577 signers

23 August 2001 - 1 February 2006

Marc H. Brodsky

Executive Director and CEO

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse

College Park, Maryland 20740

 

Dear Dr. Brodsky:

 

As physicists and other scientists concerned about freedom of expression in the science community, we were troubled to learn of your dismissal of Jeff Schmidt, who had been an articles editor at Physics Today magazine for over 19 years.

 

As we understand it, you fired Jeff after you saw his book, Disciplined Minds, and in particular after you learned that Jeff had used some of his spare time at the office for critical writing about education and employment in physics and other fields.

 

While we do not necessarily agree with Jeff's views about the situation of physicists and other salaried professionals, and do not expect you to, we believe that free debate within the physics community is healthy.  We expect you to encourage it, not stifle it, especially because physicists are known for speaking out when physicists internationally are punished for expressing their views.  Your actions as head of the American Institute of Physics help to shape society's view of the physics community.  We urge you to reconsider your decision, and offer to reinstate Jeff as an editor at Physics Today.

 

We ask that you publish this letter in Physics Today, to bring our concerns to the attention of the wider physics community.

 

Sincerely,

(This letter expresses the views of the undersigned;

affiliations are listed for identification only.)

Talat Rahman

Fellow, American Physical Society

University Distinguished Professor

Department of Physics

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

 

 

George F. Reiter

Professor of Physics

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

 

 

Michael A. Lee

Professor of Physics

Kent State University

Kent, Ohio

 

 

Jan Aarts

Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory

Leiden University

Leiden, The Netherlands

 

 

Ibrahim Adawi

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

University of Missouri

Rolla, Missouri

 

 

Koruger Adcock

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

 

 

Adeyinka Adedeji, Ph.D.

Polymer Scientist

Noryl Business

GE Plastics

Selkirk, New York

 

 

Gabriel Aeppli

Senior Research Scientist

NEC

Princeton, New Jersey

 

 

Amikam Aharoni

Professor Emeritus

Department of Electronics

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovoth, Israel

 

 

Dr. Abdurrazzak Ajaja

Radiation Physics

MaryLand College

Montreal, Canada

 

 

Kaz Akimoto

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering

Teikyo University

Utsunomiya, Japan

 

 

Dr. Justin E. Albert

Robert A. Millikan Fellow

Lauritsen Laboratories

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Simon Albino

Particle Physics Theory Group

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, England

 

 

John Ashley Alford II

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Daniel Ansari, M.Sc.

Software Architect

Business Driver, Inc.

Toronto, Canada

 

 

Mahamed Asgar Ali

Professor of Chemistry

Howard University

Washington, D.C.

 

 

Armando Angel Aligia

Centro Atomico

Bariloche, Argentina

 

 

Jacob Alldredge

Physics

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

 

 

Dr. Ahmed M. Al-Saie

Department of Physics

University of Bahrain

Isa Town, Bahrain

 

 

Jose Luis Ambite, Ph.D.

University of Southern California /

Information Sciences Institute

Marina del Rey, California

 

 

Luigi Amico

Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche

e Chimiche per l'Ingegneria

University di Catania

Catania, Italy

 

 

Peter S. Anderson

Professor of Physics

Oakland Community College

Highland Lakes Campus

 

 

Bjarne Andresen

Professor of Physics

Oersted Laboratory

University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

 

 

Konrad A. Aniol

Professor of Physics

California State University

Los Angeles, California

 

 

Sergio Aragon

Professor of Chemistry

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

 

 

Sivaram Arepalli, Ph.D.

GBTech

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Johnson Space Center

Houston, Texas

 

 

Victor A. Ashford, PhD

Energy Science Laboratories, Inc.

San Diego, California

 

 

Dr. William T. Ashurst

Member, American Physical Society

 

 

David Aston

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford University

Stanford, California

 

 

Joseph Auslander

Department of Mathematics

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Dionys Baeriswyl

Head of the Condensed Matter Theory Group

Department of Physics

University of Fribourg

Fribourg, Switzerland

 

 

Dr. Sonya Bahar

Center for Neurodynamics

Department of Physics

University of Missouri

Saint Louis, Missouri

 

 

Michael J. Bailey, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Adjunct Professor

Computer Science / Mechanical Engineering

University of California

San Diego, California

 

 

Nicholas Bailey

Department of Physics

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

 

 

Kenneth G. Baird

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford, California

 

 

Tanya I. Baker

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Keith D. Ball, Ph.D.

Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

 

 

Professor K. J. Barnes

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Southampton

Southampton, England

 

 

Peter D. Barnes, Jr.

Physics and Advanced Technology

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore, California

 

 

Behfar Bastani

Computer Scientist

Mountain View, California

 

 

David E. Bates

Research Assistant

Atmospheric and Ocean Optics Group

Department of Physics

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida

 

 

William Beaty

Research Engineer

Chemistry Department

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

 

 

John Beaver

Assistant Professor

Physics and Astronomy

University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley

Menasha, Wisconsin

 

 

John Bechhoefer

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Guillaume Belanger

Masters Student in Particle Physics

Department of Physics

Carleton University

Ottawa, Canada

 

 

Professor Lawrence H. Bennett

Fellow, American Physical Society

Institute for Magnetics Research

George Washington University

Ashburn, Virginia

 

 

Cornelius Bennhold

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

George Washington University

Washington, D.C.

 

 

H. L. Bentley

Professor

Department of Mathematics

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

 

 

Dr. Arjun Berera

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, England

 

 

Dr. Ivan Bespalov

All-Russian Institute for Experimental Physics

Russia

 

 

Jan Beyea, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Consulting in the Public Interest

Lambertville, New Jersey

 

 

Srinivasan Bhaskar

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

University of Puerto Rico

Rio Piedras Campus

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

 

Rabi Bhattacharya

UES, Inc.

Dayton, Ohio

 

 

Abhijit Bhattacharyya

S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences

Calcutta, India

 

 

Dr. Robert C. Bishop

Abteilung fur Theorie und Datenanalyse

Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie

Freiburg, Germany

 

 

Lowell Bitter

Process Consultant

Boulder, Colorado

 

 

Joseph Blanc

Member, American Physical Society

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Marvin Blecher

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Blacksburg, Virginia

 

 

Michael Bleiweiss

Thermo Galactic

Salem, Massachusetts

 

 

Leonid D. Blokhintsev

Professor and Head of Laboratory

Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia

 

 

Dr. Nathan Bluzer

Consulting Scientist

Northrop Grumman ESSS

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Professor Bruce M. Boghosian

Fellow, American Physical Society

Department of Mathematics

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

 

 

Mark J. Boland

Photonuclear Group

School of Physics

University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

 

 

Dan I. Bolef

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

Loren Booda

Potomac Overlook Regional Park

Arlington, Virginia

 

 

Clifford R. Bowers

Member, American Physical Society

Associate Professor of Chemistry

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

 

 

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Richard A. Brand Ph.D.

