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November 1981

Volume 34, Issue 11

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American physics comes of age.

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Photographs from the past five decades to appeal to the collective nostalgia of the physics community

Physics in 1981±50

Norman F. Ramsey
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Comparing where we are now with what we would have predcited 50 years ago makes us no wiser in predicting the next 50 years

The last fifty years—a revolution?

Spencer R. Weart
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We have gained a more detailed knowledge of complex phenomena, and our institutions have grown in size and scope.

Fifty years of physics education

A. P. French
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describes the rise in enrollments, the increased complexity of ideas taught and new diverse texts, films and other equipment.

The development of field theory in the last 50 years

Victor F. Weisskopf
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After quantum electrodynamics came its offspring—quantum electro‐weak dynamics and chromodynamics

US particle Accelerators at age 50

R. R. Wilson
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The accelerator race has advanced the frontier of knowledge from 10−12 to 10−16 cm−with a comparable increase in machine size

Elementary excitations in quantum liquids

David Pines
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Landau's notion of an “elementary excitation” has allowed us to understand many properties of ordinary condensed matter, as well as aspects of superconducting and superfluid states

This golden age of solid‐state physics

Theodore H. Geballe
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We study condensed‐matter states, response to stimuli, phase transitions, and microscopic interactions

A new wave of acoustics

Robert Beyer
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Surveys a half century of acoustical studies, from the nonlinear behavior of the ear to the sounds of superfluidity

Optics: an ebullient evolution

Peter Franken
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Virtuallt three‐quarters of optics research today was not possible twenty years ago, before lasers and high‐speed computers

Physicists and astronomy—Will you join the dance?

Martin Harwit
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Observational discovery comes on the heels of technological innovation, giving physics an increasingly dominant role in astronomy

Atomic physics: a renewed vitality

Benjamin Bederson
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Atomic physics, the proving ground of theoretical physics 50 years ago, is undergoing a technological revolution, sparked by lasers and techniques from high‐energy physics

Vacuum: from art to exact science

James M. Lafferty
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Describes the evolution of modern vacuum pumps and vacuum gauges and their interplay with science and the industry

AIP Today‐ and Tomorrow

H. William Koch


See Also: Erratum

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Journal publishing, the main activity of AIP serves 60 times more readers than in 1931 and is entering the elctronic era.
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Corporate Associates meet at National Academy

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Looking back on books and other guides

Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, Walter H. Brattain, Emilo Segrè, Robert Hofstadter, Charles H. Townes, Hannes Alfvén, Ivar Giaever, Samuel C. C. Ting, Rosalyn Yalow, and Arno A. Penzias
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