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ANNUAL

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

2019 REPORT OUR MISSION

To advance and diffuse the knowledge of for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community, we

Provide a welcoming and supportive professional home for an active, engaged, and diverse membership;

Advance scientific discovery and research dissemination;

Advocate for physics and , and amplify the voice for science;

Share the excitement of physics and communicate the essential role physics plays in the modern world; and

Promote effective physics education for all.

Cover image from Comprehensive magnetic phase diagrams of the polar metal Ca3(Ru0.95Fe0.05)2O7 [Shiming Lei et al., Phys. Rev. B 99, 224411 (2019)].

© 2020 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY During my time in the APS Presidential Line, starting in 2017, I have developed a deep understanding of this dynamic and complex organization, which does far more than just fulfill its objective “to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics”. I am very proud of the APS, its members and its staff and am proud to have served as its president.

In early February 2019, we announced the APS Strategic Plan: 2019, which laid out strategic priorities for addressing our challenges and opportunities. During this process I have tried to inspire us to look to the future and to encourage a spirit of experimentation. Some of the specific actions I promoted have gotten underway this year. Highlights include:

APS Innovation Fund: This is a strategic investment in new, emerging ideas, from both members and staff, which align with APS priorities. The first grants were awarded in August to four projects that develop new approaches to advancing the interests of the physics community.

2020 Annual Leadership Meeting: The purpose of this meeting is to showcase exciting forefront physics and discuss science policy, reaching out to science policy makers, government agency leadership, and the press. We expanded the Leadership Convocation, the yearly gathering of unit leaders in Washington, DC held at the end of January, by one day. The overall theme of the meeting was international engagement, collaboration and competition. We held a day-long session of plenary physics talks and panels and on the following day convened a roundtable of physics leaders from around the world to discuss threats to international collaboration in science.

US-China Roundtable: The APS leadership has been very concerned about the US government’s threat to hinder open scientific collaboration between the United States and China. To address this problem, APS organized and hosted a small, high-level meeting in mid-December involving US and Chinese physics leaders. During the two- day roundtable, participants discussed opportunities as well as barriers to US-China scientific cooperation. A follow-up meeting in China is being planned.

Thanks to all my colleagues for their support of APS and the opportunity to serve. I want to thank my dedicated partners at APS, including my predecessor as President, Roger Falcone, my successor, Phil Bucksbaum, and especially our CEO, Kate Kirby.

DAVID J. GROSS 2019 APS President Kavli Institute of University of California, Santa Barbara APS MEMBERSHIP IN 2019

Number of Members 54,069

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 72% 18% 9.5% 0.4% 0.1% Male Female No data Identity not listed Non-binary

Member Type Unit Membership

65% 17% 23% 8% 35% 7% 10%

Under- Graduate Early Career Regular Life Senior Member of at least graduate Student one unit Fellows Elected

70% 26% 4% 29% 168 Male Female No data International

Locations

APS members resided in 107 countries

Central & Middle East Canada S. Africa & N. Africa

2.3% Latin America 0.2% 1.0% & Caribbean Asia & the Pacific Western 77.2% 0.9% Europe 0.5% 9.4% United States & Eastern Territories 8.6% Europe Provide a Welcoming and Supportive Professional Home for an Active, Engaged, and Diverse Membership

FORMATION OF ETHICS COMMITTEE NEW APS UNITS APS formed a new standing Ethics Committee to APS members founded two new units, approved by oversee the Society’s ethics policies and to develop the APS Council of Representatives in 2019, the educational materials. Over the course of 2019, the Topical Group on Data Science (GDS) and the Forum Committee began communicating with members on Diversity and Inclusion (FDI). GDS will support through APS News and a new webpage dedicated to scientists whose work intersects with data science, ethics. The Committee is considering the development a fast-growing and highly interdisciplinary that of policies and procedures for handling reports of ethics spans topics in physics, statistics, computer science, violations, using resources developed and curated by and . Dedicated to creating a welcoming the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in community of physicists, FDI will promote diversity, STEMM. equity, and inclusion across the Society.

