Newswise — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has appointed Philip ("Bo") Hammer its new Associate Vice President of Physics Resources, a position he will fill beginning on May 17, 2010.
Dr. Hammer comes to AIP from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) where he has been Associate Executive Officer. Previously, he served for eight years as Vice President for the Franklin Center at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Hammer has also worked for AIP before. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Director of the Society of Physics Students and assistant manager of AIP's education division. Prior to that, he was the assistant to the executive director and CEO of AIP.
In his new role at AIP, Hammer joins the Physics Resources Center, which serves the public and the scientific community through educational programs, media and government relations, AIP's Physics Today magazine, statistical research, a history center and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives. He will help manage these programs as well as oversee AIP’s Industrial Outreach and development programs.
"We are excited to welcome Dr. Hammer to the Institute, where he will take a leadership role serving the broad physics community and helping to advance physics as a discipline and a profession," says Catherine O’Riordan, AIP Vice President, Physics Resources.
Hammer currently serves on the Council and Executive Board of the American Physical Society (APS). He was an APS Congressional Fellow during 1993-94 and has served on numerous APS committees and units, including the Forum on Physics and Society (serving as chair), the Committee on Informing the Public (as chair), and the Prizes and Awards Committee (chair). Hammer also served on the Haddon Heights, NJ Board of Education from 2003-09 and was Board President from 2007-09.
He received the Outstanding Service Commendation of The Franklin Institute’s Committee on Science and Arts in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in San Jose, CA, Hammer holds a B.S. in Physics from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, and he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Silver Spring, MD.
ABOUT AIPThe American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in scholarly journal publishing. AIP publishes 12 journals (some of which are the most highly cited in their respective fields); two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers.
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