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APS March Meeting 2019

Session A

A69. The Author in Dialogue: David Kaiser's "How the Hippies Saved Physics"
- A69.00002: John Wheeler's Course, Theory of Measurement, 1977--1978
  William Wootters

Session C

C69. Foundations of Physics Debate: How Should We Interpret the Formalism of Quantum Mechanics?
- C69.00003: The Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  Carlo Rovelli

Session E

E69. History of Contemporary Chinese Physics
- E69.00005: Physics and Politics Intertwined -- The manipulative moves in the 2016 supercollider controversy in China
  Tian Yu Cao

APS April Meeting 2019

Session B

B05. Remembering Julian Schwinger
- B05.00003: Julian Schwinger at Harvard before June, '67 --- remembered by a star-struck and frequently confused undergrad
  Howard Georgi

Session D

D06. Secrecy and Espionage in Science
- D06.00002: The legacy of nuclear secrecy in the United States
  Alex Wellerstein

Session G

G02. Centennial of the Eddington Eclipse Expedition
- G02.00001: No Shadow of Doubt: Eddington, Einstein and the 1919 Eclipse
  Daniel Kennefick
- G02.00002: Repeating the Experiment that Made Einstein Famous
  Donald Bruns

Session L

L07. Pais Prize Session: Helge Kragh
- L07.00002: Is It the Same Result? Replication in Physics
  Allan Franklin
- L07.00003: Why Do the Stars Keep Shining? A Long Journey to a Satisfactory Answer
  Robert Smith

APS April Meeting 2018

Session G

G10. Historical Trends Across the Disciplines
- G10.00001: Doublet Dudes: Shaping the Future of Fusion
  Ryan Chaban
- G10.00003: Observables and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to general relativity
  Donald Salisbury
- G10.00005: Carl Anderson´s 1932 Positron
  Per Carlson

Session J

J03. History of Numerical Relativity
- J03.00001: The Pre-History of the Two Black Hole Collision Problem
  Larry Smarr
- J03.00002: Numerical Relativity 1980-2000s: The era of sharpening our tools and exploring Einstein's physics
  Ed Seidel

Session S

S06. The Legacy of Richard Feynman
- S06.00001: Learning Through Teaching, Thinking By Drawing, And Distilling Truth From `Crazy Ideas:' John Wheeler's Lifelong Influence On Richard Feynman.
  Paul Halpern
- S06.00002: Feynman after 40
  John Preskill

Session Y

Y06. The Chapel Hill Conference and its Role in the Renaissance of General Relativity
- Y06.00001: How Felix Pirani launched the effort to detect gravitational waves
  Peter Saulson
- Y06.00002: Chapel Hill, Wheeler, and I
  Dieter Brill
- Y06.00003: Behind the Scenes at Chapel Hill
  Dean Rickles
- Y06.00004: US Air Force Support of General Relativity: Chapel Hill and Beyond
  Joshua Goldberg

APS March Meeting 2017

Session A

A40. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- A40.00002: Bergson vs. Einstein: is there really a philosopher's time?.
  Jean bricmont
- A40.00004: What If Bergson Won?
  Joseph Martin

Session C

C40. Pais Prize Session
- C40.00001: Abraham Pais Prize Lecture: Shifting Problems and Boundaries in the History of Modern Physics
  Mary-Jo Nye
- C40.00002: Is Seeing Believing? Direct and Indirect Observation in Physics
  Allan Franklin
- C40.00004: A resolution to the historians disagreement over Planck's introduction of the quantum hypothesis
  Michael Nauenberg
- C40.00005: From the Old to the New World of Nuclear Physics
  Roger H. Stuewer

Session E

E40. 60 Years since BCS and 30 Years since Woodstock
- E40.00002: The Woodstock of Physics: The Hyped Future Then (1987)\textellipsis The Actual Situation Now (2017).
  Paul Grant

APS April Meeting 2017

Session B

B7. Diversity in Troubled Times
- B7.00003: Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA
  Duchess Harris
B10. Transitions in Physics and Related Fields from the Late 19th Century to Today
- B10.00001: Before New Big Science: Alfred O. C. Nier and the Resurrection of Mass Spectrometry
  Joseph Martin

Session M

M7. The Social Legacy of the Manhattan Project
- M7.00001: Legacies of the Manhattan Project
  Daniel Kevles

Session R

R7. The Manhattan Project: History and Heritage
- R7.00001: The Manhattan Project: An Overview
  Cameron Reed

