Academician Steven G. Louie, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Faculty Scientist and Director of the Theory Facility of the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced April 20th.

Prof. Louie is one of 212 new Fellows and 19 Foreign Honorary Members elected to the prestigious US Academy this year.

Prof. Louie is an accomplished theoretical physicist who has been associated with UC Berkeley since 1968. During his career he has worked at the IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Throughout his career Prof. Louie has won many awards including the US Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics (1993); the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics (1996) and the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics (1999) of the American Physical Society; and the Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology from the Foresight Institute (2003). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow (1989-90), an Elected Fellow- of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006) and an Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2005).

In 2005 he was a Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at National Taiwan University and was elected an Academia Sinica Academician in 2008.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is a venerable US learned society with a 229-year history. It conducts projects and studies responsive to the needs and problems of society. It currently has about 4,000 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members.