NAE Elects 76 New Members

The National Academy of Engineering announced in February the names of its 76 new members and 11 foreign associates. Among them are the following individuals who conduct physics-related work:

George H. Born, professor in the department of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Brian J. Cantwell, Edward C. Wells Professor and Chair of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University

Arup K. Chakraborty, Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair in the department of chemical engineering and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley

Vernon L. Chartier, power system electromagnetic compatibility consultant in Beaverton, Oregon

Young-Kai Chen, director of high-speed electronics research at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey

Larry A. Coldren, Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and chief scientist at Agility Communications Inc, also in Santa Barbara

Stephen C. Cowin, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York

P. Daniel Dapkus, William M. Keck Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Elizabeth B. Dussan V., scientific adviser with Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut

Richard J. Gambino, professor in the department of materials science and engineering at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York

Csaba Horváth, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering at Yale University

William A. Kuperman, professor of oceanography and director of the Marine Physical Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego

E. Trifon Laskaris, chief technologist in the imaging technologies laboratory at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York

C. T. Liu, senior corporate fellow and group leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Andrew J. Lovinger, director of the polymers program in NSF’s division of materials research

K. Osseo-Asare, professor of metallurgy and geoenvironmental engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park

Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, professor of chemical engineering at Princeton University

John H. Perepezko, professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Julia M. Phillips, director of physical and chemical sciences at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gary K. Starkweather, architect at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington

Robert L. Street, William Alden and Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of fluid mechanics and applied mathematics in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford

Daniel C. Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton

Darsh T. Wasan, Motorola Chair Professor in Chemical Engineering and vice president for international affairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

New foreign associates include the following:

Herbert Gleiter, director of the Institute of Nanotechnology at the Research Center Karlsruhe in Germany

Tatsuo Izawa, president and CEO of NTT Electronics Corporation in Tokyo

Ludwik Leibler, director of research at CNRS, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), in Paris.