Session S

S2. Physics Outreach and Physics History
- S2.00001: The IceCube MasterClass: providing high school students an authentic research experience
  Silvia Bravo Gallart, Ellen Bechtol, David Schultz, Megan Madsen, Jean DeMerit
- S2.00004: Sharing the Wonder of Gravitational Waves
  Joey Shapiro Key
- S2.00007: Discrete Space-Time: History and Recent Developments
  David Crouse
- S2.00008: Soviet Hadron Collider
  Dmitri Kotchetkov

Session U

U8. History of the Search for Gravitational Waves
- U8.00001: WIRED BY WEBER: The Story of the First Searcher and Searches for Gravitational Waves
  Virginia Trimble
- U8.00002: The Path to Gravitational Wave Detection
  Barry Barish
- U8.00003: Enabling the Discovery of Gravitational Radiation
  Richard Isaacson

APS March Meeting 2016

Session A

A14. Peer Review: History and Issues
- A14.00004: Where is the trust in the peer review dynamic?
  Daniel Ucko

Session B

B14. The History of Electrical Science
- B14.00005: The Bottom Line: Cable Telegraphy and the Rise of Field Theory in the Victorian British Empire
  Bruce Hunt

APS April Meeting 2016

Session M

M11. History of Physics from Pythagoras to Higgs
- M11.00001: Value Added: History of Physics in a "Science, Technology, and Society" General Education Undergraduate Course
  Dwight Neuenschwander
- M11.00002: The Curious Ontology of a Light Higgs Boson
  Michael Riordan
- M11.00005: James Franck and the Experimental Discovery of Metastable States
  Clayton Gearhart
- M11.00007: Proprietary Manned Space Flight Proposals, 1973 to 2013, plus !
  Philip Fisher

Session R

R7. Sidney Coleman Remembered - Correspondence and Commentary
- R7.00002: Memories of Sidney Coleman
  Erick Weinberg
- R7.00003: Sidney Coleman's Harvard ('64-'67 and after '71)
  Howard Georgi

Session U

U6. Pais Prize Session - Some History You Won't Find In Physics Textbooks
- U6.00001: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics: Physics Textbooks Don't Always Tell the Truth
  Allan Franklin
- U6.00002: Newton's Principia: Myth and Reality
  George Smith

Session X

X6. The New Big Science and the Transformation of Research
- X6.00001: The New Big Science: What's New, What's Not, and What's the Difference
  Catherine Westfall
- X6.00002: The New Big Science at the NSLS
  Robert Crease
- X6.00003: European Neutrons form Parasitic Research to Global Strategy: Realizing Plans for a Transnational European Spallation Source in the Wake of the Cold War
  Thomas Kaiserfeld

ASP March Meeting 2015

Session L

L24. Invited Session: Pais Prize Session: Physics at the Intersection of History, Technology and Society
- L24.00003: Optimistic Dangers: Views of Radium Therapy During the American Radium Craze
  Aimee Slaughter
- L24.00004: To Rule the Waves: Cable Telegraphy and the Making of ``Maxwell's Equations''
  Bruce Hunt

APS April Meeting 2015

Session R

R12. Invited Session: Three Perspectives on the Supercollider
- R12.00001: DOE Perspectives on the Supercollider
  James Decker
- R12.00003: A Bridge Too Far: The Demise of the Superconducting Super Collider, 1989--1993
  Michael Riordan

Session X

X8. Invited Session: APS and Public Engagement in Historical Perspective
- X8.00003: History of the Forum on Physics and Society (1972-2015)
  David Hafemeister

Session Y

Y12. Invited Session: History of Relativity
- Y12.00001: Gravitational Wave Detection: A Historical Perspective
  Peter Saulson
- Y12.00002: The Kerr Metric: 50 Years Later
  Saul Teukolsky

APS March Meeting 2014

Session L

L38. Invited Session: History of the Communication of Science to the Public
- L38.00001: The Establishment of Science Communication for the Public at the Royal Institution
  Frank Burnet
- L38.00002: Displaying Science: The Exhibits Revolution in Science and Natural History Museums, 1900-1990
  Karen Rader
- L38.00003: The Role of Living History in the Communication of Science to the Public
  Susan Marie Frontczak

APS April Meeting 2014

Session C

C17. Invited Session: Journeys in the History of Physics: Pais Prize Session in Honor of David Cassidy
- C17.00001: Abraham Pais Prize : Physics, History, and Biography
  David C. Cassidy
- C17.00003: An Insider's History of Some of the Significant Changes In the APS from the 1960s to Today
  Brian Schwartz

Session R

R17. Invited Session: The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard
- R17.00001: The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard: Physicist, Peacemaker, Provocateur
  William Lanouette
- R17.00003: Leo Szilard: Biologist and Peace-Maker
  Matthew Meselson

