Essay: Bob Siemann and PRST-AB

Martin Blume
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus The American Physical Society

Received 16 November 2008; published 17 December 2008

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120012
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120012
PACS: 01.60.+q

^* Martin Blume is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the American Physical Society and Senior Physicist Emeritus at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He obtained his A. B. degree from Princeton (1954) and his Ph. D. degree in physics from Harvard (1959). He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Tokyo University (1959–1960) and a Research Associate at Harwell, UK (1960–1962). He came to Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1962 where he served in many research and administrative positions, ultimately as Deputy Director of the Laboratory. His research covered many areas in condensed matter and statistical physics, including magnetism, phase transitions, neutron and x-ray scattering, and synchrotron radiation. He was also a Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972–1978).