Steven M. George from the University of Colorado, Boulder, was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after they were nominated by their Division of Chemical Physics in 1997, for "advancements in our understanding of gas-surface energy transfer dynamics, surface kinetics and diffusion processes, environmental chemistry at gas-surface interfaces, heterogeneous catalysis, and chemically controlled eptiaxy of novel thin film materials."[3]