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August 1978

Volume 31, Issue 8

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The AIP in 1977

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The Institute's Annual Report shows emphasis on new copyright policies, as well as on increasing use of computers for composition and accounting and the purchase of a new building.

Research challenge: clean energy from coal

Bernard R. Cooper
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We must look to research to help us use energy from coal without ripping up the Earth and unduly polluting the atmosphere.

The transition to turbulence

Harry L. Swinney and Jerry P. Gollub
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Modern optical and computer techniques and new concepts in the theory of nonlinear systems are yielding insights into such hydrodynamic instabilities as Couette flow, vortex streets and the Rayleigh–Bénard instability.
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APS aids oppressed physicists

Bernard R. Cooper and John Parmentola
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Soviet boycott by US physicists over Orlov

D. Allan Bromley, Herman Feshbach, Gerald T. Garvey, Earl Hyde, O. Lewin Keller, and Joseph Weneser
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NBS corrections

Ernest Ambler
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Space colonies vulnerable

M. J. Dunn and Malcolm Thackray
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Membrane phase transitions

Warner L. Peticolas, John F. Nagle, and H. L. Scott
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More on search for quarks

Giacomo Morpurgo, William M. Fairbank, and Giacomo Morpurgo
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Superfluid experiments support Kosterlitz–Thouless theory

Gloria B. Lubkin
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New data on two galaxies are consistent with black holes

Marian S. Rothenberg
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In Brief

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Semiconductors and Semimetals, Vol. 13 (Cadmium Telluride)

K. Zanio and Fred H. Pollak, Reviewer
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Vibration Spectra and Symmetry of Crystals

H. Poulet, J. P. Mathieu, and Miles V. Klein, Reviewer
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Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age

W. M. Elsasser and Paul Hanle, Reviewer
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A Shell Model Description of Light Nuclei

I. S. Towner and John W. Negele, Reviewer
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Cosmic Catastrophes and Scientists Confront Velikovsky

G. Verschuur, D. Goldsmith, Editor, and George O. Abell, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Muller wins two awards for work in astrophysics

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Engineering academy elects new nembers

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elections

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Astronomy society honors Schramm, Moran and Schmidt

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Bernhard Autheir wins Walter Schottky Prize

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Henry W. Newson

Edward G. Bilpuch
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Vernet E. Eaton

John S. McIntosh
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Gerald M. Rassweiler

William L. Grube and David L. Fry
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Howard C. Hoyt

Harry H. Denman
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Rudolf Kompfner

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Michael Nessin

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Nuclear‐science panel makes recommendations for FY 1980

Craig B. Waff
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NSF panel urges creation of jobs for young physicists

Craig B. Waff
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DOE is funding young high‐energy physicists

Craig B. Waff
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AIP Corporate Associates meet in Columbus, Ohio

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Timothy Ferris wins science‐writing award

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Graduate survey suggests job‐market improvement

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In Brief

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How to encourage innovation

J. E. Goldman
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