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March 1980

Volume 33, Issue 3

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Statistical mechanics of simple fluids: beyond van der Waals

Joel L. Lebowitz and Eduardo M. Waisman
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Equilibrium properties of dense fluids, notoriously difficult to treat theoretically, can now be understood by reference to model systems, such as a fluid of “hard spheres,” and to calculations on high‐speed computers.

Physics Today in China

Gloria B. Lubkin
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As China rebuilds, it shows signs of remarkable progress in such fields as lasers and large‐scale integrated circuits.

Poincaré and cosmic evolution

Stephen G. Brush
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Among his other, better known, studies this nineteenth‐century “mathematical naturalist” enquired into the origin and stability of the solar system, the fate of the universe and the shapes of rotating fluid masses.
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Amateur scientists

T. Tsang, Carl Colodne, John R. Fanchi, Lawrence Cranberg, Gerald Rosen, and Lawrence Cranberg
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Laser for Fusion

George Dube
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Action on energy

Morton Tavel and Judith Tavel
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Aesthetic misunderstanding?

K. Alexander Brownlee
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Chaucer's theory of sound

Neil Isenor and Ken Woolner
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Solar cell

Bernard L. Sater
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DC solar electricity

Richard B. Kidd, Henry Ehrenreich, and John H. Martin
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Ode to a Timon

Steve Axelrod
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Are molecular clouds the heaviest objects in our Galaxy?

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Earthquake at LLL hurts structures more than lasers

Gloria B. Lubkin
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International Tokamak Reactor design

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Texas tokamak is ready for proposals

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In Brief

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New York hosts APS meeting

Bryant Jamerson
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Ocean Acoustics

J. A. DeSanto and Ralph R. Goodman, Reviewer
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Projects and Demonstrations in Astronomy

D. Tattersfield and William Gutsch, Reviewer
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Corrections

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New Books

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New Products

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AIP presents industrial applications prize to Bobeck

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Twenty scientists win Medals of Science

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New York Academy honors four physicists

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Optical Society selects seven award winners

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Peale, Cassen, Reynolds awarded AAAS prize

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Lauriston C. Marshall

Frederick Seitz
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James R. Macdonald

C. E. Hathaway
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David W. Koopman

Rita Mahon and Thomas D. Wilkerson
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Edward P. T. Tyndall

Charles A. Wert
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Laurence O. Brockway

L. S. Bartell
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Thomas A. Scott

Stanley S. Ballard, James R. Brookeman, and E. Raymond Andrew
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Dorus P. Randall

John W. Trischka
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Katharine Burr Blodgett

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Advice to ex‐physicists on entering the real world

David H. Weinflash
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Maurice Goldhaber chosen vice‐president elect

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Society reacts to Sakharov exile

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In Brief

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Calendar

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Sakharov exile triggers reaction in US physics community

Michael E. Jacobs
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NSF requests 16% boost for physics

Michael E. Jacobs
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ACA elects Johnson as vice‐president

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Madden chosen as OSA vice‐president

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Let's not boycott Soviet physicists

Herman Feshbach
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