SOCIETIES CONSORTIUM ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN STEMM APS was a founding member of the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM, an initiative of over 120 professional societies to work together to advance excellence in STEMM disciplines and address sexual harassment in all of its forms. APS is one of nine societies on the Executive Committee, which is responsible for steering the work of the Societies Consortium. The Societies Consortium will produce resources, such as model policies and other tools, and build a network of society leaders to promote exchange of information and ideas.

Left: Attendees of the Future of Physics Days events at the 2019 APS March Meeting.

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FUTURE OF PHYSICS DAYS EVENTS Future of Physics Days events (FPD) were held at the APS March and April Meetings, with the aim of creating a professional home within APS for undergraduate student members. Attendance at FPD events has tripled since they began in 2009, and over 300 students participated in 2019. These events focus on professional development of undergraduate physics students and include a graduate school fair, career workshops, graduate school panels, and undergraduate research sessions at which students are given written feedback from expert judges.

APS CAREERS 2020 GUIDE APS partnered with the Institute of Physics to publish the Careers 2020 Guide for students and early career physicists. The guide includes career advice, profiles of physicists working in diverse fields, a special section on entrepreneurship, and a directory of employers who are seeking new hires. 2019 APS March Meeting attendees participated in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

CUWIP CONFERENCES WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON AT APS MARCH MEETING The 2019 Conferences for Undergraduate Women Wikipedia struggles with diversity, as less than 18% of in Physics (CUWiP) took place simultaneously at 12 biographies on the site are about women. APS took an regional sites across the United States and Canada. active role in addressing this issue by organizing its first A total of nearly 2,000 students attended, the largest Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the 2019 APS March Meeting. number of attendees to date; this approximately equals The was headlined by Jess Wade, a UK the number of physics bachelor’s degrees earned who has championed the work of adding biographies by women each year in the United States. A keynote of female scientists. More than 50 participants presentation by , Director-General of brought their laptops and created (45) or edited (91) CERN, was simulcast to all sites. In addition, students biographies of female and minority physicists, which attended workshops and panels, presented at poster received 1.7 million pageviews in 10 months. sessions, and participated in lab tours and networking events.

5 Advance Scientific Discovery and Research Dissemination

Our Trusted and Growing Publishing Program A RECORD-SETTING YEAR

Open access Peer-reviewed Articles journals articles 14 >20,000 published >3,800 published

CELEBRATING 90 YEARS OF REVIEWS OF MODERN CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OPEN ACCESS PHYSICS New Open Access Journal: Research APS celebrated the 90th anniversary of Reviews of APS launched Physical Review Research, a fully Modern Physics (RMP). A special issue of Physics open-access journal covering a wide range of physics, Today, published in February, featured 11 articles, including interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas, from RMP’s current editors, former editors, authors, and offering the APS peer review and author experience and others looking back on key papers published in researchers value and trust. The journal published its the journal. The celebrations continued at the March first articles in August and ended the year with 340 and April Meetings with special anniversary sessions, papers published, surpassing expectations. featuring some of the most widely read and cited RMP authors. New SCOAP 3 Agreement APS extended its commitment to publishing high-energy PHYSICSNEXT WORKSHOP: X-RAY LASER physics (HEP) research open access when it signed SCIENCE - A NEW FRONTIER onto Phase 3 of CERN’s Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in (SCOAP3) APS hosted a PhysicsNext Workshop on x-ray laser initiative, covering 2020-2022. All HEP papers science, focusing on potential advances made feasible published in three APS journals—Physical Review by the recent development of free-electron lasers Letters, Physical Review C, and Physical Review D— (FELs). This invitation-only workshop allowed for open will continue to be made available open access with a and informal discussions to help identify the most CC-BY license immediately on publication without the promising areas for further development of these new need for payment from authors. sources.

