APS President Urges Members to Take Action on Federal Science Funding In response to the FY08 budget passed by Congress, which fell nearly a billion dollars short in science funding compared to the levels authorized last summer, APS president Arthur Bienenstock sent two email messages to all APS members, urging them to write to Congress.
Physicists Win Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Horst Stormer of Columbia University, Dan Tsui of Princeton, University, and Robert Laughlin of Stanford University. Two other APS Fellows shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and John Pople of Northwestern University