Bishop was named Fellow of the Section on Physics for his distinguished contributions to the field of condensed matter theory and for his outstanding scientific leadership worldwide. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1973 for work in solid state physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. After postdoctoral positions at Oxford and Cornell Universities and teaching at the University of London, he came to Los Alamos in 1979. Since that time, he has served the Laboratory in various leadership positions, including director of the Theoretical Division, before being named associate director for theory, simulation and computation in June 2006. Bishop is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow, and recipient of the E.O. Lawrence Award in Materials Science. In 2000, he received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Perelson was named AAAS Fellow to the Section on Mathematics for his contributions to the field of mathematical immunology and particularly for studies of the dynamics of HIV infection and its transition to AIDS. Perelson received his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. He was a staff member in the Laboratory's Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group from 1974 until being named the group's leader in 1995. Perelson was made a Laboratory Fellow in 1991. He holds adjunct professorships in bioinformatics at Boston University, in biostatistics and computational biology at Rochester University, and in biology at the University of New Mexico. Perelson is currently a Los Alamos National Laboratory Senior Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Also named as a Fellow to the AAAS Section on Physics, Taylor was recognized for her pioneering developments of ultrafast optical and terahertz laser technologies and their application to a wide range of problems in strongly correlated and nanostructured materials as well as for her leadership in the fields of material physics, optical science, and nanotechnology. Taylor came to Los Alamos in 1986 after earning her doctoral degree from Stanford University and has devoted her career to developing novel ultrafast laser and other optical techniques to understand dynamical processes in a wide range of systems. Taylor is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and currently serves as the associate director of the Los Alamos-Sandia Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).
Bishop, Perelson, and Taylor are three of 449 AAAS members who have been awarded the honor this year. The new Fellows will be recognized at the upcoming AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco in February 2007.
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