In February, the National Academy of Engineering elected 77 new members and nine foreign associates. Those who are physicists or who work in physics-related fields include the following:
Rod Alferness, senior vice president of the optical networking research division at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey
James R. Asay, associate director of the Institute for Shock Physics at Washington State University, Pullman
Bernard Cohen, professor emeritus in the University of Pittsburgh’s physics and astronomy department
Stephen Forrest, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University
Glenn Fredrickson, director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Fugate, senior scientist for atmospheric compensation at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Joseph Greene, director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tatsuo Itoh, TRW Chair in...