Prof. Thom Palstra elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society

Prof.dr. Thom T.M. Palstra (Solid State Chemistry) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Election to APS Fellowship is recognition by peers of outstanding contributions to physics. The citation reads:

“For pioneering experiments in superconductivity and magnetism giving rise to various discoveries in strongly-correlated oxides, heavy-fermion systems and organics”

Name and citation will be published in the March 2014 issue of APS News. It will also appear on the Follwship Page of the APS Home Page (http://www.aps.org)