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November 1974

Volume 27, Issue 11

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Research contributions since the war

Edoardo Amaldi and Victor F. Weisskopf
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Two respected leaders of physics–one from Europe and one from the US–discuss areas in which the continent excels in an exclusive interview with PHYSICS TODAY.

Trends in research funding

Pierre Aigrain
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Annual funding for physics is leveling off at about the same fraction of GNP in each country, with the outlook bleak for future increases; however, job security for individuals is good compared with the US.

National styles in graduate training

John M. Ziman
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Despite the widely differing academic conditions, the graduate schools of Europe's various nations produce PhD's remarkably similar to each other and to their American counterparts.

Industry's role—present and future

Joseph Evans, William H. Forster, and Lord Penney
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Following the US example, government financing of industrial research laboratories—on a customer–contractor basis—is a growing trend in Europe.
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Need a Black Scientist with doctoral degree?

Herman A. Young
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Michelson clarifications

V. L. Telegdi
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Hurricane prevention

Gerald J. Fishman and Clarence Zener
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Addition

Herbert Inhaber
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Help public understanding

William A. Blanpied
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Hazards of fusion

Bernard L. Cohen
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Developing countries

Michael P. Greene
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Boyle's Law not his

Stanley E. Babb, Jr. and H. K. Schurmann
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Ads for filled positions

Donald Rapp
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Corrections

F. L. Vook
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Silicon‐monoxide masers show up in infrared stars

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Helium‐three magnetic behavior becomes more complicated

Marian S. Rothenberg
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US and Soviet claims for element 106

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Bevalac makes a successful debut

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Stellarator moves from Culham to Wisconsin

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Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards and The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

M. Willrich, T. B. Taylor, J. McPhee, and William A. Higinbotham, Reviewer
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Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Some of Their Applications

R. Gilmore and Robert Hermann, Reviewer
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From the Black Hole to the Infinite Universe

D. Goldsmith, D. Levy, and John R. Dickel, Reviewer
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Speech Synthesis

J. L. Flanagan, Editor, L. R. Rabiner, Editor, and Kenneth N. Stevens, Reviewer
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The Solar Chromosphere

R. J. Bray, R. E. Loughhead, and Robert D. Chapman, Reviewer
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Understanding Technology

C. Susskind and Nikhil Bhattacharya, Reviewer
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Comets, Meteorites & Men

P. L. Brown and Stephen P. Maran, Reviewer
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The Dynamics of Atoms in Crystals

W. Cochran and John D. Axe, Reviewer
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Macroscopic Electromagnetism

F. N. H. Robinson and J. David Litster, Reviewer
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The Practitioner's Shell Model

G. F. Bertsch and Richard L. Becker, Reviewer
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Basic Principles of Plasma Physics, A Statistical Approach

S. Ichimaru and Albert Simon, Reviewer
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Superconducting Materials

E. M. Savitskii, V. V. Baron, Yu. V. Efimov, M. I. Bychkova, L. F. Myzenkova, A. C. Lawson, Reviewer, and Bernd T. Matthias, Reviewer
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New Books

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Olson receives first ASA Silver Medal

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Civil Service League honors Naugle

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Bird wins Bingham Medal in Rheology

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Chien‐Shiung Wu is scientist of year

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Gordon Award to Courtney‐Pratt

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Wallace Brode

Ralph A. Sawyer
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Wallace Waterfall

Robert T. Beyer
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Teem expects AEC research to pass smoothly to ERDA

Madeleine Jacobs
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US government foresees 800 physical‐science job openings

Robert A. Saar
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Voronel leaves Moscow to avoid arrest

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NSF Materials Research Division reorganizes

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AEC study assesses risk to public as small

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Reactor problem

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In Brief

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Astronomy group lists educational consultants

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UK Institute of Physics elects new officers

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AIP discontinues two publications

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AVS chooses Whetten as president‐elect

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Tradition and change in physics graduate education

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AAAS council retains sole right to elect fellows

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Calendar

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Research support—from right to left

Herbert I. Fusfeld
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