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Perspectives on the Presidency of the American Physical Society

JUL 01, 1985
Leading the 35 000‐member organization in new directions, representing the physics community and continuing to make a personal contribution to the advance of knowledge, makes for an exciting but busy year.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus

It may seem surprising that the most frequent question I was asked during the year I served as president of The American Physical Society was “how it felt” to be president of this distinguished and venerable society. This question is perhaps not so surprising when you consider that the probability for a physicist to experience personally this challenge is only on the order of one chance in a thousand. In this article I will attempt to give one operational answer to this complex question.

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References

  1. 1. K. Y. Szeto, PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985).

  2. 2. S. T. Chen, PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985).

  3. 3. G. Roth, A. Chaiken, T. Enoki, N. C. Yeh, G. Dresselhaus, P. M. Tedrow, Phys. Rev. B, to be published (1985).

  4. 4. N. C. Yeh, T. Enoki, L. Salamanca‐Riba, G. Dresselhaus, in Extended Abstracts of the 17th Biennial Conference on Carbon, Univ. of Kentucky, Office of Continuing Education, Lexington, Kentucky (1985).

  5. 5. L. Salamanca‐Riba, G. Roth, A. R. Kortan, G. Dresselhaus, R. J. Birgeneau, J. M. Gibson, Univ. of Kentucky, Office of Continuing Education, Lexington Kentucky (1985).

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Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

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