Session M1: APS Award Presentations, Past President's Address, and Lilienfeld Prize Talk

5:15 PM–6:45 PM, Sunday, April 23, 2006
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark A

Sponsoring Unit: APS
Chair: John Hopfield, APS President, Princeton University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.APR.M1.2

Abstract: M1.00002 : APS Past President's Address: Looking Back on the World Year of Physics 2005

5:45 PM–6:15 PM

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Author:

  Marvin Cohen
    (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

I had the privilege of being APS President during the celebration of the World Year of Physics 2005. I will describe some of my experiences and discuss some perspectives about APS and about physics.

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