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APS Members Elect Hopfield As New Vice President in 2004 General November 2004 NEWS Volume 13, No. 10 A Publication of The American Physical Society http://www.aps.org/apsnews APS Members Elect Hopfield as New Quinn Holds Summit Meeting Vice President in 2004 General Election With President of Vietnam APS members elected request them. The per- him when they were both gradu- John Hopfield, the Howard centage of APS members ate students in physics at Berkeley. A. Prior Professor of voting was 22.8%, slightly “The culture of the household was Molecular Biology at higher than in 2003, but that anything physical could and Princeton University, as below the all-time high of should be observed, measured, the new APS vice presi- 24.9% in 2002. Before the taken apart into its components, dent in the 2004 general online voting option was understood (if necessary even election. Hopfield will take offered, the percentage of repaired) and that joy, deep satis- office January 1, 2005. In members voting hovered faction, and new technologies 2006 he will become presi- between 18% and 20%. could all come with successes in dent-elect, assuming the mantle of this process,” he said. APS president in 2007. The APS VICE PRESIDENT Hopfield received his PhD from president for 2005 will be Marvin Hopfield was born into a phys- Cornell in 1958. He joined the theo- Cohen of the University of Califor- ics household in the midst of the retical group at Bell Laboratories for The President of Vietnam is 5th from the left, and Helen Quinn is 6th from the left, nia, Berkeley. Depression. His father had taken a two years, and began his teaching in the front row. In other election results, the one-year position helping set up career in the physics department at University of Chicago’s Thomas the physics exhibit at the Chicago Berkeley in 1961. In 1964 he re- By Ernie Tretkoff in Hanoi. While she was there, she Rosenbaum was elected chair-elect World’s Fair. His mother had met See ELECTION on page 6 APS President Helen Quinn visited with the leadership of the of the APS Nominating Committee, traveled in early August to Viet- Vietnam Physical Society, and which is responsible for propos- APS Establishes M. Hildred Blewett nam, where she attended a talked about the relationship ing a slate of candidates each year scientific conference and met between the societies. for the Society’s general election. Scholarship for Women in Physics the President of Vietnam. Some of the conference attend- Ann Orel of University of The APS has been designated Quinn attended the 5th ees were invited to meet with the California, Davis, and Lucent Tech- the primary beneficiary of a Rencontres du Vietnam, a particle President of Vietnam, Tran Duc nologies/Bell Laboratories’ Richart bequest of over $1 million from M. physics and astrophysics meeting See QUINN on page 3 Slusher were elected as general Hildred Blewett, an accelerator councilors. Also approved was an physicist who died in June. Blewett amendment to the APS Constitu- left nearly everything she had to Quinn Receives State Department tion, slightly modifying the APS for a scholarship for women Response on Improved Visa Process mechanisms for the formation and in physics. APS President Helen Quinn termination of topical groups. The scholarship will be known Despite reported improve- received a letter in September from Kenneth Cole, Special Assistant as the M. Hildred Blewett Annual ments, the APS continues to Maura Harty, Assistant Secretary of to the Executive Officer, described Scholarship for Women in Physics. encourage all visa applicants to the 2004 election as “the easiest and Eligible candidates will be women State for Consular Affairs, in apply at least 3-4 months ahead smoothest in the four years since we who have had to give up doing Hildred Blewett, in the days when a com- response to her signing a joint of time. If an applicant has not have been offering online voting.” research for a time but would like puter was a person, not a machine. statement on the need to stream- received a visa within 30 days In addition to saving the Society a to resume their careers, women line the visa process. since the visa application, the great deal of money in mailing costs, who wish to change the area of 2005 when APS solicits applica- Harty indicated that new pro- applicant should visit the the online voting option has proven their work, and recent postgradu- tions for the first scholarship. cedures arranged with the National Academy of Sciences overwhelmingly popular with mem- ates who are in their first academic While signing the will shortly Department of Homeland Security visa website at http://www. nationalacademies.org/visas/ bers: 91% of all those who voted did position and need financial support before she died, Blewett said, and other Federal agencies have now reduced visa processing time. Fill out the “Visa