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May 1949

Volume 2, Issue 5

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The nuclear‐powered rocket feasible?

H. S. Seifert
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Space ships are not around the corner. The chief of the applied physics division of the jet propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology treats here current problems in conventional rocketry and the possibilities of powering rockets with nuclear energy. The conclusions, he finds, are somewhat “melancholy.”

Learn and work

G. E. Owen
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Students study five months of the year and hold down fulltime jobs for another five months in the cooperative education plan at Antioch College. How this works out for physics students is described by a faculty member who finds that for students to work while learning helps them learn by working.

A trend in contemporary physics

Alexander W. Stern
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“Recent advances in quantum electrodynamics are essentially an advance in understanding and formalism,” writes Dr. Stern, “rather than an advance in the region of applicability of quantum electrodynamics.”
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, Reviewer
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The Humanities and the Sciences in Denmark During the Second World War, a collection of papers

H. H. Nielsen, Reviewer
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Book Received

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Edwin H. Colpitts

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Harvey C. Rentschler

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Letters to the Editor

Hugo Gernsback
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They Do Exist

B. Gross
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Institute Doings

Henry A. Barton
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The Netherlands

C. J. Gorter
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Pleasant

Frederick Seitz
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APS at Cleveland

Radio Engineers Meet

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Conference on high frequency measurements

Radioelement Poisoning

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Argonne announces metal displacement therapy

Beginnings

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University of Illinois; Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

Other Symposia and Summer Offerings

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Instrument Society of America; Society for Applied Spectroscopy; Tracers; Ionospheric research; Digital computers; Contemporary physics.

Society Activities

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Division of Solid State Physics; Sigma Pi Sigma; Committee on Nuclear Science.

Courses and Laboratories

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Washington College; New Mexico A & M College.

Fellowships

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GE announces awards
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Origin of Cosmic Radiation

Enrico Fermi
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Expending Universe

R. A. Alpher
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Optical Measurement of Supersonic Flow

Daniel Bershader
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Electrical Admittance

Robert H. Cole
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Flow Patterns

M. M. Munk
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The Birefringent Filter

John W. Evans
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Calendar of Events

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Electret Microphones

Paul J. Ernst
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Stet

Julius C. C. Edelstein
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Whereabouts

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