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APS MEETINGS The 2019 APS March Meeting in Boston, MA was the largest meeting in APS history with 12,234 physicists attendees (30% of whom came from outside of the United States). The Meeting featured a special Nobel session with talks from 2018 Physics Laureates and Gérard Mourou. The Kavli Foundation Special Symposium highlighted research “From Unit Cell to Biological Cell.”

The 2019 APS April Meeting, Quarks 2 Cosmos, was held in Denver, CO and also achieved a record-breaking attendance of 1,766. The meeting featured “Recent Advances in Neutrino Physics” as its Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session and a popular public lecture, “Dark Matter in the ,” presented by Katherine Freese.

APS hosted several large unit meetings that drew excellent attendance. The Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, attracted 1,854 attendees. The Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, held in Seattle, WA, had a record-breaking attendance of 3,576. The DFD Meeting included Flash Poster Presentations, which allowed poster presenters to give one-minute oral pitch presentations preceding the poster session.

APS MEDAL FOR EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN RESEARCH The 2019 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research was presented to Bertrand Halperin in recognition of his seminal contributions to theoretical , especially his pioneering work on the role of topology in both classical and systems. APS bestowed an additional 60 prizes and awards to outstanding members of the physics community.

Top: 2019 APS March Meeting attendees used stickers to show they traveled from all over the world. Bottom: Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, gave a talk at the 2019 APS March Meeting.

7 Advocate for Physics and Physicists, and Amplify the Voice for Science

Grassroots Advocacy by APS Members COMBATING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN STEM Within seven months, the Combating Sexual Op-Eds, letters to Harassment in Science Act of 2019 went from Congress, and visits to being introduced in the House—timed with the APS >2,500 Congressional Offices Congressional Visits Day in January—to passing the full chamber in July. The Forum on Graduate Student Affairs and the APS Office of Government Affairs partnered with APS members across the country to write more FIGHTING FOR INCREASED RESEARCH FUNDING than 550 letters in support of the Act. The letters were sent to 111 House offices and 70 Senate offices. The APS Office of Government Affairs worked with Nearly 50% of the House co-sponsors who joined the APS members and coordinated with other science bill after the campaign began had been contacted by and technology organizations to advocate for APS members. increased federal funding for science in FY 2020. For example, APS member Dany Waller, a University of Kentucky student, wrote a piece in the Courier-Journal newspaper, urging US Senator Mitch McConnell to work with his colleagues to raise the budgetary caps impacting FY 2020. Deep cuts to the science budget that were proposed by the Trump Administration were reversed by Congress.

REFORMING HIGH-SKILLED VISAS AND IMMIGRATION APS is leading efforts to support policy changes that would enable international graduate students who apply for a visa to indicate that they would like to stay in the US after graduation and would provide a path to a green card for students who secure job offers from US employers. APS worked with US Senator Richard Many APS members wrote letters to Congress during Durbin’s office to introduce the Keep STEM Talent Act, 2019. The darker shades of blue indicate where more which was also introduced in the House. letters were written.

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HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY FOR INTERNATIONAL PHYSICISTS Through its Committee on International Freedom of Scientists, APS advocated for the human rights of scientists around the world. In particular, APS leaders wrote a letter of support for the 2018 APS Sakharov Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian physicist and human rights activist who remains imprisoned in Iran.

