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March 1978

Volume 31, Issue 3

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Patents: Another way to publish

C. Marshall Dann
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The four million patents issued since 1790 have helped “promote the progress of the useful arts,” benefitting not only the inventors but also the public, by allowing useful inventions to come into general use.

Steps toward the Hertsprung–Russell Diagram

David H. DeVorkin
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In the late nineteenth century, astronomers seeking to classify stars by their spectra using then‐current concepts of stellar evolution found a temperature–luminosity plot that revolutionized the subject.

Gamma‐ray lines: A new window to the Universe

Richard E. Lingenfelter and Reuven Ramaty
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Line emission in the gamma‐ray band, an emerging branch of astronomy based on balloon and satellite data, probes the physics of nucleosynthesis, the interstellar medium, solar flares, supernovae and neutron stars.
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Influence of research on corporate success

J. J. Gilman and R. H. Miller
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Longest airlift

Michael D. Lubin
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Oil reserves

Albert A. Bartlett
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The final frame—eppur si muove

Robert A. DiCurcio
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Cosmology in the dark

Grote Reber
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Electron microscope center

Gareth Thomas and Ron Gronsky
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Second‐hand abstracts

Andrzej Krasinski
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Character error

L. H. Bennett, A. J. McAlister, and R. E. Watson
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Positrons from quasimolecular states give data on QED

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Polymer additives reduce fluid drag in turbulent flow

H. Richard Leuchtag
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New limit on constancy of velocity of light

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Joint APS—Biophysical Society meeting in Washington

Robin A. White
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The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America

D. J. Kevles and Lewis Pyenson, Reviewer
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Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy

V. S. Letokhov, V. P. Chebotayev, and Shaoul Ezekiel, Reviewer
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Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth

L. Laudan and P. Thomas Carroll, Reviewer
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Liquids and Solutions: Structure and Dynamics

P. Kruus and William G. Madden, Reviewer
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Neurophysics

A. C. Scott and H. Richard Leuchtag, Reviewer
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Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics

M. Holt and Shan‐Fu Shen, Reviewer
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Interaction of Radiation with Solids and Elementary Defect Production

C. Lehmann and Donald G. Doran, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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AIP presents Industrial Applications of Physics Prize

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New York Academy of Sciences honors eleven

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Alfred E. Schild

E. L. Schucking
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Arthur Cobb Hardy

S. Q. Duntley
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Eugene Feenberg

John W. Clark, Michael W. Friedlander, and Eugene P. Wigner
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Kilambi Ramavataram

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Society chooses Goldberger as new vice‐president elect

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Calendar

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President requests more support for R&D at NSF and NASA

Craig B. Waff
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Lindenbaum sees economic gains from high‐energy physics

Craig B. Waff
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Wilson resigns over funding

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In Brief

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Remembering ourselves

Spencer Weart
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