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APS Launches New Web Site for the Public December 2000 NEWS Volume 9, No. 11 A Publication of The American Physical Society http://www.aps.org/apsnews Check It Out and Tell APS Launches New Web Site for the Public Your Friends This month APS is launching feature a “Picture of the Week,” il- APS members are urged to PhysicsCentral.com, a brand new lustrating natural phenomena and visit PhysicsCentral.com, and web site targeted at the general pub- the physicists who investigate to offer their comments and lic. “The site is designed to bring the them. suggestions. This can be done importance and excitement of phys- There is a news section that pre- either by using the “Contact ics to everyone,” said Jessica Clark, sents breaking news as well as Us” button on the site, or by APS outreach specialist who is in features prepared by the Inside Sci- emailing Jessica Clark directly charge of its overall management. ence News Service of AIP. Those at [email protected]. “While the site highlights the re- who want to know how things They are also urged to search and activities of many APS work can consult a weekly “Dear spread the word by inviting members, PhysicsCentral is intended Lou” column contributed by Uni- relatives, friends, students to reach beyond the physics com- versity of Virginia physicist Louis and anyone else with access munity. We need our members to A. Bloomfield, and they can ask to the web and curiosity encourage non-physicists to visit the Lou their own questions as well. A about the physical world to site as well,” Clark adds. “Writers’ Gallery” on the site con- visit the site. Appearing in a magazine-like tains short pieces by physicists who Kim Quigley/APS Jessica Clark and the homepage of PhysicsCentral.com. format, the site has several features are also award-winning writers. that will be updated regularly. An annotated list of the best Todaro, and associate executive of- Leon Lederman. Based on a detailed obtained her undergraduate de- Among them is “Physics in Action,” physics links is also available on the ficer Alan Chodos. The site was proposal presented by Michael gree, and is finishing her PhD in which presents a nugget of basic site, organized by audience with the designed by Kimberley Quigley of Barnett of the University of Califor- experimental nuclear physics, at physics at the high-school level, help of the exclusive PhysicsCentral the special publications department, nia, Berkeley, the task force urged the College of William and Mary. and then relates it to current re- Buckyball user guide. and constructed by Joanne Fincham the APS to implement a web site Before college, she enjoyed the peri- search. Another is “People in The content for the site is the re- of APS Information Technology. for the public, pointing out that it patetic existence of a child of a US Physics,” that highlights individual sponsibility of Clark, Ed Lee of the The idea for PhysicsCentral.com could have a powerful impact on Parks Service employee, living in physicists, describing what they do APS education and outreach depart- grew out of a report last year by a how the public views physics. such varied locations as the Virgin both professionally and in their ev- ment, senior media coordinator special APS task force on communi- Clark was hired specifically to Islands, Alaska, and the American eryday lives. The site will also Randy Atkins, intern Richard M. cating with the public, chaired by develop and maintain the site. She Southwest. 2000 Nobel Prizes Announced in Three Budding Young Physicists are Physics, Chemistry and Medicine New Apker Recipients The 2000 Physics Nobel Prize insulating materials, but in the recognizes the vital role of physics 1970s, Shirakawa, finding a new Three promising under- in the information technology way to make the polymer graduate physics majors have revolution. Half the prize will be polyacetylene, accidentally been awarded the 2000 Apker awarded this month to Zhores I. added 1,000 times too much Award. Jacob Krich of Alferov of the Ioffe Physico-Tech- catalyst. He produced a silvery Swarthmore College was hon- nical Institute in St. Petersburg, film, which he later presented in ored for his thesis entitled, Russia and Herbert Kroemer of 1977 to Heeger and MacDiarmid, “Correlation Length and the University of California at who had been investigating the Chirality of Isotropic Short- Santa Barbara for their early work possibility of “synthetic metals.” range Order in Nematic and Photos by Ken Cole/APS in such areas as the design of The three studied the proper- Jacob Krich Heather Lynch Steven Oliver Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals.” heterostructures, semiconductor ties of the material. When they Heather Lynch of Princeton crystal. The purpose was to test Peter Collings. He presented his lasers, epitaxial growth tech- added iodine, the polymer’s elec- University was honored for her two theories that predict strong results at the International Liq- niques, and optoelectronics. The trical