Question- so online. Those few remaining mem- to establish themselves. Additional “Everything I have came from naire” (4th link down in the list “As of September 2, 98% of all bers who prefer paper ballots can information will be available in physics, so everything has to go on the right hand side of the Visas Mantis cases are being back to physics,” recalled Frank page). Once the questionnaire Malinka, Blewett’s financial advisor. cleared in less than 30 days,” she is completed, NAS staff review Blewett was born in Ontario on wrote. “More than 2000 on-going the information each week to Apker Award Finalists May 28, 1911. She began her cases were just cleared.” The State identify visa applications that career in physics working at Gen- Department has also recently are still pending 30 days past eral Electric in Schenectady, New begun posting visa appointment the initial application date. York, in the 1940s, where she de- wait times on the Internet. See http: This is quite helpful, since veloped a method of controlling //www.travel.state.gov. once each week every case that has been pending over 30 days the pollution from smoke from fac- In May, the APS joined more than 20 other science, higher is now reported by the NAS to tory chimneys. In 1947 she and her the State Department. If the education and engineering orga- then husband, John Blewett, were case is not resolved the follow- nizations in developing a joint among the original team members ing week, the NAS continues at Brookhaven National Labora- statement urging the federal gov- to report it again each week tory. Hildred Blewett later worked ernment to adopt six practical until the case is resolved one at Argonne National Laboratory, recommendations for improving way or another. The State and then at CERN. She retired from the current visa processing crisis Department also communi- See BLEWETT on page 4 by removing unnecessary barriers cates each week to the NAS to multinational collaborations. regarding which cases they (See APS News, July 2004. Full text have resolved. Photo Credit: Shelly Johnston of the statement is available at: This system helps make sure HHighlights that the State Department is The Apker Award is given annually to two students for outstanding research as an HH http://www.aps.org/statements/ aware of those cases that have undergraduate. One award is for a student at an institution granting a PhD 03_1.cfm degree; the other goes to a student at an institution that does not grant a PhD. The been significantly delayed, and Taken together, the group recipients are chosen from six finalists, three in each category, who assemble in 7 Zero Gravity also helps to make sure they Washington in September for a day of interviews with the selection committee. Haiku winners represented 95% of the US don’t “fall through the cracks.” Shown here after the long day of interviews had ended are: (l to r): Nathan Hodas The Back Page research community. It was the first While this process doesn’t guar- (Williams College); Joseph Checkelsky (Harvey Mudd College); Yuk-yan Lam Rembering Oppen- time that US science and academic antee US Government action, 8 heimer: The Teacher, (MIT); Ibrahim Cisse (North Carolina Central University); Matthew Pysher leaders have endorsed a compre- it guarantees visibility to pend- The Man (Colgate University); and Jonathan Heckman (Princeton University). By Edward Gerjuoy See VISA on page 6 ing applications. 2 November 2004 NEWS This Month in Physics History “If Los Alamos really was a “Science was never a career to November 25, 1975: Patent for Full-body CAT Scan bunch of arrogant… cowboys, they me, but a way of life. If you can give would appear to have a safety that to kids, it’s a wonderful gift.” record and incidents safety viola- ✶✶✶ When British physicist in the field caused the Royal College of tions twice as high as anyplace else “I wondered why hasn’t anyone Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally him to devote more Science and, later, or, you know, way out of the statis- written a book about the science discovered x-rays cast by his sub-stantial efforts to the Cranwell Radar tical clouds, and that wasn’t the of football. It seemed to me that cathode ray tube in 1895, the that area. Cormack School. And he also case.” was odd because there’s every bit phenomenon quickly found understood that it built a large-screen —Brad Holian, Los Alamos National as much physics in football as in practical application in medical was basically a matter oscilloscope and Laboratory, on safety and security at baseball.” imaging and diagnostics. It of finding a two- demonstration LANL, National Public Radio (NPR), —Timothy Gay, University of would be another 80 or so years dimensional math- equipment as September 20, 2004 Nebraska-Lincoln, on the physics of before x-rays were harnessed in ematical function to instruction aids.
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