Centennial: APS Establishes Travel Grants for Student Centennial Attendance The APS has established a matching travel grant program to encourage the participation of physics undergraduate and first-year graduate students in the APS Centennial Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, 20-26 March 1999. |
Centennial: Topical Symposia Arranged for Centennial Meeting The APS technical units are organizing a series of special technical symposia covering nearly every subfield of physics for the upcoming APS Centennial meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Centennial: APS Ephemera Wanted/APS Centurions Exhibit planning groups seeks memorabilia, oldest living members, and longest memberships. |
Centennial: Historical Factal The 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry Augustus Rowland, a principal founder and first president of the American Physical Society in 1899. |
Centennial: A Century of Physics 1965-1975: Closing the Circle |
Centennial: Prominent Physicists CD-ROM The APS has developed a collection of portraits of 20th Century physicists, compiled on CD-ROM, to be available for purchase at the APS centenary. |
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award is Funded The APS has received nearly $70,000 to endow a Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, intended to provide exposure for physicists who have applied their science for the benefit of society. |
Physicists To Be Honored at November Meetings Eight physicists will be honored for their work in fluid dynamics and plasma physics in November. |
In Brief Ouellette wins writing award; two APS members run for Congress; National Science Board appointees. |
Physical Review Focus A sampling of the new APS electronic journal. |
Senior Membership Do you qualify? |
APS Regional Sections Hold Fall Meetings Five APS geographical sections held their annual fall meetings throughout the nation during the month of October. |