Fellowship Allocations
Fellowship is a prestigious honor bestowed on individuals who have made significant, lasting contributions to the physics community. Each year, the Fellowship committee of each APS unit may recommend a specific number of nominees for Fellowship.
How Fellowship allocations are calculated
Each year, APS units can only recommend a number of nominees that is no more than one-half percent of the current APS membership, excluding student members.
APS calculates the maximum number of Fellows that a unit can recommend based on either:
- The unit's percentage of APS members, excluding students, which applies to Topical Groups and Divisions
- One Fellow per 500 unit members, excluding students, which applies to Forums
All units may submit one alternative Fellow selection, which the Committee on Fellowship may allocate in the event of unused Fellow nomination slots.
The total number of Fellowship allocations across APS and our units is 149.
Division Fellowship allocations
These APS divisions may recommend the following number of Fellows:
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical: 7 fellows
- Astrophysics: 5 fellows
- Biological Physics: 5 fellows
- Chemical Physics: 3 fellows
- Computational: 5 fellows
- Condensed Matter: 12 fellows
- Fluid Dynamics: 7 fellows
- Gravitation: 3 fellows
- Laser Science: 2 fellows
- Materials Physics: 5 fellows
- Nuclear Physics: 7 fellows
- Physics of Beams: 3 fellows
- Particles and Fields: 8 fellows
- Plasma Physics: 7 fellows
- Polymer Physics: 3 fellows
- Quantum Information: 5 fellows
- Soft Matter: 4 fellows
Topical group Fellowship allocations
These APS topical groups may recommend the following number of Fellows:
- Data Science: 2 fellows
- Energy Research and Applications: 1 fellow
- Few Body Systems: 1 fellow
- Hadronic Physics: 2 fellows
- Instrument and Measurement Science: 1 fellow
- Magnetism and Its Application: 3 fellows
- Medical Physics: 1 fellow
- Physics Education Research: 2 fellows
- Physics of Climate: 2 fellows
- Plasma Astrophysics: 1 fellow
- Precision Meas/Fund Constants: 1 fellow
- Quantum Materials Synthesis: 1 fellow
- Shock Compression: 2 fellows
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fellows
Forum Fellowship allocations
These APS forums may recommend the following number of Fellows:
- Diversity and Inclusion: 4 fellows
- Education: 5 fellows
- History and Philosophy of Physics: 5 fellows
- Industrial and Applied Physics: 6 fellows
- International Physics: 4 fellows
- Outreach and Engaging the Public: 3 fellows
- Physics and Society: 7 fellows
APS general category allocations
One Fellow is permitted in the APS general category.