Three UA physicists have been named 2002 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), a 42,000-member society that organizes the discipline's major scientific meetings and publishes the world's most prestigious and widely read physics research journals.

Physics professors Raymond E. Goldstein, Sumitendra Mazumdar and Fulvio Melia are among 190 new APS Fellows this year.

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the then current membership of the society is recognized by its peers for election to the status of fellow.