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Fall 2008 Newsletter

Volume X Number 5

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In This Issue

  • To the Editor
  • Report from the Chair
  • Preserving Departmental Histories
  • Pais Prize Lecture
  • Physical Review Letters Turns Golden
  • The Twelfth Seven Pines Symposium

General Forum Affairs:

  • Editor's Corner
  • Call for Nominations
  • Call for Fellowship Nominations

Reports from the Annual APS Meetings:

  • Student Presentations at the 2008 Forum Sessions
  • Forum Sessions at the March Meeting
  • Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project
  • Triumphs of 20th-Century Astrophysics I: Telescopes and Observations
  • Triumphs of 20th-Century Astrophysics II: We Master the Stars
  • Eighty Years of Quantum Mechanics
  • April Contributed-Paper Session I

New Books of Note:

  • The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
  • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments