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July 2005 (Volume 14, Number 7)

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News

New APS Open-Access Online Journal Features Physics Education Research
New section of PR-Special Topics will provide a place for researchers to publish on the teaching and learning of physics.

APS Report Tackles Proliferation Resistance and Nuclear Power
POPA study sees a balance between the benefits of nuclear power and the danger of weapons proliferation.

PhysicsQuest Winners Collect Grand Prize at Institute in Princeton
Ninth graders receive a five-inch reflecting telescope for the class, and individual iPod Shuffles.

High School Students Measure New Value for Earth’s Radius to Celebrate World Physics Year
Reviving Erastosthenes, 2000-year-old experiment using the angle of the sun to measure the radius of the Earth.

On the Firing Line
Panel of physicists fields questions at Einstein- in-the-City.

Job Satisfaction High Among Recent Physics PhD’s
New AIP study shows most physics graduates are happy with their choice of employment.

2005 US Physics Olympiad Team Honored
The top five students were selected for the team following an intensive, week-long "physics boot camp."

Atom Chips, Attosecond Lasers Featured
Lincoln, Nebraska Hosts 36th annual divisional meeting focused on atomic, molecular and optical physics.

Northwest Section Holds Spring Meeting
Recent WMAP results and Einstein's photoelectric legacy were among the highlights.

APS Joins Other Organizations in Calling for Visa Reforms
New joint statement recommends further improvements to visa application process.

Opinion

Inside the Beltway: Washington Analysis and Opinion
The Sky, The Sky Is Falling. I Must Go Tell the King.

Viewpoint
Encouraging women in physics is based on rudimentary sense of fairness

The Back Page
Making the Case for University Research

Departments

Members in the Media
APS members quoted in the media.

This Month in Physics History
Einstein's Biggest Blunder

Zero Gravity: The Lighter Side of Science
The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Ask the Ethicist
Publication Déjà vu

Correction
Correction to The Back Page article in the May 2005 APS News.

The Envelope Must be REALLY Big

Photo credit: Adrienne Klein

May 11 is the birthday of the late Richard Feynman, physicist extraordinaire, and in his honor on that date the US Post Office issued the stamp pictured here. The scene is the post office in Far Rockaway in the borough of Queens, New York, where Feynman grew up, and surrounding the humungous stamp are (l to r), Ralph Leighton, who co-authored “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” and various other books with Feynman, Brian Schwartz of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who worked with Leighton to get the stamp approved, and Feynman’s sister, physicist Joan Feynman.

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