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NOMINEE FOR MEMBER AT LARGE
(1st of 4 nominees)

Wade Adams is Chief Scientist, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He received a B.S. in Physics in 1968 from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., a M.S. in Health Physics in 1971 from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in 1984 in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. After six years as an Air Force officer, he joined the civilian research staff of the Air Force Materials Laboratory, where he has worked on rare earth-Cobalt permanent magnet materials, high performance polymers, and optical materials. He was appointed a senior scientist in 1995, and Chief Scientist in 1996, where he is responsible for technical leadership for the 500-person in-house research program. He has conducted research primarily in polymer physics, concentrating on structure-property relations in high-performance organic materials, especially high performance rigid-rod polymer fibers, X-ray scattering studies of fibers and liquid crystalline films, polymer dispersed liquid crystals, and theoretical studies of ultimate polymer properties. He has authored more than 175 refereed publications, including two edited books and two patents. He was elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 and is an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow. He was given the 1997 International Research Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He has contributed widely to the professional community through numerous committee offices, organizing and chairing symposia and conferences, and serving on advisory, review and editorial boards.

Dr. Adams is looking forward to actively contributing to the organization and implementation of continued high quality FIAP programs. If elected to Member-at-Large, he will seek to continue to build stronger bridges between the industrial physics community, academia and the government research laboratories, all of whom are more than ever interested in applied physics.

NOMINEE FOR MEMBER AT LARGE
(2nd of 4 nominees)

 JOANNA L. BATSTONE (IBM)

Joanna L. Batstone is a Research Staff Member in the Services, Applications and Solutions Department at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. She received a B.Sc. in Chemical Physics ('82) and a Ph.D. in Physics ('85) from the University of Bristol, UK, which were followed by postdoctoral work ('85-'87) at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ, and a Lectureship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool, UK ('88-'89), before joining IBM in 1989.

Batstone's research interests in physics were focused on the structural and electronic properties of defects in semiconductors and epitaxial thin films, utilizing the techniques of cathodoluminescence, high resolution electron microscopy, and in-situ transmission electron microscopy. This work resulted in the identification of optically active dislocations in II-VI semiconductors, determination of atomic structures at metal/semiconductor and insulator/semiconductor interfaces, and direct observations of step formation and propagation during silicide-mediated amorphous to crystalline silicon phase transformations. More recently, Batstone's research has moved from the discipline of physics to that of computer science where her focus has been on identifying novel business opportunities for technology solutions in the marketplace. Her background in physics and technical training, though not directly applicable to her current research subject matter, have been tremendously valuable in this new field. She has been engaged in a variety of electronic commerce applications including automobile financing and insurance via the internet, on-line catalog creation and distribution, and development of line of business purchasing functionality.

She has co-authored over 80 papers, and has organized and chaired many symposia at technical conferences including a DMP focused session at the '92 American Physical Society March Meeting. She was a Director of the Microbeam Analysis Society ('93-'95). She received the '89 Cosslett Award from the Microbeam Analysis Society, '91 Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society and the '95 Burton Award from the Microscopy Society of America. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the Microscopy Society of America Bulletin and the Journal of Microscopy.

She has been a member of APS for 12 years.

The Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics has had great success in uniting a diverse community of practicing physicists and engineers. Nonetheless, a large community of physics-trained professionals exists in industry which is still disconnected from the activities of FIAP and APS. If elected, I would seek to strengthen ties between FIAP and my colleagues in industry, particularly those whose careers have lead them away from mainstream physics. To do this, we must understand how FIAP can help shape professional career development by providing networking opportunities in our community; I would endeavor to establish a mentoring program for physicists at all stages of their careers and I would seek to strengthen the ties between FIAP, CSWP and DMP to provide a support organization of relevance to industrial scientists.

