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In This Issue Recognized As Philosophical at All A FORUM OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY • VOLUME XIII • NO. 5 • FALL 2017 The Author in Dialogue: Jimena Canales’s The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Robert P. Crease Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY ver 150 people attended the March meeting session devoted to Jimena Canales’s book, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That OChanged Our Understanding of Time. It was the second of an annual series of FHP-sponsored sessions in which the author of a recent book on history of physics meets critics and commentators. The 2017 session was held on the third floor of New Orleans’ huge convention center. The atmosphere was relaxed and genial, with the papers and conversation directed, not at professional physicists or professional phi- losophers, but to those interested in the general subject of the nature of time, and assumed a modest shared knowledge of both physics and philosophy. Canales, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and four other people spoke. Canales’s book was built around a 1922 episode in which Einstein and Bergson clashed about the nature of time; she discussed both the buildup to and the aftermath of the event, in which physicists and philosophers continued to display a lack of understanding for each others’ position. “The book has been more successful than I ever imagined,” Canales began. Part of the controversy, she continued, was fueled by Jimena Canales of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physicists’ negative attitude towards philosophy, and she cited numerous examples. Then she noted that most if not all physicists have implicit philosophies, but these are so prevalent and taken for granted that they are not usually In This Issue recognized as philosophical at all. She also pointed to nega- tive reviews of her book, associating a defense of Bergson Author in Dialogue: Jimena Canales 1 with postmodernism, fake news, and specious thinking. The value of reviving interest in the controversy, she said, was in Historical Note: FHP March and April reviving discussion of the difference between psychological Sessions, 1994 — 2017 2 and philosophical time -- between, say, measuring the length of melodies and being able to hear them as melodies at all. March Session Reports 3 Jean Bricmont, of the Université catholique de Louvain, spoke next, giving a talk entitled “Bergson vs. Einstein: is FHP Events at 2018 March/April Meetings 4 there really a philosopher’s time?” His answer seemed to be in the negative. He explained the scientific issues of relativity Book Review 4 that he said had led Bergson into error. Relativity, he said, had nothing to do with consciousness, as Bergson seems to have In Memory of Martin M. Block 5 thought, but with clocks. Bricmont declared, though, that Continues on page 7 Officers and Committees 16 Historical Note: FHP March and April Meeting Sessions, 1994-2017 by Cameron Reed Alma College 2017 2015 continued 2011 The Author in Dialogue: The Physicist and Invited Session: APS and Public Engagement The History of Superconductivity from its the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the in Historical Perspective Discovery by Kammerlingh Onnes in 1911 Debate that Changed Our Understanding Invited Session: History of Relativity J. H. Van Vleck: Quantum Theory and of Time Magnetism Joint session with FED, FOEP. Puzzles, 2014 History of Physics and International History, and Reality TV: Physics Beyond Programs the Classroom Migrations of Physicists. Women and the Manhattan Project 60 Years Since BCS and 30 Years Since Solvay at One Hundred: Pais Prize Talk. Woodstock History of Physics, Public Policy and National Facilities Centennial of the Nuclear Atom Marie Curie: A 150th Birthday Celebration The History of the Communication of Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: I. Joint session with FPS: Diversity in Science to the Public History Troubled Times Twentieth-Century Chinese Physicists and Centennial of Superconductivity Transitions in Physics and Related Fields Physics Working with Luis Alvarez (1911-1988) from the late 19th Century to Today Pais Prize Session in honor of David Cassidy Manhattan Project Scientific Legacy Gaining Inspiration from Galileo, Einstein, 2010 The Social Legacy of the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard Five Legacies From the Laser The Manhattan Project: History and Heritage History of the G2 From 1947 to Present Pais Prize: Sam Goudsmit: Physics, Editor, and More Physics Outreach and Physics History 2013 History of the Search for Gravitational Continues on page 6 Waves Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Review at 2016 APS A History of Physics