12/1/2008
Peter Kammel (left) and Michael Stone (right) have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
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Professor Michael Stone and Research Associate Professor Peter Kammel have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. Kammel was cited for his "scientific leadership and development of novel experimental techniques related to muon capture, muon catalyzed fusion and other precision muon and antiproton measurements." He is a researcher in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory experimental group at Illinois and is an internationally recognized expert in precision muon physics. He received his Ph.D from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 1982 and continued work there as a permanent research scientist for 12 years. In 1994, he moved to the University of California, where he helped to lead Berkeley's effort at the "Crystal Barrel" hadron spectroscopy experiment at CERN's LEAR. He joined the Department of Physics at Illinois in 2000.
Stone, a theorist, was cited "for profound contributions to the physics of quantum fluids and to the application of modern quantum field theory to condensed matter physics." His research focuses on the theoretical understanding of a variety of condensed matter systems, each involving many strongly coupled degrees of freedom. Stone received his doctorate in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1976 and joined the Department of Physics in 1981. He served as the deputy director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1992 until 1994.