Society Awards and Honors
2004 Fellowships
Jean Futrell, Battelle Fellow, Elected Fellow of American Physical Society
Futrell’s election recognizes his work in furthering the development and fundamental aspects of mass spectrometry throughout his career, and how those contributions have led to dramatic advances in scientific research, including efficiencies in the field of expiremental chemical physics.
Futrell is credited with inventing the furst tandem double focusing mass spectrometer, which led to the achievement of kinetic energy analysis for both the rectant and product ion beams, and ion lenses for decelerating ion beams to near-thermal energy that became the world standard for studies of elementary processes in ion collisions.
Election to APS fellowship is limited to no more than one half of 1 percent of the society memebership, which currently stands at 43,000. (announced 2/9/2004)