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January 1983

Volume 36, Issue 1

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Alfred Lee Loomis—last great amateur of science

Luis W. Alvarez
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This multimillionaire banker, who for years led a double life, spending days on Wall Street and evenings and weekends in his private physics laboratory, became one of the most influential physicists of the century.

The Nuclear Freeze: The freeze and the counterforce race

Harold Feiveson and Frank von Hippel
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The deployment of nuclear weapons that contribute to first‐strike capabilities is destabilizing and must stop now

The Nuclear Freeze: The freeze—deep or shallow?

Harold W. Lewis
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The freeze proposals are misdirected and will not help do what needs to be done to prevent nuclear war

US policy: strategic modernization and arms control

Robert W. Dean
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Frequency measurements of optical radiation

Kenneth M. Baird
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By using nonlinear devices to mix signals and comparing the resulting beats with microwave signals whose frequency is known, one can count directly the oscillations of visible light.
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Physics in the evening

L. Krause
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Refereeing procedures

Bryan G. Wallace
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The first computer

John G. Brainerd
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Equal opportunity?

Daniel M. Ekstein
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Need for differential salaries

W. Thomas Cathey
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Third‐world view

Felipe Rudge
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More on refuting God

Ian Walmsley, Paul Kane, Moorad Alexanian, George Spagna, Rodney B. Hall, and John C. Bortz
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More on fear

Glenn H. Stumpff, II
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Astronomical error

William P. Bidelman and F. Curtis Michel
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In defense of GRASER

George C. Baldwin and Johndale C. Solem
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Unemployment dispute

Lanny Joe Reed and Leonard M. Ball
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Slight correction

William P. Bidelman
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Preparing teachers

Paul A. Smith
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Corrections

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Aaron Klug wins Nobel prize in chemistry

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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A look at the future of particle physics

Barbara G. Levi
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Theory points to pulsating white dwarfs

David Helfand
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APS—AAPT January Meeting

Daniel Gladstone
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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

A. Pais and Banesh Hoffmann, Reviewer
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Atomic Many‐Body Theory

I. Lindgren, J. Morrison, and F. A. Matsen, Reviewer
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Quantum Fields in Curved Space

N. Birrell, P. Davies, and Robert Wald, Reviewer
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Electrons and Valence: Development of the Theory, 1900–1925

A. N. Stranges and Robert E. Kohler, Reviewer
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Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

P. Kitcher and Daniel Gladstone, Reviewer
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New Books

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Corrections

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New Products

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Optical Society creates new award for Max Born centennial

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Danes honor Wheeler for peaceful uses of atomic energy

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Edward Bagley wins Bingham Medal

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Alexander de Bretteville Jr

Frederick Seitz
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Stanley L. Shapiro

Robert R. Alfano and Joseph A. Giordmaine
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W. Arden Fate

Thomas K. Hunt, Irving Salmeen, and John R. Reitz
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Otfried Heybey

David M. Lee
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Charged particles cause microelectronics malfunction in space

Peter J. McNulty
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DOE panel praises national labs but faults DOE management

Jean Coonan
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Edward Knapp named NSF director

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AIP Corporate Associates meet at Sandia laboratories

Gloria B. Lubkin
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New APS Office of Public Affairs in Washington

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Robert R. Wilson elected vice‐president for 1983

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Holt and Treglio are APS Congressional Fellows

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APS places two Industrial Postdoctoral Fellows

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Apker Award to Sachdev for thesis at MIT


See Also: Erratum

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See Also: Erratum

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Our national labs: uniquely valuable resource

Harold L. Davis
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