At the conclusion of the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting held last month in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Harvey S. Leff took office as vice president for 2005, succeeding Kenneth Heller; Richard Peterson is the society’s current president (see Physics Today, February 2004, page 73; February 2003, page 72). Leff will serve as president-elect in 2006, president in 2007, and past president in 2008.
Professor emeritus of physics at Caltech, Leff has been a member of the physics department there since 1983, and was department chair from 1983 until 1995. He began his physics career in 1963 as a postdoctoral research associate and professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1971 to 1979, he chaired Chicago State University’s department of physical sciences, and during that time he spent a year as a visiting professor at Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering in Claremont,...
