor in the materials science and engineering department and a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin—Madison

Ronald Larson, chair of the chemical engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

R. Noel Longuemare Jr, consultant at Longuemare Consultants in Ellicott City, Maryland

Tso-Ping (T. P.) Ma, Raymond John Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University

Alfred MacRae, president of MacRae Technologies in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Richard Meserve, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, DC

Elaine S. Oran, senior scientist for reactive flow physics at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC

Charles Pryor Jr, chief executive of the BNFL Nuclear Utilities Business Group in Cheshire, England

Emery Reeves, independent aerospace consultant in Palos Verdes Estates, California

Thomas E. Romesser, vice president of technology development at the Northrop Grumman Corp space technology sector in Redondo Beach, California

Alton Romig, vice president of science, technology, and partnerships and chief technology officer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Adel Sarofim, Presidential Professor in the combustion research group at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Dudley Saville, Stephen C. Macaleer ′63 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and a professor of chemical engineering at Princeton University

Stephen Senturia, professor of electrical engineering at MIT

Soroosh Sorooshian, Regents Professor and director of the NSF science and technology center at the University of Arizona, Tucson

R. Bruce Thompson, director of the center for nondestructive evaluation at Iowa State University and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Aerospace Engineering at the university

Alan Title, senior fellow in the advanced technology center of Lockheed Martin Corp in Palo Alto, California

Thomas H. Vonder Haar, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and University Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at the university

Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering at UCLA.

The foreign associates include

John Knott, Feeney Professor of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham and an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, England

Giuseppe Marrucci, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Naples in Italy

Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Gary Purdy, University Professor in the department of materials science and engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Evgeny Velikhov, president of the Russian Research Center at the Kurchatov Institute, in Moscow.