in Industry International Physics Programs and Peer Review: History and Issues History of Physics The History of Electrical Science Maria Goeppert-Mayer: The 50th Anniversary The Author in Dialogue: Steven Weinberg’s of her Nobel Prize The Forum on History of Physics of To Explain the World the American Physical Society pub- Pais Session: Relations Between Physics and Beyond the Lab: Bringing History of Physics History of Physics lishes this Newsletter biannually at to the Public Public Policy and History of Physics. http://www.aps.org/units/fhp/newslet- The Iran Nuclear Deal: Physics, Physicists, ters/index.cfm. Each 3-year volume 100 Years of the Bohr Atom and the Historic Agreement consists of six issues. History of Physics from Pythagoras to Higgs 2012 Invited Session: Sidney Coleman Remem- The articles in this issue represent bered: Correspondence and Commentary the views of their authors and are Invited Session: Pais Prize Session: Some One Hundred Fifty Years of Maxwell’s not necessarily those of the Forum History You Won’t Find in Physics Textbooks Equations (1862-2012) or APS. Invited Session: The New Big Science and The Scientific Legacy of Edward Purcell the Transformation of Research (1912-2012) Editor History of Meteorology and Today’s Robert P. Crease 2015 Frontiers of Measurement Department of Philosophy The Scientific Legacy of Bruno Rossi Stony Brook University Physicists Advising on National Security Stony Brook, NY 11794 Inspirational Approaches to Teaching Physics/History of Physics History of Physics and Educational Topics [email protected] (631) 632-7570 Pais Prize Session: Physics at the Intersection Pais Session: The National Laboratories after of History, Technology, and Society 1980 “Why Peer Review?” Book Review Editor Invited Session: Three Perspectives on Michael Riordan the Supercollider [email protected] 2 Volume XIII, No. 5 • Fall 2017 • History of Physics Newsletter March 2017 Meeting Session Reports: “The Pais Prize Session for Mary Jo Nye” by Joseph D. Martin University of Cambridge owhere is better suited than Nye herself spoke on one of the New Orleans to honor the work issues that has defined her career, ask- of Mary Jo Nye, winner of the ing how the boundaries of physics N2017 Abraham Pais Prize for History of have evolved since the beginning of Physics. The city blends artistic, musi- the twentieth century. She used the cal, linguistic, and culinary influences broad perspective her work provides from a vibrant collection of cultural to examine how the history of physics traditions, and so presented a fitting has responded—or not—to the prevail- backdrop for a celebration of Nye’s ing winds of the physics profession. contributions to history of physics, Nye’s analysis showed that historians which have often examined how meth- of physics have largely reproduced the ods, theories, and practices blend in prestige hierarchies that exist in physics the spaces where scientific disciplines itself, focusing their attentions on rela- meet. The Forum on the History of tivity, quantum mechanics, and nuclear Physics–sponsored prize session at the and high energy physics. But she also APS March meeting showcased work identified recent trends that show the that followed Nye’s spirit of exploring field waking to the wider collection of boundaries between disciplines and dis- investigations that often move fluidly Mary Jo Nye of Oregon State University cussing the interfaces between science across the boundaries of the physics, and politics. Continues on page 8 Session Report: “60 Years Since BCS and 30 Years Since Woodstock” by Brian Schwartz Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York ince the session dealt with physics history and was sponsored by the APS Forum on the History of SPhysics (FHP), it seems worthwhile to present some background as to how the session and its speakers came about. For the March 2017 meeting Alan Cho- dos, the FHP program chair (currently chair of the FHP Executive Committee) called me and indicated that the forum was interested in having a session cele- brating the 60th anniversary of the 1957 BCS theory and needed an organizer. I accepted and proposed the title for the session, and some potential speakers. In the past, for the 50th anniversary of BCS, the 2007 APS March meeting had two invited sessions: “50 Years of BCS Theory,” sponsored by the DCMP, and a second invited session, “20th Anniversary of High Tc Superconduc- tivity ‘Woodstock’ Session.” Later that Superconductivity experts figuring out the projector Continues on page 9 Volume XIII, No. 5 • Fall 2017 • History of Physics Newsletter 3 FHP Invited and Contributed Events at the 2018 March and April Meetings Note: Times and Titles subject to change March 5-9, 2018 Meeting April 14-17, 2018 Meeting Los
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