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Two Illinois scientists among 291 AAAS fellows
Jim
Barlow, Life Sciences Editor
(217) 333-5802; b-james3@illinois.edu
12/11/02
CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — Scientists Nick Holonyak Jr. and Susan E. Fahrbach of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are among 291 people selected
as 2002 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The new fellows will be formally recognized Feb. 15 for their contributions
that advance science or foster its applications at the Fellows Forum
during the AAAS annual meeting in Denver. AAAS, which publishes the
journal Science, was founded in 1848; it is the world’s largest
general scientific society with 134,000 members in 130 countries and
272 affiliated societies. Election of fellows, who are nominated by
their peers, began in 1874.
Holonyak was chosen for "pioneering contributions to the realization
of high-performance visible light-emitting diodes (LED) and injection
lasers based upon ternary and quaternary compound semiconductors."
His development of the LED occurred while he worked for General Electric
before joining the Illinois faculty in 1963.
He holds a John Bardeen Chair in electrical and computer engineering
and physics. The chair, endowed by the Sony Corp. of Tokyo, recognizes
two-time Nobel Prize winner John Bardeen. Holonyak studied under Bardeen
and earned his doctorate from Illinois in 1954.
Fahrbach, a professor of entomology and a professional scientist with
the Illinois Natural History Survey, was noted for "groundbreaking
studies elucidating mechanisms of selective hormone action on neural
circuits during development and determining the basis of neuroanatomical
plasticity in the insect brain."
Fahrbach earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania,
a master’s from Oxford University and a doctorate (1985) from
The Rockefeller University.