In order to build a pipeline of young physicists who will APS members write to Congress in support of science. continue the Society’s tradition of supporting human rights for scientists, APS hosted 100 graduate students WORKING TO REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE for the “Young Physicists Lunch with APS President & Human Rights Leaders” at the 2019 APS March Climate change continued to be a top concern for Meeting. APS members. APS submitted a public comment opposing the EPA’s proposed policy amendments to curtail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. In the US-CHINA PHYSICS COOPERATION ROUNDTABLE comment, APS urged the EPA to carry out a rigorous DISCUSSION assessment of methane emissions—a major contributor To help advocate for continued international to climate change. Recent scientific results indicate collaboration in physics research, APS hosted high- that the negative environmental impact of methane is level scientists from China for a two-day roundtable significantly higher than previously estimated. discussion on “US-China Physics Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges.” The roundtable included FINDING SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS 20 high-level representatives, with 10 participants from each of the US and the Chinese science communities. APS continued to advocate for solutions to the helium issues facing researchers, as addressed in the report The discussions were conducted under the Chatham Responding to the U.S. Research Community’s Liquid House Rule, whereby participants are free to use the Helium Crisis, which was jointly prepared by APS, the information received, but neither the identity nor the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research affiliations of the participants may be revealed. The Society. APS member Joseph DiVerdi, a chemistry US and Chinese physicists openly discussed various professor at Colorado State University, authored concerns that have been expressed by their respective a piece in The Times, underscoring two governmental and academic communities regarding crucial recommendations in the Liquid Helium report. research integrity, scientific mobility, and intellectual Additionally, Sophia Hayes, a chemistry professor at the property. University of Washington in St. Louis and a member of the committee that prepared the Liquid Helium report, highlighted the need to enact APS’s proposed helium policy solutions in her witness testimony at a hearing sponsored by the House Science Committee.

9 Share the Excitement of Physics and Communicate the Essential Role Physics Plays in the Modern World

INNOVATION FUND APS PRESS SERVICES In 2019, APS launched the Innovation Fund to solicit APS disseminates new physics research published in and support creative ideas that align with strategic the Society’s journals and presented at its scientific priorities in the recently approved APS Strategic Plan. meetings to the general public via the news media. In Out of more than 100 proposals, four projects were 2019, the Physical Review journals were referenced selected for awards (up to $200,000, over two years) in more than 3,000 news articles, including ones encompassing efforts to use machine learning to help published by , The Washington March Meeting attendees locate relevant sessions, Post, Newsweek, The Guardian, and United Press to galvanize concerns of the physics community on International. APS provided press services to the March issues of nuclear non-proliferation, to build a network of and April Meetings as well as the Division of Plasma universities to share effective practices for building and Physics Meeting and the Division of Fluid Dynamics sustaining an inclusive climate for students and faculty, Meeting. These meetings collectively generated and to create a set of workshops to connect scientists hundreds of news articles. in Africa and North America.

2019 APS March Meeting attendees participated in LabEscape, a physics-based escape room, sponsored by the Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public. LabEscape received seed funding from the APS Outreach Mini Grant program.

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OUTREACH MINI-GRANTS AWARDED Seven Outreach Mini Grants of up to $10,000 were awarded to APS members in 2019. These awards fund new initiatives encompassing a broad spectrum of physics topics and audiences, and empower APS members in the area of public engagement. Projects include dedicated and sustained outreach programs to be brought to American Indian communities, prison populations, and international settings. Projects funded in both 2018 and 2019 are underway, assisted by APS staff, and were featured in outreach-focused sessions at the 2019 APS March Meeting.

SPECTRA COMICS Katherine Freese meets the audience after her public lecture at the 2019 APS April Meeting. APS brought the APS Spectra comics series to popular venues, including Comic-Con International in San Diego and the Denver Pop Culture Con, to spread the excitement of physics and interact with fans of QUANTUM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT all ages. Each comic convention attracted hundreds CONSORTIUM of thousands of attendees. In addition to talking to The Quantum Economic Development Consortium audiences about the importance of physics, APS (QED-C) was formed by NIST in September 2018 distributed over two tons, or about 28,000 comics, to and grew substantially in 2019. The mission of QED-C fans in attendance. is to establish a strong industrial base for Quantum Information Science. Participants include large and small companies, universities, government labs, and PHYSICSQUEST KITS nonprofits. This emerging discipline could impact A total of 20,000 PhysicsQuest kits were distributed to many fields including instrumentation, cryptography, approximately 5,000 teachers, reaching an estimated and computing. APS leads the Workforce Technical 180,000 middle school students. PhysicsQuest Advisory Committee. kits provide hands-on experiments to demonstrate the fun and relevance of science to middle school students as they learn more about the physical world. AFRICAN PHYSICS NEWSLETTER Each free kit offers activities to build enthusiasm for APS launched the African Physics Newsletter, an science and encourage active participation. The 2019 online publication for and by the African physics PhysicsQuest kit highlighted a famous physicist, Dr. community. It serves as a vehicle for African physicists Chien-Shiung Wu, known as the “first lady of nuclear to communicate among themselves as well as to share physics” and the first female president of APS. An with their peers outside of Africa information about the evaluation of PhysicsQuest kits showed that students physics that is being conducted across the continent. are more interested in learning about physics after they The newsletter was created as the result of a survey of experienced the activities in the kit. African physicists that was conducted by the Physics in Africa Project.

