A Leo Szilard Centennial Meeting will be held this month, February 9-10, 1998, in Budapest, Hungary. It is sponsored by the Hungarian Physical Society and Pugwash and endorsed by the APS. A Szilard Centennial session is also scheduled for at the spring APS Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
More information about Leo Szilard may be found at www.peak.org/~danneng/szilard.cfm.
Do you have interesting historic photographs of physicists or meetings? Please send them to: Editor, APS News, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. We will see that they get to the Emilio Segr Visual Archives of the Center for History of Physics Niels Bohr Library.
Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest
The Forum has recently launched an effort to establish a $60,000 endowment to convert the Szilard Award into a lectureship award in which the recipients would receive funds to speak about their work at two or more institutions. The objective of the lectureship format would be to provide exposure for outstanding physicists who have applied their science for the benefit of society and, hopefully, act as positive role models. Those interested in making a donation should send their contribution (payable to APS-Szilard Fund) to: Barbara Levi, 1616 La Vista del Oceano, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.
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