Radionuclide
Therapy
Physicists and physicians are working together to devise new methods
for exploiting the power of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
and coronary artery disease
— Bert M. Coursey and Ravinder Nath
A Fresh
Look at Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The existence of entropy, and its increase, can be understood
without reference to either statistical mechanics or heat engines
— Elliott H. Lieb and Jakob Yngvason
The Composite
Fermion: A Quantum Particle and Its Quantum Fluids
The fractional quantum-Hall effect and other exotic behaviors
of electrons trapped in two dimensions can be understood in terms
of composite particles—electrons sporting attached flux quanta
— Jainendra K. Jain
Physics
Update
Reference
Frame
Letters
Search
and Discovery
Explorers focus more sharply on their prey: Weakly interacting
dark matter . . . Ultracold neutrons are magnetically trapped
at NIST . . . Magnetic semiconductors enable efficient electrical
spin injection
Washington
Reports
Clinton’s ‘historic’ R&D budget for fiscal
2001 puts Republican Congress in a quandary . . . APS
and AAAS leaders protest ‘inhumane treatment’ of suspected Los
Alamos spy in jail, awaiting trial
Physics
Community
Bell Labs wins long-running patent battle over high-Tc
superconductor . . . UCSC to get grades . . . From quarks to squawks:
Former physicist plays avant-garde sax . . . Ban on nuclear waste
transport eased in Germany . . . Cosmology prize starts with a
bang . . . Strasbourg interdisciplinary institute gets off the
ground . . . Global seismic hazard map unveiled . . . In Brief
. . .Web Watch
Books
Stepping Stones: The Making of Our Home World, S. A. Drury,
The Search for Life on Other Planets, B. Jakosky, and Planetary
Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life beyond Earth, R. Shapiro
(reviewed by A. H. Knoll) . . . Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain
and Ireland, C. Ruggles (reviewed by M. H. Shank) . . . The
Odd Quantum, S. Treiman (reviewed by R. H. March) . . .
Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the Twenty-first
Century, P. Morrison and K. Tsipis (reviewed by W. Happer)
. . . Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, G. Ferry (reviewed by E.
V. Mielczarek) . . . Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes,
J. W. Hardy and Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, edited by
F. Roddier (reviewed by L. Thompson)
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Products
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Obituaries
Robert Rathbun Wilson . . . Richard Latter . . . Barbara Hope
Cooper . . .Charles Edward Swenberg . . . Jan van Paradijs . .
. Klaus Kinder-Geiger . . . Dorothy N. Davis Locanthi
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