Institute of Physics

Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

Duisburg Germany

 

 

Steve Brice

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Batavia, Illinois

 

 

Dr. Gerrit ten Brinke

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor in Polymer Physics

Materials Science Center

University of Groningen

Groningen, The Netherlands

 

 

Mikhael Brown

Software Design Engineer

Agilent Technologies

Palo Alto, California

 

 

Ric Brown

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies

Director, B.A. Program in Cultural Studies

Department of Social Science

Pratt Institute

Brooklyn, New York

 

 

Paul A. Bruhwiler

Docent, Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

Professor Dr. Harald Brune

Institut de Physique Experimentale

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

 

 

Morton K. Brussel

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, Illinois

 

 

Dr. Fedor N. Bukhanko

Senior Research Fellow

Electronic Properties of Metals Department

Donetsk Physical and Technical Institute

UNAS

Ukraine

 

 

Theresa Bullard

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Physics

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

 

 

David N. Burrows

Senior Scientist and Professor

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

 

 

Dr. Juan Luis Cabrera

Department of Neurology

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Ana Cristina Cadavid

Department of Physics and Astronomy

California State University

Northridge, California

 

 

Dr. Fernando Calle

Adjunct Professor

Dpto. Ingenieria Electronica

ETSI Telecomunicacion

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

 

 

Professor Larry Campbell

Department of Physics

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Geneva,  New York

 

 

Andrea Capocci

PhD Student

Theoretical Physics Department

University of Fribourg

Fribourg, Switzerland

 

 

Ed Caramana

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

David Carroll

Graduate Student, Cultural Studies

Department of Literature

University of California

San Diego, California

 

 

Angelo Cassar

 

 

Patrick A. Catt

Historian of Science

The University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Viktor Z. Cerovski

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

Lansing, Michigan

 

 

N. Chandrasekhar

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, India

 

 

Larry W. Chavis

Physics Teacher

Mendenhall High School

Mendenhall, Mississippi

 

 

Tong Chen

Member, American Physical Society

Software Engineer

Macomb, Illinois

 

 

Yu-Chung Norman Cheng, Ph.D.

Developmental Editor, Current Protocols in MRI

Department of Physics

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Wei-min Brian Chiu, Ph.D.

Electrical Engineer

Los Angeles, California

 

 

Pedro Luiz Christiano

Joao Pessoa, Brazil

 

 

Maria Roberta Cimberle

Senior Researcher

C.N.R.

c/o Physics Department

University of Genova

Genova, Italy

 

 

Milan M. Cirkovic

Astronomical Observatory Belgrade

Belgrade, Yugoslavia

 

 

Peter Clout

Vista Control Systems, Inc.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

Howard J. Cohen

Member, American Physical Society

President, Cohen Software Consulting, Inc.

Palo Alto, California

 

 

Joel A. Cohen

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics

University of the Pacific

San Francisco, California

 

 

Tom Colbert

Associate Professor of Physics

Department of Chemistry and Physics

Augusta State University

Augusta, Georgia

 

 

Olinda Conde

Associate Professor

Faculty of Sciences

Department of Physics

University of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

Rick Conner

Physicist

Long Beach, California

 

 

Joshua Cooper

NSF Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics

Courant Institute

New York University

New York, New York

 

 

Brent Corbin

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California

Los Angeles, California

 

 

Curt Corum

Graduate Research Associate

Optical Sciences Center

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

 

 

Dr. Stephen John Cowley

Member, American Physical Society

University Of Cambridge

Cambridge, England

 

 

Scott Crass

Department of Mathematics

California State University

Long Beach, California

 

 

L. Eric Cross

Member, National Academy of Engineering

Fellow, American Physical Society

Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering

Materials Research Institute

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

 

 

Maurizio Dapor

Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica

Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia

Povo, Trento, Italy

 

 

John M. D'Auria

Professor of Chemistry

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Dr. Saeid Davatolhagh

Department of Physics

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Michael Davidson

Social Science Department

Palm Beach Community College

Boca Raton, Florida

 

 

Stephen A. Davis

Graduate Student in Applied Physics

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina

 

 

Sydney G. Davison, D.Sc.

Professor Emeritus

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Paul S. DeCarli

Senior Scientist Emeritus

SRI International

Menlo Park, California

Research Fellow (Hon.)

Department of Geological Sciences

University College London

London, England

 

 

Manoelito Martins de Souza

Member, American Physical Society

Department of Physics

Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo

Vitoria, Brazil

 

 

Willem H. Dickhoff

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Washington University

Saint Louis, Missouri

 

 

Professor C. Dilworth

Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society

London, England

 

 

Konstantin Dinov, Ph.D.

Staff Systems Engineer

Hifn, Inc.

Carlsbad, California

 

 

Joseph Di Rienzi, Ph.D.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

William V. Dixon

Member: American Astronomical Society,

American Physical Society

Associate Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Eytan Domany

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot, Israel

 

 

Daniel Dominguez

Centro Atomico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro

San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

 

 

Dr. Nicolas Dominguez

Research Coordinator

Direccion Ejecutiva de Investigacion

Mexican Petroleum Institute

Mexico

 

 

Professor William Dorland

Department of Physics

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Fay Dowker

Department of Physics

Imperial College

London, United Kingdom

 

 

Kurt Dressler

Fellow, American Physical Society

Retired Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy

ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Retired Vice-Rector of ETH Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

John E. Drumheller

Bozeman, Montana

 

 

Murray Dryer, Ph.D.

Member, American Physical Society

Scientist Emeritus

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA Space Environment Center

Boulder, Colorado

 

 

Val Dusek

Professor of Philosophy

University of New Hampshire

Durham, New Hampshire

 

 

Taner Edis

Division of Science/Physics

Truman State University

Kirksville, Missouri

 

 

Robert Ehrlich

Chemistry Department (retired)

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware

 

 

Robert L. Elgin

Ph.D., Caltech, 1973

Life member, American Physical Society

St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

Mark Ellison

Member, American Physical Society

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Wittenberg University

Springfield, Ohio

 

 

Newton Trey Ellison

Ecology Activist

San Antonio, Texas

 

 

Roger Ellman

Director

The-Origin Foundation, Inc.

