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APS Members Choose Bahcall As New Vice President in 2003 Election November 2003 Volume 12, No. 10 NEWS http://www.physics2005.org A Publication of The American Physical Society http://www.aps.org/apsnews Apker Award Finalists APS Members Choose Bahcall as New Vice President in 2003 Election APS members have chosen John national councillor. tise include weak Bahcall, professor of natural Bahcall has been interaction theory, sciences at the Institute for with the Institute of models of the galaxy, Advanced Study in Princeton, as Advanced Study since atomic and nuclear the next APS vice president in the 1971, having previ- physics applied to as- 2003 general election. He will ously been on the tronomical systems, assume office on January 1, 2004, physics faculty of the stellar evolution, and becoming president elect in 2005 California Institute of quasar emissions. and APS president in 2006. The APS Technology. He re- Most recently he has president for 2004 will be Helen ceived his BS from the worked on ultra high Photo Credit: Jessica Clark Quinn (SLAC). University of Califor- energy cosmic rays The Apker Award is given annually to two students for outstanding research as an In other election results, Philip nia, Berkeley, his MS and the time depen- undergraduate. One award is for a student at an institution granting a PhD Bucksbaum of the University of from the University of John Bahcall dence of the fine degree; the other goes to a student at an institution that does not grant a PhD. The Michigan was chosen as chair-elect Chicago, and his PhD structure constant. recipients are chosen from six finalists, three in each category, who assemble in of the APS Nominating Committee. from Harvard University in 1961, He received the National Medal of Washington in September for a day of interviews with the selection committee. Evelyn Hu (University of California, all in physics. In 1964 he and Science in 1998 for his theoretical Shown here after the long day of interviews had ended are (l to r): Matt Landreman Santa Barbara) and Arthur Ramirez Raymond Davis, Jr. proposed that work on solar neutrinos and for (Swarthmore); Jeffrey Moffitt (College of Wooster); Taylor Hughes (U. of Florida); (Bell Labs) were elected as general neutrinos from the sun could be his role in the development of the Nathaniel Stern (Harvey Mudd College); Peter Onyisi (U. of Chicago); Beth Reid councillors, and Sukekatsu detected with a practical chlorine Hubble Space Telescope. He is a (Virginia Tech). The two recipients will be announced in next month’s APS News. Ushioda of Tohoku University in detector. In the subsequent four past recipient of the Dannie Sendai, Japan, was elected as inter- decades, Bahcall has refined theo- Heineman Prize and the APS Hans retical predictions and Bethe Prize. interpretations of solar neutrino In his candidate’s statement, Physics Departments Endorse experiments. Bahcall recalled attending his very Statement on Education of Teachers Bahcall’s other areas of exper- See ELECTION on page 6 By Susan Ginsberg Approximately 250 US physics response has been much stron- statement saying that the depart- Automatic Visa Revalidation Solves departments have endorsed a joint ger than expected. ment itself accepts direct Most March Meeting Visa Problems APS/AIP/AAPT statement that calls APS, AIP and AAPT plan to post responsibility to make the for the active involvement of phys- the list of endorsing institutions change.” Although it was initially thought that people with F-1 or ics departments in improving the on their websites and send the list As APS News goes to press, two J-1 visas might run into trouble in reentering the US after science education of future K-12 to the NSF. “This has been an hundred and forty physics depart- attending the APS March meeting in Montreal, it turns out teachers. amazing outpouring of support,” ments, ranging alphabetically from that students, postdocs and visitors from all but a few coun- The executive officers of APS, says Judy Franz, Executive Of- Albertson College of Idaho to tries can make use of the automatic visa revalidation program, AIP and AAPT sent a letter to ficer of APS. “It’s easy to sign a Youngstown State University, have which will eliminate potential difficulties. physics department chairs last statement saying that K-12 pre- endorsed the 1999 statement. Details can be found on the March meeting web page at: spring and again this fall to ask service education is important; it’s “This sort of activity is a natural http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR04/visa/index.html. for endorsement of the state- quite another for a physics de- outgrowth of what we’re already ment, first issued in 1999. The partment to get behind a doing in my department,” says Jon Report Says: Bagger, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Revolutionary Breakthroughs Use of Shock Waves in Hopkins University in Baltimore. “In