Friends of the Center for History of Physics

Dallas

Very special thanks to Fred Bucy for making the Texas trip happen. Those who attended his luncheon were Narayan Bhat, Malcolm Brachman, Robert Doering, Edward Esposito, Karen Johnson, Jack Kilby, and William Skinner.

Houston Paul C.W. Chu

Norman Hackerman

L-R: Neal Lane

Lloyd S. Swenson

Friends in Texas

Spencer Weart was recently invited to give luncheon presentations in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, telling Friends of the Center and others about our activities. The first stop was in Houston, where Neal Lane, now Senior Fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, introduced Spencer by remarking on the need to keep the public informed about science issues and to encourage physics education. Fred Bucy, the retired President of Texas Instruments, hosted the lunch in Dallas, where he commented on the need to set straight the record of physics in our time. Our last lunch was in Austin, where a group of physicists, historians, and archivists from the University of Texas discussed the problems of preserving historical materials.

Austin

L-R: Bryce DeWitt, Spencer Weart, Steve Weinberg, Winnie Schild, William Muehlberger, and Cecile DeWitt.

L-R: Bruce J. Hunt, Austin Gleeson, Roy F. Schwitters, and     Alison Beck.

Houston

L-R: Manik Talwani, Barry F. Dunning, and Spencer Weart.

L-R: Thomas R. William, Dick Dickerson, John Zammito, and     Albert Van Helden.

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