Andrew A. Marino, Ph.D.

The press release was approved by 97% of the members of the Council of the American Physical Society that were present and voting. The members of the Council were:

C. Kumar N. Patel, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (President);
Robert Schrieffer, Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL;
D. Allan Bromley, Write Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT;
Burton Richter, Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA;
Judy R. Franz, American Physical Society, College Park, MD;
Harry Lustig, American Physical Society, College Park, MD;
Benjamin Baderson, Department of Physics, New York Univeristy, New York, NY;
James S. Langer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;
David Bodansky, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:

Allen M. Goldman, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;
Shirley Jackson, Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;
Lu J. Sham, Institute of Pure & Applied Physical Science, University of California, San Diego, CA;
Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM;

CHEMICAL PHYSICS:

R. Stephen Berry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;

FLUID DYNAMICS:

Guenter Ahlers, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;

HIGH POLYMER:

Andrew J. Lovinger, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ;

MATERIALS PHYSICS:

Bill R. Appleton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS:

Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;
Peter Paul, Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY;

PHYSICS OF BEAMS:

Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA;

PARTICLES & FIELDS:

Henry J. Frisch, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;
Anne Kernan, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA;

PLASMA PHYSICS:

Roy Gould, Caltech, Pasadena, CA;

PHYSICS & SOCIETY:

Barbara Lefi, Physics Today, Santa Barbara, CA;
Albert Wattenberg, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
Ernest M. Henley, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;

EDUCATION:

James J. Wynne, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY;

GENERAL COUNCILLORS:

Kevin Aylesworth, Cambridge, MA;
Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, Stanford, CA;
Virginia R. Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA;
Jolie A. Cizewski, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;
Jennifer Cohen, Shippensburg, PA;
Charles B. Duke, Xerox Webster Research Center, Webster, NY;
Elsa Garmine, Center for Laser Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
Jerry P. Gollub, Department of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, PA;
Larua H. Greene, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
William Happer, Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;
Wick C. Haxton, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
Anthony M. Johnson, Department of Physics, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ;
Miles Klein, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
Zachary Levine, Gaithersburg, MD;
Barbara A. Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA;

ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & OPTICAL PHYSICS:

Joseph L. Dehmer, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL;
Gordon Dunn, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;

ASTROPHYSICS:

Frank C. Jones, Lab for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD;

BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS:

Watt W. Webb, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.