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Prizes & Awards Recipient Spotlight2008 APS Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Recipient
Gerald Holton, Harvard University Support APSSupport improving physics education, informing the public about physics, increasing participation of women and minorities in physics, and travel grants for students. Read more. Contribute Online 2007 Donors
Nobel Laureates Request Emergency Science Funding in Letter to President Bush
Outreach to Future ScientistsPhysics Experiments for Thousands Betty Glander/Alma ES Betty Glander's sixth grade class at Alma Elementary School in Alma, WI, performing the heat conduction and temperature change experiment. Annually, through its PhysicsQuest outreach program, APS provides science kits for promoting physics in upper elementary and middle schools. Thousands of teachers across the USA request these kits. Each kit contains four experiments centered on a single theme. The theme for this school year was heat. The kits also present a mystery based on a famous physicist's life. When students solve the mystery using correct answers from their experiments, they become eligible for wonderful prizes from APS.
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2007 Annual ReportEfforts and Endeavors  APS update on work in advancing physics research, national and international collaboration, education support, diversity encouragement, meetings, membership, and more. 2007 Annual Report PRL 50th AnniversaryMilestone Letters  As part of its observance of its 50th anniversary, PRL is showcasing a series of milestone Letters that made long-lived contributions to physics. Which milestones would you select? PRL Milestone Letters
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Computer simulations suggest that a perfect crystal spontaneously melts when atoms move cooperatively.
