Society Awards and Honors
2004 Fellowships
Tom Ackerman and Paul Ellis Elected Fellows by American Association for the Advancement of Science
The full 2004 Class of Fellows was announced in the Oct. 31 issue of Science magazine. Tom Ackerman and Paul Ellis, both of PNNL’s Fundamental Science Directorate, were elected as members whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.” AAAS began recognizing its distinguished members with the distinctive honor of Fellow in 1874.
Ackerman, a Battelle Fellow and chief scientist for DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, is being recognized for pioneering studies of radiative properties of aerosols, for developing millimeter-wave radar for measuring cloud properties and for technical leadership of the nation’s principal atmospheric radiation research program.
Ellis, a Laboratory Fellow, is being honored for contributions to the field of multinuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy and its applications to bioinorganic chemistry, short-range structure and bonding and chemical catalysis. Following a 23-year career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of South Carolina, he joined PNNL in 1993 to lead the development and commissioning of the magnetic resonance instrumentation laboratories at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). The EMSL’s magnetic resonance laboratory is recognized as being world-class in its capability and in the expertise of its staff.
Both Ackerman and Ellis will be recognized in February at the AAAS Fellows Forum to be held at the AAAS National Meeting in Seattle, Wash. Ackerman and Ellis join three other PNNL researchers as AAAS Fellows, including Senior Battelle Fellow Jean Futrell, Battelle Fellow David Dixon and Laboratory Fellow Norman Rosenberg.
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 10/31/2004)