APS March Meeting 2013

Session B

B10. Invited Session: Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Review at APS
- B10.00001: In the Beginning...
  Martin Blume
- B10.00002: The American Reception of the Quantum as Seen by the Physical Review, 1900-1927
  Robert Crease
- B10.00003: ``Your Most Distinguished Contributor'': Einstein and the Physical Review
  Daniel Kennefick
- B10.00004: Bringing the Physical Review into the Digital Age
  Mark Doyle
- B10.00005: Physical Review: a family of journals
  Gene Sprouse

Session M

M9. Invited Session: A History of Physics in Industry followed by Panel Discussion
- M9.00001: Commercial Scholarship: Spinning Physics Research into a Business Enterprise
  Orville Butler
- M9.00002: A Place for Materials Science: University of Pennsylvania's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
  Brittany Shields
- M9.00003: Dad's in the Garage: Santa Barbara Physicists in the Long 1970s
  Cyrus Mody
- M9.00004: Industrial Physics---Southern California Style
  Stuart Leslie
- M9.00005: Panel Discussion - Perspectives on the History of Industrial Physics
  Joseph Martin

Session N

N32. International Physics Programs and History of Physics
- N32.00001: Fulbright Opportunities in the Physical Sciences
  Katrin DeWindt
- N32.00003: A transformational year in physics: 1932
  Charles W. Clark, Joseph Reader
- N32.00005: Latest developments on documentary film ``The State of the Unit: The Kilogram''
  Amy Young

APS April Meeting 2013

Session C

C6. Invited Session: Maria Goeppert Mayer: The 50th Anniversary of Her Nobel Prize
- C6.00001: Maria Goeppert Mayer's work on beta-decay and pairing, and its relevance today
  Steven Moszkowski
- C6.00002: Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nobel Prize
  Karen E. Johnson
- C6.00003: Remembrances of Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Shell Model.
  Elizabeth Baranger

Session Q

Q6. Invited Session: Pais Prize Lecture: Relations Between Physics and History of Physics
- Q6.00001: Abraham Pais Prize Talk: The Joy of History
  Roger H. Stuewer
- Q6.00002: How History Helped Einstein in Special Relativity
  Alberto Martinez
- Q6.00003: How to make judicious use of current physics in reconstructing its history
  Michel Janssen

Session X

X7. Invited Session: 100 Years of the Bohr Atom
- X7.00001: Niels Bohr and the Third Quantum Revolution
  Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
- X7.00002: Memories of Crisis: Bohr, Kuhn, and the Quantum Mechanical ``Revolution''
  Suman Seth
- X7.00003: What Is Complementarity?
  Don Howard

APS March Meeting 2012

Session B

B19. Invited Session: One Hundred Fifty Years of Maxwell's Equations (1862-2012)
- B19.00001: The discovery of Maxwell's equations
  Francis Everitt
- B19.00002: Maxwellians and the Remaking of Maxwell's Equations
  Bruce Hunt
- B19.00003: Using Maxwell's Equations in the late 1800s
  Jed Buchwald
- B19.00004: Maxwell and quantum optics
  Roy Glauber
- B19.00005: Taking Off From Maxwell's Equations
  Frank Wilczek

Session Q

Q19. Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Edward Purcell (1912-2012)
- Q19.00001: Purcell and NMR
  Nicolaas Bloembergen
- Q19.00002: Purcell and the Development of Radioastronomy
  Doc Ewen
- Q19.00003: On small things in water moving around: Purcell's contributions to biology
  Howard Berg
- Q19.00004: Purcell's Work Helping the Government
  Richard Garwin
- Q19.00005: Purcell the Teacher: In and Out of the Classroom
  John Rigden

Session X

X2. Invited Session: History of Metrology and Today's Frontiers of Measurement

APS April Meeting 2012

Session C

C5. Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Bruno Rossi
- C5.00001: Rossi and high-energy astronomy
  George W. Clark
- C5.00002: Rossi and Space Physics
  Edward Stone
- C5.00003: Bruno Rossi: Cosmic Ray Research 1929 - 1953
  Jim Cronin

Session H

H5. Invited Session: Physicists Advising on National Security
- H5.00001: Experience with the President's Science Advisory Committee, Its Panels, and Other Modes of Advice
  Richard Garwin
- H5.00002: Experiences Advising our Government from the Point of View of a JASON
  Roy Schwitters
- H5.00003: Advisory Experiences wih the DOD, DOE and the Intelligence Community
  John Foster, Jr.

