Leon Radziemski joined the Research Corp in Tucson, Arizona, last May as its new program officer. Among his duties, he will be the liaison between the American Physical Society and the company, which funds two APS awards and also funds physics faculty research. Radziemski previously served for 12 years as dean of the College of Sciences at Washington State University.
After 29 years as editor of Astrophysical Journal Letters, Alexan der Dalgarno, Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is retiring from the position. He will be succeeded by Christopher Sneden, the Rex G. Baker Jr Centennial Research Professor in Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. The transition will take place this fall.
Walter L. Brown, who spent more than 50 years with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and its recent spinoff, Agere Systems,...