addition to major efforts Needed for Hydrogen Economy Medicine Among Highlights through QuarkNet, the Sloan Digi- By Susan Ginsberg tal Sky Survey and the FUSE of 2003 SCCM Conference Satellite, many of our individual A report indentifying the basic vened in May with the express pur- faculty members make outreach a research necessary to make possible pose of identifying the research The APS Topical Group on examine the effects of shock part of their work.” Bagger believes a competitive hydrogen economy advances necessary to enable cost- Shock Compression of Con- waves on materials of scientific that the location of his school has was released by the Department of efficient use of hydrogen as a fuel. densed Matter held its biennial and engineering importance. in large part prompted their Energy’s Office of Science in late The workshop was chaired by conference in Portland, Oregon, Shocks can be produced by high- efforts, “ Johns Hopkins is located August. “Basic Research Needs for Mildred Dresselhaus of MIT, a from July 20-25. Topics included speed impacts or intense in the middle of a tremendously the Hydrogen Economy” summa- former Director of the Office of the targeting and destruction of explosions. Study of shock waves underserved community, and it’s rizes the findings of a Basic Energy Science, and a former President of cancer cells, needle-free drug began as a part of the nuclear our responsibility to find ways to Sciences “Workshop on Hydrogen the American Physical Society. delivery, making solid hydrogen, weapons program, but the ben- See ENDORSE on page 7 Production, Storage and Use” con- The report identifies six cross- progress toward fusion, and efits from this new field of science cutting areas as critical research watching the instantaneous freez- have been far-reaching. directions, including catalysis; ing of water. Among the plenary HHighlights nanostructured materials; mem- speakers was this year’s recipient A New Medical Toolool. Under- branes and separations; of the Shock Compression Science standing shock waves in biology characterization and measure- Award, Jim Asay (Washington State and medicine is a new challenge ment techniques; theory, modeling University), who spoke about how and a new opportunity for shock 3 5 8 and simulation; and safety and shock waves can be tailored for compression science. Biological environmental issues. The report investigation of specific properties tissues are fundamentally different also names biological and bio- of materials under extreme com- and considerably more compli- inspired science as promising pression, such as occurs in meteor cated than the liquids and solids Ask The Ethicist: Zero Gravity: The Back Page: approaches for progress. Simple impact, the interior of large plan- normally studied by shock com- APS News is inaugurat- Woody Allen is Strung Merrilea J. Mayo: Oversupply, incremental advances in the ing what we hope will be a Out Undersupply: Can We Ever Get ets, or in large explosions. pression. Laser surgeries generate continuing series of columns Workforce Issues Right? present state of the art are not Shock compression studies See SHOCK WAVES on page 6 addressing ethical issues See HYDROGEN on page 7 2 November 2003 NEWS This Month in Physics History November 1, 1952: Teller and the Hydrogen Bomb “I always advised friends to take “The University of Arizona’s big- the [Strategic Defense Initiative] gest strength is the involvement of Often touted as the “father of Although part of a group of dis- in 1950 during Oppenheimer’s se- money and do some useful phys- every undergraduate student who the hydrogen bomb,” Edward tinguished scientists charged with curity hearings. Teller testified ics with it instead of seeing it wants to be in frontline research Teller was one of the most con- designing an atomic bomb, Teller against Oppenheimer, saying, “I wasted.” in physics.” troversial scientists who worked was much more interested in the would prefer to see the vital inter- —Peter Zimmerman, King’s College —J.D. Garcia, University of Arizona, in the US thermonuclear weap- feasibility of a “super bomb.” He ests of this country in hands that I London, Village Voice, September 10- on UA’s being chosen as a “thriving ons program. While many wanted both options to be pur- understand better and therefore 16, 2003 physics program”, Arizona Daily Star, colleagues considered him a sued at Los Alamos, but building trust more.” Many in the scientific ✶✶✶ September 23, 2003 highly imaginative and creative the simpler fission device was community felt this was an unfor- “What we were doing was cre- ✶✶✶ physicist, others were alienated deemed daunting enough, and the givable betrayal and ostracized ating a bright background template “That would be the same as if by his frequently auto- fusion project was aban- Teller for life. to differentiate incoming ICMs. all you can do with wood is burn it cratic style and single doned.
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