At the APS Centennial meeting

Notes and pictures from the American Physical Society Centennial Meeting in Atlanta

Gathered by Blaine Friedlander of Cornell University News Service

The unveiling of a panel of posters representing physics through the decades of the 20th Century. With eleven panels in all, more than 27,000 copies of the poster set will be printed and distributed to every high school, middle school and college in the country that teaches physics. The poster panel was unveiled by Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy, on Monday night.

Onlookers at the APS exhibit hall watch a very large bubble emerge in an Ohio State University exhibit that uses the same principles as a child's bubble maker.
This part of the display on APS history describes the beginnings of the journal Physical Review co-founded by three Cornell physicists who later served as editors.

The Timeline of Physics display includes Cornell's nanoguitar.

Physicist Bob Friedhoffer dazzles an early-afternoon crowd with magic based on physics and chemical concepts. The physicist-magician teaches physics courses at the City University of New York. While Friedhoffer's show here was impromptu, he told the crowd he does weddings, bar mitzvahs and physics conventions.

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The unveiling of a panel of posters representing physics through the decades of the 20th Century. With eleven panels in all, more than 27,000 copies of the poster set will be printed and distributed to every high school, middle school and college in the country that teaches physics. The poster panel was unveiled by Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy, on Monday night.
Onlookers at the APS exhibit hall watch a very large bubble emerge in an Ohio State University exhibit that uses the same principles as a child's bubble maker.	*This part of the display on APS history describes the beginnings of the journal Physical Review* co-founded by three Cornell physicists who later served as editors.**
The Timeline of Physics display includes Cornell's nanoguitar.
Physicist Bob Friedhoffer dazzles an early-afternoon crowd with magic based on physics and chemical concepts. The physicist-magician teaches physics courses at the City University of New York. While Friedhoffer's show here was impromptu, he told the crowd he does weddings, bar mitzvahs and physics conventions.