Summary of Past Sessions
Ten Years of FHP-Sponsored Sessions at APS Meetings 1994-2003
March 1994 Pittsburgh, PA
The Solid State Roots of Silicon Valley. Seitz, Riordan, Ehrenreich, Leslie.
April 1994 Crystal City, VA
Milestones in the History of Astrophysics (jointly sponsored with the Division of Astrophysics). DeVorkin, Trimble, Burbidge.
Science Advice to the Government (jointly sponsored with the Forum on Physics and Society). Dennis, Brooks, Gottfried, Lane, Dresselhaus.
Scientists and National Security: Washington's Four Governments (jointly sponsored with the Forum on Physics and Society). Hafemeister, Harvey, Roberts, van der Vink, Lewis.
March 1995 San Jose, CA
New Studies of Isaac Newton's Works. Shapiro, Chandrasehkar, Nauenberg.
April 1995 Washington, DC
The Centennial of X-Rays: A Celebration (jointly sponsored with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine). Weart, Wattenberg, Kipnis, Laughlin.
March 1996 St. Louis, MO
Topics in the History of Radioactivity. Quinn, Hiebert, Pycior. Chair: W.E. Evenson.
May 1996 Indianapolis, IN
History of Computing in Physics (jointly sponsored with the Division of Computational Physics). Worlton, Freeman, Murray. Chair: J. Rigden.
Contributions of Women to Physics (jointly sponsored with the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics). Herzenberg, Moszkowski, Howes, Sime. Chair: K. Gebbie.
March 1997 Kansas City, MO
One Hundred Years of Electrons. Dahl, Dresden, Watson, Laughlin. Chair: William Evenson.
April 1997 Washington, DC
Joseph Henry Bicentennial (jointly sponsored with the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics). Moyer, Theerman, Rothenberg, Hochfelder. Chair: William E. Evenson.
The Electron Centennial I (jointly sponsored with the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics). Mulligan, Squires, Dresden, Wise.
100 Years of Electron-Photon Interactions & Rivalry, Electron Centennial: II (jointly sponsored with the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics). Schafer, Harriott, Glaeser, Bardsley.
April 1998 Columbus, OH
Science and Its Critics. Levine, Segerstrale, Gottfried.
Teaching Physics a Century Ago. Michel, Olesko, Gillmor. Chair: David Cassidy.
March 1999 Atlanta, GA (Centennial Meeting)
Women and Men Inside the Atom: A Historical Look (jointly sponsored with the Division of Nuclear Physics and the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics). McGrayne, Sachs, Goldhaber, Goldhaber. Chair: Elizabeth Beise.
Centennial Symposium: Physics in the 20th Century: World War II, Accelerators, and the Rise of High Energy Physics. Panofsky, Galison, Weinberg. Chair: Michael Riordan.
I.I. Rabi: Physicist and Citizen. Ramsey, Herschbach, Kleppner, Perl, Holton, Bethe. Chair: John Rigden.
Centennial Symposium: Physics in the 20th Century: The Revolution: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. Norton, Cassidy, Rigden, Hoddeson. Chair: Ruth Howes.
Centennial Symposium: 20th Century Developments in Instrumentation & Measurements (jointly sponsored with the Group on Instrument and Measurement Science). Bement, Bagley, Moore, Hudson, Matey. Chair: William Evenson.
March 2000 Minneapolis, MN
Twenty Years of the Quantum Hall Effect/George Pake Prize. Starr, Fowler, von Klitzing, Halperin. Chair: Richard Prange.
April 2000 Long Beach, CA
History of 20th Century Physics. Chair: Martin Gutzwiller.
New Perspectives on the Development of Ancient Astronomy. Evans, Gingerich, Saliba. Chair: Michael Nauenberg.
March 2001 Seattle, WA
NIST at the Millennium : Condensed Matter and Measurement Science (jointly sponsored with the Group on Instrument and Measurement Science). Pierce, Mohr, Han, Rush, Williams. Chair: Robert Duncan.
History of Electronic Structure Theory in Atoms (jointly sponsored with the Division of Material Physics). Kohn, Freeman, Kleinman, Delley. Chair: John P. Perdew.
April-May 2001 Washington, DC
100 Years at NBS-NIST (jointly sponsored with the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics). DeVorkin, Branscomb, Williams, Inokuti, Cornell. Chair: Charles Clark.
Perspectives on Major High Energy Physics Projects (jointly sponsored with the Forum on Physics and Society). Riordan, Kirk, Schopper, Goldston. Chair: Laurie Brown.
History of Atomic Collision Physics (jointly sponsored with the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics). Nauenberg, Dalgarno, Gay, Gallagher. Chair: B. Bederson.
March 2002 Indianapolis, IN
Tunneling, From Alpha Particle Decay to Biology. Giaever, Onuchic, Merzbacher, Makri. Chair: Hans Frauenfelder.
Synchrotron Radiation: From Stepchild to Star. Petroff, Blume, Harrison, Moncton. Chair: A. Bienenstock.
April 2002 Albuquerque, NM
EPR to Entanglement. Fine, Jones, Aspect, Zeilinger, Bacciagaluppi. Chair: Elizabeth Paris.
Eugene Wigner Centennial (jointly sponsored with the Division of Nuclear Physics, the Division of Particles and Fields, and the Forum on International Physics). Marx, Weinberg, Wheeler, Moshinsky. Chair: Joseph Ginocchio.
History of Los Alamos. Fitch, Garwin, Harlow, Browne. Chair: Damon Giovanielli.
March 2003 Austin, TX
J. Willard Gibbs and His Legacy: A Double Centennial. Klein, Knudsen, Levelt Sengers, Kadanoff. Chair: Michael E. Fisher.
The Early Days of Solid State Physics. Bethe, Hoddeson, Seitz, Anderson. Chair: Howard Huff.
April 2003 Philadelphia, PA
Using History in Physics Education (jointly sponsored with the Forum on Education). Brush, Cassidy, March, Nauenberg, Siegel. Chair: Daniel Siegel.
The Development of Electron-Positron Colliders (jointly sponsored with the Division of Physics of Beams). Paris, Rees, Hofmann, Richter,. Chair: Ronald Ruth.
Benjamin Franklin, Civic Scientist (jointly sponsored with the Forum on Physics and Society). Lopez, Herschbach, McClellan III, Lane, Hammer. Chair: Michael Riordan.
History of Solar Neutrinos (jointly sponsored with the Division of Nuclear Physics). Franklin, Bahcall, Lande, Gavrin, Totsuka. Chair: Hans Frauenfelder.