The ACS recently announced its first class of fellows and will be formally honoring them at the ACS meeting in Washington DC in August, 2009. Of this group, 26 are members of the PHYS division. We extend our congratulations to this group of individuals (listed below):

John Adams (Univ. of Missouri, Rolla)

A. Paul Alivisatos (UC, Berkeley)

Michael Bowers (UC, Santa Barbara)

David Chandler (UC, Berkeley)

F. Fleming Crim (UW-Madison)

Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Tech)

D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M)

Mark Gordon (Iowa State)

John Hemminger (UC, Irvine)

Morton Hoffman (Boston University)

Kendall Houk (UCLA)

Kenneth Jordan (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

William Jorgensen (Yale)

Charles Kolb (Aerodyne Research)

Deborah Leckband (Univ. of Illinois)

Donald Levy (Univ. of Chicago)

Charles Lieber (Harvard)

Alan Marshall (Florida State)

Anne McCoy (Ohio State)

Henry Schaefer (Univ. of Georgia)

George Schatz (Northwestern)

Harold Scheraga (Cornell)

Gabor Somorjai (UC, Berkeley)

John Tully (Yale)

Gregory Voth (Univ. of Utah)

Richard Zare (Stanford)