11 Promote Effective Physics Education for All

EP3 GUIDE STEP UP APS has teamed up with the American Association of Now in its third year, the STEP UP project has Physics Teachers to create a comprehensive guide to developed and demonstrated a set of high school Effective Practices in Undergraduate Physics Programs physics classroom materials that enables high school (EP3) that spans all aspects of the curriculum and is teachers to encourage young women to pursue scheduled for release in 2020. More than half of the physics as undergraduates. In 2019, APS and its 30+ chapters were developed by a national task force partners recruited teacher “ambassadors” to the in 2019. This guide will contain advice on preparing project, resulting in nearly 1,000 teachers joining for and conducting external program reviews, with an this effort. STEP UP researchers recently discovered eye to creating materials that physics departments that, along with seeing substantial gains in recruiting can use to document practices required in university women to physics, these classroom strategies also accreditation. encourage students from additional underrepresented backgrounds to pursue physics—a result that could have a far-reaching impact on the physics and communities in the coming years.

APS BRIDGE PROGRAM The APS Bridge Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented ethnic and racial minorities who complete a PhD in physics. Since the first cohort in 2013, the APS Bridge Program has placed nearly 250 students in graduate programs, with a retention rate of 85%. These supportive programs, including those at over 40 Partnership Institutions, provide comprehensive instruction, high-quality mentoring, and dedicated faculty support. In 2019, the APS Bridge Program reached an important milestone, graduating its first two PhD students.

Left: Master teacher and STEP UP Ambassador Catherine Garland teaches the STEP UP lessons at her school in Brooklyn, NY. Credit: JJ Ignotz Photography.

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IGEN PHYSTEC COMPREHENSIVE SITES The Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC), a is expanding the successful work of the APS Bridge project of APS and AAPT, made four Comprehensive Program throughout the physical sciences. APS leads a Site awards to recognize “thriving programs” that coalition of national professional societies including the prepare five or more physics teachers per year. American Chemical Society, the American Astronomical Appalachian State University, the University of Kansas, Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Texas A&M University-Commerce, and Worcester Materials Research Society in efforts to substantially Polytechnic Institute were selected from a highly increase the number of underrepresented minority competitive pool. Each institution demonstrated strong students that earn doctoral degrees. IGEN’s first institutional commitment and capable leadership teams, national meeting brought together 160 students, faculty, positioning them to become national leaders in physics and other STEM professionals committed to building teacher education. supportive graduate cultures that allow students of all backgrounds to succeed. PHYSTEC TEACHER RECEIVED PAEMST AWARD Tiffany Taylor, a high school physics teacher who APS PIPELINE PROGRAM graduated from the PhysTEC program at the University The APS PIPELINE, which supports innovation and of Arkansas, was awarded a Presidential Award for entrepreneurship education within physics, wrapped Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching up its three-year program with a workshop at the (PAEMST), the highest award for K-12 science and 2019 AAPT Summer Meeting. Attendees learned a mathematics teaching given by the US government. In variety of approaches to teach physics innovation and just five years, her recruitment efforts tripled the number entrepreneurship. of students at her school in Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 and 2. Over 40% of her students are from groups typically underrepresented in physics. Participants in the PIPELINE workshop at the 2019 AAPT Summer Meeting, learned new ways to connect physics teaching with innovation and entrepreneurship. CANADIAN-AMERICAN-MEXICAN PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE APS partnered with physical societies across North America and Cuba for the 2019 Canadian-American- Mexican Physics Graduate Student Conference (CAM), held in Sudbury, Canada. CAM is a biennial conference planned by and for physics graduate students. The CAM meeting gave students a unique opportunity to engage with international peers, present their research, build an international network, and develop professional skills.

