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March 1976

Volume 29, Issue 3

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Thermodynamics and geometry

Frank Weinhold
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In the fulfillment of a goal envisioned by Gibbs, the laws of thermodynamics have been written in the form of a Euclidian metric geometry; its formulas can be read off from simple diagrams.

The nature of elementary particles

Werner Heisenberg
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Because particle number is not conserved in high‐energy interactions it may be meaningless to ask about the constituent parts of elementary particles; perhaps the central problem is dynamics.

Slow positrons in gases

Sir Harrie Massey
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While they share many of the properties of negative electrons, positrons exhibit other phenomena—such as annihilation or positronium formation in collisions with atoms or molecules—that are all their own.
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Error in lithium

Norman Holden, E. Richard Cohen, F. E. McMurphy, and R. S. Newbury
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New journals not needed?

N. D. Mermin, K. G. Wilson, David Caplin, David Sherrington, Roy Jacobs, and A. W. Kenneth Metzner
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An urgent appeal

Murray Weinstein
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Detecting ether drift

Dale C. Scheetz
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Browsing at home

John P. Binnington
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Ozone work at Ford

Charles C. Wang
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More lights in the sky

Bruce S. Maccabee
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Comment on book review

Mendel Sachs
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Good news on death

R. Aaron
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Rhymes, for different times

W. L. Everitt
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Why “B”?

Ralph Baierlein
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Correction

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Central peaks due to microdomains, impurities or…?

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Muonic‐atom data dispel lingering doubts on QED

John T. Scott
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Shuttle studies to include atmospheres and plasmas

Floyd C. Bennett
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French heavy‐ion laboratory under way

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Oak Ridge to study tokamak impurities

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Magnetism

S. V. Vonsovskii and Brian Schwartz, Reviewer
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Finite Groups and Quantum Theory and Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics

D. B. Chesnut, B. L. Van Der Waerden, and John L. Challifour, Reviewer
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Objections to Astrology

B. J. Bok, L. E. Jerome, and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Low‐Energy Electrons and Surface Chemistry

G. Ertl, J. Küppers, and Robert L. Park, Reviewer
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Van der Waals Attraction (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, Vol. 72)

D. Langbein and P. W. Langhoff, Reviewer
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Electronic States and Optical Transitions in Solids

F. Bassani, G. P. Parravicini, R. A. Ballinger, Editor, and Joseph L. Birman, Reviewer
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Infrared Detectors

R. D. Hudson, Sr, Editor, J. W. Hudson, Editor, and Henry Levinstein, Reviewer
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Molecular Collision Theory

M. S. Child and Philip Pechukas, Reviewer
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Astronomy

F. M. Branley, M. R. Chartrand, III, H. K. Wimmer, and Silverio P. Almeida, Reviewer
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Theory of Defects in Solids: Electronic Structure of Defects in Insulators and Semiconductors

A. M. Stoneham and R. Smoluchowski, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Wentzel receives 1975 Max Planck Medal

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Liebmann Memorial and Zworykin Awards presented

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SPS presents Bendix and White awards

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Percus and Susskind win 1975 Pregel Awards

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Standards Institute votes second term for Landis

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Woessner receives Doherty Award

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AIAA awards honor Penner and Lunney

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize awarded to Yoichiro Nambu

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Rudolph L. Minkowski

Leonard V. Kuhi
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Sir Charles Seymour Wright

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William Henry Michener

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Calendar

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ERDA and NSF gain in Fiscal 1977 budget request

Floyd C. Bennett
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Albert Bartlett elected vice‐president of AAPT

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Executive committee announces changes at AIP

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Audiotape interviews with women in science

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Sinclair succeeds MacAdam as editor of JOSA

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In Brief

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James Kane takes up new post at ERDA

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Staff changes at new NSF physics division

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In Brief

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Tribute to ACS

Philip M. Morse and H. William Koch
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