Santa Rosa, California

 

 

Pia Thorngren Engblom, PhD, Physics

Department of Radiation Sciences

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

Jerome J. Erpenbeck

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

Professor Marcel Escudier

Department of Engineering

University of Liverpool

Liverpool, England

 

 

Morten Ring Eskildsen, Ph.D.

Departement de Physique de la Matiere Condensee

Universite de Geneve

Geneva, Switzerland

 

 

Peter Euripides

Department of Earth and Space Sciences

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

 

 

Fred Evans

Department of Philosophy

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

 

William Evenson

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Brigham Young University

Provo, Utah

 

 

Willard Fadner

Chair

Department of Physics

University of Northern Colorado

Greeley, Colorado

 

 

Sarah M. Gallagher Faeder, Ph.D.

Environmental Health and Safety Consultant

 

 

Jerome Faist

Department of Physics

University of Neuchatel

Neuchatel, Switzerland

 

 

Claus Falter

Professor of Physics

University of Muenster

Muenster, Germany

 

 

J. D. Fan

Department of Physics

Southern University and A&M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

 

 

Marco Fanciulli, Ph.D.

Director

Laboratorio MDM

Inst. Nazionale Fisica Materia

Agrate Brianza, Italy

 

 

James C. Faris

Professor Emeritus

Anthropology

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

 

 

James A. Fay

Professor Emeritus

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Naomi Y. Feiman

Member, American Physical Society

BS in Physics, Yale University

 

 

Matt Ferguson

Department of Physics

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Dr. Mark Fernee

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Physics

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

 

 

Dr. Michael Fero

Director

Stanford Functional Genomics Facility

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California

 

 

Dr. John Ferrante

Senior Scientist Emeritus

NASA Glenn Research Center

Adjunct Professor of Physics

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Alvaro Ferraz

University of Brasilia

Brasilia, D.F., Brazil

 

 

Susan Feyl

California Public Utilities Commission

 

 

James Fiedler

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

University of Texas

Austin, Texas

 

 

Eliezer Finkman

Department of Electrical Engineering

The Technion

Haifa, Israel

 

 

Roger W. Finlay

Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Ohio University

Athens, Ohio

 

 

Andrew Finney

Visiting Associate

ERATO Kitano Systems Biology Workbench Development Group

Control and Dynamical Systems

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Christoph Fischer

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Physics

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington

 

 

Dr. Paul W. Fontana

Department of Physics

Lawrence University

Appleton, Wisconsin

 

 

William C. Ford, Jr., Ph.D.

Analyst

XonTech, Inc.

Huntsville, Alabama

 

 

Gabor Forgacs

George H. Vineyard Professor of Theoretical and Biological Physics

Department of Physics and Biology

University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri

 

 

Professor Mircea Fotino

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

 

 

Professor Alejandro Frank

Head, Department of Structure of Matter

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

 

 

Benjamin Frank

International Paper

West Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Dr. Sean J. Freeman

Lecturer in Physics

Schools and Colleges Liaison Officer in Physics

Nuclear Physics Research Group

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Manchester

Manchester, England

 

 

Andrew R. Frey

Department of Physics

University of California

Santa Barbara, California

 

 

Ronald S. Friedman

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Indiana University - Purdue University

Fort Wayne, Indiana

 

 

Harald Friedrich

Member: American Physical Society,

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft,

Hochschulverband

Associate Professor

Department of Physics - Theoretical Physics

Technical University

Munich, Germany

 

 

Mark Friesen

Assistant Scientist

Materials Science and Engineering

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

 

 

Dr. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana

 

 

Moshe Gai

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

 

 

Professor Robert W. Gammon

Institute for Physical Science and Technology

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Sanjay Gangadhara

Graduate Student

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Department of Nuclear Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Shiwu Gao

Department of Applied Physics

Chalmers University of Technology

Gothenburg, Sweden

 

 

Saul Ares Garcia

Departamento de Matematicas

Universidad Carlos III

Madrid, Spain

 

 

Olivier Gayou

College of William and Mary

Williamsburg, Virginia

 

 

Nien-Hui Ge

Department of Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Franco A. Gianturco

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor of Quantum Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

The University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Rome, Italy

 

 

Mandeep S. Gill

PhD Candidate (Babar experiment at SLAC)

University of California

Berkeley, California

 

 

John J. Gilman

Professor

Department of Materials Science

University of California

Los Angeles, California

 

 

Paul T. Gilmore, Ph.D.

Member, American Physical Society, Division of Polymer Physics

President, Senex Associates

 

 

Francesc Giralt

Professor and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Transfer of Technology

School of Chemical Engineering

University Rovira Virgili

Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain

 

 

George Glass

Member, American Physical Society

 

 

Dr. Anand Gnanadesikan

Oceanographer

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

NOAA

Princeton, New Jersey

 

 

Dr. Steven Goldfarb

Research Scientist

Department of Physics

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

Terry Goldman

Fellow, American Physical Society

Nuclear Physics

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

Luis Gomez

Physics Graduate Student

University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 

Alexander Goncharov

Geophysical Laboratory

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Washington, D.C.

 

 

Agustin E. Gonzalez

Professor of Physics

Center for Physical Sciences

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Cuernavaca, Mexico

 

 

Dr. Daniel Goodman

President, Electron Solutions Inc.

Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Somerville, Massachusetts

 

 

Barbara Gordon

Department of Physics

Northeastern Illinois University

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Dr. Richard Gordon

Executive Member: Canadian Association for Responsible Research Funding, CSTB, IEEE-EMBS

Department of Radiology

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Canada

 

 

Dr. Igor Goychuk

Institute of Physics

University of Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany

 

 

Hunter Gray

Professor (retired) and former Chair

American Indian Studies

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota

 

 

Manfred Heindler

Professor of Physics

Technical University

Graz, Austria

 

 

Neil Hughes

1994 graduate in mathematical physics

from Edinburgh University

Scotland

 

 

Michael E. Green

Department of Chemistry

City College

City University of New York

New York City

 

 

Ron Greene

Department of Physics

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

James J. Griffin

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor of Physics

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Frieder Gross-Alltag

Medical Physicist

Klinikum Kempten Oberallgaeu

Sonthofen, Germany

 

 

Subhadra Gupta

Director of Technology

KDF Electronic and Vacuum Services

Rockleigh, New Jersey

 

 

Henry Gurr

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

University of South Carolina

Aiken, South Carolina

 

 

Jonathan Gutow

Associate Professor of Chemistry

University of Wisconsin

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

 

 

Jason Haaheim

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California

Santa Barbara, California

 

 

Dr. Rudi Hackl

Walther-Meissner Institut

Garching, Germany

 

 

Dr. Oskar J. Haidn

German Aerospace Center

Space Propulsion Institute

Lampoldshausen, Germany

 

 

J. Woods Halley

School of Physics and Astronomy

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

 

Carl W. Hardin, M.D.

