APS Officers—1964
DOI: 10.1063/1.3051475
The new president of the American Physical Society is Robert F. Bacher, provost of the California Institute of Technology and chairman of Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy. During World War II, Dr. Bacher worked first at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and then at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he headed the Experimental Physics Division and later the Bomb Physics Division. After the war, he served for three years as the scientist member of the then newly established Atomic Energy Commission. In recent years, Dr. Bacher has served on the Naval Research Advisory Committee and as a consultant to the President’s Science Advisory Committee, the Department of Defense and the AEC.
