George Trilling Elected APS Vice-President Members of The American Physical Society have elected George H. Trilling, a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the Society's next vice-president.
Physicists Win Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Horst Stormer of Columbia University, Dan Tsui of Princeton, University, and Robert Laughlin of Stanford University. Two other APS Fellows shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and John Pople of Northwestern University
Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Program in Laser Science The Division of Laser Science will continue to sponsor a lecture program in Laser Science, which brings distinguished scientists to undergraduate colleges and univiersities.