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Who are the fellows?

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By scooby

 American Physics Society Fellows Announced Today.


3 LLNL
3 LANL
0 Sandia

Back in 2000 the old days it use to be like 7-10 LANL, 5-7 LLNL, 3-4 Sandia. Heck even 5 to 10 years ago it would be like 5 or 7 at each lab.

So the decline continues. It is particularly stunning because all the labs are the largest they have ever been in terms of the number of people with Sandia having the most people.

One point is that I did recognize like 8 names of former staff/postdocs from LANL and LLNL who became APS fellows this year. These people who left before 2012. Seems like a correlation with transitions in LLNS and LANS. Kind of telling.

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Anonymous said…
One year of low numbers of this sort is not very statistically significant based on the numbers cited, what is the complete time series of past results, and does that support the downhill trend claimed here? Also, the composition of the selecting committies, and the number of overall awards changes over time -- I believe in 2015 there were 257 fellows, and in 2021 only 155 were chosen, although again the entire time series would require research which isn't presented in this post.
10/16/2021 4:06 AM
Anonymous said…
"I believe in 2015 there were 257 fellows, and in 2021 only 155 were chosen"

Good point. I am not sure why it is less this year, maybe Covid.
10/17/2021 9:42 AM
Anonymous said…
The selection of learned society fellows offers an insight into the social-psychology of the meritocracies of the DOE/NNSA labs. Drawing conclusions without full information, like who nominates who, and who provides supporting references for who, can lead to completely erroneous conclusions.
10/17/2021 3:44 PM
Anonymous said…
10/17/2021 3:44 PM

Which brings into question the mere search for such conclusions. Why not just accept what is?
10/18/2021 5:33 PM
Anonymous said…
Why not just accept what is?

10/18/2021 5:33 PM

It is hard to believe that anyone working at a national lab would ask that question. In public, no less!
10/19/2021 5:06 PM
Anonymous said…
10/19/2021 5:06 PM

Why?
10/20/2021 6:24 PM
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