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August 1980

Volume 33, Issue 8

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The AIP in 1979

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The Annual Report surveys a year of long‐range planning during which the Institute re‐examined its functions, resources and opportunities

How bats detect flying insects

Gerhard Neuweiler
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During their evolution, the echolocating bats have developed an “auditory fovea” to fully exploit the capacities of their ears, which permits them to find and feast on the rich variety of insects that fly at night

Antiproton–proton colliders and Intermediate Bosons

David Cline and Carlo Rubbia
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Phase‐space cooling makes p̄p colliders practical; CERN and Fermilab plan to use them to find and measure the properties of the Intermediate Vector Bosons
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Indirect costs of research

Robert K. Adair, Stanley J. Pickart, Robert Joel Yaes, and D. H. Douglass
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Failure of ex‐physicist

Lincoln Wolfenstein and Thomas B. Ross
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High‐risk proposals

Halsey Royden
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Views of science

L. M. Branscomb and J. M. Ziman
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Nuclear waste stalemate

Robert D. Mitchell
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Sakharov poll

Rustum Roy, R. Parthasarathy, and Frank von Hippel
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Spirit of physics gone

Julius Sumner Miller
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Efficient funding

Lawrence Cranberg
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Intractable energy problem

William E. Parkins
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Correction

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Garching shows stellarators may be good after all

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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AGS Celebrates Twentieth Anniversary

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SIS diodes for radio astronomy

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Tokamak ready for engineering test

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Magnetic Bubble Technology

A. H. Eschenfelder and Andrew H. Bobeck, Reviewer
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Stellar Formation

V. C. Reddish and William K. Rose, Reviewer
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Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics

V. A. Fock and Fred. J. Belinfante, Reviewer
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Book Note

Thomas von Foerster
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New Books

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New Products

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APS awards Bonner Prize to Diamond and Stephens

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Schwitters wins Waterman Award

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Hewlett‐Packard Prize goes to Andersen and Miedema

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Yash Pal selected for Marconi Fellowship

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Vaucouleurs receives Herschel Medal

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W. G. Mayer is Humboldt Award winner

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John B. Pendry named E. W. Muller Lecturer

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Physicists elected to AAA&S membership

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Sir Edward Bullard

H. S. W. Massey
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Raymond Thayer Birge

A. Carl Helmholz
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Robert V. Pole

Robert A. Myers
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W. H. Zachariasen

Massimo Marezio, Bernd Matthias, and Robert Penneman
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Lyle W. Phillips

Alfred F. Borg
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Physicists and developing countries

J. William McGowan
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Should inertial‐confinement fusion be declassified?

Michael E. Jacobs
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John Slaughter is named NSF director

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Synfuels don't threaten CO2 level

Michael E. Jacobs
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Carnesale nominated as director of NRC

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Green's windmill to function again?

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AIP raises page charges on most of its journals

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Dennis Overbye wins science‐writing award

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New editions of physics radio programs available

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New astrophysics center on San Diego campus

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In Brief

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Physics on TV

Harold L. Davis
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