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Home   |   Publications   |   APS News   |   February 2003 (Volume 12, Number 2)

February 2003 (Volume 12, Number 2)

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News

 
Sreenivasan is New ICTP Director
University of Maryland professor assumes leadership at a critical point in the institute's 30-year history.
 
Questioned Papers in Physical Review Journals Retracted
APS journals have printed retractions of six papers as a result of the Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs inquiry into misconduct by Jan Henrik Schon.
 
APS Member Gives Minority Scholarship Fund a Boost
Alexsandr Svager continues lifelong mission to bring more minorities into physics.
 
For some APS Prizes and Awards, Competition Cuts Across Fields'
An overview of some prizes and awards that are open to all subdisciplines of physics.
 

Opinion

 
Letters
Bohr Misunderstood Heisenberg's Motivation — Create a Physics Piggy Bank — Elephant's Area Important — Book Gives Perspective on Science and Religion — Economic Assistance Key for Students of Color
 
The Back Page
Speeding up the Long Slow Path to Change
 

Departments

 
Zero Gravity: The Lighter Side of Science
Top 10 (±2) Physics Pick-Up Lines (in randomized order)
 
This Month in Physics History
February 1987: Discovery of Supernova 1987A
 
PRL Top Ten: #7
"Scaling theory of localization: Absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions"
 
Physics & Technology Forefronts
Protein Folding, HIV and Drug Design
Physicists Honored at Southeastern Section Meeting

Physicists Honored at Southeastern Section Meeting

From left to right: Paul Cottle, Myron McCay, and Raymond Flannery. Three members of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society were presented awards for outstanding contributions to physics in the region at the annual meeting held October 31 – November 2, 2002, at Auburn University.

Professor Paul Cottle, Florida State University, received the George B. Pegram Award: “For his outstanding university teaching, and his untiring efforts and innovative programs to help K-12 science teachers.”

Professor Emeritus Myron McCay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received the Francis G. Slack Award: “For his contributions to the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, and physics education in the South.”

Professor Raymond Flannery, Georgia Institute of Technology, received the Jesse W. Beams Award: “For his pioneering, seminal, influential and enduring contributions to Atomic and Molecular Collision Physics.”

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