Physicists Step Out in Style at Fernbank Gala

"Albert Einstein" takes a turn with "Marie Curie" during the APS gala celebration at the Fernbank Museum.	APS President Elect James Langer soaks up the elegant atmosphere with wife, Lily.
Blowing giant soap bubbles at the Fernbank Museum's interactive science exhibit, open to all those attending the APS gala celebration.	Listening to the tones produced by a giant wind harp at the Fernbank interactive exhibit.
B.S. Chandrasekhar of CSI, APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, Charles Duke of Xerox R&D Center, and gala organizer Brian Schwartz observe the festivities from a quiet corner.	Will the real "Albert Einstein" please stand up? Gala guest gets double the fun with a different kind of special relativity.
Ken McNaughton, editor of The Industrial Physicist magazine, gets a brush with greatness as he hobnobs with "Marie Curie" and a dapper "J. Robert Oppenheimer."	An Illustrious "Nobel" Trio: Valentine Telegedi, Leon Lederman and APS President Jerome Friedman pause in their revels for the camera.

Lynda Williams, a.k.a. 'The Physics Chanteuse,' gave three standing-room only performances in the Fernbank auditorium

Brian Holmes employs various brass instruments to demonstrate the basic physics principles behind them

Isaac Chuang of IBM/Almaden investigates acoustic resonance.

Science magician Bob Friedhoffer enchants young partygoer with a demonstration of the principles of air pressure.	Science magician Bob Friedhoffer elicits a smile from 1999 Lilienfeld Prizewinner Stephen Hawking
Emory University's Sid Perkowitz admires the fashionably "retro" bowtie of APS Associate Executive Officer (and APS News editor) Barrett Ripin, while Marilyn Ripin looks on. Sara Schechner, curator of the Physics Works! and APS History exhibits, enjoys conversation at the table.	Newly elected New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt compares notes on "What's New" in Washington with Robert Park, APS Director of Public Affairs.
Centennial meeting attendees peruse the APS History Exhibit featured in the GWCC lobby.	Noontime passerby takes in Eric Heller's exhibit on Fractals and Chaos, on display outside the Georgia Pacific Building auditorium.
Atlanta art students take in the Microscapes exhibit sponsored by Lucent Technology.	Sid Perkowitz answers students questions following a Friday public lecture on the physics of beer.
Atlanta's Rialto Theatre marquee announcing "The Physics of Star Trek" public lecture.	"Star Trek" guru Lawrence Krauss explains the finer points of the Enterprise's many (as yet uninvented) technological marvels.
AIP Executive Officer Marc Brodsky crouches in the quantum corral, part of the Physics Works! exhibit at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).	Even baseball, the All-American pasttime, has benefited from understanding physics principles, as deomnstrated by NYU's Richard Brandt.
Robert Greenler demonstrates the geometric structure of ice crystals responsible for "halo effects" at the South Pole during a lunchtime public lecture.	"Fractals and Art" lecturer Richard Voss following his presentation at the Woodruff Arts Center.
Ken Laws and his best ballerina demonstrate the physics of dance.	Noontime demonstration of air pressure by Hampton University demo team.

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