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Senior scientists Radha Bahukutumbi, Group Leader for Integrated Modeling, Dustin Froula, Group Leader for Plasma and Ultrafast Physics, and Christian Stoeckl, a member of the Omega Experiments group, were each elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Fellowship is a distinct honor for each of the recipients as it is conferred by their peers in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement. No more than one half of one percent of the APS membership is elected to Fellowship annually. Radha was recognized for “outstanding contributions to understanding physics of direct-drive implosions on OMEGA and NIF and for leadership in the National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program.” Dustin was recognized for “the development and application of Thomson scattering to understand thermal transport and the onset of laser–plasma instabilities in indirect- and direct-drive fusion experiments.” Christian was recognized for “scientific contributions and leadership in the development of novel optical, x-ray, and neutron diagnostics to advance the fields of inertial confinement fusion and high-energy–density physics.”