DPF Honors French-Vietnamese Physicist In July, the APS Division of Particles and Fields presented a certificate of appreciation to Jean Trân Thânh Vân.
Letters A Slip of the Pen — "Wrong-Way" Corrigan a Misnomer — Earth Science Can't Ignore Space — Bias Against Women in Physics Starts Early — Drug Czar Nominated for Flying Pig Award — Responses to Goodstein's Revolutionary Views on Physics Education — Is Hydrogen Hazardous? Two Views — Y2K Bug Really a Screw-Up
Viewpoint: End the Embargo Alan Chodos calls for an end to a controversial practice in scientific magazines.
The Back Page National Missile Defense - Too Important to Rush
Dresselhaus Assumes DOE Post Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT, and a former President of APS, was sworn in on August 7 as the Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Administering the oath was DOE Secretary Bill Richardson, while the new Director’s husband, Gene (center), looked on.
DPP/ICPP Sorters Meeting On July 27-28, 2000, participants from the APS Division of Plasma Physics and the International Congress on Plasma Physics joined forces in College Park, MD to organize the 1,763 abstracts for the combined 2000 Meeting to be held October 23 - 27 in Quebec City, Canada. Left to right: Saralyn Stewart, DPP Administrator; Tony Taylor, General Atomics; Régean Boivin, MIT; Allen Boozer, Columbia University and Program Chair; Keith Matzen, Sandia National Lab.
