Leadership Circle
Recognizing donors for lifetime giving exceeding $100,000
We are grateful to our Leadership Circle members.
Through our Leadership Circle, APS is honored to recognize individuals and organizations who have generously demonstrated their commitment to both APS's future and the physics community.
The Leadership Circle is our opportunity to express gratitude to donors whose lifetime giving has exceeded $100,000, based on our most complete records.
As a membership organization, APS collects dues that cover the cost of member services only. To sustain our vital initiatives advancing physics to benefit humanity, we depend in a large part on contributions from individuals and organizations. The charitable support from our Leadership Circle donors is truly an investment in the future of physics.
Leadership Circle members
$5,000,000+
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$2,000,000 - $4,999,999
- Jay Jones†
- Eucalyptus Foundation
$1,000,000 - $1,999,999
- Kathleen Abbey†
- M. Hildred Blewett†
- Gordon Moore†
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
$500,000 - $999,999
- Anonymous (1)
- Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- IBM Corporation
- the Simons Foundation
$250,000 - $499,999
- Kenton and Amy Brown
- Paul Jenkins†
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Google LLC
- Intel Foundation
- Motorola Foundation
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Xerox Foundation
$100,000 - $249,999
- Anonymous (1)
- Charlotte Marie Anderson†
- John and Elizabeth Armstrong
- Judith Ashcroft
- Fred Blum
- David Braslau
- Robert W. Brown
- Family of Richard L. Greene
- Kate Kirby
- Philippe Meyer†
- Stanford † and Rosa Ovshinsky
- Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert
- Rudy Ruggles
- Myriam Sarachik†
- Robert Stanek† and Mary Stanek
- Kip Thorne
- Virginia Trimble
- Matthias Troyer
- George Valley†
- Rainer Weiss
- 3M Foundation
- AIPP, Journal of Chemical Physics
- American Institute of Physics
- Dow Chemical Company
- Elsevier
- GE Global Research
- Hellman Foundation
- The Kavli Foundation
- Lilienfeld Trust
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- National Science Foundation
- Pearson Education Inc
- Rita Allen Foundation Inc
- Thorlabs
- TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
- United States Department of Energy
- W. Alton Jones Foundation
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Associate Members
$25,000 - $99,999
- Aneesa Baker
- Herbert Berk†
- Beverly Berger
- Sidney Bludman and Ellen Schaffer
- Martin Blume†
- Bert Brown†
- Bernice Buresh
- Ashvin Chhabra
- Steven Chu
- Tobi Delbruck
- Robin Dibner
- Steven Dibner
- Russell Donnelly†
- Ruth Ditzian-Kadanoff
- Robert A. Eisenstein
- Will Fisher
- Paul Forman
- Judy Franz
- Hans Frauenfelder
- Joyce Freedman
- Herbert Friedman†
- Robert Galvin
- T. Geballe†
- Christopher Gould
- Beverly Hartline
- William Hassinger†
- Robert and Patricia Hosken
- Marcia Kadanoff
- H. Kendall
- Young-Kee Kim
- Daniel Kleppner†
- James and Elinor Langer
- David Lee
- Gerry Lenfest
- Chun Lin
- Robert Lourie
- Gregory Meisner
- Cherry Murray
- James Napolitano
- Erol and Julianne S. Oktay
- George Pake†
- John Peoples†
- Stephen Quake
- Brian Schwartz and Teri Black
- John Seo
- Andrew Sessler†
- James Smith
- Herbert Steiner†
- Michiko Tanaka
- John Woolam
- Philip Wyatt
- David Yu
- AIPP, Physics of Fluids
- Applied Materials, Inc.
- Bipartisan Policy Center Inc
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
- DW Gore Family Foundation
- DuPont Corp
- East Bay Community Foundation
- Energy Foundation
- ExxonMobil Corporation
- Ford Motor Company
- Ford Motor Company Fund
- General Atomics
- General Electric Foundation
- General Motors Company
- George E Crouch Foundation
- IEEE Photonics Society
- Julian Schwinger Foundation
- Korean Physical Society
- Lam Research Corporation
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Lucent Technologies Foundation
- M Squared Lasers
- MacArthur Foundation
- Menlo Systems Inc
- Microsoft Corporation
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
- Pearson Royalty Accounting
- Physical Society of Hong Kong
- Solvay
- Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc./Jefferson Lab
- Sprint Foundation
- Stanford University
- The UPS Foundation
- UCLA Foundation
† Deceased
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