Career
Opportunities in Optics
Demand for ever faster data transmission is fueling rapid advances
in fiber optic communications and a frenzied search for personnel
trained in optics
— Anthony M. Johnson and C. Breck Hitz
Modern
Classical Physics Through the Work of G. I. Taylor
One scientist’s work provides material for an entire course, covering
topics ranging from hydrodynamic stability and turbulence to electrohydrodynamics
and the locomotion of small organisms
— Michael P. Brenner and Howard A. Stone
Andrei
Sakharov and the Nuclear Danger
A decade after Sakharov’s death, his guidance remains relevant
to the nuclear perils we face in today’s post–cold war world
— Sidney D. Drell
Physics
Update
Letters
Search
and Discovery
Novel composite medium exhibits reversed electromagnetic properties
. . . Chandra probes deeper into the mystery of the x-ray background
. . . Have heavy ion collisions at CERN reached the quark–gluon
plasma? . . . The quantum Hall effect—in pentacene?
San Francisco
is the Site of CLEO/QELS 2000
Washington
Reports
Goldin’s ‘faster, cheaper, better’ approach still valid after
NASA’s failures in Mars missions . . . Clinton’s
one-day visit to India’s Silicon Valley leads to science and technology
collaborations . . . Engineers proclaim top achievements of
20th century, but neglect attributing feats to roots in physics
Physics
Community
Bohr–Heisenberg symposium marks Broadway opening of Copenhagen
. . . UK ends site stalemate by sending synchrotron south . .
. French science minister fired . . . Dyson gets religion prize
. . . In Brief
Books
The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 3: Supersymmetry, S.
Weinberg (reviewed by F. Wilczek) . . . Cosmological Physics,
J. A. Peacock (reviewed by L. M. Krauss) . . . Quantum Generations:
A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century, H. Kragh (reviewed
by L. M. Brown) . . . Introduction to Superconducting Circuits,
A. M. Kadin (reviewed by H. Kroemer) . . . Einstein’s German
World, F. Stern (reviewed by H. Rechenberg) . . . Quasars
and Active Galactic Nuclei: An Introduction, A. K. Kembhavi
and J. V. Narlikar (reviewed by K. A. Weaver) . . . Fiber Bragg
Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Telecommunications
and Sensing, A. Othonos and K. Kalli (reviewed by G. E. Kohnke)
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Obituaries
Louis Michel . . . Jan Peter van der Ziel
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