April 2, 1999
A Centennial Celebration of Physics Brings Out the Discipline's Human Side
Abandoning their somewhat stodgy image, physical society's scientists show they also want to have some fun
When more than 10,000 physicists arrived here last week for the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society -- an event billed as the largest gathering of physicists in history -- they not only sold out the rooms in every major hotel in town.
They also showed the public that the practitioners of their discipline are
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