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April 1978

Volume 31, Issue 4

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Select this Article		The APS in 1977: public service in an era of limited growth George E. Pake


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Select this Article		Why is iron magnetic? Mary Beth Stearns


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Select this Article		Nuclear power and nuclear‐weapons proliferation Ernest J. Moniz and Thomas L. Neff


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Cooperation between universities and community colleges Jean Fetter and W. E. Meyerhof


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Select this Article		Black hole confirmed R. L. Bishop


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Select this Article		Delighted reader Ted Uzzle


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Select this Article		Soviet discrimination Sidney B. Lang and Shlomo Havlin


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Select this Article		Gamma detectors F. V. Wald and Richard Pehl


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Laser‐fusion devices at Livermore and Rochester use Nd glass Barbara G. Levi


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Select this Article		Portable “super spring” has apparent length of 22 km Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Panel promotes electron‐beam studies of nucleus Craig B. Waff


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Liquid Crystals S. Chandrasekhar and J. David Litster, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Thermal Conduction in Solids R. Berman and Paul G. Klemens, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Introduction to the Renormalization Group and to Critical Phenomena P. Pfeuty, G. Toulouse, and Eytan Domany, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Development of Newtonian Optics in England H. Steffens and Gerald Holton, Reviewer


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Select this Article		European Science in the Seventeenth Century J. Redwood, Editor and I. Bernard Cohen, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Qualitative Methods in Quantum Theory A. B. Migdal and Leslie E. Ballentine, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		New Products


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Optical Society selects 1978 award recipients


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Select this Article		Malvern Correlator team wins MacRobert Award


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Select this Article		Hawking receives Einstein Award


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Hans Jaffe Stefan Machlup


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Select this Article FREE		Thomas G. Fox Hershel Markovitz


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APS NEWS

Select this Article		Membership reaffirms the role of Fellow in the Society


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Select this Article		APS seeks new editor for Physical Review Letters


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STATE AND SOCIETY

Select this Article		Budget for Department of Energy emphasizes construction Craig B. Waff


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Select this Article		National Science Board checks up on health of US science Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		In Brief


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		AAPT elects Fuller as vice‐president


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Select this Article		Physicist tries to soothe science anxiety


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Select this Article		In Brief


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EDITORIAL

Select this Article		Perspective on government‐funded innovations Betsy Ancker‐Johnson


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