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December 1976

Volume 29, Issue 12

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Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics

Felix Bloch
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Recollections of the days, 50 years ago, when a handful of students in the “entirely useless” field of physics heard of a strange new mechanics invented by Maurice de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger.

Congressional interactions at very small impact parameter

Paul Horwitz
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A Scientist Fellow, sponsored by The American Physical Society, evaluates his one‐year term in the Washington maze as adviser, legislative aide and handyman.

Energy research for physicists

George T. Reynolds
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Problems in fluid dynamics alone illustrate the challenge for physics in the development of such resources as solar and geothermal.
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Coal: no superabundance for US

Albert A. Bartlett
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More on civil defense

Thomas Y. Palmer, Carl E. Friedberg, Eugene P. Wigner, Arthur A. Broyles, Walter Murphey, and Sidney D. Drell
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Ozone clarification

Douglas Davis
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Since versus because

Philip Pechukas
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Prejudice in physics?

R. D. Richtmyer and S. A. Goudsmit
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Need for good references

Hans Dolezalek and A. W. K. Metzner
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Physics problems in fusion

John M. Dawson and Burton D. Fried
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Support for rebuttals

G. R. Barsch, P. H. Cutler, R. H. Good, Jr, B. R. Kendall, L. G. Lang, E. W. Muller, K. Vedam, and T. A. Wiggins
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New journals not needed

Brian G. Wybourne, David Caplin, David Sherrington, and Roy Jacobs
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A UFO by any other name

J. Allen Hynek
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Role of small physics

Richard C. Sill
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More on monopoles

David Rosenbaum and A. O. Barut
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Pro metric

Dave Goss
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Correction

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Nobel prize to Richter and Ting for discovery of J∕psi

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Shortest wavelength laser from harmonic generation

H. Richard Leuchtag
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New values for boiling and freezing points

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Treatment of sewage by electrons and gammas

Floyd C. Bennett
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The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb

H. York and William A. Higinbotham, Reviewer
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Air Pollution: Threat and Response

D. A. Lynn and Parker C. Reist, Reviewer
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The Nucleon—Nucleon Interaction

G. E. Brown, A. D. Jackson, and Earle L. Lomon, Reviewer
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A Taste of Science

R. J. Tykodi, Editor and Edward Mac Kinnon, Reviewer
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A Short Course in Cloud Physics and Clouds, Rain, and Rainmaking, 2nd Edition

R. R. Rogers, B. J. Mason, and J. Doyne Sartor, Reviewer
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Vacuum Technology

A. Roth and Mars H. Hablanian, Reviewer
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Quantum Collision Theory

J. C. Joachain and L. David Roper, Reviewer
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Quantum States of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

M. A. Morrison, T. L. Estle, N. F. Lane, and M. Eugene Rudd, Reviewer
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Science in Flux

J. Agassi and Peter Caws, Reviewer
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Book Notes

Floyd C. Bennett
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New Books

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New Products

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Schultz and Knowles win Silver Medals in acoustics

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Correction

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Eugene Eichler

Noah Johnson, G. D. O'Kelley, and T. A. Carlson
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Seville Chapman

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Allan M. Cartter

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Stanley G. Thompson

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Polymer short course will precede March meeting

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Hinners of NASA looks ahead to the Spacelab era

Floyd C. Bennett
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ERDA plans to close Argonne ZGS two years hence

Floyd C. Bennett
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White House science office organizes

Floyd C. Bennett
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Computer graphics used in first‐year physics

Bruce C. Carr
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New officers elected for National Academy

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In Brief

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Encouraging the scholar

Brian Pippard
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