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May 1973

Volume 26, Issue 5

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Physics Today and the spirit of the Forties

Charles Weiner
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When the magazine emerged 25 years ago, it reflected the hopes for science in the postwar period and focused attention on the new opportunities and environment for research.

The continuing search for quarks

Lawrence W. Jones
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The lack of positive evidence for physical particles with fractional charge has not halted attempts to find them with accelerators, in cosmic rays or in stable matter.

Progress in x‐ray astronomy

Riccardo Giacconi
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Recent satellite studies of celestial x‐ray sources have enabled some binary‐system components to be identified as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and in one case a black hole.
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Modeling PhD production 1960–2000

Nathan W. Dean
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Racial statistics decried

Ryszard Gajewski, Victor F. Weisskopf, and H. William Koch
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Help for the blind

Science for the Blind
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Proton–proton total cross section shows unexpected rise

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Superconducting fluctuations at 6OK?

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Kitt Peak opens up its 158‐inch telescope

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Scattering Theory: The Quantum Theory of Nonrelativistic Collisions

J. R. Taylor and Herbert Uberall, Reviewer
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Physical Science in the Middle Ages

E. Grant and William A. Wallace, Reviewer
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Electromagnetic Fields, Energy, and Waves.

Leonard M. Magid and Hermann A. Haus, Reviewer
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Introduction to Polymer Viscoelasticity

John H. Aklonis, William J. MacKnight, Mitchel Shen, and Warren P. Mason, Reviewer
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Mathematical Physics, An Advanced Course

S. G. Mikhlin, Daljit S. Ahluwalia, Reviewer, and Basil Nicolaenko, Reviewer
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Techniques of Chemistry, Vol. III: Photochromism

G. H. Brown, Editor and Arnold Zweig, Reviewer
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Point Defects and Diffusion

C. P. Flynn and James J. Burton, Reviewer
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Statistical Mechanics

Donald Rapp and Gene F. Mazenko, Reviewer
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New Books

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Goldberg and Carruthers honored by AAS

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Shirane and Axe share ACA Warren Award

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IEEE Liebmann Award goes to Nick Holonyak

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The Institute of Physics announces nine awards

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Ira Sprague Bowen

Arthur H. Vaughan, Jr
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Julius P. Molnar

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S. Smith Stevens

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Harald Herborg Nielsen

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Adam H. Spees

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Mitchell Wilson

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Resonances

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Last March Denys Wilkinson of the University of Oxford showed how the Conferenceman gets the upper hand over his projectionist. Here, in the second excerpt from his treatise on “Slidesmanship,” Wilkinson explainshow to subjugate the audience:
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Enriched‐uranium shortage threatened by 1980

Harold L. Davis
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Committee recommends changes in APS

Steven M. Hein
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Ancker‐Johnson nominated to Commerce science post

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Roberts takes over as director of NBS

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Medical physicists' association joins AIP

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Science‐writer Edelson wins AIP‐US Steel award

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Godfrey appointed vice‐president of APA

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Calendar

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25 years later: time of self‐examination

H. Richard Crane
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