Letters BNL Proud Of Davis — My B-Field Is Bigger Than Yours — Knee-Jerk Rejection Wrong — First Came The Grasshopper — Specify What Each Author Did — APS Prejudiced And Cowardly — Engineers May Drop Physics Requirement — Diffusion In Biological Membranes Related To DLA — Examples Reflect Ideology
The Back Page The University and the Laboratory: Can the Marriage Be Saved? UC/Los Alamos Leaders weigh in on the recent controversies.
Standing in front of the spectacular APS booth at the January meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Austin, Texas, Kim Bess (center), Director of Science and Educational Technology at the San Diego City Schools, explains the virtues of teaching physics first (i.e. before chemistry and biology). Listening raptly are Kevin Aylesworth (left) and Fred Stein of the APS Department of Education and Outreach.
SESAME Project Now Open The SESAME Project (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) became official in January with the formation of the SESAME Council, composed of representatives of the seven founding member states: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Turkey. To be constructed in Alaan, Jordan, the facility will house the upgraded BESSY I light source that has been donated by the German government, Shown here are King Abdullah of Jordan (left) and Herwig Schopper, a former Director-General of CERN who is the President of the SESAME Council, at the occasion of the groundbreaking ceremony at the SESAME site.
