[ RadSafe ] [Fwd: Suggested public name change for APS]

[Muckerheide, James]

> From: Marvin Cohen, APS President
>
> Re: Suggested public name change for APS
>
> At its June meeting, the APS Executive Board strongly endorsed changing
> the public name used by APS from American Physical Society to American
> Physics Society. The reason is simple: the word "physical" means
> several things to the general public, most often not physics. 

 
Of course, 'physic' also means other things to the general public, most often
not physics. :-)
 
 
> causes confusion and uncertainty regarding what kind of organization
> APS is, and dilutes the impact APS can have in representing the physics
> community to the media, the government, and the public at large.
>