Members in the Media
| “We’ve done the calculation. By midcentury, I think, we’ll have a functioning majority.” Rush Holt, on the growing number of physicists in Congress, The New York Times, (NJ-12th) June 10, 2008
|  |
| “The future for students is bleak if their only vision is to become a professor. This year’s budget cuts alone may not be enough to convince someone [to leave physics] but it will definitely influence people on the cusp of a decision.” Gary White, Society for Physics Students, on physics students leaving for other fields, Boston Globe, (VA-8th) March 10, 2008
|  |
| “Fortune 500 companies are cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing energy efficiency all over the world.” Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Inst Inc., Northwest Arkansas Times, (CO-3rd) June 24, 2008
|  |
| “Every time you break an egg or spill a glass of water you’re learning about the Big Bang,” Sean Carroll, Caltech, BBC News Online, (CA-29th) June 6, 2008
|  |
| “Tremendous progress has been made, much higher technical performance, for much lower cost.” John Deutch, MIT, on solar power, Boston Globe, (MA-8th) July 11, 2008
|  |
| “The specific experience you get doing that stuff doesn’t have applications outside that narrow world. It’s not obvious that I will be able to be fully employed.” Ken Sale, a nuclear weapons expert who was recently laid off from Lawrence Livermore Lab, The Associated Press, (CA-10th) June 3, 2008
|  |
| “I understand clearly as a freshman in Congress you don’t get to steer the bus.” Bill Foster, former Fermilab physicist recently elected to Congress, Scientific American, (IL-4th) April 1, 2008
|  |
| “The result is certainly funny, but the process seems reasonable. I don’t know of any previous attempts to make diamonds from drinks.” Rudolf Pfeiffer, University of Vienna, on a process for making diamond thin films from tequila, New Scientist, June 20, 2008
|  |
©1995 - 2008, AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
APS encourages the redistribution of the materials included in this newspaper provided that attribution to the source is noted and the materials are not truncated or changed.
College Park, MD
One Physics Ellipse,
College Park, MD 20740
Editor: Alan Chodos
Staff Writer: Ernie Tretkoff
Art Director / Special Publications Manager: Kerry G. Johnson
Design and Production: Nancy Bennett-Karasik
APS Washington, D.C. Office
529 14th St. NW,
Washington, DC 20045
Email: opa@aps.org
Telephone: 202-662-8700
Fax: 202-662-8711
Director of Public Affairs: Michael Lubell
Associate Director of Public Affairs: Francis Slakey
Legislative Correspondent: Brian Mosley
Office Manager: Jeanette Russo
Press Secretary: Tawanda W. Johnson
Senior Science Policy Fellow: Don E. Engel
