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Select this Article		How we hear Francis M. Wiener


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Select this Article		Food physics Thomas M. Rector and A. Cornwall Shuman


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Select this Article		Physics of chimneys Paul R. Achenbach


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Select this Article		Frank B. Jewett


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Select this Article		Physics in Canada G. Herzberg and L. E. Howlett


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Select this Article		Physics in Canada: The National Research Council G. Herzberg and L. E. Howlett


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Select this Article		Physics in Canada: Other Research Organizations G. Herzberg and L. E. Howlett


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Select this Article		Physics in Canada: The Universities G. Herzberg and L. E. Howlett


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Select this Article		Physics in Canada: Industry G. Herzberg and L. E. Howlett


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NEWS AND VIEWS

Select this Article		Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry


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Select this Article		Optical Society Meets Stanley S. Ballard


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Select this Article		One Scientific World


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Select this Article		New Equipment


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Select this Article		Honors and Awards


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Select this Article		Acoustics and Chemistry Leonard Lieberman


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Select this Article		Cool Detectors P. B. Fellgett


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Select this Article		High Sensitivity E. Bright Wilson, Jr.


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Select this Article		Flame Propagation J. O. Hirschfelder


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Select this Article		Quieting Ram Jets W. B. Snow


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Select this Article		‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐oscopes Robert E. Hopkins


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Select this Article		Humidity and Piano Tuning Robert W. Young


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Select this Article		Mathematical Biophysics


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