The Argonne National Laboratory Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Argonne offers these special postdoctoral fellowships to be awarded internationally on an annual basis to outstanding doctoral scientists and engineers who are at early points in promising careers. The fellowships are named after scientific and technical luminaries who have been associated with the laboratory, its predecessors and the University of Chicago since the 1940s, including:

• George W. Beadle, biologist
• Arthur Holly Compton, high energy particle physicist
• Ugo Fano, atomic physicist
• Nicholas Metropolis, computational physicist
• Willard Frank Libby, nuclear chemist
• Glenn Seaborg, chemist
• Harold Urey, nuclear chemist
• Eugene Wigner, theoretical physicist
• Walter H. Zinn, nuclear reactor physicist

Fellowship recipients will be assigned according to his or her scientific or technical discipline. These fellowships complement the existing Enrico Fermi and Maria Goeppert Meyer fellowships at Argonne.

2005 Argonne Named Fellowships

Candidates for the Argonne National Laboratory Named Fellowships must display superb ability in scientific or engineering research, and must show definite promise of becoming outstanding leaders in the research they pursue.

Fellowships are awarded for a two-year term, with a possible renewal for a third year. The 2005 Fellowship carries a stipend of $70,000 per annum with an additional allocation of up to $20,000 per year for research support and travel. The Fellows, who will be competitively selected by a special fellowship committee, are given the freedom of associating with Argonne scientists in a research area of common interest.

For more information, please see frequently asked questions.

How to apply

Your application requires the following documents which must be sent via e-mail to: fellowships@anl.gov by November 12, 2004.

• Letter of Nomination (Recommendation from individual who supports your candidacy for the fellowship.)
• Curriculum Vitae (Include the names of the Nominator and two additional references.)
• Two letters of reference (It is the candidate's responsibility to arrange that the two reference letters be sent to the Laboratory via e-mail prior to the November 12, 2004 deadline.)
• Bibliography of publications
• Bibliography of preprints
• Description of research interests to be pursued at the Laboratory (We encourage applicants to contact Argonne staff in their areas of interest in order to explore possible areas of research.)

All correspondence should be addressed to Argonne Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. One application is sufficient to be considered for all named fellowships.

Argonne is an equal opportunity employer.

Recipients of 2004 Argonne Named Fellowships

• Jeffrey G. Catalano, Ph.D. from Stanford University, was awarded the Harold Urey Postdoctoral Fellowship. Catalano will join the Environmental Research Division.
• Jeffrey R. Guest, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, was awarded the Arthur Holly Compton Postdoctoral Fellowship. Guest will join the Physics Division.
• John J. Socha, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was awarded the Ugo Fano Postdoctoral Fellowship. Socha joined the Experimental Facilities Division.
• Michael P. Zach, Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine, was awarded the Glenn Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship. Zach will join the Materials Science Division.