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December 1982

Volume 35, Issue 12

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The measurment of thermodynamic temperature

Leslie A. Guildner
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Temperature is defined through thermodynamics, and values on practical temperature scales are derived from measurements with several thermometers based on fundamental thermodynamic or statistical‐mechanical principles.

Debate on radioactive waste disposal. No technical barriers

Fred A. Donath
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Do we know enough to dispose safely of waste that will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years, or will any disposal program inevitably end up as an albatross around the neck of future generations?

Debate on radioactive waste disposal. Will it stay put?

Robert O. Pohl
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Do we know enough to dispose safely of waste that will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years, or will any disposal program inevitably end up as an albatross around the neck of future generations?

Lasers and physics: a pretty good hint

Arthur L. Schawlow


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The monochromaticity, directionality and intensity of laser light make possible spectroscopic investigations of previously unimagined precision whose results give hints of more new physics to come.
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US–Soviet institute for nuclear peace

Behram N. Kursunoglu
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Problems of Polish scientists

Howard S. Taylor
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Soviet cosmology

Ya. B. Zeldovich
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Physics in Saudi Arabia

Eli A. Mishkin and Mujaddid A. Ijaz
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Video‐game physics?

Thomas L. Clarke, Julius Sumner Miller, and Alfred Bork
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Mass vs. weight and SI units

John S. Thomsen and David T. Goldman
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USSR and Latin America

George D. J. Phillies, Leon M. Lederman, and Vladislav Bevc
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European Physical Society

A. Ryska
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Precollege science

John McGehee
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More on land‐based missiles

James E. Clendenin
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Frequency units again

John W. McDonald
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Correction

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Wilson wins Nobel prize for theory of critical phenomena

Gloria B. Lubkin
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30‐femtosecond light pulses at Bell Labs

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Selection of LEP detectors nears finish

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life and Life in the Universe

E. Chaisson, J. Billingham, and Cyril Ponnamperuma, Reviewer
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The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

H. R. Pagels and David Layzer, Reviewer
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Nuclear Magnetism: Order and Disorder

A. Abragam, M. Goldman, and Alfred G. Redfield, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Three awards given for research in acoustics


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Muller, Wilczek and Witten are MacArthur Foundation Fellows

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Soviet Geophysical Institute honors Freyman

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Edith Hinkley Quimby

Harald H. Rossi
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Shakti P. Duggal

Martin A. Pomerantz
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Henry M. Foley

Malvin Ruderman
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Charles G. Miller

Gerhard L. Weissler and Allen M. Goldstein
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John S. Blair

Ernest M. Henley, David Bodansky, and Lawrence Wilets
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Henry M. Rosenstock

Albert C. Parr and Roger Stockbauer
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Solving the problem of refereeing

F. Curtis Michel
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Press pushes public‐policy role for National Academy

Jean Coonan
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Pontifical academy urges no first use

Jean Coonan
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Reagan nominates four to NSF board

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NSF films on women and on observatories

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Stout retires as JCP editor; Light and Levy succeed him

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Caltech and Nebraska physicists produce college TV courses

Daniel Gladstone
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Andersen is new manager of AIP Publishing II

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Scientific interchange and national security

Roland W. Schmitt
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