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August 1964

Volume 17, Issue 8

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Exploding wires

William G. Chace
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For nearly two centuries it has been known that a fine wire will explode when suddenly subjected to a large flow of electrical current. During much of that time the effect has been looked upon as a curious but not very useful phenomenon, and even now there is no general agreement on the exact mechanism involved in such an explosion. Modern technology, however, has found many ways of using exploding wires, and a resurgence of scientific interest has led to three conferences on the subject in recent years. The following brief review of the field includes a report on the latest conference, held in March of this Year.

The Princeton Pennsylvania Accelerator

Milton G. White
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The Princeton‐Pennsylvania Accelerator, located on the Forrestal Research Campus of Princeton University, was formally dedicated on December 7, 1963. Among those taking part in the ceremony were Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the University of Pennsylvania, R. F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, Henry DeWolf Smyth, chairman of Princeton's Research Board and currently US representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Milton G. White, director of the accelerator project and author of the following article.

History and accomplishments of the Oak Ridge graphite reactor

Arthur H. Snell and Alvin M. Weinberg
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A brighter future for synchrocyclotrons?

Robert T. Siegel
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AAAS

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Relativistic astrophysics

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IAEA

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AGU

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Nuclear Theory

A. M. Lane and Evans Hayward, Reviewer
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The Discovery of the Electron

David L. Anderson and L. Marton, Reviewer
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, and S. B. Treiman, Reviewer
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Thermodynamics

Joachim E. Lay and R. B. Lindsay, Reviewer
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Lectures on the Many‐Electron Problem

R. Brout, P. Carruthers, and B. W. Shore, Reviewer
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Radiation Hazards and Protection

D. E. Barnes, Denis Taylor, and H. J. Hagger, Reviewer
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Representations of the Rotation and Lorentz Groups and Their Applications

I. M. Gel'fand, R. A. Minlos, Z. Ya. Shapiro, G. Cummins, T. Boddington, H. K. Farahat, Editor, and J. E. Mansfield, Reviewer
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Methods in Computational Physics

Berni Alder, Editor, Sidney Fernbach, Editor, Manuel Rotenberg, Editor, and J. Gillis, Reviewer
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Biotechnology: Concepts and Applications

Lawrence J. Fogel and Joseph G. Hoffman, Reviewer
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

G. K. Batchelor, Editor and R. E. Street, Reviewer
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Crystallization of Polymers

Leo Mandelkern and H. D. Keith, Reviewer
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Introductory Topics in Theoretical Physics: Relativity, Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Mechanics

Roald K. Wangsness and Robert L. Weber, Reviewer
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Books Received

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We Hear That

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Mathematical functions

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Meteorites

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Reprints

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ASTM 1963 Proceedings

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Air Force research

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CERN looks ahead

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Overseas Educational Service

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Europe and space research

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Noctilucent clouds

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Soviet‐American exchanges

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Graduate program

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NSF fellowship programs

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NATO fellowships

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Teaching methods and equipment

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