The Physics Department is honored to have three professors elected to the prestigious role of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year.  Professor of Physics  Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics Dongping Zhong and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (courtesy appointment in Physics) Joseph Heremans were among the twenty (20) faculty from OSU elected this year. They will be recognized at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. in February.  AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as other scientific newsletters, books and reports and other programs to raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.  Listed below is the recognition from AAAS on each of these new Fellows:

Joseph Heremans, Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and of physics: for distinguished contributions to the field of thermal engineering, specifically the development of high-efficiency thermoelectric materials and the discovery of thermal spin-polarization in semiconductors.

Dongping Zhong, professor of chemistry and of physics; for his outstanding and scholarly contributions to biophysics; by integrating techiques of molecular biology and state-of-the-art laser physics, he elucidated, in a definitive way, the mechanism of elementary processes in macromolecular dynamics.

Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, professor of physics; for widely ranging seminal contributions to the physics of quantum fluids and quantum gases, and his fertile international outreach.

Click here to read the OSU Press Release.  Click here to see the entire list of 2011 inductees.

Congratulations to Professors Heremans, Ho, and Zhong!