Session J

J15. History of Physics and Educational Topics
- J15.00001: On the Late Invention of the Gyroscope
  Kenneth Brecher
- J15.00002: Sommerfeld's balancing act with Einstein: The geometry of relativistic velocity space
  Felix T. Smith
- J15.00003: Francis Perrin's 1939 Analysis of Uranium Criticality
  Cameron Reed
- J15.00004: Babson, Bahnson, the DeWitts and the General Relativity Renaissance
  Hamilton Carter
- J15.00005: Who was Christine Shack?
  Ronald E. Mickens
- J15.00006: Black Holes: are they as real as we think?
  John Laubenstein
- J15.00007: Online and Blended Climate Change Courses for Secondary School Educators from the American Museum of Natural History
  Robert Steiner
- J15.00008: Learning Physics from the Real World by Direct Observation
  Saami J. Shaibani
- J15.00009: Teaching the Maxwell and Dirac Equations in the Same Algebra
  Gene McClellan

Session T

T5. Pais Prize Session: The National Laboratories after 1980

APS March Meeting 2011

Session B

Session B3: The History of Superconductivity from its Discovery by Kammerlingh Onnes in 1911
- B3.00001: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Road to Superconductivity
  Invited Speaker: Dirk van Delft
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- B3.00002: From the Meissner Effect to the Isotope Effect: Precursors to the Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity
  Invited Speaker: Brian Schwartz
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- B3.00003: BCS: 50 Years
  Invited Speaker: Leon Cooper
  - Move of Presentation
- B3.00004: Giaever, Nb₃Sn, and Josephson
  Invited Speaker: John Rowell
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- B3.00005: The arrival of high temperature superconductors
  Invited Speaker: Paul C. W. Chu
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Dirk van Delft

Brian Schwartz John Rowell Paul C. W. Chu

Session L

Session L8: J. H. Van Vleck: Quantum Theory and Magnetism
- L8.00001: Van Vleck from Spectroscopy to Susceptibilities: Kuhn Losses Regained
  Invited Speaker: Michel Janssen
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- L8.00002: J. H. Van Vleck and Magnetism at the University of Wisconsin: 1928 -1934
  Invited Speaker: David Huber
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- L8.00003: My interactions with J.H. Van Vleck as a student and colleague at Harvard
  Invited Speaker: Nicolaas Bloembergen
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- L8.00004: Remembering Van: Three Madison families, and other tales
  Invited Speaker: Charles P. Slichter
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- L8.00005: Van Vleck and the magnetic susceptibilities of gaseous molecules
  Invited Speaker: Horst Meyer
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Michel Janssen

David Huber Nicolaas Bloembergen Charles P. Slichter

Horst Meyer

Session X

Session X8: Migrations of Physicists
- X8.00001: Migration of scientists and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics -- a Personal and Professional Perspective
  Invited Speaker: Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
- X8.00002: Physicists' Forced Migrations under Hitler
  Invited Speaker: Alan Beyerchen
- X8.00003: Migrations and the Rise of High Energy Physics in Brazil
  Invited Speaker: Alberto Santoro
- X8.00004: Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet scientific migration: history and patterns
  Invited Speaker: Alexei Kojevnikov
  - PDF of Presentation
- X8.00005: Chinese/American Physicists: A Transnational History
  Invited Speaker: Zuoyue Wang
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Alexei Kojevnikov

Zuoyue Wang

APS April Meeting 2011

Session B

Session B1: Solvay at One Hundred; Pais Prize Talk
- B1.00001: The Solvay Council, 1911: "A kind of private congress"
  Invited Speaker: Richard Staley
  - PDF of Presentation
- B1.00002: Solvay 1927: Quantum Theory at the Crossroads
  Invited Speaker: Antony Valentini
  - PDF of Presentation
- B1.00003: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Talk: Shelter Island, Pocono, Oldstone, 1947-49, Revisited
  Invited Speaker: Silvan Schweber
  - PDF of Presentation

Richard Staley

Antony Valentini Silvan Schweber

Session C

Session C1: Centennial of the Nuclear Atom
- C1.00001: Rutherford's Nuclear Model
  Invited Speaker: John Heibron
  - PDF of Presentation
- C1.00002: Modeling and Reality in Early Twentieth-Century Physics
  Invited Speaker: Suman Seth
  - PDF of Presentation
- C1.00003: Rutherford's Legacy in Particle Physics
  Invited Speaker: Jerome I. Friedman
  - PDF of Presentation

John Heibron

Suman Seth Jerome I. Friedman

Session E

Session E6: Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: I. History
- E6.00001: Cyclotrons: From Science to Human Health
  Invited Speaker: Michael Craddock
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- E6.00002: Linear Accelerators - Principles, History, and Applications
  Invited Speaker: Thomas Wangler
- E6.00003: Proton-Antiproton Colliders
  Invited Speaker: Lyndon Evans
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Michael Craddock

