Professor and CRC elected to Royal Society of Canada

John Tse, professor of Physics and Engineering Physics and Canada Research Chair in Materials Science, was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. Established in 1882, election to the RSC is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.

Tse, along with 71 others from across Canada, will be officially inducted as RSC fellows during a ceremony on Nov. 15, 2008 in Ottawa. His fellowship citation is quoted below:

“John Tse is a scientific leader, nationally and internationally, in the application of sophisticated computational and experimental methods to determine the relation between structure and properties of complex solids. His fundamental work on phase high-pressure transformations in solids, and on the structure and thermal properties of natural and synthetic gas hydrates (clathrates), is of great potential significance for the eventual exploitation of this immense resource.”

For more information on the RSC, visit www.rsc.ca.