South Texas Radiology Group

San Antonio, Texas

 

 

James S. Harris

James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Stanford University

Stanford, California

 

 

Alexa W. Harter

Research Scientist

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Lynn L. Hatfield

Lubbock, Texas

 

 

Greg D. Haugstad, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate and Director

IT Characterization Facility

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

 

John Heebner

Graduate Student

Institute of Optics

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

 

 

E. Keith Hege

Associate Astronomer

Steward Observatory

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

 

 

Martin Heller

Senior Contributing Editor

Byte.com

 

 

Douglas Henderson

Department of Chemistry

Brigham Young University

Provo, Utah

 

 

Richard Hennig

Department of Physics

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Dr. Luc Henrard

University of Namur

Namur, Belgium

 

 

Caroline L. Herzenberg

Retired, and now a special term appointee at ANL

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne, Illinois

 

 

Bradford Hill

Arlington, Virginia

 

 

Dr. Gerald E. Hite

MARS

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Galveston, Texas

 

 

David Hooper

Public Relations

Longwood College

Farmville, Virginia

 

 

David Hough

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Trinity University

San Antonio, Texas

 

 

Gregory Howes

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California

Los Angeles, California

 

 

Kenneth J. Hughes

Student of Physics

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

 

 

Dr. Hakan Wilhelm Hugosson

Department of Physics

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

Zahid Hussain

Senior Staff Scientist

Scientific Support Group Leader

Advanced Light Source Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley, California

 

 

Ross Hyman

Assistant Professor of Physics

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

James G. Ingalls

Infrared Processing and Analysis Center

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Sastry Isukapalli, Ph.D.

Kirusa Inc.

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

 

 

A. G. Jackson, Ph.D.

Renaissance Systems

Dayton, Ohio

 

 

Jon David Jackson

Department of Physics

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

 

 

Pierre Jaegle

Directeur de Recherche Emerite

Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique et Ionique

Universite Paris - Sud

Orsay, France

 

 

R. A. Jameson

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Fellow, American Physical Society

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

Robert V. F. Janssens, PhD

Physics Division

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne, Illinois

 

 

Elina Jarvenpaa,

M.Sc., Industrial Management

Helsinki, Finland

 

 

Nora H. Jason

Fire Information Consultant

Gaithersburg, Maryland

 

 

Sitaram Jaswal

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska

 

 

Ulrich Jentschura

Institute for Theoretical Physics

University of Technology

Dresden, Germany

 

 

Duane D. Johnson

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, Illinois

 

 

Philip S. Johnson

Contractor to the US Government

Reston, Virginia

 

 

Alain M. Jonas, Professor

Unite de Chimie et de Physique des Hauts Polymeres

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Universite Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

 

 

Martin Jordi

Abteilung Physik

Alte Kantonsschule

Aarau, Switzerland

 

 

Professor Brian D. Josephson

Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1973

Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge, England

 

 

Christof Jung

Centro de Ciencias Fisicas

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

 

 

Shehzaad Kaka

Graduate Student

Member, American Physical Society

Boulder, Colorado

 

 

Kiriaki-Leta Karefilaki, PhD

FORTH, Institute of Computer Science

Heraklion, Crete, Greece

 

 

Jerome Karle

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1985

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Fellow, American Physical Society

Washington, D.C.

 

 

Yuki Kato

Department of Sociology

University of California

Irvine, California

 

 

Peter Kaus

Professor Emeritus

Department of Physics

University of California

Riverside, California

 

 

Tom Kibble

Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics

Imperial College

London, England

 

 

Brian S. Kim, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist

WiseNut, Inc.

Santa Clara, California

 

 

Ji il Kim

Departamento Fisica Experimental

Inst. Fisica

Univ. de Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

 

Dr. Rami A. Kishek

Life Member, American Physical Society

Institute for Plasma Research

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Levente Klein

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

 

 

Russ L. Kleinbach, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Philadelphia University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Daniel Klingensmith

Department of History

Maryville College

Maryville, Tennessee

 

 

Marcia Klotz

Assistant Professor

Department of German

University of California

Irvine, California

 

 

Michael G. Klug, Ph.D.

Scientist

F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd.

Basel, Switzerland

 

 

Alfredo Kniazzeh

Distinguished Scientist

Polaroid Corporation

Waltham, Massachusetts

 

 

Jeff Knisely

Systems Administrator

Digital Gear Inc.

 

 

Donald Kobe

Professor of Physics

Denton, Texas

 

 

Karlen Kocharyan, Ph.D.

Senior Engineer

Renaissance Electronics Corporation

Harvard, Massachusetts

 

 

Alice K. Kolakowska, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

 

 

Karen Kolehmainen

Department of Physics

California State University

San Bernardino, California

 

 

Sonali Kolhatkar

SIRTF Science Center

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Henry H. Kolm, PhD

Senior Scientist, MIT National Magnet Laboratory, emeritus

Lecturer, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, emeritus

 

 

Dr. Steven Kooi

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Stuttgart, Germany

 

 

Tom Kopley

Agilent Laboratories

Palo Alto, California

 

 

Roger N. Koren

Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental and Natural Sciences

Northern Virginia Community College

Woodbridge, Virginia

 

 

Jeffrey Kovac

Professor of Chemistry

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

 

 

Niklas Krause, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of California at San Francisco

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Berkeley, California

 

 

Professor John Krenos

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Rutgers University

Piscataway, New Jersey

 

 

Dean Kuethe

Scientist

New Mexico Resonance

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

 

Professor Siegbert Kuhn

Member, American Physical Society

Department of Theoretical Physics

University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

 

 

Lui Lam

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

San Jose State University

San Jose, California

 

 

David Lambert

Staff Engineer

eBusiness Solutions

Nortel Networks

San Jose, California

 

 

Paul Landsbergis, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York City

 

 

Michel L. Lapidus

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Life member, American Physical Society

Professor of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics

University of California

Riverside, California

 

 

Olga Latinovic

PhD Candidate

Department of Physics

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 

 

Jon Lawrence

Physics Student

Grand Valley State University

Allendale, Michigan

 

 

Priscilla W. Laws

Member: American Association of Physics Teachers,

American Physical Society

Professor of Physics

Dickinson College

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

 

Roberto Lazzaroni

Service de Chimie des Materiaux Nouveaux

Universite de Mons-Hainaut

Mons, Belgium

 

 

Alexandre Le Blanc

 

 

Paul L. Lee

Department of Physics and Astronomy

California State University

Northridge, California

 

 

Olivier Lefevre, Ph.D.