T. Wangler and L. Merminga Lyndon Evans

Session H

Session H13: History of Physics I
- Session H13.00001: The discovery of cosmic rays
  Invited Speaker: Per Carlson
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H13.00002 : Up the Decade! 50 Years of Astronomical Prioritizations and Predictions
  Invited Speaker: Virginia Trimble
  - Audio of Presentation
- H13.00003: Jocular Physics: A Tribute to Bohr in Humor
  Invited Speaker: Paul Halpern
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H13.00004: Correcting a Persistent Manhattan Project Statistical Error
  Invited Speaker: Cameron Reed
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Obituary for Harry Lustig

Per Carlson

Virginia Trimble Paul Halpern Cameron Reed

Audience David Cassidy, Chairman

Session J

Session J2: Centennial of Superconductivity
- J2.00001: Superconductivity: Anatomy of a Discovery
  Invited Speaker: Peter Pesic
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- J2.00002: Superconductivity at 100 - what materials will serve us in the next century?
  Invited Speaker: David Larbalestier
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- J2.00003: Superconductivity beyond superconductors
  Invited Speaker: A. Zee
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Peter Pesic

David Larbalestier A. Zee

Session T

Session T10: History of Physics II
- T10.00001: Building the Superconducting Super Collider, 1989-1993: The Problem of Project Management
  Invited Speaker: Michael Riordan
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- T10.00002: The Quantum Underground: Early quantum theory textbooks
  Invited Speaker: Clayton Gearhart
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- T10.00004: X-Ray Astronomy Discovery Experiments, III
  Invited Speaker: P.C. Fisher
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Michael Riordan and Gloria Lubkin

Clayton Gearhart P.C. Fisher

Session X

Session X2: Working with Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)
- X2.00001: Working with and Learning from Luis Alvarez
  Invited Speaker: Richard Muller
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X2.00002: Working With Luie on Bubble Chambers
  Invited Speaker: Arthur Rosenfeld
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X2.00003: Working (And Sparring) With Luis: Some Personal Recollections
  Invited Speaker: Moishe Pripstein
- Other Alvarez Stories Audio
  Conducted by Stanley Wojcicki

APS March Meeting 2010

Session B

Session B5: Five Legacies from the Laser
- B5.00001: Lasers at 50: Meeting the Grand Challenges for the 21st Century
  Invited Speaker: Robert L. Byer
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- B5.00002: From Femtoseconds to Neurons in 35 Short Years
  Invited Speaker: C.V. Shank
- B5.00003: Laser Ranging to the Moon: How Evolving Technology Enables New Science
  Invited Speaker: James Faller
  - PDF of Presentation
- B5.00004: Medical imaging with optical coherence tomography
  Invited Speaker: James G. Fujimoto
- B5.00005: The Excimer Laser: Its Impact on Science and Industry
  Invited Speaker: Dirk Basting

Robert L. Byer

James Faller

Session X

Session X8: The 50th Anniversary of the Prediction of Superfluidity of He3
- X8.00001: Superconductivity with very repulsive interactions: He^3, Pierre Morel, and me
  Invited Speaker: Philip Anderson
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X8.00002: Early Thoughts on the Superfluidity of He$^{3}$
  Invited Speaker: Andrew Sessler
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X8.00003: Historically related puzzles in $^{3}$He: spin fluctuations, the specific heat, and the superfluid phase diagram
  Invited Speaker: Joseph Serene
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X8.00004: Early Days of Superfluid $^{3}$He: An Experimenter's View
  Invited Speaker: David Lee
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X8.00005: Superfluid 3-He:understanding the experiments
  Invited Speaker: Anthony Leggett
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Philip Anderson

Andrew Sessler Joseph Serene David Lee Anthony Leggett

APS April Meeting 2010

Session B

Session B5: Secrecy and Physics
- B5.00001: Secrecy and Physics
  Invited Speaker: Peter Galison
- B5.00002: Secrecy and Physicists: Intersections of Science and National Security
  Invited Speaker: Steven Aftergood
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- B5.00003: How Much Secrecy?
  Invited Speaker: William Happer
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Steven Aftergood

