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American Physical Society company history timeline

1899

The American Physical Society is a professional society of educators, researchers, and students of physics and related fields established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics.

1900

Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-

1903

From 1903 forward, all general meetings minutes are published in the Physical Review of which the Niels Bohr Library holds a complete set.

1907

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

1920

The second is a later typed version which differs slightly because of an attempt to recover information missing from the original published versions and to place all of the minutes in a consistent format in response to a resolution of the council on November 26, 1920.

1921

Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-

1956

Awarded 1956 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1959

Awarded 1959 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and Fellow.

1960

Member, Council and awarded 1960 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1963

Niels Bohr Memorial Session [sound recording], 1963 April 22.

Awarded 1963 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1964

Awarded 1964 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winner.

1965

Invited papers [sound recording], 1965 April.

Awarded 1965 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

1966

Invited papers on the history of physics [sound recording] : American Physical Society Meeting, 1966 April 28.

Awarded 1966 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1967

Received 1967 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1968

President and awarded 1968 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed matter Prize.

1969

Associate Editor of the Physical Review and 1969 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient.

1972

Banquet of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording], 1972 February 2.

1972 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics recipient.

Awarded 1972 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

1974

1974 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient.

1975

Distinguished speaker session [sound recording], 1975 April 30.

Awarded 1975 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Awarded 1975 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1976

Symposium at the 50th anniversary of quantum mechanics [sound recording], 1976 April 26.

Fellow and Awarded 1976 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Awarded 1976 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

1977

Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters; Chair, Fellowship Committee, Division of Condensed Matter Physics; and Awarded 1977 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

1978

Awarded 1978 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Awarded 1978 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1980

Proton decay and related matters [sound recording] : presented at the American Physical Society Spring Meeting; 1980 April 30.

Chair, Division of Plasma Physics; awarded 1980 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics; and Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters.

Received 1980 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Awarded 1980 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1981

Fellow and Awarded 1981 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Awarded 1981 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1982

Awarded 1982 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Awarded 1982 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.

Awarded 1982 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

1983

Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society [sound recording] : Prize session, 1983 April 19.

Awarded 1983 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Awarded 1983 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

1984

1984 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics Recipient.

Awarded 1984 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1984.

1985

Awarded 1985 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1986

Awarded 1986 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.

1987

High-temperature superconducting materials [sound recording] : press conference, 1987 March 19.

1987 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics Recipient.

Received 1987 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

1988

Awarded 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

1989

Awarded 1989 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

1990

1990 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize recipient.

Awarded 1990 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.

1991

Awarded 1991 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics recipient.

1992

Member, Executive Committee, Astrophysics Division and Awarded 1992 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.

Member, Panel on Public Affairs; Fellow; and awarded 1992 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Awarded 1992 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Awarded 1992 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Awarded 1992 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

1993

In 1993 the society moved its executive offices to the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland.

The records from the 1993 accession (Subgroup II) are additions to the APS records held by the Niels Bohr Library.

Fellow; Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters; and awarded 1993 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1993.

1994

Fellow and received 1994 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Awarded 1994 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

1994 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize recipient.

Proceedings of the 6th Joint EPS-APS International Conference on Physics Computing : Physics Computing '94, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland, 22-26 Augugst 1994 / editors, Ralf Gruber and Marco Tomassini

1995

1995 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics recipient.

Awarded 1995 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

1996

Awarded 1996 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Division Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters and awarded 1996 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Fellow and awarded 1996 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids.

Awarded 1996 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

1997

President; Member, Study on Directed Energy Weapons; Chair, Panel on Public Affairs; Member, Committee on the Applications of Physics; and awarded 1997 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

President and awarded 1997 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.

1997 I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Recipient.

Awarded Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics in 1997.

1998

Received 1998 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Fellow and awarded 1998 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Fellow and awarded 1998 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

1999

In 1999, APS Physics celebrated its centennial with the biggest-ever physics meeting in Atlanta.

2001

History of electronic structure theory in atoms [sound recording], session S3, American Physical Society annual meeting, March 14, 2001, Seattle, Wash.

Awarded 2001 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

2002

The Copenhagen interpretation [videorecording] : science and history on stage, 2002, March 2.

Fellow and 2002 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics recipient.

Awarded 2002 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

Awarded 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

2004

Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics and 2004 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics recipient.

Awarded 2004 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.

Awarded 2004 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

2005

2005 winner of Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize; Member, Governing Board, Biophysics Division; and Chair, Division of Biological Physics.

2006

2006 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics Recipient.

Fellow and Awarded 2006 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

2007

Fellow and awarded 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Fellow and Awarded 2007 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

Fellow and awarded Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2007).

2008

In 2008, it was renamed the Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics.

President and Awarded 2008 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Awarded 2008 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Awarded 2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.

2009

Awarded 2009 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

2010

Vice Chair, Division of Particles and Fields and awarded 2010 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

2010 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient.

Awarded 2010 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

2011

Accelerators for sub-atomic physics: II. present and near future [sound recording], 2011 May 1.

2011 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient.

2012

Entrepreneurship - The Quest for Start-Up Success Based on Research Advances, 2012 March 1.

2013

A History of Physics in Industry [sound recording], 2013 March 20.

Fellow; awarded 2013 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics; and Member, Laser Science Topical Group Advisory Committee.

2014

20th Century Chinese Physicists and Physics [sound recording], 2014 March 6.

2020

The report provides an overview of the Society's activities and achievements in 2020, as well as a summary of financial operations for the year.

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