GeneData AG

Basel, Switzerland

 

 

Richard W. Leigh, Ph.D., P.E.

Member, American Physical Society

Consulting Engineer and Physicist

New York City

 

 

Vitor B. Pereira Leite

Departamento de Fisica - IBILCE - UNESP

Universidade Estadual Paulista

Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil

 

 

Joseph S. Levinger

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor Emeritus

Department of Physics

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York

 

 

Allan Lichtenberg

Professor in the Graduate School

University of California

Berkeley, California

 

 

Dr. Theodore Liolios

Professor of Physics, Director of EUROPSIS

Hellenic Naval Academy of Hydra

School of Deck Officers, Department of Science

Hydra, Greece

 

 

Ernest L. Lippert

Monarch Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

Maumee, Ohio

 

 

Stephen S. Lippman, M.D., Ph.D.

Washington County Hospital

Hagerstown, Maryland

 

 

Manuel de Llano

Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

 

 

Jonothan L. Logan

Member, American Physical Society

Director of Research

EPG Research Foundation

Manhasset, New York

 

 

Paul Logan

Graduate Student

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona

 

 

Michael J. Longo

Professor of Physics

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

Charles A. Loomis, Jr.

Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire

Orsay, France

 

 

Li-Shi Luo

Senior Staff Scientist

NASA Langley Research Center

Hampton, Virginia

 

 

Gerald H. Lushington

Research Specialist

Ohio Supercomputer Center

Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Javier Luzuriaga

Associate Professor

Instituto Balseiro / Centro Atomico

Bariloche, Argentina

 

 

J. Ross Macdonald

Member: National Academy of Sciences,

National Academy of Engineering

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

 

Mahmoud M. Madani

Director of Senior Laboratory

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Hal Mahon

Department of Physics

University of Massachusetts at Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Allan Mandelstamm

Professor of Economics, Retired

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, Virginia

 

 

Gerald S. Manning

Department of Chemistry

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, New Jersey

 

 

Peter H. Mao

Physics Graduate Student

Department of Physics

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Dr. Pete E. C. Markowitz

Department of Physics

Florida International University

Miami, Florida

 

 

Allen Marks

Senior Scientist

Rohm and Haas Company

Spring House, Pennsylvania

 

 

Elsa Chavira Martinez

Departamento de Microelectronica

Instituto de Ciencias

Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla

San Manuel, Puebla, Mexico

 

 

Tina Masciangioli, PhD

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Chemistry Division

Naval Research Laboratory

Washington, D.C.

 

 

Gina Masequesmay

Asian American Studies Department

California State University

Northridge, California

 

 

Mala Mateen

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

 

 

Dr. Neil Mathur

Materials Science

Cambridge University

Cambridge, England

 

 

Christopher David Matzner

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

 

 

Dr. Kristal Mauritz

Staff Scientist

Institute for Physics

Humboldt University Berlin

Berlin, Germany

 

 

Steve McCauley

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

California State Polytechnic University

Pomona, California

 

 

Keith McDowell

Vice President for Research and Information Technology

University of Texas, Arlington

Arlington, Texas

 

 

Dr. John E. McFee

Head Threat Detection Group

Defense Research Establishment Suffield

Medicine Hat, Canada

 

 

Dr. Kathryn McGrath

Department of Chemistry

University of Otago

Dunedin, New Zealand

 

 

Gavin McGregor

Graduate student

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Glasgow

Glasgow, Scotland

 

 

Professor Tom McLeish

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Leeds

Leeds, England

 

 

Professor David McIlroy

Department of Physics

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

Leerom Medovoi

Professor of English

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

 

 

Dieter Meissner

Professor of Physical Chemistry

University of Linz

Linz, Austria

 

 

Ralph Menikoff

Theoretical Division

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

 

 

Paul Merchant

Laboratory Manager

Department of Physics and Engineering

Washington and Lee University

Lexington, Virginia

 

 

Mac Mestayer

Physics Division

Jefferson Laboratory

Newport News, Virginia

 

 

Herbert L. Mette

Fellow, American Physical Society

Brielle, New Jersey

 

 

Allen Miller

Department of Physics

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York

 

 

Dr. Scott Milner

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.

Annandale, New Jersey

 

 

Drew Milsom

Department of Physics

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

 

 

John E. Mitchell

Lt. Col. USAF, Retired

Retired Senior Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Littleton, Colorado

 

 

Karl J. Moesgen

Member: American Physical Society,

European Physical Society,

French Institute of Physics,

German Physical Society,

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,

New York Academy of Science

Lima, Peru

 

 

Lisa Mrkvicka

Undergraduate

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, California

 

 

Richard P. Muller

Department of Chemistry

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

 

 

Oliver C. Mullins

Principal Research Scientist

Schlumberger-Doll Research

Ridgefield, Connecticut

 

 

Frank Munley

Department of Physics

Roanoke College

Salem, Virginia

 

 

Charles W. Myles, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics

Co-Director, Engineering Physics B.S. Program

Department of Physics

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

 

 

Mark G. Naber, PhD

Department of Mathematics

Monroe County Community College

Monroe, Michigan

 

 

Dr. Rao V. Nagisetty

Department of Mathematics

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

 

 

Selva Nair

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Golden, Colorado

 

 

Jennifer Neal

Student

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona

 

 

Riley Newman

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California

Irvine, California

 

 

Jeffery L. Nicholas

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

 

 

Janice Nickel, Ph.D.

Project Scientist

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Palo Alto, California

 

 

David Nidever

Physics Graduate Student

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

 

 

Dr. Emil Nissimov

Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

 

Larry R. Nittler

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

Interstellar Dust Buster

Washington, D.C.

 

 

Mark Nockleby, Ph.D.

Senior Member of the Engineering Staff

Infomancers, Inc.