William Happer

Session H

Session H10: History of Physics Contributed Papers
- H10.00001: Did Minkowski Change his Mind about Noneuclidean Symmetry in Special Relativity?
  Felix T. Smith
- H10.00002: Ettore Majorana and the birth of autoionization
  Ennio Arimondo, Charles W. Clark, William C. Martin
- H10.00003: Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas: An appraisal of an under-appreciated polymath
  John David Jackson
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H10.00004: The Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics: Bringing the Spirit of Copenhagen to Foggy Bottom
  Paul Halpern
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H10.00005: Bullion to B-fields: The Silver Program of the Manhattan Project
  Cameron Reed
- H10.00006: What I have learned in reading and writing history of physics
  Harry Lustig
- H10.00007: Twist `til we tear the house down: How Clifford solved the universe in 1870
  James Beichler
- H10.00008: A Historical View of Kirchhoff's Black Body Universal Distribution Function $\left( K_{\lambda }\right) $
  Clarence A. Gall
- H10.00009: History of the 3 Theories of Light
  Jeffrey Boyd

John David Jackson

Paul Halpern Cameron Reed Harry Lustig

Session J

Session J1: Remembering Enrico Fermi
- J1.00001: Fermi at Columbia and Reminiscence of Chicago Days
  Invited Speaker: Tsung-Dao Lee
  - Audio of Presentation
- J1.00002: Working with Fermi at Chicago and Los Alamos
  Invited Speaker: Richard L. Garwin
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- J1.00003: A Student's View of Fermi
  Invited Speaker: Jerome Friedman
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Tsung-Dao Lee

Richard L. Garwin Jerome Friedman

Session K

Session K5: Pais Prize and Tate Medal
- K5.00001: Theory and Experiment in the Quantum-Relativity Revolution (Pais History of Physics Prize 2009)
  Invited Speaker: Stephen Brush
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- K5.00002: Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics Talk: Nuclear Fusion Power: Are we really serious about our future?
  Invited Speaker: Gustav-Adolf Voss

Session Q

Session Q5: Origins of Research and Teaching at Selected Physics Departments
- Q5.00001: 250 Years of Physics at the College of William and Mary: 1760-2010
  Invited Speaker: Hans von Baeyer
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- Q5.00002: 80 Years of Physics at Fisk University
  Invited Speaker: Warren Collins
- Q5.00003: Research and Education in Physics and Astronomy at Haverford College
  Invited Speaker: Jerry Gollub

Hans von Baeyer

Session X

Session X4: The Laser: Historical Perspectives and Impact on Precision Measurements
- X4.00001: First light : from the ruby laser to nonlinear optics
  Invited Speaker: J.A. Giordmaine
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X4.00002: Freedom from band-gap slavery: from diode lasers to quantum cascade lasers
  Invited Speaker: Federico Capasso
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X4.00003: Developing Stabilized Lasers, Measuring their Frequencies, demoting the Metre, inventing the Comb, and further consequences
  Invited Speaker: John L. Hall

J.A. Giordmaine

Federico Capasso

APS March Meeting 2009

Pittsburgh, PA

Session D

Session D5: Origins of Silicon Valley
- D5.00001: Prehistory of Silicon Valley, from 1910 to 1965
  Invited Speaker: Stewart Gillmor
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- D5.00002: W. W. Hansen, Microwave Physics, and Silicon Valley
  Invited Speaker: David Leeson
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- D5.00003: From Bell Labs to Silicon Valley: A Saga of Technology Transfer, 1954-1961
  Invited Speaker: Michael Riordan
  - Audio of Presentation
- D5.00004: The Origins and Development of the Silicon Valley Startup Model
  Invited Speaker: James Gibbons

Panelists

Stewart Gillmor David Leeson

Michael Riordan

Session P

Session P8: Centenary of Lev Landau
- P8.00001: Lev Landau: A View from the West
  Invited Speaker: Pierre Hohenberg
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- P8.00002: Landau and theory of quantum liquids
  Invited Speaker: Lev Pitaevskii
  - PDF of Presentation
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- P8.00003: Landau and Theory of Phase Transitions
  Invited Speaker: Valery Pokrovsky
  - PDF of Presentation
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- P8.00004: Landau and Feyman diagrams
  Invited Speaker: Igor Dzyaloshinskii
  - Audio of Presentation
- P8.00005: Landau's Contributions to Applied Physics
  Invited Speaker: Roald Sagdeev
  - Audio of Presentation

Pierre Hohenberg Lev Pitaevskii Valery Pokrovsky Igor Dzyaloshinskii Roald Sagdeev

Session X
Session X8: 50 Years of Anderson Localization
- X8.00001: Anderson localization in the seventies and beyond
  Invited Speaker: David Thouless
  - PDF of Presentation
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- X8.00002: Tests of Localization in Metals and Semiconductors
  Invited Speaker: Robert Dynes
  - PDF of Presentation
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- X8.00003: Anderson Localization of Light
  Invited Speaker: Mordechai Segev
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- X8.00004: Anderson Localization and Mesoscopics
  Invited Speaker: Igor Lerner
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- X8.00005: Direct observation of Anderson localization of matter-waves in an optical disorder
  Invited Speaker: Alain Aspect
  - PDF of Presentation
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David Thouless