ROBERT BROWN (CASE WESTERN)

Robert Brown is presently Institute Professor at Case Western Reserve University, and on its physics faculty since 1970, following a Minnesota BS and an MIT Ph.D. He has had visiting appointments at Brookhaven, SUNY at Stony Brook, Fermilab, and Washington University at St. Louis, with membership in the APS (and FIAP) and the Society of Magnetic Resonance. Bob's applied research has been funded by industry for 18 years, providing industrial apprenticeships, educating industrial physicists (including 7 out of 12 Ph.D.s under his advisory), with 20 patents held collectively by his students and him. The principal areas are MRI, EM coil design, nonlinear dynamics, and electrical sensors. He has lectured often on industrial/academic collaborations and apprenticeships (most recently at the 1999 OAPS Spring Meeting in Kettering). His earlier basic research was supported by the NSF for 20 years, including REU awards for 26 undergraduates, 13 published papers in which the students were authors or coauthors, and 12 NSF graduate fellowships. Overall, he has more than 100 papers and abstracts, and recently coauthored an imaging book as an outgrowth of two decades of industrial MRI work. Bob has taught 27 different courses, received two teaching awards plus a DOE UCES award in 1997, and was active in developing both a new engineering physics degree program and an entrepreneur seminar series. The electronic environment existing in Bob's classes since 1988 is described in Sheila Tobias' book on new teaching programs, and in periodicals such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has led to lectures in national and international venues, such as two APS conference presentations and a National Inventors Hall of Fame keynote address. Lastly, and not at all least, Bob has just finished relearning science and mathematics courses in the 7th-9th grades along with his youngest daughter, who also used an industrial physics device for her latest science fair project.

My research and mentoring experience in applied physics is now strongly reflected by several beliefs. I believe industrial physics has taken the central position in career choices, I believe industrial/academic collaborations can be developed much more broadly than they have, and I believe applied physicists can play a bigger role in college, secondary, and, especially, elementary education. As for the first belief, it has been gratifying to see the growing response by the industrial physics community, the APS, and the AIP, in assisting our college graduates and postgraduates in their careers. The second belief is in the sizable rewards accruing to academic and industrial physicists collaborating in the business world. I am convinced that the very positive job market we have found for the students in our industrial problem solving group at CWRU is not at all anomalous. My list of the FIAP tasks ahead starts with assessments of the industrial job market for the 1999 graduates, and of the effectiveness of our efforts so far in trying to improve the image of the physicist in the eyes of certain industrial employers. I wish to find ways such as marketing modules and orientation seminars to stimulate new collaborations, on a national scale, among academic and industrial physicists. And I want to learn how we can provide input for the many efforts we see around us to improve elementary physics education. Practical and interesting examples are desperately needed for the young student's first introduction to science and mathematics. Drawing from my daughter's experiences, which we see repeated all over our country, the image the public has of physicists begins not with industrial employers, or even university students, but with our children in the earliest grades. With these thoughts, I am grateful for the chance to run for election to be a `Member at Large.'

STEFAN ZOLLNER (MOTOROLA)

Stefan Zollner is an analytical engineer at Motorola's Process and Materials Characterization Lab in Mesa, AZ. He joined Motorola in 1997 after five years as Assistant Professor at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory in Ames, IA. From 1991-1992, he was at the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights. He received a Ph.D. in 1991 from the Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany, with Prof. Cardona. He spent 1984/85 as a Fulbright student at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

He has been an APS/MRS member since 1985/1995. His research has received funding from NSF, DOE, and NASA, has been documented in over 70 publications, and has been presented in many contributed and invited talks at conferences. He has chaired and organized several sessions, including a FIAP focused session at the centennial meeting.

Stefan Zollner's primary objective at Motorola is to reduce cost and cycle time in the development of new semiconductor technology for wireless and transportation applications. He achieves this objective by leveraging his expertise in condensed matter physics to characterize advanced materials and processes using spectroscopic ellipsometry, x-ray diffraction, and FTIR spectroscopy and by applying his results to the development of new products. He also gets involved with metrology in manufacturing and develops advanced analytical methods, in part by technology transfer from collaborators at universities, research institutions, and small companies. His research has focussed on the optical properties of semiconductors, including ultrafast laser spectroscopy, electron-phonon interactions, alloy scattering, and spectroscopic ellipsometry. At Motorola, he has mostly worked on SiC, III/V nitrides, and group-IV alloys. He is co-editor of a book on SiGeC alloys. In collaboration with the University of Nebraska, he has applied the new technique of FTIR ellipsometry to wide band-gap semiconductors and semiconductor-on-insulator films. At Iowa State University, his teaching focussed on the physics instruction of first-year engineering students.