Santa Cruz, California

 

 

H. Pierre Noyes

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor Emeritus

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford, California

 

 

Keran O'Brien

Adjunct Research Professor

Fellow, American Nuclear Society

Northern Arizona University

 

 

Takashi Odagaki

Department of Physics

Kyushu University

Fukuoka, Japan

 

 

R. C. O'Handley

Senior Research Scientist

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Susan Ohanian

Education Writer

Charlotte, Vermont

 

 

Karen O'Neil

Arecibo Observatory

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

 

 

Michael O'Shea

Professor of Physics

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

 

 

Dr. James C. Owens

Senior Fellow

Torrey Pines Research

Past President

Society for Imaging Science and Technology

Member, Executive Committee, New York State Section

American Physical Society

 

 

Dr. Svetlana Pacheva

Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

 

Donald D. Pakey

Department of Physics

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois

 

 

Nandan Pakhira

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, India

 

 

Donald L. Parker, PhD

Life Member, American Physical Society

President

Alto Imaging Technologies, Inc.

Mobile, Alabama

 

 

Juan M. R. Parrondo

Dep. Fisica Atomica

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

 

 

Professor H. Peerhossaini

Director

Laboratoire de Thermocinetique, CNRS

Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Nantes

Nantes, France

 

 

Ilias E. Perakis

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

Jacques H. H. Perk

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Oklahoma

 

 

Mats Persson

Department of Applied Physics

Chalmers University of Technology

Gothenburg, Sweden

 

 

John Perz

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Department of Physics

University of Toronto at Scarborough

Toronto, Canada

 

 

Jean Pestieau

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Universite Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

 

 

Guillaume Petite

Director

Laboratoire des Solides Irradies

Centre de Recherche

Ecole Polytechnique

Palaiseau, France

 

 

Professor Arkady Pikovsky

Department of Physics

University of Potsdam

Potsdam, Germany

 

 

Paul Pinsukanjana

Member, American Physical Society

Vice President of Technology

Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc.

Richardson, Texas

 

 

Jacek Piskozub

Institute of Oceanology

Polish Academy of Science

Sopot, Poland

 

 

Guy D. Pitzel

Retired, University of Washington

Langley, Washington

 

 

Damian Pope

PhD Candidate

Department of Physics and Centre for Laser Science

University of Queensland

Queensland, Australia

 

 

Fiorella Portis

Faculte de Medecine

Institut National de la Sante

et de la Recherche Medicale

Nice, France

 

 

Geoff Potvin

PhD Student

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Dr. Andrew A. Pouring

Chief Executive Officer

Sonex Research, Inc.

Annapolis, Maryland

 

 

Judy Powelson

Calimetrics, Inc.

Alameda, California

 

 

T. Pradeep

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry and

Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre

Indian Institute of Technology

Madras, India

 

 

Ranjit D. Pradhan, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Applied Optics Center of Delaware

Delaware State University

Dover, Delaware

 

 

Valmiki Prasad

Member, American Physical Society

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Benjamin Pratt-Ferguson

Senior Multi-Disciplined Engineer

Raytheon Missile Systems

 

 

Dr. Jose-Domingo Presilla-Marquez

Physicist

Schafer Corporation

Los Angeles, Alta California

 

 

Connie C. Price, Ph.D.

Department of Philosophy

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, Alabama

 

 

John Prineas

Assistant Professor

Optical Science and Technology Center

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

 

 

Zack A. M. Protogeros, PhD

Researcher

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

Greece

 

 

Jasmine Pui

M.D./Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Neuroscience/Neurology Intern

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

Shelden H. Radin

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Department of Physics

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 

 

Abdulrahman A. K. Rafiq

Member, American Physical Society

Goleta, California

 

 

Bill Raggio

President/CEO/Chief Scientist

Rayotek Scientific, Inc.

San Diego, California

 

 

Waldo Rall

Fellow, American Physical Society

Retired Research Manager, U.S. Steel,

and Assistant Professor, Yale University

 

 

B. "Ramu" Ramachandran

Academic Director for Chemistry and Physics

Louisiana Technical University

Ruston, Louisiana

 

 

Karthik Ramanathqan

Graduate student

Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts

 

 

R. Ramprasad

Motorola, Inc.

Tempe, Arizona

 

 

Denis G. Rancourt

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

 

James E. Rankin, Ph.D.

Rankin Consulting

New York City

 

 

Syksy Rasanen

Researcher

Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

 

 

Dr. Frank Rathmann

Institute for Nuclear Physics

Forschungszentrum Juelich

Juelich, Germany

 

 

Kenneth M. Rauen

Senior Research Scientist and Laboratory Manager

New Energy Research Laboratory

Cold Fusion Technology, Inc.

New Hampshire

 

 

Susanne Raynor

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Rutgers University

Newark, New Jersey

 

 

Glen Reese, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

KoSa

Charlotte, North Carolina

 

 

Professor James Reilly

Department of Chemistry

Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana

 

 

Dr. L. J. Reinders

Former High-Energy Physicist

Panningen, The Netherlands

 

 

Peter J. Rembiesa

Professor and Head

Department of Physics

The Citadel

Charleston, South Carolina

 

 

Karen Remick

Graduate Student and Research Assistant

Geophysical Institute

University of Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska

 

 

Christophe Renner

NEC Research Institute

Princeton, New Jersey

 

 

Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D.

Senior Associate

Radioactive Waste Management Associates

New York City

 

 

Dr. Caroline Ritz-Gold

Chief Scientist

Center for Biomolecular Studies

Fremont, California

 

 

Alejandro Rivero, Ph.D.

University Professor

Zaragoza University

Zaragoza, Spain

 

 

Patrick D. Roberts

Neurological Sciences Institute

Oregon Health Sciences University

Beaverton, Oregon

 

 

Lee Roberts-Baldwin

Technical writer

Heidelberg, Germany

 

 

Dr Peter Robinson

(ex) Manchester University

(ex) AstraZeneca

Manchester, United Kingdom

 

 

Edouard Y. Rocher

ULAN Corporation

 

 

Stephen Rock

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford, California

 

 

Manuel R. Rodriguez

Member, American Physical Society

Departamento de Sistmas Computacionales

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur

La Paz, Mexico

 

 

Paulo Eduardo Rodriguez

First year bachelor in computer science

Department of Science

Free University of Brussels

Brussels, Belgium

 

 

Robert P. Roger

Applied Physics Laboratory

Johns Hopkins University

Laurel, Maryland

 

 

Christopher L. Rogers

Department of Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Larry Romsted

Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Rutgers University

Piscataway, New Jersey

 

 

Simon Ross

Department of Mathematical Sciences

University of Durham

Durham, England

 

 

Steven W. Ross

Member, American Physical Society

Eugene, Oregon

 

 

Fred C. Rotbart

Chief Scientist

e-SIM Ltd.

