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April 1981

Volume 34, Issue 4

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Applications of optical phase conjugation

Concetto R. Giuliano
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Light waves that are, in effect, time‐reversed images of their original can serve to restore severely aberrated waves to their original state.

Physics and the APS in 1980

Herman Feshbach
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The prospects for research are exciting, but there are problems with funding and manpower.

E Pluribus Boojum: the physicist as neologist

N. David Mermin
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An account—heretofore available only in a samizdat edition—of how the word “boojum” became an internationally accepted scientific term, printed in some very distinguished journals.
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University–school cooperation

Herman Feshbach and Robert G. Fuller
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Yet another journal

B. G. Wybourne
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Fair use photocopying

Sarah S. Martin and H. William Koch
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More on Velikovsky

Robert R. Newton, S. F. Kogan, C. Leroy Ellenberger, David Morrison, and S. F. Kogan
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Junk mail

Henry Blosser
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Juicy particles

David Griffiths
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Meeting complaint

Rex Gandy and Nicholas A. Krall
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Book review apology

H. K. V. Lotsch and Karl Berkelman
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Librarians beware

Tamar Harari
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Interviews in Asia

Michael J. Moravcsik
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Home for accelerators

Lawrence Cranberg
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Anonymous refereeing

Daryl Reagan
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Mirages

J. C. Van Der Velde
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Accelerator superconducting magnets give headaches

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Studying tectonics with quasar VLBI

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Boulder offers extensive data bases on tsunamis

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Language of the Stars

Z. Kopal and Edward Guinan, Reviewer
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Physics of Semiconductor Laser Devices

G. H. B. Thompson and Nick Holonyak, Jr, Reviewer
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A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology

J. F. O'Hanlon and John L. Vossen, Reviewer
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Organic Molecular Crystals: Their Electronic States

E. A. Silinsh and Charles B. Duke, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Optical Society distinguishes seven with awards

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Michaud receives 1980 Steacie Prize

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Schmidt, Peebles win RAS medals

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Harold C. Urey

H. G. Thode and Hannes Alfvén
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Fritz Strassmann

Gerhart Friedlander and Günter Herrmann
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Frank T. Solmitz

Morris Pripstein, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and Horace D. Taft
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Kurt Mendelssohn

N. Kurti
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John Hubbard

George Castro and Martin Blume
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George L. Jenkins

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Extraterrestrial intelligent beings do not exist

Frank J. Tipler
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DOE budget boosts physics 13%, magnetic fusion 20%

Michael E. Jacobs
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Budgets for 1981 and 1982

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NSF physics support still strong

Michael E. Jacobs
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Code is president‐elect of Astronomical Society

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Janos wins prize for science writing

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AIP survey finds more physics‐major juniors

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NSF grant to AIP for more science news spots

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Science advice in the White House

Philip M. Morse
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