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May 1978

Volume 31, Issue 5

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Select this Article		Infrared‐laser‐induced unimolecular reactions Nicolaas Bloembergen and Eli Yablonovitch


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	+ -	Show Topic The absorption of 30 or more infrared photons can raise a molecule into a highly excited vibrational state, leading to some intriguing problems in physical chemistry, quantum electronics and statistical mechanics.

Select this Article		Rare‐gas halide lasers James J. Ewing


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	+ -	Show Topic This new class of ultraviolet lasers, very efficient and apparently scalable to high power, promises to be of value in such applications as photochemical separation.

Select this Article		Sub‐picosecond spectroscopy Erich P. Ippen and Charles V. Shank


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	+ -	Show Topic Examples of ultrafast photoprocesses now being studied include vibrational dynamics of molecules, primary photobiological mechanisms and electronic processes in semiconductors.

Select this Article		Laser fusion C. Martin Stickley


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Select this Article		Quantum Electronics Conference meets in Atlanta Robin A. White


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Hostages of scientific freedom in the USSR M. Ya. Azbel


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Select this Article		Developing a tape depository Susan Schindler, R. Mirman, Elliot Plotkin, and A. W. Kenneth Metzner


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Select this Article		Request for help R. Baquero


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Select this Article		More recognition for teachers S. V. Pappu


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Select this Article		The Tale of Schrödinger's Cat M. Kocher


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Select this Article		10⁻³ mistake Anneke Levelt Sengers


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Select this Article		Einstein unemployable today T. Tsang


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Select this Article		No prejudice against women Louise Gray Young


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Select this Article		World oxygen supply Art J. Nelson and Yale Jay Lubkin


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Select this Article		Space colony disagreement Leonard C. Dy


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Select this Article		Future jobs in physics Dorothy S. Zinberg and L. Grodzins


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		NMR imaging technique provides high resolution Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Laser heterodyne spectroscopy measures planetary winds Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Small‐angle neutron‐scattering facility


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Select this Article		In Brief


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BOOKS

Select this Article		The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in the 19th Century S. G. Brush and Martin J. Klein, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Pulsars R. N. Manchester, J. H. Taylor, and Malvin Ruderman, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Acoustical Oceanography: Principles and Applications C. S. Clay, H. Medwin, and R. J. Urick, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Perception, Theory and Commitment: The New Philosophy of Science H. I. Brown and Edward MacKinnon, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Electron Microscopy in the Study of Materials P. J. Grundy, G. A. Jones, and John M. Cowley, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Book Notes Craig B. Waff


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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		Wu receives Wolf Prize in physics


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Select this Article		Columbia honors Wilson for tectonics theory


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Bernard Gregory Ronald R. Rau and Victor F. Weisskopf


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Select this Article FREE		Reuben S. Title A. H. Nethercot


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Select this Article FREE		Richard Roberts Roland W. Schmitt


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Select this Article FREE		John R. Pellam Paul P. Craig, Frederic Reines, and Gordon Shaw


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APS NEWS

Select this Article		Ehrenreich to head study group on solar photovoltaics


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Select this Article		Subscription rates rise for two APS journals


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CALENDAR

Select this Article		Calendar


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STATE AND SOCIETY

Select this Article		Physics research gains in Defense budget Craig B. Waff


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Select this Article		New NBS director plans to restore scientific strength Craig B. Waff


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Select this Article		Staff changes at NSF physics division


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Crystallographers elect Glusker vice‐president


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Select this Article		IRS challenges tax status of societies


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Select this Article		Five colleges win Marsh White Awards


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Select this Article		In Brief


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EDITORIAL

Select this Article		Quantum electronics—25 years of achievement J. A. Giordmaine


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