D. N. Misgav, Israel

 

 

Stephen Rothman

Atomic Weapons Establishment

Aldermaston, England

 

 

Jan-Erik Rubensson

Department of Physics

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

Dr. Petra Rudolf

Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electronique

Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

Namur, Belgium

 

 

Alfonso Rueda

California State University

Long Beach, California

 

 

Michael Ryan

Professor

Department of English

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Joseph E. Sabol

Consultant

Marquette, Michigan

 

 

Martin L. Sage

Professor of Chemistry

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York

 

 

Dr. Sotiris Sakkopoulos

Department of Physics

University of Patras

Patras, Greece

 

 

Professor Peter Salamon

Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences

San Diego State University

San Diego, California

 

 

Dr. Steven G. Sanders

President

Northern Arkansas Telephone Company

Flippin, Arkansas

 

 

Elisabetta Sassaroli

Physics Department

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Ilya Kaplan Savitsky

Professor of Physics

Instituto de Investigacion en Materiales

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

 

 

Carlo Schaerf

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

University of Rome

Rome, Italy

 

 

Donatella Schmidt

Ethnology

Department of Lingue e Letterature Romanze

University of Padua

Padua, Italy

 

 

Dr. Klaus Schmidt

EDS Fellow

 

 

Peter L. Schnall, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of California, Irvine, and

Director

Center for Social Epidemiology

Santa Monica, California

 

 

Alan M. Schneider

Professor Emeritus of Engineering Sciences

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California

 

 

Norbert Schorghofer

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

J. Thomas Schriempf, Ph.D.

Fellow, American Physical Society

Senior Scientist

Applied Research Laboratory

Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania

 

 

Jeanne Schuler

Department of Philosophy

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

 

 

Dr. James J. Schwab

Atmospheric Sciences Research Center

State University of New York

Albany, New York

 

 

Charles Schwartz

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Department of Physics

University of California

Berkeley, California

 

 

Joseph Schwartz, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

State University of New York

Stony Brook, New York

 

 

Elizabeth A. Scott

Undergraduate Student of Mathematics

Rice University

Houston, Texas

 

 

Greg Seaman, Ph.D.

Former employee of Canberra Industries

 

 

Lynn Seaman

Fellow, American Physical Society

Senior Research Engineer

SRI International

Menlo Park, California

 

 

Dr. Igor Sega

Department of Theoretical Physics

Josef Stefan Institute

Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

Mark Semon

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

 

 

Surajit Sen

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

State University of New York

Buffalo, New York

 

 

Stefano Sensi, M.D., Ph.D.

College of Medicine

University of California

Irvine, California

 

 

Luca Serafini

Senior Physicist

INFN-Milan and University of Milan

Department of Physics

Milan, Italy

 

 

Dr. Thomas Seyller

Institut fur Technische Physik II

Universitat Erlangen-Nuernberg

Erlangen, Germany

 

 

Joseph Shapiro

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Department of Physics

Fordham University

Bronx, New York

 

 

Robert R. Sharp

Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

Christopher A. Shera

Department of Otology and Laryngology

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Dr. Joel D. Shore

Research Laboratories

Eastman Kodak Company

Rochester, New York

 

 

Zhenyu Shou

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Physics

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

 

 

Philip J. Siemens

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow, American Physical Society

Professor of Physics

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

 

 

Robert H. Silsbee

Department of Physics

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

 

 

Antonio Silvestre

Associate Professor

Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicacoes

Estoril, Portugal

 

 

Jonathan Z. Simon

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

 

 

Bart A. Singer, PhD

Williamsburg, Virginia

 

 

Konrad Singer

Professor Emeritus

University of London

London, England

 

 

Mano Singham

Associate Director

University Center for Innovations in Teaching and Education

Department of Physics

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

C. Eduardo Siqueira, MD, Sc.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Work Environment

University of Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts

 

 

Philip B. Smith

Professor of Experimental Physics, Emeritus

University of Groningen

Groningen, The Netherlands

 

 

Jeff Smithpeters

Teaching Assistant

Department of English

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

 

 

Reginald Smith

Physics Student

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

 

 

Dr. Scott C. Smith

Consultant, Keystone Computer Associates

Lockheed Martin NE&SS

Moorestown, New Jersey

 

 

George Snedeker

Sociology Department

State University of New York

Old Westbury, New York

 

 

Joseph L. Snider

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Oberlin College

Oberlin, Ohio

 

 

Professor R. F. Snider

Department of Chemistry

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Dr. Fernando de Jesus Salcines Soler

Division of Science and Technology

Ministry of Mechanical and Metallurgical Industries

Havana, Cuba

 

 

Igor Solovyev

Joint Research Center for Atom Technology

Angstrom Technology Partnership

Tsukuba, Japan

 

 

Shivaji Sondhi

Department of Physics

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

 

 

Charlotte Sotomayor

Undergraduate B.S., Physics

Former President, Society of Physics Students Chapter

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida

 

 

Eugene H. Spejewski

Oak Ridge Associated Universities/

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

 

 

Robert Spekkens

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

 

 

Robert Spero

Principal Engineer

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, California

 

 

Dr. David A. Sprintzen

Professor of Philosophy and

Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development

Long Island University

Brookville, New York

 

 

Robert V. Steiner

Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology

Teachers College

Columbia University

New York City

 

 

Dr. Ken Stephenson

Principal Research Scientist

Schlumberger-Doll Research

Ridgefield, Connecticut

 

 

Marc Stern

Department of History

Bentley College

Waltham, Massachusetts

 

 

Lincoln Stoller, Ph.D.

Life Member, American Physical Society

President

Braided Matrix, Inc.

Shokan, New York

 

 

Jack C. Straton

University Studies

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

 

 

Professor Ulrich Straumann

Member, American Physical Society

Physics Institute

University of Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

Jozko Strauss

Inst. fur Hochenegiephysik d. Osterr.

