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SLAC Scientists Elected to National Academy of SciencesDirector and theorist honored for lifetime of achievementPersis Drell and Steven Kivelson have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining 70 other new members and 18 foreign associates in the prestigious group. Drell is Director of the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University. Steven Kivelson is a Member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, or SIMES, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford, and is a Professor of Physics at Stanford. Drell responded to the election saying, "This was a very nice surprise and I am honored by the recognition." Kivelson said, "It's an honor and it feels great." He joked, "You know, I'm probably the first member of the Academy to have been informed of his election by his mother." Kivelson's mother Margaret Kivelson is an Academy member herself and a prominent space physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Drell's scientific career has included work on fundamental properties of particle physics, such as the nonconservation of parity in weak interactions, and particle astrophysics with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, on which she is a collaborator. Kivelson is a condensed matter theorist working on understanding the connections between the microscopic properties of electrons and molecules with the macroscopic and collective properties of materials. These include topics such as high-temperature superconductivity, quantum magnetism, quantum Hall effects, and electronic liquid crystalline phases of matter. Read more... Special Colloquium Today:
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