Presentation to Martin Blume and Paul Ginsparg

CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement u Presentation to Martin Blume and Paul Ginsparg Annette Flanagin at Cornell University. Past President, CSE He received an AB from Journal of the American Medical Harvard and a PhD in phys- Association (JAMA) ics from Cornell. He has Chicago, Illinois held academic and research positions at Harvard, Los The Council of Science Editors gives its Alamos National Laboratory, highest award, the Award for Meritorious and Cornell. Ginsparg has Achievement, to two corecipients, Martin specialized in quantum field Blume and Paul Ginsparg. These recipients theory, string theory, and share multiple interests, generally, in the digital knowledge networks. scientific discipline of physics and in pro- He has received numerous moting excellence in the communication honors and awards and most PHOTO CREDIT: JOHN WACHTER/CPS MEDIA of scientific information, which is CSE’s recently was named Fellow of Martin Blume, Paul Ginsparg, and primary mission. They are honored for their the American Physical Society Annette Flanagin unique contributions, vision, leadership, (2000) and a MacArthur he held positions at the Atomic Energy integrity, and passion. Whether you view Foundation Fellow (2002). He has served Research Establishment in England, their contributions as radical transforma- on many committees and advisory boards, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the tions or guided evolution, Paul Ginsparg’s including most recently the US National State University of New York at Stony and Martin Blume’s contributions have Academy of Sciences (NAS)/National Brook. Blume’s research has focused on forced editors and publishers to reevaluate Research Council (NRC) Committee on atomic and condensed-matter physics and old and current procedures, policies, and Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific the interface between condensed matter modes of disseminating information and Data, the NAS/NRC Committee on the and nuclear physics. He has served on have encouraged us to consider new oppor- Future of Universities, the Open Archives several editorial boards of journals and tunities. By challenging norms and views Initiative, PubMed Central’s National on many panels of the NAS/NRC, the on a wide array of issues—including intel- Advisory Committee, and the American Department of Energy, and the National lectual-property and copyright concerns, Physical Society’s Taskforce on Electronic Science Foundation. He helped to develop access to information, and traditional pub- Information Systems and Publications the American Physical Society Guidelines lishing models—and by recognizing that we Oversight Committee. He often writes for Professional Conduct, including supple- cannot assume an unchanging existence of and speaks on the future of scholarly com- mentary guidelines on responsibilities scientific journals and the roles and respon- munication, for example, on “Alternative of coauthors and collaborators, research sibilities of editors and publishers, Blume Models for Scholarly Publishing” and “The results, and references in publications. He is and Ginsparg have led us to question our Impact of Barrier-free Access and New a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts values and beliefs, have led us to find ways Technologies on Biomedical Publishing”. In and Sciences, the American Association for to cope with and keep pace with rapid 1991, Ginsparg developed the Los Alamos the Advancement of Science, the British advances in technology, and, it is hoped, Electronic Preprint Archive, now called Institute of Physics, and the American are leading us to ensure the viability of sci- arXiv, an open e-print service with more Physical Society. Since 1996, Blume has ence journals, in whatever form they may than a million articles in physics and tens been editor-in-chief of the American take, and the work of science editors and of thousands of articles in mathematics, Physical Society, with responsibility for all publishers. Ginsparg and Blume are both nonlinear science, computer science, and the Physical Review journals, Physical Review futurists and realists, freeing us from inertia, quantitative biology. Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics. He forcing us to move forward. As such, they Martin Blume is editor-in-chief of the frequently writes and speaks about the personify Newton’s third law of motion, American Physical Society, now on leave challenge of electronic publishing, includ- that for every action (Ginsparg) there is an from Brookhaven National Laboratory. ing concerns about intellectual property, equal and opposite reaction (Blume). He received a BA from Princeton and archiving, peer review, the dual role of paper Paul Ginsparg is professor of physics a PhD in physics from Harvard. After a and electronic media, and economic ques- and computing and information science Fulbright Fellowship at Tokyo University, tions of cost minimization and recovery. Science Editor • September – October 2005 • Vol 28 • No 5 • 147.

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