The APS Division Song

(After Gilbert & Sullivan)

We are the very model of a physical society.
We represent our members with impeccable propriety.
We have fourteen divisions of unparalleled variety,
And I'll recite them for you in their most complete entirety.

There's DAMOP that is optical, molecular, atomical,
And then there's Astrophysics which is not quite astronomical.
There's DCOMP where the emphasis is on things computational,
And Fluids where the ideal flow is strictly irrotational.

There's DPF and DNP who study tiny particles
And then report their findings in impenetrable articles.
And DPB is whom you see if beams you must accelerate,
While DCP is chemistry that physics can elucidate.

DCMP and DMP investigate material
And DPP is plasma, which is somewhat more ethereal.
Laser light's coherent and the path it takes is linear
And Polymers are molecules that couldn't be much skinnier.

Our next division, DBP, exists because in college we
Were told that physics even can be useful to biology.
If you've been counting carefully then you will not be forced to guess
That we are done, we've listed all divisions of the APS.

-Alan Chodos


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Associate Editor: Jennifer Ouellette

July 2001 (Volume 10, Number 7)

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Articles in this Issue
Ehlers, Lane Receive 2001 Public Service Awards
Members in the Media
Letters
APS Holds First Electronic Election
Zero Gravity
This Month in Physics History
APS Selects Wiseman as 2002 Congressional Fellow
Inside the Beltway
New APS Forum Will Address Grad Student Concerns
Snowmass Meeting Charts Course for High Energy Physics
The Back Page
Panelists Debate Pros and Cons of Proposed NMD Systems
New California Section Holds Inaugural Meeting
Following “Boot Camp,” Final Five Selected from US Physics Team