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December 1983

Volume 36, Issue 12

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Doing physics with microcomputers

Per Bak
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An ordinary personal computer can be used to do large‐scale calculations in physics at a great savings in cost and added personal convenience for the researcher.

Neutrons in science and technology

D. Allan Bromley
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The neutral nucleon sees much use in research, ranging from particle physics to condensed‐matter physics, and has applications in such diverse areas as mining, food preservation and art history.

Roads to chaos

Leo P. Kadanoff
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Simple mathematical systems exhibit complex patterns of behavior that can serve as models for chaotic behavior, including perhaps turbulent flow in real hydrodynamic systems.
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Test‐ban debate

Steve Arnold, Robert W. Schmieder, Ray E. Kidder, John E. Tanner, Robert B. Barker, Hugh E. DeWitt, and Hans Motz
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Defining determinism

E. Biedermann
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In response to Keyworth

James E. Felten and Billy W. Loo
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Error in history

Ruth L. Sime
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Explaining the Flood

Gerald L. O'barr and Robert W. Brehme
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Glass flow revisited

Robert L. Oldershaw, Mark Nagel, and George Elliott
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Last word on first computer

Herman H. Goldstine
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Monopole flux limits

Steven Errede
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Education crisis

R. Mirman, Jeffrey A. Appel, Steve Ganthner, James F. Jackson, and Fred B. Otto
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Breakthrough in phase problem

Shih‐Lin Chang, Benjamin Post, and Roberto Colella
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Teaching physics with history

Norman Charles Kaplan
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Storage‐ring free‐electron laser operates in the visible

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Second heavy‐fermion superconductor

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere

A. J. Dessler, Editor and Margaret Galland Kivelson, Reviewer
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Lie Algebras in Particle Physics

Howard Georgi and Richard Slansky, Reviewer
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Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy

M. D. Levenson and Y. R. Shen, Reviewer
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The Logic of Quantum Mechanics

E. G. Beltrametti, G. Cassinelli, and Abner Shimony, Reviewer
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Japanese Electronics: A Worm's‐Eye View of Its Evolution

M. Kikuchi and John T. Scott, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Four physicists win honors for work in acoustics

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New York Academy presents awards

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Henry Primakoff

Ralph D. Amado and Alfred K. Mann
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Bart J. Bok

David S. Heeschen
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Tracy S. Kinsel

Thomas E. Seidel
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Lee A. Fowler

Timothy H. Hankins
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Onward to the Dessertron

Gary Taubes
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DOE answers to Congress as it officially kills Brookhaven CBA

Irwin Goodwin
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Panel urges $28 billion missile defense R&D for next 5 years

Irwin Goodwin
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Light source decoupled from NCAM

Irwin Goodwin
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In seeking a job, new PhDs need more patience and flexibility

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Purdy is AAPM president‐elect

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Newsletter helps joint physics education efforts

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AAPT starts journal on computers in teaching

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Bell Labs gives scholarships; seven go to physicists

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New astrophysics group started at Fermilab

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Travel awards to international crystallography congress

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In Brief

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APS votes for officers and revisions to by‐laws

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MIT student wins Apker Award

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Capital investment in university research

Harold L. Davis
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