Number 27 (Story #1), March 28, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS IN THE 1990's. In the 1980's, membership in the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP) doubled; the number of papers delivered at the APS March Meeting (largely concerned with condensed matter) doubled; the number of faculty members and graduate students in condensed matter doubled; and the number of condensed matter papers published in Physical Review doubled; nevertheless, during this same time non-defense funding for materials science research (which overlaps closely with condensed matter physics) remained the same. These statistics come from a report of the DCMP Strategic Planning Committee; the report was summarized at the APS March Meeting held last week in Cincinnati by Michael Schluter (201-582-3106) of AT&T Bell Labs, chairman of the committee.