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Peter Collings
Swarthmore College
Department of Physics and Astronomy
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397

Antal Jakli
Kent State University
Liquid Crystal Institute
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001

Young Jin Kim
Pennsylvania State University
Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering
University Park, PA 16802

Robert B. Meyer
Brandeis University
Physics Department
MS 057
Waltham, MA 02454-9110

Jay S. Patel
Pennsylvania State University
Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering
University Park, PA 16802-6301

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 14, October 2, 1999, p. 215. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.