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October 1971

Volume 24, Issue 10

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Physics and social change

George E. Brown, Jr
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Our science grows by correcting faulty theories, not by idolizing them. Society, in the same way, should see its present customs as jumping‐off points, not as fixed institutions.

Origins of cosmic rays

Ramanath Cowsik and P. Buford Price
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Each new means of detection shows cosmic rays to be more complex than we had thought, so that more and more bravery is demanded of astrophysicists who propose sources for these rays.

A parting look at the National Register

Sylvia Barisch
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Data for 1970, the final year for this catalog of US science manpower, show physics doing better than some other sciences, with some kinds of physicists doing better than others.
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The physicist's research notes as historical documents

Joan N. Warnow
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Physics or Astronomy?

N. Wyman Storer and Richard M. Spector
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Still more quantum mechanics

George L. Trigg, M. Hammerton, R. Hobart Ellis, Jr, Robert Goldston, and Helmut Schmidt
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The N–scholar problem

Lincoln Foster
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National physics fund?

Inder P. Batra
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Antimatter cosmic rays?

Sanford Aranoff and Hannes Alfvén
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Cost of Saclay linac

R. Jean
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Corrections

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Atmospheric dust increase could lower Earth's temperature

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Low‐temperature thermometers discussed at symposium

Gloria B. Lubkin
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SLAC proposes to boost energy above 50 GeV without superconductors

Steven M. Heim
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Booster for ZGS to increase its intensity

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Sources of Color Science

D. L. MacAdam, Editor and A. R. Robertson, Reviewer
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Equations of Mathematical Physics

V. S. Vladimirov and Ludwig Streit, Reviewer
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Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, Vol. I and II

F. W. Byron, Jr., R. W. Fuller, and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer
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The Waves: The Nature of Sea Motion

G. N. Hidy and Christopher N. K. Mooers, Reviewer
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Flames: Their Structure, Radiation and Temperature

A. G. Gaydon, H. G. Wolfhard, and R. M. Fristrom, Reviewer
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Conceptual Physics: A New Introduction to Your Environment

P. G. Hewitt and Kenneth W. Ford, Reviewer
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Cryogenic Laboratory Equipment

A. J. Croft and F. R. Fickett, Reviewer
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Talking About Relativity; Widening Horizons: Man's Quest to Understand the Structure of the Universe; and The Stars in Their Courses

J. L. Synge, Z. Kopal, I. Asimov, and Franklin M. Branley, Reviewer
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Micromechanics of Flow in Solids

J. J. Gilman and J. J. Bikerman, Reviewer


See Also: Erratum

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Variational Principles in Heat Transfer: A Unified Lagrangian Analysis of Dissipative Phenomena

M. A. Biot and Stuart A. Rice, Reviewer
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Particles, Sources and Fields

J. Schwinger and Jeremy Bernstein, Reviewer
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The Collected Works of Count Rumford, Vols. 3, 4, 5

S. C. Brown, Editor and R. S. Shankland, Reviewer
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New Books

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1971 Holweck Medal goes to Dennis Gabor

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Turner and Shenstone receive OSA awards

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Ralph Bown

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William K. Ergen

Eugene Guth
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Lawrence Bragg

Paul P. Ewald
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Richard L. Wolfgang

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Congress gives NSF $622 million; AEC funds still undecided

Gloria B. Lubkin
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IEE to market AIP's “Current Physics Information” in Europe

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NY State Assembly forms permanent scientific staff

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DuBridge and Friedman join Science Advisory Committee

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NSF gives Science Development funds

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Arecibo Observatory is restructured and renamed

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Project plans for scientific aid to state legislatures


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Committee on atoms and molecules is established

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In Brief

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Sawyer is honored with AIP's Compton Medal

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NAL users group elects new executive‐committee members

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Legislative solutions to environmental problems

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AURA to admit PhD‐granting institutions to membership

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Users group for Indiana cyclotron is established

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Calendar

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Not all physics news is bad

Harold L. Davis
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