Seven Laboratory researchers named APS Fellows

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 14, 2000 -- Seven researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). This year, Los Alamos had more researchers inducted as APS Fellows than any institution in the world. The new Los Alamos APS Fellows are Greg Canavan, Alan Glasser, Terrance Goldman, Richard Hughes, Michael E. Jones, Albert Migliori and Seppo Penttila.

Laboratory Director John Browne, an APS Fellow himself, congratulated the group: "The work and achievements of these researchers are indicative of the caliber of scientists we have at Los Alamos, and the APS fellowships provide outside recognition of that talent. It is part of Los Alamos' heritage that we attract top-notch scientists and engineers from nearly every field to help solve nationally and globally significant problems."

Greg Canavan, who works in the Physics Division Office, was elected an APS Fellow through the Forum on Physics and Society for his contributions leading to the improvement of military science and technology and for leadership in the transfer of remote sensing and communications technologies to the scientific, civilian and commercial sectors. Canavan received his Ph.D. in Applied Science from the University of California - Davis in 1969 and came to Los Alamos in 1981 after serving as the director of the Office of Inertial Fusion at the Department of Energy and as a deputy to the Air Force Chief of Staff.

Alan Glasser was elected to fellowship through the Division of Plasma Physics for his contributions to the theory of toroidal ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and their applications to plasma confinement for magnetic fusion energy research. Glasser received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1972. He served on the research staff at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1972 to 1979 and as professor of Physics at Auburn University before coming to Los Alamos in 1995. Glasser has been leader of the Plasma Theory group at Los Alamos since 1995.

Terrance Goldman was elected an APS Fellow for his contributions to the understanding of the structure and interactions of hadrons, particularly for his work on the charge dependence of nuclear forces. Goldman received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University in 1973. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1973 until 1975 and at Los Alamos from 1975 until 1978. He joined the Medium Energy Theory group at the Laboratory in 1978 as a staff member, was a senior research fellow at Caltech from 1978 until 1980 and has served as that group's leader since 1991.

Richard Hughes, acting deputy group leader of the Neutron Science and Technology Group, was elected an APS Fellow through the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for his work in the application of fundamental quantum mechanical principles to practical situations, including quantum computation and quantum cryptography, and for the development of experimental techniques in quantum information theory. Hughes received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics from the University of Liverpool in 1978 and was a research fellow at Caltech and CERN before coming to Los Alamos.

Michael E. Jones was elected through the Division of Plasma Physics for his work in the development of novel particle-in-cell simulation methods and their use in the study of the generation, transport and stability of intense charged particle beams and plasmas. Jones is the leader of the Plasma Physics Applications group in the Laboratory's Applied Physics Division.

Albert Migliori was elected an APS Fellow through the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics for the development of resonant ultrasound spectroscopy and its application in materials physics and technology. Migliori, who received his Ph.D in physics from the University of Illinois before coming to the Laboratory as a Director's postdoctoral researcher in 1973, became a staff member in 1976. Migliori recently moved from the Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics group to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos.

Seppo Penttila, also a member of the Neutron Science and Technology Group, was elected a Fellow through the Division of Nuclear Physics for his work on the development of polarized targets and beams leading to greater understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction at medium energies, nuclear structure, and parity violation in compound-nuclear states. Penttila came to Los Alamos in 1985 from the University of Turku, Finland, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Turku in 1983.

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize APS members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. APS Fellow recognition is a prestigious honor since each year no more than one-half of one percent of the total American Physical Society membership are elected to the status of Fellow.