UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 25, Page 3
March 23, 1995
Stuart Pittel named to Mexican National Academy

     Stuart Pittel, Bartol Research Institute professor, will be
inducted as a corresponding member into the Mexican National Academy
of Sciences for his contributions in the field of nuclear physics and
to Mexican science at a March 31 ceremony at the Institute of Physics
of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
     Pittel's research focuses on the theory of the atomic nucleus.
His collaboration with scientists in Mexico led to the development of
a unified picture of nuclear collective motion, which was published in
a series of articles in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His election
in 1989 to fellowship in the American Physical Society was, in a large
part, due to the profound impact of this theory.
     Since his first visit to Mexico 20 years ago, he has maintained a
strong association with many Mexican scientists and has both
influenced and collaborated with them. By participating more than a
dozen times in the International Symposia on Nuclear Physics, which
are held yearly in Oaxtepec, Morelos, he has become a familiar figure
in the Mexican nuclear physics community.
     He is the first and only physicist to be named to the academy.
The other six corresponding members include a Nobel Prize winner and
internationally known doctors and scientists.
     Pittel first worked with the Bartol Research Institute in 1968,
after receiving his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He
spent two years at the Bartol Institute as a postdoctoral fellow
before leaving to spend a year as a visiting assistant professor at
the University of Colorado. He was then a research associate for two
years at the University of Pittsburgh.
     In 1973, he returned to the Bartol Institute as an assistant
professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1978, and became
a professor in 1988.
     Pittel has published nearly 100 articles in scientific journals
and proceedings. A member of several national and international
scientific committees, including the Committee on Science and the Arts
of the Franklin Institute, he also is principal investigator on three
grants from the National Science Foundation and on one from NATO.
                                                       -Joell Lanfrank