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November 1978

Volume 31, Issue 11

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Stability in the dissipative steady state

Rolf Landauer
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Systems requiring a continuous inflow of energy to maintain their state exhibit many analogies to equilibrium but their behavior is more strongly influenced by noise.

Hydrogen in metals

Donald G. Westlake, Cameron B. Satterthwaite, and John H. Weaver
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Interstitial alloys that can store hydrogen at a greater density than either the liquid or solid element alone may have a role in future energy conversion and transmission schemes.

Metal–insulator transitions

Sir Nevill Mott
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Changes in temperature, pressure, magnetic field or alloy composition can affect the electronic band structure of substances, in some cases leading to dramatic changes in conductivity.
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Decline in crystallography

George A. Jeffrey
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Chinese participation

S. S. Chern, Marvin L. Goldberger, C. K. Jen, C. C. Lin, Olli V. Lounasmaa, Gordon Shaw, Yuen‐Ron Shen, Chia‐Wei Woo, Chen‐Ning Yang, and Harrison Brown
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Inventor's horror story

Franklin F. Offner and Betsy Ancker‐Johnson
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Demand for good physicists

M. Martini, William J. Meggs, and G. Adomian
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Sins of authors and referees

Hans Dolezalek
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Lasers for fusion

George Dubé and C. Martin Stickley
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Coal overoptimism

Albert A. Bartlett
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Even fewer students

Gerald M. Daniels
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Opportunities in sales

Wade L. Fite
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Technical controversies

C. Sharp Cook
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Author‐written abstracts

A. W. K. Metzner
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Particle poetry

Ronald G. Newburgh
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Counterculture dialogue

Paul A. Smith
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Plutonium‐free bomb

M. Lieber, Ernest J. Moniz, and Thomas L. Neff
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More oppressed physicists

Cyrano De Dominicis and Joel Primack
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PLT reaches high temperature in a collisionless plasma

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Helium atoms probe silicon surface by diffraction

Thomas von Foerster
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Brookhaven light source invites user interest

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In Brief

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Vacuum Society meets in San Francisco

Michael E. Jacobs
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William Henry Bragg 1862–1942: Man and Scientist

G. M. Caroe and Roger H. Stuewer, Reviewer
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Shell‐Model Applications in Nuclear Spectroscopy

P. J. Brussaard, P. W. M. Glaudemans, and Abraham Klein, Reviewer
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Mathematical Cosmology: An Introduction and Cosmology

P. T. Landsberg, D. A. Evans, M. Rowan‐Robinson, and Malcolm MacCallum, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Trapped‐Particle Instability in Tokamaks

W. M. Manheimer and Gregory Rewoldt, Reviewer
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Ellipsometry and Polarized Light

R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, and Stanley S. Ballard, Reviewer
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Optics and Lasers: An Engineering Physics Approach

M. Young and Donald F. Nelson, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Ahlers, Rowell and McMillan win Fritz London Award

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Bargmann and Wigner honored

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S of R presents Bingham Medal to Thor Smith

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NASA and ESA name Spacelab scientists

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Physics teachers give Bork Millikan Lecture Award

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Herbert P. Broida

A. M. Bass, J. R. Fulco, D. O. Harris, V. Jaccarino, and W. C. Walker
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Gregor Wentzel

V. L. Telegdi
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Reimar Pohlman

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Hellmuth Etzold

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Adair named to top post at PRL

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Bederson is new editor of Physical Review A

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IRS rules APS a tax‐exempt organization

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Calendar

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US and Japan discuss joint fusion projects

Craig B. Waff
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DOE uses science‐court concept; Minnesota does not

Craig B. Waff
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AIP and German group to publish new journal

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History projects at DOE national laboratories

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Survey of PhD graduates in mechanics 1972–76

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AIP selects new editors for Soviet translations

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In Brief

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In Brief

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Aiding physicists in developing countries

Abdus Salam
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