Michael J. Leitch from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 2000,[3] for his contributions to experimental medium-energy and high-energy nuclear physics, in particular for his lead role in measurements of pion double-charge exchange at low energies, and his leadership in the measurement of nuclear dependencies of J/psi production and of open charm production.