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
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Department
of Physics
University
of New Orleans
New Orleans,
Louisiana
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Griffin
Fellow,
American Physical Society
Professor of
Physics
University
of Maryland
College Park,
Maryland
Frieder
Gross-Alltag
Medical
Physicist
Klinikum
Kempten Oberallgaeu
Sonthofen,
Germany
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Gupta
Director of
Technology
KDF
Electronic and Vacuum Services
Rockleigh,
New Jersey
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Professor of
Physics, Emeritus
University of
South Carolina
Aiken, South
Carolina
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Gutow
Associate
Professor of Chemistry
University
of Wisconsin
Oshkosh,
Wisconsin
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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
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Harris
James and
Ellenor Chesebrough Professor
Department
of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
Stanford
University
Stanford,
California
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Research
Scientist
Georgia Tech
Research Institute
Atlanta,
Georgia
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Hatfield
Lubbock,
Texas
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Haugstad, Ph.D.
Senior
Research Associate and Director
IT
Characterization Facility
University
of Minnesota
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
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Graduate
Student
Institute of
Optics
University
of Rochester
Rochester,
New York
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Steward
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University
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Tucson,
Arizona
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Heller
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of Chemistry
Brigham
Young University
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Department
of Physics
Ohio State
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Columbus,
Ohio
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Henrard
University
of Namur
Namur,
Belgium
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Herzenberg
Retired, and
now a special term appointee at ANL
Argonne
National Laboratory
Argonne,
Illinois
Bradford
Hill
Arlington,
Virginia
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E. Hite
MARS
Texas
A&M University at Galveston
Galveston,
Texas
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Relations
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College
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Department
of Physics and Astronomy
Trinity
University
San Antonio,
Texas
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Howes
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
University
of California
Los Angeles,
California
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Hughes
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Physics
University
of Colorado
Boulder,
Colorado
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Wilhelm Hugosson
Department
of Physics
Uppsala
University
Uppsala,
Sweden
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Hussain
Senior Staff
Scientist
Scientific
Support Group Leader
Advanced
Light Source Division
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley,
California
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Assistant
Professor of Physics
DePaul
University
Chicago,
Illinois
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Ingalls
Infrared
Processing and Analysis Center
California
Institute of Technology
Pasadena,
California
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Isukapalli, Ph.D.
Kirusa Inc.
Berkeley
Heights, New Jersey
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Jackson, Ph.D.
Renaissance
Systems
Dayton, Ohio
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Jackson
Department
of Physics
Auburn
University
Auburn,
Alabama
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Jaegle
Directeur de
Recherche Emerite
Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie Atomique et Ionique
Universite
Paris - Sud
Orsay,
France
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Jameson
Fellow,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Fellow,
American Physical Society
Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Los Alamos,
New Mexico
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Janssens, PhD
Physics
Division
Argonne National
Laboratory
Argonne,
Illinois
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Jarvenpaa,
M.Sc.,
Industrial Management
Helsinki,
Finland
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Jason
Fire
Information Consultant
Gaithersburg,
Maryland
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Jaswal
University
of Nebraska
Lincoln,
Nebraska
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Jentschura
Institute
for Theoretical Physics
University
of Technology
Dresden,
Germany
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Johnson
Professor of
Materials Science and Engineering
University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urbana,
Illinois
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Johnson
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to the US Government
Reston,
Virginia
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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
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Jung
Centro de
Ciencias Fisicas
Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mexico
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Kaka
Graduate
Student
Member,
American Physical Society
Boulder,
Colorado
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Karefilaki, PhD
FORTH,
Institute of Computer Science
Heraklion,
Crete, Greece
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Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry, 1985
Member,
National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American
Physical Society
Washington,
D.C.
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Department
of Sociology
University
of California
Irvine,
California
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Professor
Emeritus
Department
of Physics
University
of California
Riverside,
California
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Senior
Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics
Imperial
College
London,
England
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Kim, Ph.D.
Principal
Research Scientist
WiseNut,
Inc.
Santa Clara,
California
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Departamento
Fisica Experimental
Inst. Fisica
Univ. de Sao
Paulo
Sao Paulo,
Brazil
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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
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Kleinbach, Ph.D.
Professor of
Sociology
Philadelphia
University
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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Klingensmith
Department
of History
Maryville
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Maryville,
Tennessee
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Department
of German
University of
California
Irvine,
California
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Klug, Ph.D.
Scientist
F. Hoffmann
La Roche Ltd.
Basel,
Switzerland
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Kniazzeh
Distinguished
Scientist
Polaroid
Corporation
Waltham,
Massachusetts
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Systems
Administrator
Digital Gear
Inc.
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Professor of
Physics
Denton,
Texas
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Kocharyan, Ph.D.
