Roderick V. Jensen from the
Wesleyan University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the
American Physical Society
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, after they were nominated by their Division of
Materials Physics in 2000,
for ''pioneering contributions to the understanding of strongly perturbed
quantum system
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s that are classically chaotic, like
Rydberg atoms in strong fields, and for the extension of the methods of
nonlinear dynamics across many disciplines, from
atomic physics
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and mesoscopic
solid-state physics
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to
biophysics and
neuros.''
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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