Walter E. Massey: president-elect of AAAS.

WA ALTER E. Massey began his academic career as a freshman at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1954, after completing the tenth grade in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had never heard ofphysics and had never taken a course in chemistry, trigonometry, or advanced algebra. After 2 weeks, he asked his mother to take him home. Fortunately, his mother did not listen to him, and Massey persevered. With the support from those he terms "faculty mentors," he graduated from Morehouse in 1958 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in physics in 1966 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since then, the career of the presidentelect ofAAAS has been marked by extraordinary accomplishments in science, education, administration, and public service, culminating in his current position at the University of Chicago as professor of physics and vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory. Massey's research has centered around methods of numerically calculating the lowtemperature properties of strongly interacting fluids. As a student ofEugene Feenberg at Washington University, he developed methods of applying correlated basis functions to both liquid and solid 4He and 3He (1). In the early 1970s at Brown University, he extended these methods to calculate propertes ofmixtures of 3He in 4He (2) and surface properties of quantum fluids. Perhaps his most significant work was with Humphrey Maris (3) at Brown; they explained the anomalous attenuation ofsound in superfluid 4He in terms of three phonon interactions. Massey's professional career began as a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory in 1966. Two years later, he became a staffphysicist at the laboratory and subsequently was named to an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois at m -