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November 2011 (Volume 20, Number 10)

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News

Physical Review X Out of the Gate
APS’s new open access online journal Physical Review X published its first issue on September 30 featuring twelve scientific papers

APS Helps Deconstruct the iPad on Capitol Hill
At an event on Capitol Hill, APS showed how one generation’s basic research turns into the next generation’s iPad

Nobels Honor Discoveries of Accelerating Universe, Quasicrystals
The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics went to Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe and the chemistry award went to Dan Shechtman for discovering quasicrystals

Redesigned Website Merges Physics and Focus
As part of its redesign, APS’s online magazine Physics is incorporating Physical Review Focus

Fermilab Plans to Up the Intensity
After the shutdown of the Tevatron, Fermilab is refocusing its research efforts to explore the cutting edge physics at the intensity frontier

Science Journalism Can Save Lives
In a time of shrinking newsroom budgets, science reporting is imperiled but more important than ever

Meeting Briefs
Highlights from the two APS divisions and six sections that met over the last month.

Ig Nobels May be not so Crazy After All
Though the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes sound like silly science, there’s a lot of legitimate and important research behind them

Opinion

Letters to the Editor
Political Left-Right Asymmetry Explained • Consumers Have a Right to the Incandescent Bulb • Physics of Climate is Inherently Political • Past Presidents Don’t Define Their Parties

The Back Page
A Framework for K-12 Science Education

Departments

Members in the Media
As quoted in other publications...

This Month in Physics History
Nov. 19, 1711: Birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, Russia’s first modern scientist

The Washington Dispatch
A bimonthly update from the APS Office of Public Affairs

International News
China, Sputnik, and American Science

Focus on APS Sections
Northwest Section

Philly Fellow-Fest

Fellows reception in Philadephia 2011 Photo by Darlene Logan/APS
On September 15, APS hosted a reception in Philadelphia for APS Fellows from the area.
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Apker Finalists Get Together

2011 Apker Finalists (small) Photo by Jay Pasachoff
This year there were seven Apker Awards finalists, who met in Washington in early September to be interviewed by the Apker selection committee.
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