Robert Dynes Mordechai Segev Igor Lerner Alain Aspect

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Denver, CO

Session B

Session B5: The Scientific Legacy of John Wheeler
- B5.00001: John Wheeler, 1933 - 1959: Particles and Weapons
  Invited Speaker: Kenneth Ford
  - PDF of Presentation
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- B5.00002: John Wheeler, 1952 - 1976: Black Holes and Geometrodynamics
  Invited Speaker: Kip S. Thorne
  - PDF of Presentation
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- B5.00003: John Wheeler, 1976 - 1996: Law Without Law and Quantum Information
  Invited Speaker: Wojciech H. Zurek
  - Audio of Presentation

Kenneth Ford

Kip S. Thorne Wojciech H. Zurek

Session C

Session C6: History of Telescopes
- C6.00001: The Bionic Telescope
  Invited Speaker: Neville Woolf
  - Audio of Presentation
- C6.00002: Radio Telescopes - A Technological Saga Sparked by Serendipity
  Invited Speaker: Paul Vanden Bout
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- C6.00003: Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy: Measuring the Invisible through X Rays
  Invited Speaker: Christine Jones
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Neville Woolf

Paul Vanden Bout Christine Jones

Session G

Session G7: Scientific Policy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- G7.00001: Skating on Thin Ice: Evolution of Conservation in Energy Policy
  Invited Speaker: Jack Gibbons
  - Audio of Presentation
- G7.00002: Civic Scientist Era
  Invited Speaker: Neal Lane
  - Audio of Presentation
- G7.00003: Science as a Model for Rational, Legitimate Government
  Invited Speaker: Lewis Branscomb
  - Audio of Presentation

Jack Gibbons

Neal Lane

Lewis Branscomb

Session H

Session H14: History and Philosophy of Science
- H14.00001: Is Einstein the Father of the Atomic Bomb
  Invited Speaker: Harry Lustig
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00002: Centrifugation and the Manhattan Project
  Invited Speaker: Cameron Reed
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00003: Unification Accomplished and Forgotten: The story of H.T. Flint
  Invited Speaker: James Beichler
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00004: The Clouds of Physics and Einstein's Last Query: Can Quantum Mechanics be Derived from General Relativity?
  Invited Speaker: Friedwardt Winterberg
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00005: Schröedinger's Unified Field Theory: Physics by Public Relations
  Invited Speaker: Paul Halpern
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00006: X-Ray Astronomy Discovery Experiments, II
  Invited Speaker: P.C. Fisher
  - PDF of Presentation (Ruffner Associates, LTD retains all copyrights)
  - Audio of Presentation
- H14.00007: The Leviathan and the Whirlpool Nebula
  Invited Speaker: Trevor Weekes
  - PDF of Presentation
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Harry Lustig

Cameron Reed James Beichler

Friedwardt Winterberg Paul Halpern

P.C. Fisher
Trevor Weekes

Session T

Session T7: History of MURA, Fermilab and the SSC
- T7.00001: Innovation Was Not Enough; The History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association
  Invited Speaker: Lawrence W. Jones
  - PDF of Presentation
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- T7.00002: Fermilab: The Ring of the Frontier, 1967-1989
  Invited Speaker: Adrienne W. Kolb
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- T7.00003: A Personal Recollection of the SSC Birth and Demise
  Invited Speaker: Stanley Wojcicki

Lawrence W. Jones

Adrienne W. Kolb

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St. Louis, MO

Session B

Session B6: Triumphs of 20th Century Astrophysics I: Observatories and Telescopes
Sponsoring Units: FHP DAP
Chair: Ramanath Cowsik, Washington University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade D
- B6.00001: Lick Observatory, California, and 20th Century Leadership in Optical Astronomy
  Invited Speaker: Virginia Trimble
  - Audio of Presentation
- B6.00002: The Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
  Invited Speaker: Mario Livio
  - Audio of Presentation
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- B6.00003: Large Telescopes and Instrumentation of the Future
  Invited Speaker: Elizabeth Barton
  - Audio of Presentation
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Session J

