5 on Caltech Faculty Win Sloan Fellowships

Five faculty members at Caltech are among 90 young scientists to be awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships for 1990 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York. Each will receive $25,000 in unrestricted research funds during the next two years.

They are Ursula Hamenstadt, assistant professor of mathematics; Andrew Myers, assistant professor of chemistry; Sterl Phinney, assistant professor of theoretical astrophysics; Nai-Chang Yeh, assistant professor of physics, and Kai Zinn, assistant professor of biology.

The Sloan Research Fellowship Program was established in 1955 to identify young scholars of exceptional promise and to offer them support at the outset of their careers when such funding can be crucial to their future professional success.