conductivity shot up by thesis entitled, “A Kondo Box: discontinuities in the pitch at this uid Crystal Conference in other half of the prize will be several million times. The result Coulomb Blockade and the transition. Despite the difficulty Sendai, Japan, this summer. awarded to Jack Kilby of Texas In- was a whole new field—conduct- Kondo Effect in Iron-Doped of conducting such an experi- In addition to the Apker struments, one of the pioneers in ing polymers—which has led to Copper Nanoparticles.” And ment, Krich succeeded in Award and numerous graduate producing integrated circuits. plastic versions of many elec- Steven Oliver of the University obtaining results that demon- fellowships, Krich received Tiny transistors replaced tronic devices, such as light of California, Berkeley, was hon- strate unequivocally that the two awards from Swarthmore for the vacuum tubes as a means of per- emitting diodes. Compared to ored for his thesis entitled, theories do not describe the graduating senior with the forming the important tasks of inorganic materials, plastics are “Three-Dimensional Raman chirality at this transition well at strongest academic performance switching and amplifying in elec- more flexible and potentially Sideband Cooling at High Den- all, according to his thesis advisor, See APKER on page 7 tronic circuits, but it wasn’t until cheaper and easier to manufacture. sity.” many transistors and other ele- See NOBEL on page 6 The Apker Award is given an- ments could be wired up in a small nually by the APS for physics space that today’s information End of an Era research done by an under- revolution could begin. Integration HIGHLIGHTS graduate. The award was first After this year, the APS Apker and miniaturization not only led given in 1978, and in recent Award Selection Committee will be to more efficient packaging but also years has been divided into two minus a man who has become a to quicker processing since signals categories, depending on fixture of the committee for more travel shorter paths. whether the institution has a than a decade. Harry Lustig, former The Nobel Prize in Chemistry PhD granting program or not. APS treasurer who retired from that goes to Alan J. Heeger (Univer- The winners will receive $5,000, position in 1996, will be retiring from sity of California, Santa Barbara), and are selected by a committee the selection committee after 16 Harry Lustig Alan G. MacDiarmid (University from among the six finalists. consecutive years of service. of Pennsylvania), and Hideki The experiment that forms Lustig first became involved with the Apker Award Shirakawa (University of the basis of Krich’s award-win- selection committee when he succeeded Joe Burton as Tsukuba, Japan) for discovering ning thesis measured the pitch APS Treasurer in 1985. At that time, the Apker Award was that plastics polymers, modified in Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt. Reprinted with permission by owner, of the chiral fluctuations in See ERA on page 7 certain ways, can conduct electric- THE BACK PAGE the isotropic phase of a liquid ity very well. From Saran wrap to Vermeer’s Camera foam cups, polymers are normally 8 2 December 2000 NEWS Members in the Media This Month in Physics History Editor’s Note: With this issue we “Yes, it has had problems, but it microchips using quantum theory, December 29, 1959: Feynman’s Classic CalTech Lecture begin a “Members in the Media” fea- is a difficult and challenging New York Times, October 26, 2000 ✶✶✶ ture in which we highlight project, which, because of its im- Nobel-Prize winning physicist creature such appearances by our members in the portance, we should not dodge.” “If you can go into a plasma and Richard Feynman is known for as ourselves popular press. We welcome submis- —Richard Petrasso, MIT, on the change something this basic, you’ve many things: an enthusiasm for can be stored,” sions by our readers of relevant National Ignition Facility, USA Today, just changed the rules about how playing the bongos; a penchant he said. Fur- quotations (email: [email protected]). September 14, 2000 it works.” for breaching security systems at thermore, ✶✶✶ “The integrated circuit, along —Robin Marjoribanks, U. of Los Alamos while working on the human cells with the transistor, has probably “It’s easy to say foolish things Toronto, on the breakdown of Debye Manhattan Project; his definitive are active, ca- www.scs-intl.com/online/ Image from Richard emerged as the greatest discovery about thermodynamics, and some shielding in the presence of intense Congressional testimony attribut- pable of the “ Feynman of the last century. The prize really very wise people have said foolish laser-generated fields,” Toronto Star, ing the 1986 Challenger disaster manufacture of recognizes the boom associated things.” October 27, 2000 for faulty “O”-rings; and a myriad various substances, movement, ✶✶✶ with communications spawned by —John Ross, Stanford University, of published works encompass- and storage of information.
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