Chris Greene, professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University and former JILA Fellow, was named to the National Academy of Sciences.
Former JILA Fellow Chris Greene received one of the highest honors for a scientist in the United States. Greene, professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University, was named to the National Academy of Sciences this week. He is one of 100 new members invited to join the academy on April 30.
Greene's work includes studying ultra cold few-body and many-body quantum systems, ultrafast laser interactions with atoms and molecules, novel and multichannel Rydberg molecules, electron-molecule collisions and dissociative recombination.
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