APS gratefully acknowledges the National Science Foundation for its support of these projects.

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Finances DECEMBER 31, 2019

The total net assets of the American Physical Society increased from $214.3M to $248.0M. Net Assets without Donor Restrictions are composed of $146.8M of undesignated assets and $47.4M of board designated assets. The APS Board of Directors increased designated funds to support future post-retirement costs and specific mission-related operating activities. Net Assets without Donor Restrictions increased $32.0M over the prior year; this increase is primarily due to very positive non-operating investment returns. Net Assets with Donor Restrictions increased from $17.1M at the end of 2018 to $17.9M at the end of 2019.

APS recognized $62.7M of operating income and incurred operating expenses of $60.6M resulting in net income from operations of $2.1M. APS personnel and benefits contribute to over 52% of total operating expenses. Non-operating income increased $29.9M as a result of investment income and changes in the value of APS’s investment in the American Center for Physics and its post-retirement health liability. The total change in net assets during 2019 was $32.8M.

14 DECEMBER 31, 2019 AND 2018 (in millions) Statement of Financial Position

2019 2018

ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents $ 25.3 $ 24.4 Investments, at fair value 197.0 164.5 Accounts receivable, net 1.9 1.8 Pledges receivable, net 0.1 0.4 Prepaid expenses and other assets 1.4 1.0 Equity interest in American Center for Physics 4.4 4.6 Land, building and equipment, net 17.0 17.1 Beneficial interest in perpetual trust 0.6 0.5 Total assets $ 247.7 $ 214.3

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 5.4 $ 5.8 Deferred revenues 15.9 17.3 Liability for post-retirement medical benefits 14.2 11.9 Total liabilities 35.5 35.0

Net assets Without donor restrictions Undesignated 146.9 155.7 Designated by Board 47.4 6.5 With donor restrictions 17.9 17.1 Total net assets 212.2 179.3

Total liabilities and net assets $ 247.7 $ 214.3

Statement of Activities

2019 2018

NET ASSETS

Net Assets Without Donor Restrictions Operating Activities Operating Revenues $ 62.7 $ 59.4 Operating Expenses 60.6 56.5 Income from Operations 2.1 2.9 Non-operating activities Income from investments 32.1 -9.4 Other non-operating income -2.2 4.6 Income from Non-Operating Activities 29.9 -4.8 Total change in net assets without donor restrictions 32.0 -1.9

Total change in net assets with donor restrictions 0.8 0.6

Total change in net assets $ 32.8 $ -1.3 Philanthropic Partners

APS is grateful for each of the gifts and pledges received in support of its mission to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics for the benefit of the scientific community and society at large. APS depends on our generous donors to help us provide vital programs in the areas of Education, Diversity and Inclusion; Public Engagement; Careers; Science Advocacy; International Affairs; Honors; and the Matching Membership Program. Charitable support to APS is truly an investment in the future of physics.

APS LEGACY CIRCLE

The APS Legacy Circle recognizes donors who support the Society’s mission and vision through planned gifts. By including APS in their estate plans, these forward- thinking individuals are creating an enduring legacy that will benefit researchers, industrial physicists, educators, students, and the general public far into the future.

APS sincerely thanks the following members and friends for helping to perpetuate and sustain a bright future for the scientific community and the future of science. Those in bold represent bequests that have already been realized.

Anonymous (1) Ken and Paula Krane Charlotte Anderson Beatrice Lilienfeld Jean Dickey Apker Suha Oguz and Leslie J. Lord Robert Bachrach Erol and Julianne S. Oktay Esther Hoffman Beller John J. Rehr M. Hildred Blewett Robert Stanek Bert Brown Aleksandar Svager Mary and Rudolph Chope David Sward C. Stewart Gillmor George O. Zimmerman Theodore W. Hodapp and Isa Kaftal Zimmerman Jay Jones

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

The APS Leadership Circle recognizes donors whose lifetime* giving has exceeded $100,000.

