Paul & Sons' Links

Paul S. Weiss, cont.

General Science:

Energy conversions and Physical Constants from NIST
Some chemistry links.
Pictorial Periodic Table.
IUPAC, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the international chemistry organization.
The Chemical Industry and related links.
Inventure Place specializes in creativity and inventions and houses the Inventors Hall of Fame.
National Academy of Sciences (US).

More to come.

High School, Younger, or Just Fun Science:

My kids have enjoyed ChemCamp, and my students have helped run it. It has now been reincarnated and expanded to be:
Action Potential Science Camps or Action Potential Page (at PSU Outreach)
Some experiments to try.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum.
A contest for high school students.
Topics at the US Geological Survey Learning Web.

Science and References Related to Our Research:

Atomic- and Molecular-Scale Science

Don Eigler, IBM Almaden. Don's STM Image Gallery.
Gerhard Ertl, also at Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
FOM (the Dutch Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics).
Gas-Surface Dynamics Links.
Bob Hamers, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Klaus Kern, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung (Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research), Stuttgart, Germany.
Max Lagally, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering & Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Liverpool Intersciplinary Research Centre in Surface Science, University of Liverpool, England
The low temperature STM group at Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
Centre for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Nanotechnology Group at the Paul Sherrer Institute
Prof. Mats Perrson, Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Sweden.
Toshi Sakurai, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Miquel Salmeron, STM Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
Gabor Somorjai, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Surface Physics Theory Group, Technical University of Munchen, Germany.
Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Jim Tour, Rice University, Houston, TX
Stan Williams, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA.
John Yates, Jr.Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh.

Manipulation of Matter and Membranes

Evan Evans (UBC Site) or BU Site at the University of British Columbia and Boston University.
Mara Prentiss' Optical Manipulation of Matter Group, Department of Physics, Harvard University.
Optical Tweezers at Umea University

Family and Friends' Links:

My eldest son Walter's Mr. Bisby appears to be gone, but
Walter won a chess championship with his friend John Lesieutre and took second place individually, and
his State College High School Knowledge Masters team won the national championship.
Walter & I are going to Alaska on a Boy Scout backpacking trip.

General Links:

Area Codes and Country Codes
Internet Country Codes
Classics on-line
People Finder

Sports Links (especially favorite teams of mine and my boys):

Centre Soccer Association (I often coach one or both teams on which my boys play.)
The Soccer Home Page.

Brooklyn Dodgers.
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Negro Leagues and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO.

MIT Crew. (I was a coxswain from 1976-1980.)
San Diego Crew Classic. (My boat won this, once upon a time.)

Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.
College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, IN.

Pittsburgh Penguins (official) and related links.
Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Penn State Sports Information and Links.
Penn State Fencing (all three of my boys fence, and train at the Penn State fencing facility)

2 June 2005
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