APS mostly serves its members through meetings and publications. As a member-at-large, I would aim to make the meetings more attractive to industrial physicists in industry and at universities and research labs. This can be achieved by sponsoring invited and focussed sessions with applied topics, for example metrology, new materials, and device applications, and with tutorials in industrial areas (something the American Vacuum Society does well). I would also identify highly qualified individuals in industry as session chairs at APS meetings (a group often overlooked) and as reviewers for APS journals. These activities would also inform physicists at universities about current trends in industrial and applied physics, improving their knowledge about employment opportunities in industry.

BERNARDO JADUSZLIWER

Bernardo Jaduszliwer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1968 as a Licenciado en Ciencias Fisicas. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his MSc in 1970 and his PhD in 1973. His thesis work, done under the direction of Prof. Derek Paul, was on low energy positron scattering by the noble gases. After a year of postdoctoral work in Toronto, he joined Ben Bederson's Atomic Beams Laboratory at New York University as an Associate Research Scientist. In 1978 he was appointed as an Assistant Research Professor, and in 1981 was promoted to Associate Research Professor. During those years he conducted research on electron scattering by ground and excited state atoms and molecules, with particular focus on spin effects in electron-atom collisions. His research interests also included the measurement of atomic and molecular electric polarizabilities, as well as optical manipulation of atomic beams.

Dr. Jaduszliwer joined the Aerospace Corporation as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1985, and in 1987 was promoted to Research Scientist. His work at Aerospace was initially focused on atomic clocks and their application to military satellite systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Milstar. In 1993 he became a Section Manager, and in 1996 was promoted to Director of the Photonics Technology department. The Department is large (26 scientists and engineers), and covers a very broad range of activities: laser remote sensing (lidar), laser illumination of orbiting satellites, development of lasers for specialized applications, radiation effects on electro-optical and microelectronic devices, optical communications, fiber optic sensors, and, of course, atomic clocks. His current research interests are in the areas of laser-pumped and laser-cooled atomic frequency standards, fiber optic chemical sensors, and the application of fiber optic Bragg gratings as vibration and strain sensors in space platforms.

Dr. Jaduszliwer has published more than thirty papers. He is a member of the APS (DAMOP, FIAP, GIMS, FPS) and the IEEE. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Scientific Instruments and an Editorial Consultant to the Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, and he is a standing member of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium Program Committee. Dr. Jaduszliwer enjoys teaching, and occasionally indulges himself by teaching a Physics course at the University of Southern California Physics Department.

Roughly speaking, I have spent the first half of my professional life working in the academic environment, and the second half working for The Aerospace Corporation, first as a staff scientist and then as a manager. Aerospace is a non-profit institution, with its own peculiar culture, but my work there has also put me in close contact with scientists and engineers working for Government contractors, both large and small, or working in acquisition for the Government. Thus, I have had the opportunity to view many problems from several different angles, and I have become reasonably well acquainted with the needs and wants of a very broad segment of the Physics community in the US. That breadth of outlook should serve me well if I were elected to the Councilor position.

There are some issues that are clear enough to let me start working immediately. Heightening the profile of the Forum within the APS, and campaigning to increase the visibility of the world of industrial and applied physics within the academic community are two such issues. Some questions that require further thought can also be posed: is there anything FIAP can do to facilitate the development of joint academic-industrial projects? Is there a role that FIAP could play in strengthening the teaching of physics and other technical disciplines in the community colleges in which we recruit technicians? But there is no question that my first few months in the Councilor position would be spent climbing a steep learning curve, and my main commitment at this time is to face that climb with a fully open mind.

DONALD WIFF (WPAFB)

 My background is typical of a lot of physicists. Stereotypically one thinks of a physicist receiving his/her Ph.D., taking a two year post-doctoral position with a close associate of his/her advisor and then being hired in a University Physics Department where you can train other physicists to carry on your work. This may be the stereotype, but it didn't work for me. I will admit up front, I wouldn't change my education if I had a chance. I'd still be a physicist.

