How Antimatter Became a Plaything of Science Fiction
William S. Higgins, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
CAS was honored to have  William S. (Bill)  Higgins, a radiation safety physicist
from the Fermi Accelerator Lab, as the featured speaker at the December  general meeting.
Bill Higgins brought together the theoretical and experimental history of anti-matter
and the Science Fiction stories that followed from the enormous energy potential of
matter/anti matter interactions.  From physicist Paul Dirac to Sci-Fi authors,
Isaac Azimov, Jack Campbell, Robert Heinlein and Jack Williamson, Higgins traced the
physical history of anti-matter in the 1920s and 1950s through 1920s/2010s science fiction
in popular magazines such as Amazing Science Fiction and films such as Arthur Clark’s 2001.

CAS members and guests were glad they dismissed the cold and snow to attend the meeting.
Higgins followed up on his talk by joining a dozen members at Connie’s for pizza after the
meeting where he elaborated on some of the science and the fiction covered in his talk

Partial list of people present at the Dec 10. 2010 CAS general meeting:
William S. Higgins, Fabian Sefcovic, Hugh Brauer, Carver Thomason,
Roger A Brown, Roger's wife, Dan Joyce, steve szyman, Richard Neuhaus,
Marge Mayer, Jerry Robuck, Joe Mayer, Audrey Fischer,
Corrine Jembrzycki ,Eileen Wild