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February 1977

Volume 30, Issue 2

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Can physics develop reasoning?

Robert G. Fuller, Robert Karplus, and Anton E. Lawson
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The findings of Swiss scholar Jean Piaget suggest that it can—by helping people achieve a series of four distinct but overlapping stages of intellectual growth as they search for patterns and relationships.

Solar power from satellites

Peter E. Glaser
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The combination of solar energy collectors in synchronous orbit with receiving stations on Earth, linked by microwave power‐transmitting beams, could be economic, safe and environmentally acceptable.

Recent advances in neutron physics

Herman Feshbach and Eric Sheldon
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Along with new techniques, the last decade has seen new studies—such as ultracold neutrons and “neutron bottles,” resonance behavior and doorway states, subthreshold fission, doubly radiative capture and neutron stars.
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Scientists and public policy, help or hindrance?

Richard L. Garwin
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Equal status

Susan R. Gordon, Rosalyn Deutsche, David Hathwell, and Carlos Espinosa
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Soviet contradiction

D. Wayne Cooke
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Unpublished results

Richard J. Gaylord
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Another scientist in Congress

Joel A. Snow
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Waste info needed

Konrad B. Krauskopf
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Argentinian physicists

C. De Dominicis, Feliciano Sánchez Sinencio, Edgardo Calva‐Téllez, and Carlos Fernandez Tomás
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Validity of modern theory

Robert S. Wrathall
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Correction

Harlan Arthur Hurwitz
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Wide‐ranging experiments at Los Alamos meson factory

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Bell Labs reports manmade single‐crystal monolayer alloys

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Massachusetts dish for radio astronomy at 1 mm

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller

S. A. Blumberg, G. Owens, and Frederick Seitz, Reviewer
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Symmetry Principles in Elementary Particle Physics

W. M. Gibson, B. R. Pollard, and Anthony Zee, Reviewer
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Theory of Lepton‐Hadron Processes at High Energies: Partons, Scale Invariance, and Light‐cone Physics

P. Roy and Lawrence Litt, Reviewer
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Space Structures: Their Harmony and Counterpoint

A. L. Loeb and S. C. Abrahams, Reviewer
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Low Energy Electron Diffraction: The Theory and Its Application to Determination of Surface Structure

J. B. Pendry and Gerald P. Alldredge, Reviewer
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Statistical Mechanics

D. A. McQuarrie and Charles E. Reid, Reviewer
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Optics of Thin Films

Z. Knittl and Peter H. Berning, Reviewer
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Thermal Conductivity of Solids

J. E. Parrott, A. D. Stuckes, and Paul G. Klemens, Reviewer
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Cosmological Letters on the Arrangement of the World‐Edifice

J. H. Lambert and Richard C. Hart, 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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Wolf, Maréchal and Siegmund chosen for optics awards

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New York Academy honors physicists

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Engineering award given to Deissler of NASA

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Hodgkin receives ACA Frankuchen Award

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Lars Onsager

Elliott W. Montroll
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New guidelines clarify POPA–Council interactions

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ERDA will continue to push frontier facilities: Kane

Floyd C. Bennett
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Departing Ford team establishes two new science groups

Floyd C. Bennett
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Kissinger asks cooperation for technology transfer

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Office of Naval Research celebrates anniversary

Floyd C. Bennett
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NSF announces changes in its physics staff

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In Brief

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AIP publishes survey on graduate students

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Materials group issues educational aids

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Taking politics out of nuclear energy

Harold L. Davis
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