After receiving my BS in physics, I was interviewed by several companies which said I would eventually make a good engineer. I do respect engineers, chemists, biologists, etc., but I wanted to be a physicist. Therefore I went on the graduate school at the encouragement of my major professor. Here I did an experimental research project, looking at the fine structure at x-ray absorption edges. Again, after interviewing, I was encouraged to go on for the PhD degree. In graduate school I took every physics and mathematics course available. The Head of the Physics Department said I should focus on a specific area of physics. My committee said go ahead and take all the mathematics, relativity, high energy physics, fluid mechanics, stress analysis, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and statistics I desired. As it turned out my PhD advisor was a group theory mathematician and I ended up happily calculating electronic energy bands for semiconductors which required complex number irreducible representations. I was scheduled to go for a post-doctoral position at Los Alamos (1966), when all NRC post-doctorals were cancelled do to funding cut-backs. By 1970 even engineers were unemployed. Luckily I found a position in polymer science working on mathematically ill-posed problems and had the opportunity to learn polymer science. People were patient and very helpful. Essentially I received an on-the-job PhD training. I did this for several years and was promoted to a management position. Here I decided to obtain an MBA degree so I could manage effectively and still do research, especially computational. After twenty years working on Air Force contracts, I went to industry to head a corporate polymer research group. It was challenging and fun. However, after eleven years they closed the Corporate Research Center. Fortunately I obtained another position, starting a new research effort in materials and manufacturing of microdevices for Air Force applications. Today, MEMS is the word. I still enjoy going to work and love the challenges posed in trying to control the nanoworld (self Assembled Molecular Systems) to establish the microworld which will effectively control the macroworld..

If elected to Councilor of the APS Executive Committee to represent the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP), I'll do my best to represent the broad spectrum of physicists. One of the changes that needs to be made is to have the APS Division officers be represented by a broader spectrum of physicist activities (high energy, polymer, biopolymer, crystallographers, plasma, economists using chaos theory, etc.). If elected I'll try to inform FIAP members of the opportunities they have to make a difference in our professional society activities.

STUART WOLF (DARPA)

 Stu Wolf is currently both a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a Senior Consultant for Materials at the Naval Research Laboratory. At DARPA he has conceived and initiated several projects on functional materials that have the goal of pushing the frontiers of materials science for electronics. These programs include: 1) "Spintronics" whose near term goal is he development of non-volatile, high density, high speed magnetic memory, 2) Frequency Agile Materials for Electronics (FAME) aimed at significantly improving the performance of tuned filters, antennas and oscillators using the properties of ferroelectrics, ferrites and MEMs capacitors, 3) Advanced Thermoelectric Materials (ATM) targeted at improving the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, from one, where it has been for the last thirty years to over three, in which case thermoelecrics will be competitive with phase change devices and 4) Advanced Magnets for Power Systems (AMPS) geared to develop high performance permanent magnets both hard and soft for various DOD and commercial power applications.

At NRL, I am a principal consultant to the Materials Science and Technology Division and am responsible for initiating new programs and managing several of the projects that are supported by outside agencies. Until January of this year, I was the head of the Materials Physics Branch, which had vigorous programs in superconductivity, magnetism, non-linear properties of materials and electronic transport.

I have an AB from Columbia College (64) and an MS (66) and PhD (69) from Rutgers University. I was a Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University (70-73) and a Visiting Scholar at UCLA (81-82). I am a Fellow of the APS (84), and was a Divisional Councilor for the Condensed Matter Division (90-91). I have received several awards at NRL for my scientific contributions.

It is very important for the APS to be a bridge between the academic and industrial physics communities. Although the APS has been effective in working with big industry, small companies can definitely benefit by establishing alliances with the rest of the research community. In fact, much of the research performed in academia should be of interest to the industrial community. The APS can provide the vital service of educating both communities to the benefits of cooperation and collaboration. In all of my DARPA projects, I have insured that teams of scientists from industry, academia and government laboratories work together to solve the problems that are encountered when developing and transitioning new technologies. I think that several small workshops a year for local industry and academia sponsored by FIAP, and which are outside of the normal APS meeting channels can help establish, and maintain these alliances. I believe these alliances are very important for technology to continue to develop at the rapid rate it has for the last 30 years.

 Dr. Arthur Davidson earned a B.S. in physics from MIT in 1970, and got his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard in 1976. He has published over 70 papers in refereed journals, and holds 4 patents on solid state devices and cryogenic electronics. He worked in all areas of cryoelectronics during 17 years as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In 1985 he spent half a year as a guest professor at the Technical University of Denmark, where he led the group creating and measuring trapped solitons in annular Josephson junctions. He joined the cryoelectronics group at the Westinghouse Science and Technology Center in 1992. At Westinghouse STC, which became Northrop Grumman in 1996, he has continued his activities in cryoelectronics supporting radar applications, including the study of flux flow devices, low power semiconductors, LTCC packaging, and microwave devices,. He is presently program manager for a DARPA program to explore high performance CMOS electronics operating at a quarter volt. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Society for Quality. He was a member of the Board of The Applied Superconductivity Conference between 1988 and 1996, serving as Program Chairman for the 1996 conference. He is a founding member and Vice President of CoREM, the Council on Realizing Excellence in Management, a non-profit educational corporation based in Pittsburgh. He has lectured at several universities on What the Technical Student Needs to Know About American Corporate Culture as part of the FIAP Speakers List program, emphasizing the lessons of Deming's red bead experiment.