Akademie d. Wissenschaften

Vienna, Austria

 

 

Carey E. Stronach, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Virginia State University

Petersburg, Virginia

 

 

Dr. Bernhard Stumpf

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

Xiaoqiang Su

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Laura L. Sullivan

Department of English

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

 

 

Anna K. Swan

Research Assistant Professor

ECE Department

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Joseph T. Swartzbaugh, PhD

Research Scientist, Retired

University of Dayton Research Institute

Dayton, Ohio

 

 

Anthony M. Szpilka

Department of Natural Sciences

Carroll College

Helena, Montana

 

 

Hsiang Tai

NASA / Langley Research Center

Hampton, Virginia

 

 

Bin Tang

Stony Brook, New York

 

 

Eugen Tarnow

PhD, Physics, MIT

Former postdoc at Xerox PARC and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Avalon Business Systems

Riverdale, New York

 

 

Eddie Tatar

Department of Physics

Idaho State University

Pocatello, Idaho

 

 

Haskell Taub

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Missouri, Columbia

Columbia, Missouri

 

 

J. E. Tauer

Senior Scientist

Western Research Institute

Laramie, Wyoming

 

 

Curry Taylor

Department of Physics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, Illinois

 

 

Hal Taylor

Professor of Physics

Stockton College of New Jersey

Pomona, New Jersey

 

 

James H. Taylor

Department of Physics

Central Missouri State University

Warrensburg, Missouri

 

 

Aris Terzis

Research scientist

Institute of Materials Science

NCSR "DEMOKRITOS"

Athens, Greece

 

 

Dr. Aniruddha R. Thakar

Associate Research Scientist

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Center for Astrophysical Sciences

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Peter Thieberger, Ph.D.

Fellow, American Physical Society

Collider Accelerator Department

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Upton, New York

 

 

Mathias van Thiel, PhD

Retired

Physics and Space Technology - H Division

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore, California

 

 

Gregory Tice

Member, American Physical Society

Independent Consultant

Lutherville, Maryland

 

 

M. A. Tilley

Undergraduate Student

Arkansas State University

State University, Arkansas

 

 

Frank J. Tipler

Professor of Physics

Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

Dr. William F. Tivol

Department of Molecular Medicine

Wadsworth Center

New York State Health Department

Albany, New York

 

 

Professor Igor M. Tkachenko

Member, American Physical Society

Department of Applied Mathematics

Polytechnic University of Valencia

Valencia, Spain

 

 

Professor J. P. Toennies

Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung

Goettingen, Germany

 

 

David Tomanek

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

 

 

Hugh Tornabene

Professor and Physics Coordinator

Bowie State University

Bowie, Maryland

 

 

Massimiliano Colarieti Tosti

Department of Physics

University of Uppsala

Uppsala, Sweden

 

 

Andre-Marie Tremblay

Centre de Recherche sur les Proprietes

 Electroniques de Materiaux Avances

Departement de Physique

Universite de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

 

 

Victor Tribaldos

Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion Termonuclear

CIEMAT

Madrid, Spain

 

 

Jack Truher

Engineering Physicist, retired

SLAC, Stanford University

Los Altos, California

 

 

K. Tsembelis, PhD

Shock Physics Group

Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge, England

 

 

Elaine Tsiang

Physicist

Monowave Corporation

Seattle, Washington

 

 

Yoav Tsori

School of Physics

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

 

Charles Turner

Professor of Applied Social Research

Queens College and the Graduate Center

City University of New York

New York City

 

 

J. Blake Turner, Ph.D.

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University

New York City

 

 

Michael Turyn

Ph.D., Physics

Member, American Physical Society

 

 

P. Jeffrey Ungar

Technical Lead

Silicon Graphics Computer Systems

Mountain View, California

 

 

Professor Ariel A. Valladares

Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

 

 

Dr. Pace VanDevender

Fellow, American Physical Society

Sandia National Laboratories

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

 

Aernout C. D. van Enter

Instituut voor Theoretische Natuurkunde

University of Groningen

Groningen, The Netherlands

 

 

Kendra Vant

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Douglas Verret, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Texas Instruments, Inc.

Texas

 

Jean Pol Vigneron

Laboratoire de Physique du Solide

Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

Namur, Belgium

 

 

Ethan T. Vishniac

Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Kristina Visscher

Neuroscience Graduate Student

Washington University

Saint Louis, Missouri

 

 

Sebastian Volz

Ecole Natl. Superieure de Mecan.

Futuroscope, France

 

 

Carl Vuosalo

Physics Graduate Student

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

 

 

Yasushi Wada

Retired Professor

Department of Physics

University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Suwen Wang

Stanford, California

 

 

Dr. Youqi Wang

Distinguished Scientist

Symyx Technologies Inc.

Santa Clara, California

 

 

Samuel Ward, Ph.D.

Member, American Physical Society since 1947

State College, Pennsylvania

 

 

James C. Wardwell

MA, MS, physics

Comptroller, investment advisory firm

New York

 

 

Professor Jesse L. Weil, Retired

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

 

 

Michael S. Wertheim

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Michigan Technological University

Houghton, Michigan

 

 

Jacques Weyers

Professor of Physics

Universite de Louvain

Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

 

 

George White, Jr.

Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

 

 

Ronald K. White, Ph.D.

Staff Physicist

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore, California

 

 

Professor Norman L. Whitley

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

Donald A. Wiegand

Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center

Picatinny Arsenal

Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey

 

 

Gerald Wilemski

Department of Physics

University of Missouri - Rolla

Rolla, Missouri

 

 

Ron Willig

Principal Engineer

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Dr. Robert D. Willis

ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

 

 

Dr. Cathy Winkler

Anthropologist

 

 

Apollo Wong

U.S. Hong Kong Enterprise

 

 

Glenn Wong

Department of Physics

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Harry Woodcock

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Niekiletta U. Woullard

President, Society of Physics Students chapter

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

 

 

David Wright

Senior Staff Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists and

Research Fellow

Security Studies Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Kai Wu

Graduate student

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

 

 

Renliang Xu, Ph.D.

Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Miami, Florida

 

 

Youwen Xu

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Minnesota State University

Mankato, Minnesota

Ames Laboratory

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

 

 

Jerry Yos

Electronic Systems Center

NDWG (Titan/SenCom)

Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts

 

 

Andrew Yue

Research Scientist Associate

Department of Physics

University of Texas

Austin, Texas

 

 

Juergen J. Zach

Graduate Student

Department of Physics

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

 

 

G. W. Zajac

BP Research Center

Naperville, Illinois

 

 

Claudio I. Zanelli, Ph.D.

President

Intec Research Corporation

Sunnyvale, California

 

 

Eugene Zaremba

Department of Physics

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Steven Zhang

Undergraduate student in physics-mathematics

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Canada

 

 

Dr. Hans Zogg

Laboratory for Solid State Physics

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

Marie-Christine Zolcinski-Couet

Senior Principal System Engineer

Goodrich Optical and Space Systems

Danbury, Connecticut

 

 

Dr. Marco Zoli

Dipartimento di Fisica

Universita di Camerino

Camerino, Italy