![]() ![]() Even though the manorial seat has been in the same family for 27 generations, many of the people directly associated with the Castle moved to Virginia bringing profound influence with them to the New World. Gloucestershire’s Berkeley Castle is a location at the heart of change. Cause effects change, and that change, sometimes unseen, is felt for generations. I used to tell my students that history is a giant web. Feasibility of directed-energy weapons and other matters of public policy.ĮRA Boycotts - Council resolved to boycott states that had not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.Īrms Control Resolution - APS Council issued a statement in support of nuclear arms control and was attacked by George Keyworth, science advisor to president Ronald Reagan.Two men with deep connections to Berkeley Plantation – L-R Charles Berkeley (descendant of Richard Berkeley) and Graham Woodlief (descendant of Captain John Woodlief).Panel on Public Affairs - Formed in 1975, POPA has convened panels of experts to study and voice the physicists' viewpoint on: Women's Rights - Committee on the Status of Women in Physics formed. It also initiated the Congressional Fellowship program whereby physicists are placed on Capital Hill in order to offer their technical expertise to members of Congress. ![]() Concerned with the social consequences of physics, the Forum has sponsored programs at APS meetings and created awards in recognition of science policy work. Proposed Amendment on Professional Responsibility - Resolution to change the Society's mission statement to include the phrase "The Society.shall shun those activities which are judged to contribute harmfully to the welfare of mankind." Not passed.įorum on Physics and Society - organized with broad constituency. Peace Breaks Out in BAPS Abstract (Image E) Bombing at University of Wisconsin-Madison - Violence directed at an Army-funded mathematics research center led to the mistaken bombing of the nuclear physics labs. Protest March - During the April APS meeting, SESPA held an orderly march of 250 physicists to the White House to protest the ABM. Radicals called for "Science for the People." (Images B, C)ĪPS-sponsored debate on the anti-ballistic missile system (ABM) with Hans Bethe, Donald Brennan, George Rathjens, and Eugene Wigner at the April meeting. Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action (SESPA) organized by Martin Perl and Charles Schwartz at January APS meeting. ![]() In 1969, the APS Council polled members and upheld its decision to keep the meeting in Chicago. It was defeated by a vote of members, who thought APS should not take a public stand on social issues.ĭebate over the Schwartz amendment led to soul-searching on the social responsibilities of physicists and the APS.Ĭhicago Protest - In the wake of riots and police brutality at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, physicists began to petition the APS not to hold its 1970 meeting there. Schwartz Amendment - In 1967, Charles Schwartz, a nuclear physicist and antiwar activist at Berkeley, petitioned the APS to amend the constitution to allow 1% of members to call for a vote on any social or scientific issue. To Advance and Diffuse the Knowledge of Physics 100 Years of the American Physical Society ![]()
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