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AAAS Fellows elected
James
E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor
(217) 244-1073; kloeppel@illinois.edu
11/7/01
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four
University of Illinois researchers – Paul D. Coleman, Richard I.
Gumport, Jean-Pierre Leburton and Bruce R. Schatz – are among 288
scientists elected as 2001 fellows of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Fellowship recognizes "efforts toward advancing science or fostering
applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,"
according to the association. With more than 138,000 members, the AAAS
is the world’s largest general science organization. Founded in
1848, it publishes the journal Science and has been naming fellows since
1874.
Coleman, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering,
was chosen for fundamental studies in the generation and detection of
far-infrared radiation and for first studies of the magnetic wiggler,
carbon-monoxide chemical laser, metal-oxide-metal detector, and coherent
Cerenkov radiation with a cone coupler.
Gumport, professor and associate head of biochemistry and professor
of basic medical sciences in the UI College of Medicine, was selected
for distinguished contributions to the understanding of nucleic acid
enzymology and to the teaching of biochemistry.
Leburton, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recognized
for contributions to the field of electronic nano-structures and the
first self-consistent simulation of quantum dots, including boundary
fluctuations.
Schatz, a professor of library and information science, was honored
for work on supercomputing for information retrieval, particularly semantic
analysis of scientific terminology, and for developing the Telesophy
system, which inspired Mosaic software.
The new fellows, elected in late September, will be recognized Feb.
16, 2002, at the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
