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June 1976

Volume 29, Issue 6

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Is physics human?

Victor F. Weisskopf
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Yes, it is, even though to some people it seems contrived, mathematical, abstract and distant; to overcome these negative impressions it is the physics teacher's task to emphasize the human side.

The formation of interstellar molecules

Eric Herbst and William Klemperer
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Cosmic rays may provide the energy flux necessary for the continual synthesis of molecules in dense H2 clouds, according to this detailed model of the carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen chemistry of those regions.

FIFTY YEARS OF SPIN: It might as well be spin

Samuel A. Goudsmit
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Compared to the competitive struggles of today's highly specialized physicists for recognition, the atmosphere in the “springtime of modern atomic physics” was like that of a “Peyton Place without sex.”

FIFTY YEARS OF SPIN: Personal reminiscences

George E. Uhlenbeck
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How one student who was undecided whether to pursue a career in physics or history and another who had not taken his mechanics exam came to identify the fourth atomic quantum number with a rotation of the electron.
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Establishing physics programs in black colleges

Robert M. Dixon and Julius H. Taylor
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No boycott for Trieste

Hans Bethe, Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson, Victor Weisskopf, and John Ziman
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Sunspots and earthquakes

Jean Meeus and John Gribbin
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Case against UFO's

Donald H. Menzel, Harold I. Heaton, C. Rifat, and Sumner Davis
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Male chauvinism

Alvin Radkowsky
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More pollution hazards

James H. Ray, Robert O. Pohl, and Joseph Devaney
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Chlorine question

Igor Alexeff
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Positron–electron rings: PETRA and PEP compared

Floyd C. Bennett
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Separating isotopes by multiphoton dissociation

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Funding approved for British laser facility

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Strongest superconducting magnet installed in Japan

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Heard any bad knees lately?

John T. Scott
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In Brief

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States of Matter

D. L. Goodstein and H. Eugene Stanley, Reviewer
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Nuclear Structure

W. F. Hornyak and J. B. McGrory, Reviewer
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Computers for Spectroscopists

R. A. G. Carrington, Editor and R. Norman Jones, Reviewer
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Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Polymers

F. A. Makhlis and H. B. Knowles, Reviewer
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Growth Rhythms and the History of the Earth's Rotation and The Rotation of the Earth: A Geophysical Discussion

G. D. Rosenberg, Editor, S. K. Runcorn, Editor, W. H. Munk, G. J. F. MacDonald, and William M. Kaula, Reviewer
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Radioactive Contamination

V. Brodine and Robert D. Young, Reviewer
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Introduction to Superconductivity

M. Tinkham and John C. Wheatley, Reviewer
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Book Notes

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New Books

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New Products

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Fano and Schiffer win atomic and nuclear physics prizes

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Lord is first recipient of Lippincott Medal

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APS Forum awards go to Garwin and York

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Buchsbaum named Bell Labs vice‐president

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Walter Schottky

Heinrich Welker
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Harry Nyquist

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Charles Manneback

Maurice A. Biot
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Fraser P. Price

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Hirsch surveys fusion, geothermal and solar energy

Floyd C. Bennett
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NASA group proposes space program for next 25 years

Gloria B. Lubkin
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American Vacuum Society elected a member of AIP

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Snowdon and Embleton win ASA elections

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Enrollment increases in introductory courses

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AAPT–APS store‐front exhibit contest begins

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In Brief

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Argentine physicist jailed in Cordoba

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In Brief

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Poster Sessions get warm welcome in Atlanta

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Auspicious beginning for APS short courses

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Rethinking graduate education

Eugen Merzbacher
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