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April 1976

Volume 29, Issue 4

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The state of US physics—1976

Chien‐Shiung Wu
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Reflections on how the APS serves its members and the community, and a personal assessment of the year's highlights in nuclear, biological, atomic, solid‐state and particle physics.

Neutron molecular spectroscopy

Sow‐Hsin Chen and Sidney Yip
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Improvements in empirical potential functions and calculational techniques promise to upgrade neutron molecular spectroscopy into a powerful tool for probing intermolecular forces in complex systems.

Civil defense in limited war—a debate

Arthur A. Broyles, Eugene P. Wigner, and Sidney D. Drell
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Have recent developments in strategic weapons given us reason to look at civil defense in a new context?
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The energy crisis: what physicists can contribute

Tay Yong Chiang
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Sears' last letter

William M. DeCampli
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Quarks get prime time

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Credit hour overload?

John D. E. Fortna and W. A. Sibley
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Funding cutoff

J. C. Hill, W. L. Talbert, Jr, J. P. Vary, S. A. Williams, and F. K. Wohn
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Limited nuclear war

Erwin Marquit
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Monopole debate

C. R. Hagen, Julian Schwinger, and Daniel Zwanziger
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Space colony society

Jay S. Huebner
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Physics comes of age

John Stockdale
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Correction

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Five satellites observe short, intense x‐ray bursts

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Poloidal divertor experiment

Floyd C. Bennett
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Neutrino search to go deep undersea?

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Brookhaven's prototype magnet reaches 4.5 tesla

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In Brief

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Greenwich Observatory: Vol. 1, Origins and Early History; Vol. 2, Recent History; Vol. 3, The Buildings and Instruments.

E. G. Forbes, A. J. Meadows, D. Howse, and Arthur L. Norberg, Reviewer
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Collective Phenomena and the Applications of Physics to Other Fields of Science

N. A. Chigier, Editor, E. A. Stern, Editor, and Frederick W. Cummings, Reviewer
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Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae

D. E. Osterbrock and Theodore R. Gull, Reviewer
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Symmetry Principles in Solid State and Molecular Physics

M. Lax and Frank Herman, Reviewer
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The Wave Equation on a Curved Space‐Time

F. G. Friedlander and Pong Soo Jang, Reviewer
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Solar‐Energy Thermal Processes

J. A. Duffie, W. A. Beckman, Roland Winston, Reviewer, and Frank Kreith, Reviewer
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Homogeneous Relativistic Cosmologies

M. P. Ryan, Jr, L. C. Shepley, and M. A. H. MacCallum, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Five scientists win E. O. Lawrence Awards

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Weisskopf is new president of AAAS

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Werner K. Heisenberg

Eugene P. Wigner
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Simon Pasternack

Samuel A. Goudsmit
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George J. Schulz

Manfred A. Biondi, Arvid Herzenberg, and Ira B. Bernstein
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Roger W. Hickman

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Joseph R. Dillinger

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Rupert Wildt

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Ramsey chosen vice‐president elect

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Two new offices created for POPA leadership

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1976 officers chosen for nominating committee

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APS historical volume marks the bicentennial

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US physics budget: NASA declines while DOD gains

Floyd C. Bennett
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NAS Assembly establishes procedures and priorities

Floyd C. Bennett
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ERDA's nuclear centers suffer

Floyd C. Bennett
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Ford Foundation funds two nuclear studies

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AAS elects Code as vice‐president

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Jack Knox takes office at Society of Rheology

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AAPM moves its offices to Chicago

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AAPT has films on Skylab activities

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In Brief

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New support for basic research

Harold L. Davis
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