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THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists

28 July 1999

President, AAAS
Dr. Stephen Jay Gould
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Dear Professor Gould:

As Chair of the Committee on International Freedom of Scientists of the American Physical Society, it gives me pleasure to express the enthusiastic endorsement of the AAAS Board Statement, "The Universality of Science and Freedom in the Conduct of Science," by the members of the Committee.

The Council of the American Physical Society has adopted its own statement "...on National Security and the Open Conduct of Science," which our Committee has supported. And while we cannot speak for the Society, we note that there are similar expressions of principle and concern in both statements.

We are grateful for the Association's forthright support for open scientific exchange and for the reaffirmation of justice and equity when dealing with issues of national security.

Sincerely yours,

Eugene Chudnovsky Chair, CIFS

cc: Richard Nicholson, AAAS
Jerome Friedman, APS

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