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Select this Article		Must we always be gadgeteers? Philip M. Morse


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Select this Article		Physics in the watch industry J. A. Van Horn


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Select this Article		Places of birth and training of physicists Bernard C. Murdoch and Marsh W. White


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Select this Article		Atomic energy and foreign policy


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Select this Article		Phenomena, Atoms and Molecules: an attempt to interpret phenomena in terms of mechanisms or atomic interactions Irving Langmuir and J. R. Pierce, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Electron Microscopy—Technique and Applications Ralph W. G. Wyckoff and D. Gordon Sharp, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Elementary Pile Theory Harry Soodak, Edward C. Campbell, and Gerald Goertzel, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Report of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time (1948–49)


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Select this Article		Theory of Superconductivity Laszlo Tisza


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Select this Article		Wavelengths of Mercury 198 William F. Meggers and Karl G. Kessler


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Select this Article		Spin Echoes Erwin L. Hahn


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