October 15, 2015
From the Academy’s website: “Being elected a member of the Academy constitutes exclusive recognition of successful achievements. These could be prominent research in mathematics, natural science, engineering, social science or humanities, but also outstanding services to science.” (http://www.kva.se/en/The-members/). There are only 175 Foreign Members in the world. This is a tremendous honor for John, as he joins other Foreign Members at Yale including Steve Girvin (Physics and Applied Physics), Peter Crane (Forestry & Environmental Studies), and Peter Jones (Mathematics & Applied Mathematics). Another member with Yale connections is Don Canfield (Univ. Southern Denmark), who did his Ph.D. with Bob Berner here in G&G. Congratulations John!