Special Issue: liquid crystals

Phases and phase transitions

Lyotropic liquid crystals

Polymeric liquid crystals

Defects in liquid crystals

Two‐dimensional systems

The molecular physics of liquid‐crystal devices

Physics in Saudi Arabia

Federal funding

S. B. Preuss: a short life

Impact of accelerators

Extrapolating relativity

Early computers

Memories in Italy

Update on cryopumps

Medical imaging

Interest of young physicists

Teachers at small colleges

In favor of fewer PhDs

Appeal for Moscow refuseniks

Reply from Moscow

Architectural oscillations

Heat from the Earth

A science for everyone

Reform letter writers

Male world of physics?

How to spot a physicist

Israeli nuclear warheads

Quark theory

Astronomer identified

Units of frequency

The boojum still again

Wind letter

Deep redshift survey

Mideast conflict

Eddington's greatness

Organic superconductivity

Advice to lecturers

Repression in Turkey

Wrong Brillouin

High‐school text complaint

Individualism vs. socialism

Refereeing justice

More on writing

Franken article

Laser gyro history

Statistical Mechanics algorithm for Monte Carlo optimization

Dinosaur extinction due to asteroid?

Theory institute thrives in its third year

Plans for Spain to rejoin CERN

Colour Vision in the Nineteenth Century: The Young–Helmholtz–Maxwell Theory and Color Measurement: Theme and Variations

Electromagnetic Fields and Relativistic Particles

The Uranium People

Physics in Nuclear Medicine

The Tunnel Effect in Chemistry

The Evolution of Mechanics

New Books

New Products

Six scientists honored by the Institute of Physics

Spicer chosen Scientist of the Year

John C. Johnson

Sanborn Conner Brown

Glenn A. Mann

Italian physicists on nuclear weapons

NSF foresees tight budgets for years to come

NASA budget cuts planetary programs

Keyworth selects an advisory council

AAPT removes its censure of NBS on metric system

ACA elects Sayre vice president

Suntharalingam chosen as AAPM president‐elect

AIP manpower placement introduces new fees

AIP data show more foreign students, fewer job offers

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