FELLOWS
   of the
   American Physical Society

2007: Charles Jaffe
" For fundamental discoveries in the theory of transport in atomic, molecular, and celestial mechanical systems. "
Giovanni Stefani
" For his pioneering works in electron-electron coincidence experiments (e,2e) on atoms, molecules and surfaces and the development of innovative instrumentation. "
Henryk Witala
" For his ground-breaking work in solving the three-nucleon continuum system using the Faddeev scheme in a numerical accurate manner with realistic nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces."

2005: Hartmut Mathes Hofmann
"For significant contributions to the understanding of nuclear reaction mechanisms, and for developing the refined resonating group model to do state-of-the-art scattering calculations in light nuclei using realistic nuclear forces."
Janine Shertzer
"For her ground-breaking introduction of novel finite-element techniques in calculations of bound state and scattering properties of atomic and molecular systems."
Michele Viviani
"For his theoretical studies of three and four-nucleon bound and scattering states and electroweak capture reactions using realistic interactions and hyperspherical harmonic methods."

2004: Andris Stelbovics
"For seminal contributions to electron- atom collision theory, including co-development of the convergent-close-coupling method."
Lawrence Weinstein
"For his original contributions to the study of nucleon-nucleon correlations in nuclei."

2003: Hartmuth Arenhövel
"For his contribution in understanding photo- and electrodisintegration of the deuteron, especially with incorporation of isobar degrees of freedom and meson exchange currents."
Ronald Gilman
"For his studies of the transition region between pion/nucleon and quark/gluon degrees of freedom via recoil proton polarization measurements."
Jay Wallace Van Orden
"For contributions to the understanding of relativistic effects in few- and many-body nuclei with particular emphasis on covariant calculations of the electromagnetic properties of the deuteron."

2002: Jeffrey L. Krause
"For his fundamental research on the dynamics and control of atomic and molecular states in external fields, including the theoretical interpretation of experimental results and the prediction of novel phenomena."
Shin Nan Yang    (International Forum)
"For his pioneering work on three-nucleon forces, dynamical approach to pion photoproduction, and investigations of strangeness in the nucleon using phi photoproduction."

2001: Charlotte Elster
"For her significant contributions to the understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction and its applications in few-body systems and nuclear reactions."
Craig Darrian Roberts
"For significant contributions to continuum modeling of QCD for hadron physics, linking both quark-gluon confinement and dyn amical chiral symmetry breaking with light meson observables."

2000: Vitaly Efimov
"For the investigation of the Quantum three-body problem, and especially for his discovery of weakly bound states (called Efimov states) of three quantum particles."
Colm Thomas Whelan
"For many significant contributions to atomic collision theory and most especially for original work on (e, 2e) and related pr ocesses."

1998: Wayne Nicholas Polyzou
"For contributions to understanding the formulation of Poincaré invariant few body models."
Stephen Robert Cotanch
"For sustained contributions to hadronic and electromagnetic studies of strangeness and theoretical advancements in nuclear and photonuclear reactions and hadron structure."

1997: Michael George Fuda
"For the development of techniques for the analysis of the nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics of few particle systems, and their applications to strongly interacting few particle systems."

1996: Peter Charles Tandy
"For significant contributions to the study of composite particles in nuclear and particle physics."

1995: Bradley D. Keister
"For important contributions to the development of relativistic descriptions of few-body systems."
Richard Guy Wooley
"For fundamental advances in the proper quantum description of molecules and their interaction with radiation."

Information on Fellowship nomination can be obtained from the APS

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