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August 1982

Volume 35, Issue 8

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Search for the sparking of the vacuum

Jack S. Greenberg and Walter Greiner
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The static electric field near a superheavy atomic nucleus may be strong enough to pull electrons and positrons out of the vacuum.

Philip Morrison—a profile

Anne Eisenberg
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Valued for his scientific contributions to the Manhattan Project, to theoretical physics and to astrophysics, he has also contributed to the public understanding of science and has been one of the most thoughtful advocates of arms control.

How I created the theory of relativity

Yoshimasa A. Ono
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This translation of a lecture given in Kyoto on 14 December 1922 sheds light on Einstein's path to the theory of relativity and offers insights into many other aspects of his work on relativity.
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Physicists for arms‐control studies

Leo Sartori
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Letters protested

William B. Elmer
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What letters to publish?

Allan Kiron
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Unemployment: a new solution

Leonard M. Ball
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Refusenik degrees revoked

I. I. Glass
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The refusnik vs. the rector

Vladislav Bevc, Earl Callen, and Joseph Goldman
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Gamma‐ray laser

Charles H. Holbrow
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Help on pyroelectric history

Sidney B. Lang and Ernest H. Putley
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Japanese mode of thinking

James E. Taylor, D. A. Fraser, and Makoto Kikuchi
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Referees are an audience

Elihu Lubkin
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Units of frequency

Gaylord Hageseth
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Legality of nuclear freeze

Haven Whiteside
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Frustration in physics

R. E. Bell
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Corrections

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Polarized plasmas may prove useful for fusion reactors

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Electroweak interference confirmed

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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The Fate of the Earth and Nuclear Illusion and Reality

J. Schell, S. Zuckerman, and Jerrold R. Zacharias, Reviewer
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Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

C. Will and Tsvi Piran, Reviewer
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Methods of Statistical Physics

A. I. Akhiezer, S. V. Peletminskii, and E. T. Jaynes, Reviewer
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Bound for the Stars

S. J. Adelman, B. Adelman, and F. Curtis Michel, Reviewer
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Topics in Classical Biophysics

H. J. Metcalf and Alan Bearden, Reviewer
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Information Processing: Fundamentals

S. H. Lee, Editor and T. K. Lim, Reviewer
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The Milky Way

B. J. Bok, P. F. Bok, and Peter Pesch, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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National Science Board honors DuBridge

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Kumar Patel receives Townes Award

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Robert S. Shankland

Leslie L. Foldy
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Ralph A. Goodwin

E. R. Pinkston and J. R. Smithson
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Julius Ashkin

Lincoln Wolfenstein
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Maximillian J. Herzberger

Lionel D. Dureau
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Helmut Schwarz

Roland M. Lichtenstein and Gerhard L. Salinger
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George Whitfield

Gordon Fleming, Santiago Polo, and Peter Shaw
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Correction

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Proposing the Office of Pan American Collaboration

Leon M. Lederman
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DOE advanced energy division funds exploratory research

Michael Jacobs
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DOD university research on the rise

Jean Coonan
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Samios is chosen as Brookhaven director

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Bautz heads NSF astronomy division

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DOE awards to untenured particle physicists

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In Brief

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For 1981 physics graduates: salaries up, offers down

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Marmet, Stoicheff head Canadian Association

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Waring elected president of Sigma Pi Sigma

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Universities' obsolete instrumentation

George E. Pake
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