NAE Elects New Members

In February, the National Academy of Engineering announced the names of its 74 new members and 7 new foreign associates. Among those joining the ranks of NAE who work in physics-related fields are

William F. Banholzer, vice president of global technology for GE Plastics in Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Frank S. Bates, the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and head of the chemical engineering and materials science department at the University of Minnesota

C. Jeffrey Brinker, a professor of chemical and nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico and a senior scientist in the inorganic materials chemistry division at Sandia National Laboratories

Joe C. Campbell, the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

Subrata K. Chakrabarti, president of Offshore Structure Analysis Inc in Plainfield, Illinois

Douglas M. Chapin, principal officer and director of MPR Associates Inc in Alexandria, Virginia

Andrew R. Chraplyvy, director of lightwave systems research at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, in Holmdel, New Jersey

Joseph M. Colucci, president of Automotive Fuels Consulting Inc in Clarkston, Michigan

Henry Cox, chief scientist and senior vice president of Orincon Corporation International in Arlington, Virginia

Robert E. Dickinson, a professor in the school of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech

Farouk El-Baz, a professor and the director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University

Robert E. Fontana Jr, a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California

Thomas E. Graedel, a professor of industrial ecology, chemical engineering, and geophysics at Yale University

Ronald K. Hanson, Woodard Professor and chair of the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University

Alan J. Heeger, a professor of physics and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara Evelyn L. Hu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at UCSB

James C. Keck, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus and senior lecturer in the mechanical engineering department at MIT

Chung K. Law, the Robert H. Goddard Professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at Princeton University

Alan G. MacDiarmid, the Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania

Bernard S. Meyerson, an IBM fellow and vice president of IBM Microelectronics at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York

Gérard A. Mourou, the A. D. Moore Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan

Cherry A. Murray, senior vice president of research strategy, physical sciences, and wireless research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, in Murray Hill, New Jersey

Gordon C. Osbourn, a laboratory fellow and team leader of vision science, pattern recognition, and multisensor algorithms at Sandia National Laboratories

David W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer of Orbital Sciences Corp in Dulles, Virginia

Warren M. Washington, a senior scientist and head of the climate change research section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado

Donald C. Winter, president and chief executive officer of TRW Systems in Reston, Virginia.

The new foreign associates include the following:

Vladimir E. Fortov, director of the Institute for High Energy Density at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow

J. David Embury, a professor in the materials engineering department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.