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March 2012 (Volume 21, Number 3)

March 2012 (Volume 21, Number 3) Entire Issue

Spring 2012 Prize and Award Recipients

News

Biggest March Meeting Yet Covers Lots of Ground
More than 9,500 attendees are expected to show up for what is likely to be the biggest standalone March Meeting on record

Bill to Kill Open Access Mandate Sparks Debate
Conflicting legislation over open access requirements for federally funded research has sparked a conflagration of controversy

APS Outreach Website Features Exclusive Videos from Space
APS outreach and NASA have teamed up to make physics videos using original footage from the International Space Station

Panel Stresses Collaboration as Nanomaterial Use Surges
Physicists react to a recent report from the National Academy urging more research into the potential health impacts of nanomaterials

New Forum on Outreach Off and Running
APS’s new Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public has held its elections and will hold its first sessions at the March Meeting in 2013

Chemistry Education Program Adopts APS Model
The American Chemical Society’s new education program is based on APS’s successful PhysTEC program

APS Awards Outreach Grants to Seven Creative Teams
Seven teams working to promote science and physics amongst the general public have received grants from APS

Murnane Chairs Selection Committee for National Medal of Science
APS Fellow is chosen to chair the search for recipients of the National Medal of Science

Molenkamp Takes Charge of Phys Rev B
Physical Review B gets a new senior editor; Laurens Molenkamp from the Universität Würzburg

Opinion

Letters to the Editor
Textbooks Can Get It Wrong • Thanks for an Excellent Back Page • Fission Timeline Clarified • Benefits of a combined-fields background

The Back Page
Beyond the Endless Frontier: A 20th Century Model faces 21st Century Realities

Departments

Members in the Media
As quoted in other publications

This Month in Physics History
March 6, 1913: Bohr describes his model of atom to Rutherford

International News
Brazil a Great Place to do Physics …and Other Things

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

Publications Oversight Committee Meets
Photo by Michael Lucibella/APS

The Publications Oversight Committee met at APS headquarters on January 2.
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Getting Ready for DAMOP XLIII

Damop sorters
Photo by Michael Lucibella/APS

On February 3, about 15 physicists gathered at APS headquarters in College Park to sort almost 1000 abstracts in preparation for the 43rd annual meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP).
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