The chemical bond and solid‐state physics

Cosmology: A search for two numbers

A history‐of‐physics laboratory

Natural coordinates for electrons in solids

More views on the job crisis

Superconducting priority

Beyond the Schwartz amendment

New polarized‐electron source

Drafted scientist

Older than she looks

Neutron Scattering Verifies Dynamic Scaling

Panel Suggests New Uses for Accelerators of 6 MeV or Less

Doppler Shift Is Used to Study Superfluid Currents

Theorists Honor Uhlenbeck with Statistical‐Mechanics Meeting

Delaware Luminescence Meeting Covers Organics and Inorganics

A Portrait of Isaac Newton

Thermal Physics

Physical Properties of Graphite

Principles of Stellar Evolution

The Promise of Space

Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 9 and 10

Precision Measurement and Calibration

Théorie du Magnétisme

Physics of Shock Waves and High‐Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena, Vol. 2

Another Look at Atlantis and Fifteen Other Essays

Collective Models of the Nucleus

Electron Impact Excitation of Atoms

Methods in Experimental Physics, Vol. 7B: Atomic and Electron Physics

Electron Image Storage

Chemistry and Physics of Carbon: A Series of Advances, Vol. 4

Lectures on the Mössbauser Effect

Optical Properties and Band Structures of Semiconductors

Theorian del Kosmolgie

Spectroscopic and Group Theoretical Methods in Physics

Principes de Combinatoire

NEW BOOKS

We Hear That

Phimsy Disappears

IEEE Elects Officers And Presents Awards

Bradbury to Retire From Los Alamos Laboratory

Samuel Devons Wins IPPS Rutherford Medal and Award

Franklin Institute Has New Head and Presents Awards

Geological Society Honors Harold Urey, Francis Birch

ASA Awards 1st Trent‐Crede Medal to C. Irwin Vigness

Walter H. Zinn Receives AEC Enrico Fermi Medal

NASA Distinguished Service Medal Goes to Charles Townes

Arthur Ruark Retires from AEC Division of Research

David Z. Robinson to be Carnegie Vice‐President

Moses Jacobson, Physicist at Mine Safety Appliances Co.

Vesto M. Slipher, Directed Lowell Observatory, Dies

Leroy Augenstein, Michigan State Biophysicist, Dies at 41

Daniel W. Healy, Jr, 54; Rochester Department Head

Francis Smith, Professor And Former Dean at Drexel

Congress Requires Relevance for DOD Research

New Academy Committee Begins Physics Survey

AIP and APS Suspend Delay For Unsupported Papers

IUPAP Elects Officers Creates Plasma Commission

NAS Panel Urges Greater Role in Apollo for Science

APS Publishes New Pamphlet, Physical Review Abstracts

Marshak Works to Organize A World Science Foundation

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