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September 1968

Volume 21, Issue 9

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Distill or drown: The need for reviews

Conyers Herring
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The information explosion sparks a need for creative synthesis of facts and ideas. For efficient access to good science literature we must devise new schemes for compression.

Energy production in stars

Hans A. Bethe
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“…stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die…”

Nuclear research as a source of technology

William W. Havens, Jr
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What is the value to the economy of research in pure physics? The study of the nucleus is one example of pure research that has paid dividends in the production of electrical power, new materials and techniques.

How to live with the Philistines

Henry E. Duckworth
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The physicist is surrounded by outsiders, be they relatives, other scientists, humanities professors or officials. He must increase his interaction with them to survive.

The new organization of physics students

Donald E. Cunningham, L. Worth Seagondollar, Cecil G. Shugart, Arnold A. Strassenburg, and Marsh W. White
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The former student organizations merged to form the Society of Physics Students this year. Its leaders hope to expand the most successful programs and start new ones.
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Electioneering at the polls

Peter E. Schmidt, Peter W. Montgomery, Thomas M. Donahue, Richard H. Pratt, Philip Stehle, Jurg X. Saladin, John R. Townsend, Allen I. Janis, Norman Austern, Irving J. Lowe, and Ezra T. Newman
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APS Council position

John Bardeen and W. W. Havens, Jr
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AIP as an arm of government

R. F. Lever and H. William Koch
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Credit where credit due

N. Rey Whetten
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Foundation can't help

Charles H. Schauer
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Policies clarified

Lewis M. Branscomb
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Lasers Offer Satellites Better Ways to Communicate

Howard Boyer, Jr
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NMR Spectra Yield Data On Protein Structure

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Rain Showers Dampen Solar Centimetric Radio Waves

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Radio Satellite Monitors Low‐Frequency Space Signals

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Relativistic Perihelion Shift Refined after Icarus Approach

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In Brief

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Traditional Topics, New Methods in Electrical Measurements

Kiyo Tomiyasu
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Mechanical Man: The Physical Basis of Intelligent Life

Dean E. Wooldridge and Sanborn C. Brown, Reviewer
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Advances in Applied Mechanics, Vol. 10/1

G. Kuerti, Editor and James B. Kelley, Reviewer
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Scientific Satellites

William R. Corliss and George F. Pieper, Reviewer
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Principles of Atomic Spectra

Bruce W. Shore, Donald H. Menzel, and Richard B. Zipin, Reviewer
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The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

Marjorie Johnston, Editor and Robert S. Shankland, Reviewer
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Handbook of the Physicochemical Properties of the Elements

G. V. Samsonov, Editor and Michael E. Straumanis, Reviewer
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Scientific Progress and Human Values

Edward Hutchings, Editor, Elizabeth Hutchings, Editor, and R. Bruce Lindsay, Reviewer
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New Books

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We Hear That

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Robert Serber Is Nominated APS Vice‐President Elect

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Brickwedde Retires from Penn State; Helped Find Deuterium

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Alexander Allen of Sciafe Radiation Laboratory Dies

Frederic Keffer
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Department Head at Alabama University, Earl A. Long, Dies

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Phimsy

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr and Alan Mackay
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Success at the Trieste Centre—an Interview with Abdus Salam

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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Institutional‐Grant Bill Supported in House Hearings

John Johnsrud
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AIP Corporate Associates Meet This Month in New York

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Physics Enrollments Rise; Percentage Drop Continues

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Oxford Instrument Imports US Business Approach to UK

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Resonances

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In Brief

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Calendar

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Physics and the Undergraduate

Albert B. Stewart
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