I seek to help lead the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics because I anticipate an enormous contribution from physicists to business. I am not talking about developing new technology for business to exploit. Of course we will do that. I am talking about using people trained in physics to lead enterprises, large and small. I believe there is no one better to run a group, department, division, or business, any business, than an applied physicist. There are many examples of this in our recent history, but I believe that physicists can be much more visible in corporate leadership and board rooms than we are today, and businesses started or run by physicists could be more numerous and successful.

The men and women who lead enterprises view our traditional contributions as important, but they view physicists as basically uninterested in corporate reality. We physicists all too often are happy to let this view prevail, when in fact we have the ability to discuss business plans critically at any level. We should take our destiny in our own hands, and learn, every one of us, to communicate directly with corporate leaders.

I believe that a well-educated practicing physicist should have studied economics and management enough to know how to communicate with marketing and financial people, and to have an idea of how to lead an enterprise toward a goal. To help accomplish this I would organize FIAP meetings to bring in experts at the cutting edge in management theory, human resource issues, leadership, American corporate culture, and venture capital. I believe we also need seminars and forums for academic physicists to consider how best to reconcile this broader view of applied physics with the traditional curriculum.

It is not enough to put physics in the enterprise. We must put more of the enterprise into physicists.

KEITH JACKSON (LBL)

Dr. Jackson was born in Columbus Ohio. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia. At Morehouse he joined the Dual Degree program which had been established with the Georgia institute of Technology. After successfully graduating from both universities, Dr. Jackson was admitted to the Ph. D. program in the physics department of Stanford University. While at Stanford his thesis research was performed under the direction of Dr. Richard N. Zare. His work was primarily in the area of molecular dynamics and photo-dissociation. This work required the use of rare gas excimer lasers and synchrotron radiation as excitation sources in the vacuum ultraviolet.

After his graduate work was completed, Dr. Jackson joined the staff of Hewlett Packard Laboratories. At Hewlett Packard as a member of the Gate Dielectric group, he has been involved with the development of Silicon Nitride ( Si3 N4 ) as a potential gate insulator in NMOS, and CMOS technologies. His job was to develop the necessary processing techniques required to fabricate thin nitride films on silicon substrates. This included the use of thermal, plasma, and laser based chemical vapor deposition, to grow silicon nitride. The characterization of these films required the use of Auger, SIMS, and IR spectroscopy.

Dr. Jackson joined the faculty of Howard University September 2, 1983. As a member of the Solid State Electronics group he is involved in both advanced materials development, and characterization. This includes the growth and analysis of single crystal silicon carbide, GaAs/AlGaAs layers,and high purity VPE GaAs using Auger electron spectroscopy.

On July 27, 1988 Dr. Jackson became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International. At Rocketdyne he established a facility for the growth and characterization of polycrystalline diamond thin films. Currently Dr. Jackson is Associate Director of the Center for X-ray Optics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He has held that position since March 1, 1992. His research interests include Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, synchrotron radiation research , and the fabrication of high aspect ratio microstructures using deep etch X-ray lithography.

Physics is facing the scientific, technical, and political challenges of the new millennium. During the hundred years that have elapsed since the founding of the AIP/APS, physics has gone through crucial transitions. Let's look back in history for just a moment. In the early years of the APS, physics was practiced almost exclusively within the comfortable confines of four-year colleges and universities. The departments were small, and access to high-quality graduate education was limited to older and more established European universities and institutes. At this point in the development of physics in the United States, there were little if any federal monies used to fund research. The presence of physicists in industry at that time was also small. There were, however, first-class laboratories operated by the Edison Company, General Electric, Henry Ford, and of course Bell Laboratories.

