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October 1983

Volume 36, Issue 10

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Quench echoes

Sidney R. Nagel, Gary S. Grest, and Aneesur Rahman
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In spite of their seemingly random motion, atoms in computer‐simulated glasses “remember” the time interval between a pair of freezings, simplifying certain many‐body calculations.

The evolution of SLAC and its programs

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
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In the two decades since construction began, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and its electron accelerator, two miles long, have made many fundamental contributions to particle physics.

American physics and the origins of electrical engineering

Robert Rosenberg


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Pure physics applied: academic physics gave birth to a new practical discipline with its own priorities and its own departmental structure.
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Future of plasma space physics

Louis J. Lanzerotti
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Senior positions for women

Carol Jo Crannell and Ralph O. Simmons
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Arms‐race education

Elton N. Kaufmann
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Value of a physics education

Mark Vedder
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Saturday‐morning physics

Alfred Bork, Leon M. Lederman, and Milton Gottlieb
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High‐school sabbatical

Nicholas J. Georgis
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Origins of great scientists

E. Scott Barr
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Anti‐Jewish policy?

V. F. Tamari
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Development of radar

W. D. Hershberger and Luis W. Alvarez
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Poetic desecration

N. David Mermin
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Negative impact of computers

Carl G. Adler and Kenneth G. Wilson
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Inflationary universe

Grote Reber


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Chaotic computer?

S. Galam and P. Pfeuty
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Millikan's predictions

E. Richard Cohen and Carl H. Savit
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Corrections

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Superclusters and the large‐scale structure of the Universe

David J. Helfand
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Novel laser for fiber‐optic communication

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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AVS meets in Boston

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Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects

S. L. Shapiro, S. A. Teukolsky, and Alan P. Lightman, Reviewer
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Electrical Transport in Solids

K. C. Kao, W. Hwang, and Sang‐Il Choi, Reviewer


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High Resolution Spectroscopy

J. M. Hollas and William E. Cooke, Reviewer
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Building Scientific Apparatus

J. H. Moore, C. C. Davis, M. A. Coplan, and Richard E. Howard, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Wolf Foundation honors Lederman, Perl, Pimentel and Polanyi

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Beams and Pegram medals awarded

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In Brief

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Joel Henry Hildebrand

Glenn T. Seaborg
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Clarke Williams

Maurice Goldhaber and George H. Vineyard
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Gregory Breit

McAllister H. Hull, Jr
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Earle Covington Gregg

Edward R. Epp
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How the US research effort compares with other countries

Michael J. Moravcsik
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DOE proposal to restrict nuclear information strongly opposed

Irwin Goodwin


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Observing in the high Andes with dollars, planes and bugs

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More foreign students enroll, but only some stay to work

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East Coast gets summer physics center

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Pais wins AIP–US Steel science‐writing prize

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AIP placement division offers “situations wanted” column

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Nominations sought for new national technology medal

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Xerox and Spectra‐Physics to market laser products jointly

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APS puts more and more summer interns in industry labs

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Scholars chosen for China program

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Corporations sponsor minority students

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Welcome to our new affiliates

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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