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Peking University, Dec. 2, 2011: In the 2011 annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS)’s Division of Plasma Physics, Professor Wang Xiaogang from the School of Physics, Peking University (PKU) and the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, was elected American Physical Society Fellow.

Newly elected APS Fellows account no more than half of 1% of Society membership. A fellowship election is a distinct honor because the evaluation process, conducted by the Fellowship committees of individual divisions, topical groups and forums, is done entirely by one's professional peers.

Professor Wang Xiaogang graduated from the Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology in 1982. In 1984, he obtained his Master's Degree from the Southwestern Institute of Physics and went on to obtain his Ph. D. from Columbia University in 1991. His research interests over the years included the magnetic fluid phenomenon of plasma in laboratory and space, especially in the theory of magnetic reconnection and tearing mode dynamics in Tokamaks, as well as studies of waves and instabilities in complex plasmas. More than 150 of his academic papers in these areas were published in Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Astrophysical Journal and many other distinguished international journals, which have been cited over 1400 times.

On the certificate presented by APS, Professor Wang was acknowledged as: “For seminal contributions to the theory of magnetic reconnection with broad applications to fusion and space plasmas, and to studies of waves and instabilities in complex plasmas."

Since the 1990s, many Chinese physicists have been elected APS Fellows, which was consecutive in the last three years: Professor Gong Xingao (Fudan University, 2009) and researcher Ding Hong (Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010) and Professor Wang Xiaogang (PKU, 2011).

Written By: Liao Shunyi
Edited By: Chen Long
Source: PKU News (Chinese)