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October 1980

Volume 33, Issue 10

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Toward better acoustics for concert halls

Manfred R. Schroeder
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Full reverberation and good spectral balance are important, but recent experiments point also to the need for directional balance—“enveloping” the listener with sound.

Biological membranes

Britton Chance, Paul Mueller, Don De Vault, and L. Powers
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Living cells contain the ultimate in microelectronics: lipid bilayers carrying complex enzyme systems to perform sophisticated electronic and chemical functions

Hot electrons in layered semiconductors

Karl Hess and Nick Holonyak, Jr
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The size of semiconductor devices has decreased so much that classical treatments of semiconductor physics become invalid and effects involving supra‐thermal electrons take on a new importance
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Astronomy in local papers

Andrew Fraknoi
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More high‐school teaching

Don Grant
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Unification Church

John T. Edsall and E. P. Wigner
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Physics department data

John H. Mauldin
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Chicago and ERA

Gerald A. Fisher
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More on microfabrication

A. Wagner, B. E. Fischer, and R. Spohr
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Help Sakharov do physics

David Chudnovsky
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Warning about jobs in Brazil

Edward Siegel and Ivan C. da Cunha Lima
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Electric car needed now

Richard C. Raymond and William J. Walsh
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Oversight corrected

Roland W. Schmitt
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Correction

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Tandem‐mirror success leads to expanded MFTF

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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CESR shows bare‐bottomed mesons

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Laser chemistry for microstructures

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Plasma Physics Division meets in San Diego

Bryant Jamerson
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Topics will include stellarators, tokamaks, space plasmas, inertially confined fusion, mirrors and general plasma physics
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Electron–Positron Interactions

B. H. Wiik, G. Wolf, and Karl Berkelman, Reviewer
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An Introduction to High‐Voltage Experimental Technique

D. Kind and John F. Szablya, Reviewer
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Elementary Particle Physics: An Introduction

D. C. Cheng, G. K. O'Neill, and Chris Quigg, Reviewer
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Book Notes

Steven C. Ashley, Reviewer
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New Books


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New Products

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Stix and Liepmann receive APS Division prizes

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Thomas Miner wins AAPT Millikan Award

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German Physical Society honors Funke and Faissner

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J. Van Den Handel
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Paul G. Coleman, Leonard M. Diana, and Suresh C. Sharma
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James A. Jacobs

S. Bashkin, J. A. Van Allen, R. F. Tipsword, and C. P. Williams
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Inventions and corporate size

John J. Gilman
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Presidential candidates answer science‐policy questions

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Six scientists in search of a Congressional seat

Michael E. Jacobs


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In Brief

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Updating PHYSICS TODAY

Harold L. Davis
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