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APS and AAPT Officers

MAR 01, 1952
Van Vleck and Webb are New Presidents
Physics Today

The terms of office of the presidents for the past year of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers came to a close with the joint winter meeting of the two organizations in New York City, which took place from Thursday, January 31, to Saturday, February 2. C. C. Lauritsen, retiring president of the Physical Society, introduced his successor, J. H. Van Vleck, to those attending the joint banquet of the societies on Friday evening, after which Mark Zemansky, retiring president of the AAPT, welcomed William S. Webb as the association’s new president. Professor Van Vleck is chairman of the physics department at Harvard University, while Professor Webb heads the University of Kentucky physics department.

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