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February 1982

Volume 35, Issue 2

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The Physics of glass

James C. Phillips
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Our quest for a satisfactory conceptual model of the way crystallization is frustrated in supercooled liquids is still in its infancy, but not for want of experimental data.

Density functional theory

Michael Schlüter and Lu Jeu Sham
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A scheme for incorporating electron density distributions into calculations on many‐particle systems yields good predictions of quantities such as binding energy in molecules and phonon spectra in solids.

Maria Goeppert‐Mayer—two‐fold pioneer

Robert G. Sachs
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Although Maria Mayer made significant contributions (leading to the Nobel Prize) starting in 1930, it was 30 years before she received a full‐time faculty appointment.
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Religion and science

Robin F. Righettini, Leslie E. Ballentine, and Lawrence Cranberg
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Status of high‐school teaching

Harry Manos, Herman Feshbach, Elroy O. LaCasce, Earl Kurtz, and Robert J. Fuller
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Preemptive strikes

James R. Locker and Robert Joel Yaes
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Effects of undulators

G. Brown, K. Halbach, J. Harris, and H. Winick
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Optical phase conjugation

A. E. Siegman and Concetto R. Giuliano
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More on synchrotron radiation

Paul L. Hartman
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Microfiche journals

Dinh Ton‐That
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Nuclear hostages?

Jim Deer
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More on refereeing

Albert V. Ferris‐Prabhu
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Accidental nuclear war

Richard L. Kaufmann
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Unique insight of physicists

Bradley L. Jacobs
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Role Of PHYSICS TODAY

Gregory D. McAdoo
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Manpower study

Robert J. Yaes and Susanne D. Ellis
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Correction

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CERN SPS now running as 540‐GeV mathp collider

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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ATA: 10‐kA pulses of 50‐MeV electrons

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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National Submicron Facility

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APS meets in Dallas

Jean Coonan
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds and Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

P. Goodchild, A. K. Smith, Editor, C. Weiner, Editor, and Robert Andersen, Reviewer
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Atoms and Molecules (Student Edition)

M. Weissbluth and Anthony F. Starace, Reviewer
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The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical World

David Park and Peter G. Bergmann, Reviewer
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High Speed Pulse Technology, Vol. 4. Sparks and Laser Pulses

F. B. A. Frungel and R. T. Brown, Reviewer
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Ultrasonic Imaging

P. Greguss and Gordon S. Kino, Reviewer
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Principles of Superconductive Devices and Circuits

T. Van Duzer, C. W. Turner, D. G. McDonald, Reviewer, and Alan F. Clark, Reviewer
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The Physics‐Astronomy Frontier

F. Hoyle, J. Narlikar, and D. Scott Birney, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Dyson, t'Hooft and Weisskopf share 1981 Wolf Prize

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Wyld Propulsion Award To John Kincaid

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Hideki Yukawa

Laurie M. Brown
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Freda Salzman

Donald M. Lyons
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Bernard Weinstock

Robert Ullman
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Marvin M. D. Williams

Arnold Feldman
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Liviu Bighel

Lee A. Berry, David W. Swain, and John C. Glowienka
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E. D. Shipley

J. Rand McNally, Jr, Arthur H. Snell, and Alvin M. Weinberg
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David W. Juenker

A. D. Crowell and R. W. Detenbeck
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APS reviews refereeing procedures

Patricia Dehmer
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Mainstream scientists respond to creationists

Daniel Gladstone
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Physicists contribute to MX debate

Jean Coonan
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Optical Society elects Herriott vice‐president

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Survey of universities finds few women on senior staff

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What is a scientific theory?

Harold L. Davis
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