Anonymous (1) William and Flora Hewlett Charlotte Marie Anderson Foundation John and Elizabeth Armstrong Jay Jones M. Hildred Blewett Rosa Ovshinsky David Braslau Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Mr. and Mrs. Kenton R. Brown Wolff-Reichert Robert Brown Family of J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Family of Richard L. Greene and Frances Hellman and the Hellman Virginia Trimble Family Foundation George E. Valley Jr.

AIP Publishing, The Journal of The Kavli Foundation Chemical Physics KEK, High Energy Accelerator Argonne National Laboratory Research Organization , Alcatel-Lucent Lilienfeld Trust Brookhaven National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory CERN Oak Ridge National Laboratory Elektronen-Synchroton DESY Pearson Education Dow Consumer Solutions Research Corporation for Science Eucalyptus Foundation Advancement Fermi National Accelerator Richard Lounsbery Foundation Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories SLAC National Accelerator Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Laboratory Heising-Simons Foundation Thorlabs, Inc. HTC-VIA Group TOPTICA , Inc. IBM Corporation Xerox Foundation

*Based on APS’s most complete records.

17 2019 DONORS

Names in Green: Current year donor whose gifts over the last ten years total $10,000 or more Names in Blue: Current year donor whose gifts over the last ten years total $2,500 or more