During and after World War II, with the success of the Manhattan Project and of technological developments such as radar, sonar, jet propulsion and rocketry, the military value of science and technology in general and of physics in particular was clear to every eye. The government invested in the universities, which contributed to the war effort directly, and to individuals indirectly in the form of academic research grants. Without a doubt, physics as an academic discipline grew in size and influence during this period. In industry, physicists have developed new business enterprises (or markets) such as nuclear power, semiconductors, magnetic recording and photonics.

Entering the next millennium as a profession, we face new challenges. The Cold War has ended. The technology for which we developed the basic science has been taken over by electrical engineers and other technical professionals. The National Laboratories responsible for weapon design and production have lost their basic mission, and industry has largely abandoned the basic research enterprise. As we all know basic research is a competitive arena, and physics has spawned some awesome competitors, such as the fields of information technology and biotechnology. These new disciplines compete for research dollars, and they form the bases for new commercial markets.

I have stated somewhat broadly what I am sure most of you are well aware of. Now, what would I do as Vice-chair of the Forum of Physics in Industry? I would:

• Increase the number of members in the Forum and push for recognition as a full-fledged division
• To the greatest extent possible, broaden the opportunities for physicists in industry as mid- to upper-level managers in manufacturing and in high tech companies
• Attempt to broaden the opportunities for mid-career physicists some concrete actions would be:

- Seminar series on how to start your own company.

- Insurance for COBRA coverage to ensure that downsized or laid-off colleagues have access to health insurance

- AIP/APS job postings for mid-career physicists

- Project management training

- Certification or qualification in current programming languages

- Recommendation on access to relocation services and information

- Database of contract consulting companies which require services of physicists

- Job board for Europe, Far East, etc.

I firmly believe the greatest opportunities for physicists are in the industrial sector. I would like to state that my focus would be on the needs of the mid-career physicist in industry. In closing, the mid-career physicist faces difficult challenges in the new millennium. In order to insure continued development in the chosen profession of Physics will require not only technical knowledge but also a professional network capable of responding to global opportunities.

Gordon Thomas (Bell Labs, Lucent Technology)

Gordon Thomas (Brown, Sc.B., physics, 1965; University of Rochester, Ph.D., physics, 1972) has been a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (now a division of Lucent Technologies) since 1972, except for extended visits on the faculty at Harvard University (1977, 1985-86) and the University of Tokyo (1981). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is currently working on a mixture of basic and applied research. He has published more than 125 papers, primarily on basic, experimental physics, in a range of fields including superconductivity, the metal-insulator transition and semiconductors, with an emphasis on optical spectroscopy. His collaborators in this work include about 30 people who are now university Professors. He has supervised 2 Ph.D. thesis students and several post-doctoral researchers. He also is an inventor or co-inventor of 10 patents in areas of communications technology and has recently played a leadership role in the development of a new product to identify materials with an electronic eye. He has been a lecturer at summer schools in St. Andrews, Scotland (1986, 1991) and Trieste, Italy (1994). He has given a substantial number of other talks at scientific and public meetings, schools, and universities and has organized or chaired several symposia and conferences (including Gordon Conferences, of course).

The most important task facing the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics today is to foster, with increasing effectiveness, an awareness of the intrinsic connections between what are often mistakenly seen as the disconnected areas of basic science and technology. Louis Pasteur had the right idea when he wrote in 1871, "science and the applications of science, [are] bound together as the fruit to the tree which bears it." However, in our own time, many do not recognize the benefits that can flow from the interrelations between these two areas. The FIAP should work to help members of the academic community find new ways in which they can productively collaborate with industry and to educate government and the general public about new values of academic-industrial collaborations.

Most of my own career has consisted of pursuing basic physics research in an industrial context. As my knowledge of physics has deepened, I have also become increasingly conscious of the broad picture in which applied physics plays its part. For example, I recently organized a session for the Atlanta APS meeting on New Communications Systems. The purpose of the session was to explain to physicists where communications technology is going, what role basic physics plays in this process, and, by implication, how one might choose relevant topics for teaching and research.

I would like to see the FIAP continue its important current activity of arranging such sessions. In addition, I suggest that the FIAP should increasingly provide press releases to the print media, expand information available on the internet, and make use of television. In the current funding situation for university research, it is especially useful for academic and industrial scientists to bridge the gulf that sometimes divides them and to work together to educate and inform government and the public.

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