Mark Koepke, Robert C. Byrd Professor of Physics in the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy, was chosen as chair-elect of the American Physical Society's subdivision, the Gaseous Electronics Conference.
For Lorimer and McLaughlin, working at Arecibo set off a sequence of events including marriage, children, joining West Virginia University, an out-of-this-world scientific discovery and, now, a prestigious award described as the “Nobel Prize of the East.”