$100,000 and above Research Corporation for Dave and Karen John Rehr Old Dominion University Science Advancement Chandler Oregon State University Robert Brown Glenn Reynolds Sandia National Tracy Chen J. Rowe Institute Gordon and Betty Moore Laboratories Michal Patrick Decowski Stephen Schiff Photonics Industries Foundation SLAC National Michael Douglas Joseph W. Serene International, Inc. Accelerator Laboratory Heising-Simons Loyal Durand S.R. Seshadri Pohang Accelerator Foundation University of Oklahoma Robert Eisenstein Mary Shoaf Laboratory (PAL) VIA Technologies, Inc. Cary Forest Sunil Sinha R&K Company Limited $10,000 to $99,999 Hans Frauenfelder James Smith RadiaSoft, LLC Anonymous (1) $5,000 to $9,999 Jonathan Gaffney Lorraine Solomon RIKEN Nishina Center Joan April Beverly Berger E. M. Garmire Jin Joo Song RIKEN SPring-8 Center Aneesa Baker Bernice Buresh Sylvester J. Gates Jacob Taylor Shanghai Advanced T. H. Geballe Research Institute Sidney Bludman Roberto Car Michael Telson (SARI) Cameron Guy Geddes Fred Blum Marianne Cooper Chris Van de Walle Springer Verlag Frances Hellman and Joyce Freedman Larry D. Gladney Eugene Venturini Heidelberg the Hellman Family Gary Grest Gabriela Gonzalez Renata Wentzcovitch Tech-X Corporation Foundation William Hassinger Christopher Gould David Wineland Thorlabs, Inc. Kate P. Kirby Robert Lourie Thomas Winter Tsinghua University Michael Klein David Munich Warren Griffith Stanley Wojcicki University of Idaho Michele Parrinello Cherry Murray Bertrand Halperin Philip and Carolyn Wyatt University of Maryland - Robert Stanek Gregory Norton Beverly Hartline Nai-Chang Yeh McKeldin Library Virginia Trimble Michael Stix Arthur Hebard Linda Young Sidney Yip Aleksandar Svager Theodore W. Hodapp Jun Zhu $500 to $999 Air Force Office of Stanley Whitcomb Stephen Jardin Aaron Zimmerman Anonymous (2) Scientific Research-NE John Joannopoulos Yosef Zlochower Applied Materials Inc. Frank Adams Alfred P. Sloan Foundation J. M. Kendall Cambridge University AIP Publishing, Chaos Andrew Askew Argonne National David Kieda Press American Institute of Laboratory Hyun-Tak Kim Isaac Backus The Cockcroft Institute Physics The Boeing Company Judy Lamana Samuel Bader Deutsches Elektronen- Applied Physics Lab - Norman Belecki Brookhaven National Synchrotron - DESY James Langer University of Washington Laboratory Eli Ben-Naim Intel Corporation Chun Ning Lau Bridgestone Americas, CERN Mark Bernstein Lawrence Berkeley William Long Center for Research and Lee Berry CNRS - IN2P3 National Laboratory Marin Lulic Technology Marshall Bishop DW Gore Family Lawrence Livermore Martin Maltz Brookhaven National Foundation National Laboratory Richard Martin Laboratory Charles Brown Fermi National Solvay Timothy McKay CEA-Saclay Robert Cahn Accelerator Laboratory Tokyo Electron Limited J. McKisic Cosylab Charles and Martha Google Campbell TRIUMF Gregory Meisner Elsevier GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur David Ceperley Wyatt Technology Richard Meserve Euclid Techlabs Schwerionenforschung Antony Chang GmbH Corporation Ernest Moniz Institute of High Energy Physics E. William Colglazier IBM Corporation Jagadeesh Moodera Institute of Modern Lee Collins Jefferson Laboratory $1,000 to $4,999 Tobin Munsat Physics, Chinese S. Lance Cooper The Kavli Foundation Sidney Nagel Daniel Akerib Academy of Sciences Pablo Debenedetti KEK, High Energy Terry O’Dwyer Institute of Physics Philippe Eberhard Accelerator Research Benjamin Ocko Andrew Bacher Publishing (IOP) Paul Ellingwood Organization Suha Oguz John Balogh Instituto de Física John Engel Lilienfeld Trust John Peoples Corpuscular (IFIC) Raymond Beausoleli Judy Franz Los Alamos National Gerald Peterson Intel Corporation Edmund Bertschinger James Freericks Laboratory Wayne Pfeiffer International Particle Robert Birgeneau Richard Furnstahl National Superconducting Philip Phillips Accelerator Conference Cyclotron Laboratory Philip H. 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President Editor in Chief David J. Gross* Michael Thoennessen Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Michigan State University (on leave) University of California, Santa Barbara Corporate Secretary President-Elect Jeanette Russo Philip H. Bucksbaum* American Physical Society and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Division, Forum, and Section Councilors Michael Coleman Miller, Division of David Schultz, Division of Atomic, Molecular, Vice President and Optical Physics Sylvester J. Gates* William Bialek, Division of Biological Physics Brown Theoretical Physics Center, Robert Continetti, Division of Chemical Physics Brown University Brad Marston*, Division of Condensed Matter Physics Past President Giulia Galli, Division of Computational Physics Roger W. Falcone* Howard Stone, Division of Fluid Dynamics University of California, Berkeley Beverly Berger*, Division of Gravitational Physics John Fourkas, Division of Laser Science Samuel Bader, Division of Materials Physics Chief Executive Officer Baha Balantekin*, Division of Kate P. Kirby Elizabeth Simmons, Division of Particles and Fields American Physical Society Stuart Henderson, Division of Physics of Beams Amitava Bhattacharjee, Division of Plasma Physics Speaker of the Council Murugappan Muthukumar, Division of Polymer Physics John Rumble, Jr.* Charles H. Bennett, Division of Quantum Information R&R Data Services Noah Finkelstein, Forum on Education Julia Gonski, Forum on Graduate Student Affairs Treasurer Virginia Trimble, Forum on the History of Physics James Hollenhorst* John Rumble, Jr.*, Forum on Industrial and Applied Agilent Technologies Physics Emanuela Barzi, Forum on International Physics Pushpalatha Bhat*, Forum on Physics and Society General Councilors Philip R. Johnson, Mid-Atlantic Section Bonnie Fleming, Andrea J. Liu*, Vivian F. Incera*, Nora Berrah, New Section Robin L. B. Selinger

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