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April 1982

Volume 35, Issue 4

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The solar cycle

Gordon Newkirk, Jr and Kendrick Frazier
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The mysteries of the 11‐year period of sunspot activity are yielding to new approaches, such as magnetic‐dynamo modeling and a seismology that can detect photosphere pulsations as small as a few meters in amplitude.

The birth of elementary‐particle physics

Laurie M. Brown and Lillian Hoddeson
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In the 1930s and 1940s physicists significantly revised their views on the elementary constituents of matter, which during the 1920s they had assumed to be only the electron and the proton.

Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s

George B. Field
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NAS's Astronomy Survey Committee has identified priorities for new facilities that can take advantage of the tantalizing research opportunities in this decade.
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Radon levels

Robert H. Socolow, Harvey M. Sachs, Anthony V. Nero, Jr, Kenneth A. Lucas, Richard V. Waterhouse, and Robert L. Fleischer
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Quality in science education

Jack Lochhead
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Working in defense

A. David Caplin and Louis Rosen
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Optical ebullience

Roger Angel and Peter Franken
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Nuclear physics complaint

Alexander Zuckee
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Astronomers in Washington

G. Stanley Brown
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Predicting the future

John L. Sheldon
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Physicists are “frustrated”

Serge Galam and Pierre Pfeuty
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Japanese mode of thinking

Vladimir Tamari, M. David Maloney, Ronald Blum, James B. Cole, John T. C. Kan, and Makoto Kikuchi
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More on POPA

Derek Paul
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Moral code for scientists?

D. E. Harris
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Reagan's economic program

Lincoln Wolfenstein
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Nobel cover

Emilio Segrè
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More on gyroscopes

Victor Vali
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More on coining words

Stephen Curley, William A. Seitz, and Edward L. Kottick
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Report from Indian conference

E. R. Bauminger and S. G. Cohen
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Corrections

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New evidence for anomalously large nuclear fragments

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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DOE boosts particle‐physics funds

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Microscopy by vacuum tunneling

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Theory of Stellar Pulsation

J. P. Cox and J. Christensen‐Dalsgaard, Reviewer
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Knowledge and Wonder. The Natural World as Man Knows It. Second Edition

V. F. Weisskopf and D. Allan Bromley, Reviewer
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The Physics of Deformation and Flow

E. W. Billington, A. Tate, and W. O. Williams, Reviewer
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Gravity, Particles, and Astrophysics

Paul S. Wesson and Harry L. Shipman, Reviewer
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Solar Energy Conversion: The Solar Cell

R. C. Neville and J. J. Loferski, Reviewer
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Transport Theory

J. J. Duderstadt, W. R. Martin, and Raphael Aronson, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Robert M. Burley wins 1982 Joseph Fraunhofer Award

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Beams and Pegram medals awarded by Southeastern APS

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Brown University professor wins ASA citation

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Instant fame and small fortune

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Wendell C. DeMarcus

Fletcher Gabbard
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Mohammed Yaqub

James C. Garland and David B. Tanner
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Page charges revisited—an old battle rejoined

David Lazarus
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DOE budget cuts fusion and boosts basic research

Jean Coonan
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Pope sends warning of nuclear dangers

Daniel Gladstone
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In Brief

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For the future of astronomy

David S. Heeschen
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