Cornell's associations with the American Physical Society (APS), going back to its founding 100 years ago, were in evidence March 21-26 as the organization celebrated its centennial at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The APS said this was the largest physics meeting of all time, with an attendance of 10,000.
The centennial meeting brought together about 50 Nobel Prize winners, among them Cornell laureates Hans Bethe, the 1967 prize winner, and Robert C. Richardson, Cornell viceprovost for research, and David M. Lee, professor ofphysics, who were laureates in 1996.
Cornell's name also was much in evidence at an exhibition of events connected to APS through the years. One of the exhibits recalled that the APS's oldest publication, Physical Review, was founded at Cornell six years before the inauguration of the APS itself.
Papers were presented at the meeting by about 30 Cornell faculty members and students. Subjects ranged from the useof wax sheets as a model for the movement of tectonic plates to the creation of a microscopic 'nanoharp,' complete with strings.
The following is some of the Cornell research presented at the meeting.
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