How APS Meetings Grew

100 Years of the American Physical Society

To Advance and Diffuse the Knowledge of Physics will be on exhibit in its entirety at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland, through the end of 1999. Visitors are welcome.

Changing Faces of Meetings

1893: Chicago, International Electrical Congress, a precursor to the APS. 
1916: Washington, DC, National Bureau of Standards. 1937: Washington DC, Banquet 
1949: Harvard, APS 50th Anniversary 1957: St. Louis, Banquet.
1986: Las Vegas, Physicists in Town,
Lowest Casino Take Ever    1987: New York City
 

1999: Centennial Celebration

Curator: Sara Schechner Genuth
Gnomon Research Exhibit Director: Barrett Ripin APS History: Harry Lustig Journals History: R. Mark Wilson Researchers: George Trigg
Ruth Kastner
Steven Norton
Amy Halsted Exhibit Design: Puches Design Inc. Fabrication: Malone Displays