H. Frederick Dylla will don the mantle as CEO and executive director of the American Institute of Physics on 1 April, after a one-month overlap with Marc Brodsky, who has steered the institute for more than 13 years (see Physics Today, July 2006, page 22). A not-for-profit organization with 450 employees and an annual budget of about $75 million, AIP publishes scientific journals, conference proceedings, and magazines—including Physics Today—and provides a range of services to its 10 member societies, individual scientists, students, the general public, and R&D leaders.
Dylla comes to AIP from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia. Before moving there in 1990, he spent 15 years at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
“At Princeton, Dylla solved the wall problem for the tokamak—he learned how to clean the walls to stabilize them under ion bombardment from the plasma,” says Xerox Corp’s...
