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Select this Article		Josiah Willard Gibbs Muriel Rukeyser


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Select this Article		Earth physics Beno Gutenberg


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Select this Article		Yankee Science in the Making Dirk J. Struik and Harry M. Davis, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Radioactive Indicators George Hevesy and John W. Irvine, Jr., Reviewer


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Select this Article		Supersonics: The Science of Inaudible Sounds(The Charles K. Colver Lectures 1937) Robert Williams Wood and Elias Klein, Reviewer


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Select this Article		APS at Thanksgiving K. K. Darrow


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Select this Article		Phosphors Raymond T. Ellickson


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Select this Article		Sound dispersion Everett F. Cox


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Select this Article		Bond Energies W. A. Mcmillan


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