Session J3: Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project: 65th Anniversary (Followed by Panel Discussion)
Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: Benjamin Bederson, New York University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis E
- J3.00001: A History Worth Preserving
  Invited Speaker: Cynthia Kelly
  - Audio of Presentation
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- J3.00002: Recollections of a very junior physicist at Los Alamos, 1944-1946
  Invited Speaker: Anthony P. French
  - Audio of Presentation
- J3.00003: Panel Discussion among Physicist Alumni of the Manhattan Project
  Moderator: David C. Cassidy
  - Audio of Presentation
- J3.00003
  - David Cassidy
  - Julius Tabin
  - Murray Peshkin
  - Nathan Malamed
  - Howard Kratz
  - Albert Bartlett
  - Anthony French
  - Leonard Jossem
  - Murray Peshkin
  - Nathan Malamed
  - Bob Birch
  - Fred Tedrow
  - Ben Benderson
  - Friedwardt Wint
  - Murray Peshkin

Cynthia Kelly Anthony P. French Julius Tabin, Murray Peshkin, Nathan Melamed, Howard Kratz, Albert Bartlett, A. P. French, E. Leonard Jossem. David Cassidy Nathan Malamed Anthony French Ben Benderson

Session Q

Session Q10: Plenary Session II
Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Lous DE
- Q1.00003: High Temperature Superconductivity 20 Years Later: Achievements, Promises and Challenges
  Invited Speaker: C.W. Chu
  - Audio of Presentation
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Session S

Session S5: 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Sponsoring Units: FHP DPF
Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel) - Promenade C
- S5.00001: Half a Century of PRL
  Invited Speaker: Robert Garisto
  - Audio of Presentation
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- S5.00002: Last 50 Years in Physics: Game Changes and Strategies
  Invited Speaker: Michael S. Turner
  - Audio of Presentation
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- S5.00003: PRL and Experimental Particle Physics
  Invited Speaker: Michael E. Peskin
  - Audio of Presentation
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New Orleans, LA

Session J

Session J2: 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Reinhardt Schuhmann
Morial Convention Center - LaLouisiane C
- J2.00001: PRL at 50: A history of moving physics forward
  Invited Speaker: Saad E. Hebboul
  - PDF of Presentation
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- J2.00002: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
  Invited Speaker: H. Eugene Stanley
  - PDF of Presentation
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- J2.00003: Condensed Matter Theory: From Models to First Principles
  Invited Speaker: Marvin Cohen
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- J2.00004: NMR and the BCS Theory
  Invited Speaker: Charles P. Slichter
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- J2.00005: The Future of Scientific Publishing
  Invited Speaker: Jack Sandweiss
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Jack Sandweiss

Session K

Session K1: Poster Session II
2:00 PM–5:00 PM, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Morial Convention Center - Exhibit Hall A
- K1.00236: History of Physics
- K1.00237: Tracing the Rich History of Physics Research at NIST/NBS Through the Pages of the \textit{Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.}
  Susan Makar , Barbara Silcox
- K1.00238: The Increasingly Disordered History of Entropy
  Cesar Rodriguez-Rosario (Student Travel Award Recipient)
  PDF of Boltzman Photo

Session S

Session S40: History of Physics
Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: George Zimmerman, Boston University
Morial Convention Center - 232
Audio of Awards
- S40.00001: Development of ultra violet photoemission [UPS]: a history
  Author: Jerry [ G. J. ] Lapeyre
  - Audio of Presentation
- S40.00002: Magnetism in matter before the discovery of quantum spin: Bohr's less well-known contribution to the transition from classical to quantum physics
  Author: Jean-Francois Van Huele
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- S40.00003: Epistemological Dimensions in Niels Bohr's Conceptualization of Complementarity
  Author: Gregory Derry
  - PDF of Presentation
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Gregory Derry

Session V

Session V3: Industrial Physics History
Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Gloria B. Lubkin, American Institute of Physics
Morial Convention Center - RO2 - RO3
Thursday, March 13, 2008; 11:15AM - 2:15PM
- V3.00001: Industrial Research at IBM
  Invited Speaker: Paul Horn
  - PDF of Presentation
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- V3.00002: Reflections on Three Corporate Research Labs: Bell Labs, HP Labs, Agilent Labs
  Invited Speaker: James Hollenhorst
  - PDF of Presentation
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- V3.00003: Application Oriented R{\&}D: Aphorisms {\&} Anecdotes (The John Bardeen Lecture)
  Invited Speaker: Robert Frosch
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- V3.00004: The History of Science and Technology at Bell Labs
  Invited Speaker: David Bishop
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation
- V3.00005: 50 Years of "Scaling'' Jack Kilby's Invention
  Invited Speaker: Robert Doering
  - PDF of Presentation
  - Audio of Presentation

Paul Horn James Hollenhorst Robert Frosch David Bishop Robert Doering

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