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February 1978

Volume 31, Issue 2

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Physicists and the revolt against science in the 1930's

Daniel J. Kevles
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The Depression provoked an attack upon science, which was aggravated by a highly publicized dispute between Millikan and Compton, exposing difficulties for physics in the United States that remain facts of life today.

Visiting Physicists Program

Sidney Millman
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Graduate students are improving their knowledge of nonacademic physics careers through a program of visits to campuses by industrial physicists and trips by the students to see R&D laboratories for themselves.

Biomembrane phase transitions

John F. Nagle and Hugh L. Scott
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In cell membranes, which are among the principal organizational structures of living matter, phase transitions appear to be biologically significant, not just phenomena that happen to occur.
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A marketing approach to science policy

A. Michael Noll
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Philippine repression

Ralph S. Kroes
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Misapplications of uncertainty

Leslie E. Ballentine, P. D. Miller, and W. B. Dress
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Scientists out of the closet

Richard A. Rodman
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Referee standards

David Eimerl
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Management by objectives

Thomas M. Tobin
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Cost of tenure

Robert Joel Yaes
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Disarm or space colonies now

Malcolm Thackray
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Corrections

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Pellet fusion with heavy‐ion beams attracts attention

Marian S. Rothenberg
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Panel recommends pulsed high‐flux neutron facility

Craig B. Waff
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Tandem‐mirror machines promise better efficiency

John T. Scott
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Measurement of Weak Forces in Physics Experiments

V. B. Braginsky, A. B. Manukin, and William O. Hamilton, Reviewer
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The Physics of Atmospheres

J. T. Houghton and Hans A. Panofsky, Reviewer
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What Is the World Made Of?

G. Feinberg and Richard A. Carrigan, Jr
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The Plastic Deformation of Simple Ionic Crystals

M. T. Sprackling and Praveen Chaudhari, Reviewer
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Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Vols. 1 and 2

R. B. Bird, R. C. Armstrong, O. Hassager, C. F. Curtiss, and Stanley Middleman, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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National Medal of Science Awards presented

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Sagan and Elliot honored by NASA

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Renate Wiener Chasman

John Blewett
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Su‐shu Huang

William Buscombe
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James E. Adams

Werner E. Haas
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Arthur R. Laufer

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Short courses to be offered at APS Washington meeting

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Short course on personal potential and careers

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No copy fee for journal articles

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DOE and NSF set up joint nuclear‐science committee

Craig B. Waff
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Panel studies basic research in Department of Defense

Craig B. Waff
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Peterson takes over as director of OTA

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Slaughter and Krumhansl join NSF administration

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Historic accelerators in show at Smithsonian

Craig B. Waff
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AIP sets copyright and copying‐fee policies

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Science for Citizens program at NSF grows

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In Brief

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Optimism about Washington

Harold L. Davis
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