Honors

November 30, 2015
Francesco Iachello (JW Gibbs Professor of Physics and Chemistry) has been awarded Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his scientific...
November 11, 2015
Bonnie Fleming (Professor of Physics) has been appointed the Deputy Chief Research Officer of Fermilab starting January 1, 2016.   Bonnie will oversee the booster accelerator...
November 11, 2015
Karsten Heeger (Professor of Physics) was part of the SNO, KamLAND, and Daya Bay collaborations which were part of several collaborations that won the Breakthrough Prize in...
Leonid Glazman (Donner Professor of Physics)
November 6, 2015
Leonid Glazman has been named the Donner Professor of Physics. This is a well-deserved honor; as President Salovey said in his letter announcing this appointment, “Endowed...
October 16, 2015
Peter T. Rakich, assistant professor of applied physics and physics, has been awarded a 2015 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, one of the largest...
October 16, 2015
John Wettlaufer, Yale University, CT, USA, and University of Oxford, UK, was elected foreign member of the Academy’s Class for Physics. Click here for further...
August 11, 2015
Nicholas Read (Henry Ford II Professor of Physics) along with Alexei Kitaev (California Institute of Technology) and Gregory W. Moore (Rutgers University) has won the Dirac...