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March 1968

Volume 21, Issue 3

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The undergraduate curriculum

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Five four‐year colleges: Carleton College

Robert A. Reitz
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A three‐term year, with three courses per term instead of the usual four or five per semester, has helped to provide a logical layout for a program that is meant as an introduction to graduate studies.

Five four‐year colleges: Pomona College

Charles A. Fowler, Jr
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Strong faculty involvement in research has led to undergraduate interest and participation that provides some of the excitement of graduate school often missing at a liberal‐arts college.

Five four‐year colleges: Reed College

William L. Parker
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Emphasis on an extensive senior‐year special project forms part of a program designed both as preparation for graduate school and as training for immediate employment in industry.

Five four‐year colleges: Swarthmore College

William C. Elmore
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Highly motivated upper‐class students can take part in an honors program wherein independent study leads to the presentation of seminars and eventual grading by invited outside examiners.

Five four‐year colleges: Villa Madonna College

George K. Miner
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Feedback from alumni has been important in illuminating faults in the physics program of the past and lighting the way to improvements now and in the future.

Four universities: University of California at Berkeley

Burton J. Moyer
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Upper‐division physics courses are currently being reassessed after further experience with the Berkeley Physics Course. A wide variety of alternative elementary courses is offered.

Four universities: University of Chicago

Mark G. Inghram
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Joint treatment of physics and chemistry courses as a coherent unit is part of a curriculum designed primarily as a preparation for graduate study.

Four universities: Princeton University

Thomas R. Carver
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Two major programs are offered, one of which is a preparation for graduate school. Emphasis is on independent undergraduate work which has led in some cases to published research results.

Four universities: University of Wisconsin at Madison

Hugh T. Richards
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Improved coördination among courses is one aim of the new physics undergraduate program. Of particular concern is the difficulty of providing courses for students not headed for graduate school.

An English university: Imperial College, London

Clifford C. Butler
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British methods are different from those in America, hut they are not so rooted in tradition as to he incapable of change. London students now have the option of completing their BSc in three or four years.

The interdisciplinary curriculum

John M. Fowler
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Some attempts to provide combined physics—chemistry—biology courses have not survived, despite enthusiastic beginnings. What is the recipe for success?

61 programs: A tabulation

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Schwartz Amendment

Robert W. Cairns, Martin Lewis Perl, Herman E. Saffran, Sheldon L. Kahalas, Felix Gutmann, Stuart A. Hoenig, F. Jona, J. Howard McMillen, Igor Alexeff, J. C. Grosskreutz, Walter M. Elsasser, G. A. J. Voetelink, W. B. Weiss, Dwight C. Burnham, W. R. Stratton, et al.
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The world “out there”

Martin Gardner
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Indubitable determinism

Milton A. Rothman
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Through an ion darkly

Claud M. Kellett
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Who “defects”?

E. U. Condon
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Rare‐Earth Nuclei Are Not Smooth; Have Bumps, Hollows

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Russian Six‐Meter Telescope: Completion Date Uncertain

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Do Nucleons and Electrons Have Electric Dipole Moments?

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Yale Astronomers Solve Old Three‐Body Problem

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Neutrino Flux from Sun Is Lower than Expected

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Visit to Argonne—II: Solid‐State, Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Erwin Schrödinger: An Introduction to His Writings

William T. Scott and Nandor L. Balazs, Reviewer
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Radio Telescopes

D. V. Skobel'tsyn, Editor and George W. Swenson, Jr., Reviewer
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Ferromagnetism (Vol. 18/2, Handbuch der Physik, S. Flügge, ed.) and Magnetism, A Treatise on Modern Theory and Materials, Vol. 2B: Interactions and Metals

H. P. J. Wijn, Editor, George T. Rado, Editor, Harry Suhl, Editor, and Daniel C. Mattis, Reviewer
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Order and Disorder in the World of Atoms

A. I. Kitaigorodskiy and Lawrence Sklar, Reviewer
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Direct Energy Conversion

G. W. Sutton, Editor and R. Bruce Lindsay, Reviewer
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Recent Developments in Particle Physics

Michael J. Moravcsik, Editor and Don B. Lichtenberg, Reviewer
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Rayonnement et Dynamique du Corpuscle Chargé Fortement Accéléré

Henri Arzeliès and L. Marton, Reviewer
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New Books

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We Hear That

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Fitch and Cronin Share 1967 Research Corporation Award

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APS Gives J. R. Schrieffer Buckley Solid‐State Prize

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APS High‐Polymer Prize To Arthur V. Tobolsky

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R. G. Herb Is Winner of 1968 Tom W. Bonner Prize

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Herbert A. Erf, Treasurer Of the Acoustical Society

R. Bruce Lindsay
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Elbe H. Johnson Was Science Historian at Kenyon College

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Cavid Erginsoy, Theorist At Brookhaven Laboratory

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Former Brandeis Chairman, David L. Falkoff, Is Dead

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Leopold Infeld, Authority on Field Theory and Relativity

Peter G. Bergmann
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Phimsy

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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1969 Academic Research Budget Increases Barely Seven Percent

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Resonances

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APS Debates Whether to Take Positions on Public Issues

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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Two California Groups Plan Major Accelerator Facilities

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AIP Publishes Revised IUP AP Guides for Papers and Abstracts

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Calendar

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Educating Nonscientists

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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