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September 1982

Volume 35, Issue 9

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The feasibility of inertial‐confinement fusion

John H. Nuckolls
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Fusion scientists are encouraged by recent experiments demonstrating the efficient coupling of laser light to targets and new ideas for economically competitive power plants.

Harold Urey and the discovery of deuterium

Ferdinand G. Brickwedde
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Chemistry, nuclear physics, spectroscopy and thermodynamics came together to predict and detect heavy hydrogen before the neutron was known.

Solving physics problems—how do we do it?

Robert G. Fuller
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Inquiry into students' misconceptions about nature and into the interior processes of learning can help physicists teach problem‐solving to others.
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Saturday morning physics

Leon M. Lederman
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Backwards photo

Peter H. Y. Lee
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Avoid land‐based missiles

Charles Skinner
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Learning how science is done

Alfred Bork
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Communism and nuclear war

Dallas C. Kennedy, II, Lawrence Cranberg, and Henk Wind
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High‐school physics decline

Frederick Bueche
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Page charges once more

R. G. Ross and David Lazarus
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Political letters

Yariv Porat and John Makhoul
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Computer misidentification

Donald E. Osterbrock
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Mistaken report

Mujaddid A. Ijaz
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Corrections

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Solar Optical Telescope will orbit on space shuttle

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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High‐energy electrons to probe nuclei

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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IUPAP handbook on symbols and units

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APS Plasma Division meets in New Orleans

Jay J. lorio
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The Physicists

C. P. Snow and Joan Bromberg, Reviewer
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Gauge Theory and Variational Principles

David Bleecker and C. A. Orzalesi, Reviewer
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Electronics and Instrumentation for Scientists and Experiments in Electronics, Instrumentation, and Microcomputers

H. Malmstadt, C. Enke, S. Crouch, F. Holler, J. Avery, S. Crouch, C. Enke, and William T. Vetterling, Reviewer
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Gravity, Black Holes and the Universe

I. Nicolson and Larry Smarr, Reviewer
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Science Observed: Essays Out of My Mind

J. Bernstein and P. W. Anderson, Reviewer
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Foundations of Optical Waveguides

G. H. Owyang and T. K. Lim, Reviewer
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A Lie Group: Rotations in Quantum Mechanics

J.‐M. Normand and L. C. Biedenharn, Reviewer
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Jets of Hadrons

W. Hofmann and Geoffrey C. Fox, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Oppenheimer Prize awarded to Goldhaber and Marshak

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EPS honors von Klitzing with Hewlett–Packard Prize

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In Brief

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Merle A. Tuve

Philip H. Abelson
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Douglas S. Billington

Michael K. Wilkinson and Alvin M. Weinberg
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M. S. Rabinovich

Burton Fried, Jumbar Lominadze, and Roald Sagdeev
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Mitchell V. Koch

Robert H. Marks
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Man‐made debris threatens future space operations

Robert C. Reynolds, Eric E. Rice, and Donald S. Edgecombe
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NAS panel says sounds on JFK tapes are not shots

Gloria B. Lubkin
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New space policy strong on defense

Jean Coonan
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General Lew Allen will direct JPL

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AAS to provide journals to Polish institutions

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AIP changes copying policy for archival journals

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Industrial Summer Interns work in 18 labs

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APS supports NAS resolution on nuclear arms control

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Corporations sponsor APS scholarships for minority students

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Calendar

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Copyright law: time for revision

Harold L. Davis
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