Blume is Co-Recipient of Compton Award APS Editor-in-Chief Martin Blume delivered the Compton Lecture on behalf of his co-recipients in April at the Advanced Photon Source.
Physicist Disputes Speed of Gravity Claim Controversial result actually measures speed of light, no gravity, says Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis.
Photo Credit: Stacy Edmonds of Edmonds Photography
Prizes and Awards were presented to seventeen recipients at the April meeting in Philadelphia. After the ceremony, recipients and their guests gathered at the Franklin Institute for a special reception. The top photo shows four of the five women recipients in front of a space-suit exhibit. They are (l to r): Geralyn “Sam” Zeller (Tanaka Award); Chung-Pei Michele Ma (Maria-Goeppert Mayer Award); Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (Heineman Prize); and Helen Edwards (Wilson Prize). The fifth woman, Melba Phillips (Burton Award), was unable to be present. In the bottom photo, Dudley Herschbach (left) converses with Ernest Bergmann and John Archibald Wheeler. Herschbach gave a public lecture on “Ben Franklin’s Scientific Amusements” immediately following the reception. Wheeler (right) shared the Einstein Prize, given for the first time this year, with the late Peter G. Bergmann, father of Ernest Bergmann.
Congressional Fellows Reminisce
Photo Credit: Jessica Clark
The APS Congressional Fellows program, which supports physicists who want to spend a year working in the office of a member of Congress, is 30 years old this year, and several past APS Fellows gathered at the April meeting to relive their year on the Hill and report on how it had affected their careers. Shown here participating in a panel discussion are (l to r): Ben Cooper (Fellow 1973-74); Rush Holt (1982-83); and Jane Alexander (1986-87). Holt (D-NJ) is one of two physics PhDs currently serving in Congress.
