The APS March Meeting of 1987 - The "Woodstock of Physics"

The figures and press release posted here are associated with the notable March Meeting of the American Physical Society held in New York City in 1987. The chief topic at this meeting were a session devoted to the discovery of cuprate superconductors.

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Front row, left to right: Michael Schluter, Malcolm Beasley (Stanford), unidentified, Morrel Cohen (Chicago). Third row center Philip Anderson (Princeton); far right (silver hair), Paul Grant (IBM)	Alex Muller (IBM) and S. Tanaka (University of Tokyo) at the Woodstock session, 1987
Brian Schwartz (Brooklyn College and APS), center, explains the new superconductivity developments to Paul Raeburn of the Associated Press (to Schwartz's right) and, to Schwartz's left, Edward Edelson of the New York Daily News, Phillip Schewe of AIP, and Dietrick Thomson of Science News	The overflow crowds at the New York Hilton Hotel listening on loudspeakers to the Woodstock session from outside the room
At a science writers seminar on condensed matter physics from left to right: Richard Zallen (Virginia Polytech), Martin Blume (Brookhaven National Lab, later APS editor in chief), and Robert Dynes (Bell Labs, later president of the University of California)	Linus Pauling (formerly of Caltech) at a press conference about quasicrystals
Woodstock press conference, from left to right: Alex Muller (IBM), Paul Chu (University of Houston), Philip Anderson (Princeton), and Brian Maple (UC San Diego)	Neil Ashcroft (Cornell) being interviewed about the Woodstock session

The summary press release of the meeting, prepared by Phillip Schewe of AIP (Click here to download)

Posted February 26, 2007

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