At a recent reception for APS Fellows in the Chicago area, Leon Lederman (left), Nobel Laureate in 1988, chats with Aleksei Abrikosov, Nobel Laureate in 2003, and his wife Svetlana. (Another picture from the same reception appears on page 2.) Abrikosov, for a long time at the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow and now at Argonne National Laboratory, shares the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with Vitaly L. Ginzburg of the Lebedev Institute in Moscow and Anthony J. Leggett of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). They were honored for their work on the theories of superconductivity and superfluidity. In addition, this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized an important physics-based technology, magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. This Prize is being awarded to two pioneers in this field, Paul C. Lauterbur of UIUC, and Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham, UK. All of this year’s laureates will receive their prizes in Stockholm on December 10.
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Photo Credit: Tom Tierney
The APS Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA), together with counterparts in Canada and Mexico, organized the latest in a series of joint meetings of the three physical societies, known as CAM meetings. CAM 2003 was the first ever international graduate student meeting, and it took place in Merida, Mexico, October 24- 26, organized around the theme “Student Visions for Physics in the 21st Century”. Shown here are students chatting informally with Ron Olowin (right) of St. Mary’s College, who gave an invited talk on Archeoastronomy in the American Southwest. Attendance at CAM 2003 included 46 participants from the US, 36 from Mexico and 24 from Canada. At the meeting, participants discussed plans for holding the next graduate student meeting, CAM 2005, in the United States.