Senior
Engineer
Renaissance
Electronics Corporation
Harvard,
Massachusetts
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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
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Kolhatkar
SIRTF
Science Center
California
Institute of Technology
Pasadena,
California
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Kolm, PhD
Senior
Scientist, MIT National Magnet Laboratory, emeritus
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MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, emeritus
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Kooi
Max Planck
Institute for Solid State Research
Stuttgart,
Germany
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Agilent
Laboratories
Palo Alto,
California
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Koren
Assistant
Professor
Department
of Environmental and Natural Sciences
Northern
Virginia Community College
Woodbridge,
Virginia
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Professor of
Chemistry
University
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Knoxville,
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M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
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University
of California at San Francisco
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Berkeley,
California
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John Krenos
Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
Piscataway,
New Jersey
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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
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Nortel
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California
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Landsbergis, PhD, MPH
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Professor
Department of
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Mount Sinai
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New York
City
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Lapidus
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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American Physical Society
Professor of
Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
of California
Riverside,
California
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Latinovic
PhD
Candidate
Department
of Physics
Lehigh
University
Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania
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Physics
Student
Grand Valley
State University
Allendale,
Michigan
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Laws
Member: American
Association of Physics Teachers,
American
Physical Society
Professor of
Physics
Dickinson
College
Carlisle,
Pennsylvania
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Lazzaroni
Service de
Chimie des Materiaux Nouveaux
Universite
de Mons-Hainaut
Mons,
Belgium
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Blanc
Paul L. Lee
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
California
State University
Northridge,
California
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Lefevre, Ph.D.
GeneData AG
Basel,
Switzerland
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Leigh, Ph.D., P.E.
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American Physical Society
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New York
City
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Pereira Leite
Departamento
de Fisica - IBILCE - UNESP
Universidade
Estadual Paulista
Sao Jose do
Rio Preto, Brazil
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Levinger
Fellow,
American Physical Society
Professor
Emeritus
Department
of Physics
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New
York
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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
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Hydra,
Greece
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Lippert
Monarch
Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
Maumee, Ohio
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Lippman, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington
County Hospital
Hagerstown,
Maryland
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Llano
Instituto de
Investigaciones en Materiales
Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City,
Mexico
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Logan
Member,
American Physical Society
Director of
Research
EPG Research
Foundation
Manhasset,
New York
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Graduate
Student
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona
State University
Tempe,
Arizona
Michael J.
Longo
Professor of
Physics
University
of Michigan
Ann Arbor,
Michigan
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Loomis, Jr.
Laboratoire
de l'Accelerateur Lineaire
Orsay,
France
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Senior Staff
Scientist
NASA Langley
Research Center
Hampton,
Virginia
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Lushington
Research
Specialist
Ohio
Supercomputer Center
Columbus,
Ohio
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Luzuriaga
Associate
Professor
Instituto
Balseiro / Centro Atomico
Bariloche,
Argentina
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Macdonald
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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
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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
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Manning
Department
of Chemistry
Rutgers
University
New
Brunswick, New Jersey
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Physics
Graduate Student
Department
of Physics
California
Institute of Technology
Pasadena,
California
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C. Markowitz
Department
of Physics
Florida
International University
Miami,
Florida
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Senior
Scientist
Rohm and
Haas Company
Spring
House, Pennsylvania
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Martinez
Departamento
de Microelectronica
Instituto de
Ciencias
Benemerita
Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
San Manuel,
Puebla, Mexico
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Masciangioli, PhD
NRC Postdoctoral
Fellow
Chemistry
Division
Naval
Research Laboratory
Washington,
D.C.
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Masequesmay
Asian
American Studies Department
California
State University
Northridge,
California
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Pennsylvania
State University
University Park,
Pennsylvania
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Mathur
Materials
Science
Cambridge
University
Cambridge,
England
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David Matzner
Canadian
Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
University
of Toronto
Toronto,
Canada
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Mauritz
Staff
Scientist
Institute
for Physics
Humboldt
University Berlin
Berlin,
Germany
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McCauley
Professor of
Physics
Department
of Physics
California
State Polytechnic University
Pomona,
California
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McDowell
Vice
President for Research and Information Technology
University
of Texas, Arlington
Arlington,
Texas
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McFee
Head Threat
Detection Group
Defense
Research Establishment Suffield
Medicine
Hat, Canada
Dr. Kathryn
McGrath
Department
of Chemistry
University
of Otago
Dunedin, New
Zealand
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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
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Physics
Division
Jefferson
Laboratory
Newport
News, Virginia
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Mette
Fellow, American
Physical Society
Brielle, New
Jersey
Allen Miller
Department
of Physics
Syracuse
University
Syracuse,
New York
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Milner
ExxonMobil
Research and Engineering Co.
Annandale,
New Jersey
Drew Milsom
Department
of Physics
University
of Arizona
Tucson,
Arizona
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Mitchell
Lt. Col.
USAF, Retired
Retired
Senior Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Littleton,
Colorado
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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
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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
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National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden,
Colorado
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Neal
Student
Northern
Arizona University
Flagstaff,
Arizona
Riley Newman
Professor of
Physics
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
University of
California
Irvine,
California
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Nicholas
University
of Kentucky
Lexington,
Kentucky
Janice
Nickel, Ph.D.
Project
Scientist
Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
Palo Alto,
California
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Nidever
Physics
Graduate Student
San Francisco
State University
San
Francisco, California
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Nissimov
Institute
for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences
Sofia,
Bulgaria
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Nittler
Carnegie
Institution of Washington
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of Terrestrial Magnetism
Interstellar
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Washington,
D.C.
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Nockleby, Ph.D.
Senior
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Infomancers,
Inc.
Santa Cruz,
California
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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
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Ohanian
Education
Writer
Charlotte,
Vermont
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Arecibo
Observatory
National
Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
Arecibo,
Puerto Rico
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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
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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
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Pakhira
Graduate
Student
Department
of Physics
Indian
Institute of Science
Bangalore,
India
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Parker, PhD
Life Member,
American Physical Society
President
Alto Imaging
Technologies, Inc.
Mobile,
Alabama
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Parrondo
Dep. Fisica
Atomica
Universidad
Complutense de Madrid
Madrid,
Spain