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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute.
Norman F. Ramsey, the 1989 Nobel Laureate in Physics and inventor of many highly-influential instruments and techniques, died on Friday, November 4, 2011. Among his other accomplishments, Ramsey's efforts led to the development of the MRI, the atomic clock, and the establishment of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ramsey also served on the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics (1980-86), and as the President of the American Physical Society (1978-79). AIP is honored to have published a portion of Dr. Ramsey’s work.
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100,000th Paper Marks Significant Milestone for AIP Conference Proceedings Series
AIP Publishing announces the publication of the 100,000th paper in its AIP Conference Proceedings series, a watershed event in the program's rich history. The proceedings volume that contains the 100,000th article isThe IX International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum - QCHS-IX. Read the full press release.
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AIP and NIST Make Semiconductor Research Freely Available Online
Through an agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), proceedings papers from the entire International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics (formerly Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology) series are now freely available from both organizations' websites. Read the full press release.
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