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November 1968

Volume 21, Issue 11

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Acoustics of the flute

John W. Coltman
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When viewed as a positive‐feedback oscillator, with a resonance frequency, energy input and loss mechanisms, the flute displays properties that explain physically how the performer adapts his technique to sound the instrument over its three‐octave range.

A Bestiary

Yvonne Stone
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being a Book of Beasts, a naturalist's guide to particle physics of the twentieth century

Magnetic fields in biology

Alexander Kolin
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Life scientists find many interesting interactions between magnetic fields and biological systems. Ranging from the pure research on magnetotropism to medical applications in the operating room, biomagnetism promises exciting developments.

AIP is host to society officers and its corporate associates

John P. Wiley, Jr
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As government and industry tighten research budgets, physicists worry about where the money will come from to explore new frontiers of pure and applied research.
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Sights and sounds of Chicago

Edward Gerjuoy, Martha Hannah Stillman, Claude Kacser, Robert David Turoff, William J. Whitesell, Albert B. Stewart, Charles E. Taylor, Lawrence Slifkin, Marc Ross, Jens Zorn, Harvey Gould, V. K. Wong, Noah Sherman, R. T. Robiscoe, Gordon Kane, et al.
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A warning as alternative

Bernard L. Cohen
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Overmanagement a danger

Tung Tsang
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Federal cuts may help

Paul Harris
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A Visit to the Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Illinois Building 30‐MeV Superconducting Linac

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In Brief

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Six‐Sided Reflecting Satellite Could Check General Relativity

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Dubna and LRL Compress Smokatron Electron Rings

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Princetonians Fail to Find Faster‐than‐Light Particles

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Atomic and Nuclear Disciplines Combine in Health Physics

James E. Turner and Robert W. Wood
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The Politics of Pure Science

Daniel S. Greenberg and Raymond Bowers, Reviewer
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Theoretische Mechanik: Eine Einheitliche Einfuhrung in die Gesamte Mechanik

Georg Hamel and Rolf Landshoff, Reviewer
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Atomic Spectra

W. R. Hindmarsh, Editor and Harold Mendlowitz, Reviewer
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Sources for History of Quantum Physics

Thomas S. Kuhn, John L. Heilbron, Paul L. Forman, Lini Allen, and R. Bruce Lindsay, Reviewer
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The Theory of the Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules

D. W. Davies and Howard B. Levine, Reviewer
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Elementary Quantum Mechanics

David S. Saxon and Garrison Sposito, Reviewer
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Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 1967 Digest: A Survey of the Technical Literature of the Preceding Year

W. D. Doyle, Editor, A. B. Harris, Editor, and James B. Kelley, Reviewer
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Physics and Man: An Invitation to Modern Physics

Tor Ragnar Gerholm and Thomas H. Osgood, Reviewer
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Theory of Orbits: The Restricted Problems of Three Bodies

Victor Szebehely and S. Fred Singer, Reviewer
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Solid-State Chemistry

N. B. Hannay and Paul W. Levy, Reviewer
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Equations of Mathematical Physics

G. N. Polozhiy and George Weiss, Reviewer
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Handbook of Physics (2nd edition)

E. U. Condon, Editor, Hugh Odishaw, Editor, and Wolfgang Franzen, Reviewer
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Variable Phase Approach to Potential Scattering

F. Calogero and John L. Gammel, Reviewer
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Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Oscar K. Rice and Herman A. Liebhafsky, Reviewer
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Defauts Ponctuels dans les Metaux

Y. Quére and Daniel C. Mattis, Reviewer
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Materials: A Scientific American Book

W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, and L. Marton, Reviewer
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New Books

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We Hear That

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Atoms for Peace Award to Eklund, Smyth and Salam

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Ewing Receives Sidney Powers Memorial Medal

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Laser Scientist, Patel, Gets Ballantine Medal

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Francis Rice Returns to Free‐Radical Work at Johns Hopkins

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Harvard Astronomer Wins Gravitation Essay Award

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Arnold, Cohen, Fitch, Latter, Storer Get Lawrence Awards

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Fritz London Award Goes To Fairbank of Stanford

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Glenn Seaborg Receives Arches of Science Award

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Hugo Benioff, Seismologist, Was Professor at Cal Tech

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Robert W. Crowe Dies; Former Lockheed Engineer and Editor

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Yale K. Roots Was Teacher at NYU, Findlay and Western

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Phimsy

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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NBS Team Starts 3‐Year Study of Metric Advantages for US

John P. Wiley, Jr
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Resonances

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NBS Boulder Labs Unified Under Single Management

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Columbia's Hudson Lab Will Close Next June

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FAA Given Responsibility For Minimizing Sonic Booms

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Industrial R&D Doubles in Decade, Reaches New High

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Two Universities Join Argonne Laboratory Group

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Peay University Offers New Program For Teachers

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European Physical Society Comes into Being

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NSF Finds US Science Policy Fragmented, Socially Oriented

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Oppenheimer Papers Deposited With the Library of Congress

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History Center Tape Records Interviews With Top Physicists

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In Brief

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Queens College Establishes Low‐Temperature Center

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World's 2nd Reactor Opened To Visitors At Oak Ridge

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Two Federal Labs Establish University of Maryland Links

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Physical Review Adds Section For Comments and Addenda

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NAS Panel Asks Construction Of New Planetary Instruments

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Calendar

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In Politics, How Should We Do Our Thing?

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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